So we can’t have a Division IA football playoff? It would ruin the bowl system we have today, it would cheapen the value of the BCS and the big bowls. Right! We wouldn’t want to ruin that, would we? I wish someone, anyone, in the NCAA could actually be honest and admit its all about the dollars. So what happens if we took the top 16 teams and had a play off? What would that mean?
Week 1 -- you need eight bowl games with seeds 1-16
Week 2 -- you need four bowl games with winners 1-8
Week 3 -- you need two bowl games
Week 4 -- you need one bowl game.
Total: 15 games.
A quick check with ESPN indicates there are 35 Division 1 bowl games out there, three bowls seem to be so the military academy's get to go and of course there is the always popular “New Era Pinstripe Bowl” from Yankee Stadium (year 1).
Heck, we have enough bowl games to have an NIT equivalent tournament for the rest of the crowd. So why wouldn’t this work? Coaches would hate it because they wouldn’t have weeks to prepare their teams, players would actually have to show up to play, and the big four bowls would probably feel slighted. The bowl committees would be worried the potential championship would be between Bowling Green and Connecticut, and the conferences would oppose because they could potentially not have a team in the run.
But, maybe we could make it 32 teams in two flights and use up all the bowls and add a week 5 for a true championship with a potential 32nd seed becoming National Champion. Wouldn’t that be a kick in pants! That is why this can never be.
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