(11-25-2019 04:54 PM)TardisCaptain Wrote: So I was reading about the FCS brackets today for their playoff format.
https://fbschedules.com/fcs-playoffs-201...-released/
All league winners are automatically entered into the playoff. Then the top 8 seeds get a bye. The next 16 teams (14 of them are at large) go head to head with the winners already paired off to visit a bye team in the second round (example: Kennesaw State/Wofford winner at Weber State).
Not getting into a discussion about the value of the bowls (that's a separate topic), how do you think it would work with an FBS playoff system in this format? For this season, who would be the top 8? Who would be the next 16? Would this generate more interest among college football fans in an actual post season?
I like this idea. I honestly think you could use the top 23 bowls as hosts for that playoff format, & maybe you still find a way to have bowl games for other teams, or switch out the bowl games each year, something like that to maintain FBS as being something special above just being a high-caliber FCS (bc if we just copy the FCS's system, that's exactly what we're becoming).
I'm thinking something like this:
Championship: Rose Bowl
Semifinals: Sugar & Orange Bowls
Quarterfinals: Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, & Citrus Bowls
Second Round: Gator, Liberty, Outback, Alamo, Sun, Holiday, Independence, & Copper Bowls
First Round: Camping World, Las Vegas, Famous Idaho, Armed Forces, Birmingham, Belk, New Mexico, & Hawaii Bowls
The current NY6 bowls will switch between the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, & Championship each year.
The Citrus, Gator, Liberty, Outback, & Alamo Bowls will switch out for the final Quarterfinal game each year, while the remaining Second Round games remain locked in place.
All other bowl games will switch out in the first round each year, though there can be no state/country (Bahamas) with more than one bowl game represented in the first round each year.
The remaining 16 bowls each year can then choose to invite any two teams that would have qualified for a bowl game under our current system, giving good non-playoff teams the chance to play for something & keep up the bowl system, or they could even create an NIT-type playoff & all but one of the bowl games will host one game.