The BCS National Champion could soon be determined by a playoff system.
Jan 10, 2012 - Monday night's BCS Championship Game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers could be the beginning of a radical change in how college football determines its national champion, reports Matt Hayes of The Sporting News.
Hayes writes:
"Over the next six months, the leaders of the sport will meet at least four times to iron out a plan that protects the importance of the regular season—the one aspect BCS leaders believe separates the game from every other—while embracing a new frontier for the poll-driven sport."
According to Hayes, conference commissioners will begin discussing plans towards moving towards a national playoff system in a meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday. Other meetings are scheduled to take place in Dallas and Miami over the next few months and "at least 60" different plans are on the table, varying from a four-team playoff to one game after the bowl games.
Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson thinks it's time for a new system.
"There needs to be some kind of different culmination of the season," said Thompson. "We need a process after which we can truly say, ‘This is the national champion.'
BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock discussed the issue on Monday.
"Anyone who loves college football would love to be a fly on the wall during these discussions," Hancock said. "Everything you can imagine will be brought up, from who plays who to where they play to the business aspect of it. It’s all going to be on the table. We’ve got a lot of work to do."
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So LSU beats Alabama
at Alabama. Alabama beats LSU at a neutral site several weeks after the season already ended and Alabama is the National Champion? I would say we definitely need a new system, and the sooner the better.
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by detroit_fan on Jan 10, 2012 12:23 PM EST reply actions
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LSU’s regular season resume absolutely blows away Alabama’s. Alabama played a lolbad PSU team out of conference. LSU played Oregon. Alabama didn’t win its division or conference but won the National Championship. It makes no sense at all. They proved they were indeed the better team yesterday, but they already had the chance to prove that once and failed. If the Packers beat the Ravens in the Super Bowl, should that result be ignored and they play another game called the Ultra Bowl?
16 team playoff now. Every conference gets a seed. Selection committee picks other teams and seeds the 16 teams. It maintains the importance of the regular season for every single conference.
by daileysc on Jan 10, 2012 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
That didn’t come out as portraying that I absolutely believe Alabama deserved to be the National Champions in the current system after they completely obliterated LSU yesterday. Just don’t think they ever should have had that shot.
by daileysc on Jan 10, 2012 4:25 PM EST up reply actions
me neither
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by detroit_fan on Jan 10, 2012 9:56 PM EST up reply actions
Don't forget: LSU also beat West Virginia, AT West Virginia.
That means during the regular season they beat two conference champions, and a total of three teams that won BCS bowls. And none of them were home games.
They had the best regular season in recent memory. The apt comparison to the NFL is 2007, when the Patriots went undefeated until the Super Bowl, including a win over the Giants. They had easily the best record, resume, and set of wins of anyone in the NFL, but they lost to the Giants in the very last game, so the Giants get the glory.
And that’s part of the problem with too big of a playoff: you let in riff-raff who, even after running through the playoff, don’t have the resume of a national champion. Why include, for example, Louisiana Tech, just because they won the WAC? They have no business playing in a tournament for the national championship. There is a delicate balance between casting too small a net and casting too wide.
Sixteen is too many teams. Eight is borderline. Four is almost always enough, if you select them carefully.
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by doker on Jan 11, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
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