But hey Mark, if you get this to work and it ends up being 16-18, even four; anything is better than two.
First, Mark is right there has to be financial gain for the institutions involved. Good, lets sell naming rights to either each game or to the entire playoffs. Seems like a win win situation. You can't tell me that someone wouldn't be willing to pay for that.
I'm for a much simpler solution that chooses teams for the playoffs. You must win your conference championship game.
This would create even more buzz for already high profile championship games and bring more revenue into the conferences. If a conference decides not to have a championship game than they are not eligible to send someone to the playoffs. If you are Notre Dame, you might want to consider getting off your high horse and getting with the Big Ten or you won't be winning anymore National Championships.
So how does it work? Let's assume that the big six all have title games, we'll say the Big 12 is smart enough to bring one back. I don't care how the Conferences choose who plays in them that can be their problem but the Conference Championship game is round one of the playoffs, it's like the basketball playin games, except we all actually turn on the TV to watch these. The winner of those six games get slotted into the eight team playoff. That leaves two openings left.
I'm going to even try to help keep the BCS happy here too, let's keep the formula and computer and the highest ranked conference champions from any other conference gets in. So let's move on and see how this might actually look in the future.
Big Ten
18 Nebraska (Legends) v 6 Ohio State (Leaders)
Big Twelve
17 Texas A&M v 7 Oklahoma
Big East
3 TCU v 22 West Virginia
Pac-10
4 Stanford (North) v 19 Utah (South)
ACC
13 Virgina Tech (Coastal) v 23 Florida State (Atlantic)
SEC
16 Alabama (West) v UR Florida (East)
Lets use those as our sample Championship games. I'll take the winners in italics (I am using this years BCS numbers). We can then use the BCS standings to seed the teams as well. Then let's assume other conferences have made a move to a championship game style as well. Heck we're basically giving the little guys 25% of the field, I think they'd be dumb not to!
Let's start with the Mountain West Conference, which would have had a great matchup; lets use ChrisT's thoughts here.
MWC
10 Boise State v 24 Hawaii
And let's just go with the depleated WAC for simplification.
WAC
15 Nevada v UR Fresno State
We'll go with an upset here. So this is what your bracket looks like going into Championship Saturday. (Seriously this could make a lot of money)
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So what do we think? Perfect? No, but is it better than what we currently have? Absolutely! I am sure that there are other things that could be improved but who wouldn't love sitting down each week to watch some great college football? This basically takes an eight team tourney and turns it into 16 or more, with other conference championship games playing for a potential berth.
The best part is we can still have the other bowls that nobody cares about except for some of the fans of said schools that are participating.
And most of all - I can't wait to start an office pool for December Madness when this happens!
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Interestingly enough from Cuban's blog he reports:
You should also consider that the playoffs are already owned by someone, as in, the patent for resolving the FBS championship by way of a playoff was issued long ago. It’s called a method patent, so be careful not to infringe it.
Anyway, if you want to know who owns assets in this field, let me know. I can put you in touch with one of my attorneys who can let you know what you’re in for. It’s much more complex that it’s commonly understood to be.Yup. You read that right. Someone already owns the playoffs, regardless of if they can actually do it or not. Crazy.
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