The BCS Flow Chart Will Totally Answer All Your Questions and in No Way Further Confuse You

USC vs. texas tech……Good job spence!

Its fine the way itis, everyones griping !!!!, But with 4 or 8 team playoff be alot better.  My input is have 6 (SIX) BCS Bowls to be completed NLT night of Jan 2. With another quick final BCS Poll, the top 4 would go into a 4 team playoff and if 8 team the 6 winners plus 2 others from the losers, (?) how to pick em, fun, another FCS rating or  What ? but would only add one week for 4 team playoff and 2 weeks for 8 team, both starting around 8/9 jan, played during weeknights as NFL playoffs are going then.  You have your 6 auto berths from conf’s and one from non big six, so leave 5 open slots for 6 bowls, same rules as now, no conf with more than 2 teams.  So could keep the traditional bowls just adding few more, don’t mess with bowls done so much for NCAA football. Alot of bartering would be going on, but create alot more fun, with 12 slots probably most of top 10 would be in BCS bowl.  Have now Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, Orange, add two more i.e. Superdome, Cotton Bowl, St. Louis Dome,  Indianopolis dome, I don’t know but move them around., Heinz Field, the big house,  The shoe,  why not.   just thoughts…..

How the hell did I come up with Akron?!?

Bowls as a Playoff

There should be a 32-team Playoff within the current Bowl system.  Currently, there are 34 Bowl games, including the BCS National Championship game, and a 32-team playoff would require 31 games.  Eliminating the BCS National Championship game would put the bowls at 33, so two additional bowls would go.

Here is how it would work.  The 11 Conference Champions and 21 At-Large teams would be split into four regions, East, South, West and MidWest consisting of eight teams each.

The system is built to keep the integrity of the Rose Bowl intact, since this bowl seems to be the biggest holdout.  The Rose Bowl would always be played on January 1st and would be the West and MidWest national semi-final game.

The three bowls that would split the National Championship game would be the other three BCS bowls of the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar.  The National Championship game would be played on the first Saturday on or after January 7th or always on January 8th.  The January 1st South and East national semi-final would be split between the Orange and Sugar Bowls.

The Regional finals would be played either Christmas weekend or the weekend before Christmas on two days, most likely Friday/Saturday.  The West final would be split between the Fiesta and the Holiday Bowls, depending on if the Fiesta is the Title game.  The MidWest final would always be the Liberty Bowl.  The East final would be split between the Orange and Capital One Bowls and the South would be split between the Sugar and Cotton Bowls.

The Regional semi-finals would be played Friday/Saturday around December 17th and the Regional quarter-finals would be played Friday/Saturday around December10th.  The remaining bowls would be split up the same way other NCAA playoffs are done for the 24 games.

Based on the BCS for the last few years, none of the bowls should object to this scenario, since the BCS National Champion game is already played around January 8th each year, the Rose Bowl gets top teams each year and is played on January 1st, the smaller bowls will get more excitement around their bowls and more meaningful match-ups, even with losing any traditional date and best of all the voters and computers WILL NOT get to pick who plays for the national title.

Also, all conference championship games should be eliminated, since the playoff system would add potential games for teams that would play in these games.