BCS was good, to a point...now onto the playoff!

• thavoice

  How we going to like the playoff system?
  
  I dont think it will do anything to help beef up schedules of BCS schools though. If an OSU, FSU, Alabama, etc go undefeated they are geting into the playoffs so I wouldnt expect this to help those OOC scheduling.
  
  
  I think many want 6 -8 teams and I think that is where it will eventualy end up.
  
  
  BCS is gone and thank goodness.
  
  BUT...who all remembers the system BEFORE it came into place?
  
  RARELY did you have 1 vs 2 in a bowl game for all the marbles. For all its faults, the BCS at least gave us a winner-take-all championship.
• Sonofanump

  I think that it will lead to more controversy, they will put two SEC schools in each year no matter what the records end up being. A weak AQ conference (ACC or AAU) will have an undefeated team get in. You will have 3 one loss schools from a major AQ conference (P12, B!G, B12) all looking to be selected based off some computer formula for the last spot. Those conferences left out will be bitter, and hopefully that would led to a 8 team tourney will place a school from each AQ conference in.
• sherm03

  

  I see lots of bitching on the horizon. It should be fun.
• athlete37

  

  The BCS was also created in order to allow Big Ten and Pac 10 teams play for Championships rather than split them, as they did before. I was a big proponent of the BCS. The only problems it ever had were in October and early November. And those weren't problems, just people prematurely panicking.
• Azubuike24

  

  I actually think it will work out well.
  
  Sure, teams 4, 5 and 6 will always be controversial. However, they will be using a similar BCS formula along with an objective committee. The BCS formula was NOT bad it. It was actually pretty good. The "committee" aspect will allow for account for circumstances that pure statistical data can't. For instance, comparing 1-loss teams where one beat the other (Florida State over Miami in 1999). Also, comparing a team who played for their conference title and another didn't (Alabama making the title game a few years ago after losing to LSU). They will also be able to evaluate who is stronger based on current play and current injuries/suspensions, etc. This is already done in college basketball and it works pretty well. Finally, all it will take is for #5 to be left out over #4 because the committee sites "#5 didn't challenge themselves at all in the non-conference" or "their conference schedule didn't play out to be that great" and teams will start to re-evaluate how they schedule.
  
  All of these are positives over what we currently had. Will it be perfect? No. But it's an upgrade.
• Azubuike24

  

  ccrunner609;1564820 wrote:When you have 8 or so conferences and only 4 that get in this playoff, it wont last long. We will soon have a conference champ tourney of at least 10 teams with the top 2 teams getting bye weeks

  Disagree.
  
  You have 5 conferences that deserve an automatic bid. 2 of those 5 (ACC and Big XII) are on shaky ground even in the next few years. The only way the others are going to have a shot will be to make sure they get some decent OOC wins AND run the table. It will be the exact same scenario for "non-BCS schools" as it was during the actual BCS era. They will need to have a perfect record AND do so in a timely year where the other candidates are weaker or more balanced.
• Classyposter58

  

  We will not have anything more than a "Final Four", because it seems everyone forgets, these are college athletes. The Quarterfinals for instance this year would take place the same time as Exam Week, and that simply would not workout. Ours and most colleges this year had theirs December 16-20, so practice would be a nightmare to get in and the players would be distracted as they have to get C or higher on all exams or may face Probation. The games would then be on maybe the 23rd of December since you cannot play on Xmas Eve or Xmas, with then New Years and the 8th. Simply does not work when you have almost no prep at all for such a big game, also 3 physical games will absolutely wear down these guys and force many more to start skipping their Senior year because they don't want to play another 16 games with the last 5 being like war
• GOONx19

  

  ^ Ours were the 9-13, and anyone can take a final early if need be. Accommodations can and will be made.
• Azubuike24

  

  GOONx19;1567795 wrote:^ Ours were the 9-13, and anyone can take a final early if need be. Accommodations can and will be made.

  They surely can be made if it brings massive extra revenue to the school. If they try to defend expansion by citing academic priorities, it's all to save face. It's not at all a logistical problem.
• wildcats20

  

  Lol at the powers to be really caring about academics when it comes to athlete-students.
• Al Bundy

  Classyposter58;1567789 wrote:We will not have anything more than a "Final Four", because it seems everyone forgets, these are college athletes. The Quarterfinals for instance this year would take place the same time as Exam Week, and that simply would not workout. Ours and most colleges this year had theirs December 16-20, so practice would be a nightmare to get in and the players would be distracted as they have to get C or higher on all exams or may face Probation. The games would then be on maybe the 23rd of December since you cannot play on Xmas Eve or Xmas, with then New Years and the 8th. Simply does not work when you have almost no prep at all for such a big game, also 3 physical games will absolutely wear down these guys and force many more to start skipping their Senior year because they don't want to play another 16 games with the last 5 being like war

  It works at all the other levels of college. With the games being played on the weekend and only once a week, football players miss fewer classes than many other sports.
• Iliketurtles

  

  Classyposter58;1567789 wrote:We will not have anything more than a "Final Four", because it seems everyone forgets, these are college athletes. The Quarterfinals for instance this year would take place the same time as Exam Week, and that simply would not workout. Ours and most colleges this year had theirs December 16-20, so practice would be a nightmare to get in and the players would be distracted as they have to get C or higher on all exams or may face Probation. The games would then be on maybe the 23rd of December since you cannot play on Xmas Eve or Xmas, with then New Years and the 8th. Simply does not work when you have almost no prep at all for such a big game, also 3 physical games will absolutely wear down these guys and force many more to start skipping their Senior year because they don't want to play another 16 games with the last 5 being like war

  And yet some how FCS, D2, and D3 schools manage to do it?
  
  SMH if you don't think accommodations would be made. Accommodations are already made throught the year for all athletes regarding exams/classwork. Hell I ran cross country/track at a shitty D2 school and I had accommodations made for me regarding taking a midterm exam early since the class was on a Friday and we were leaving on a Thursday for a meet.
  
  I would be willing to bet within the next 10 years the playoffs are increased to 8 teams.
• thavoice

  Accomadations would be made.
  Yeah, in a perfect world they would care about the academics and when the exams are but they dont.
  
  CFB is probably the LEAST instrusive of all the sports for college athletics.
  *Limited games
  *although some play during the week, a vast majority of games are on saturday.
  
  Pretty much all the other sports deal with a WEEKLY distraction to their academics.
  
  If they can do it, (and as other said smaller colleges do it now for playoffs) then surely a few teams in big boy college football can do it especially when there is a couple week break for the holidays