On May 31 at the SEC’s spring meetings in Destin, UF president Bernie Machen will unveil his playoff plan to his fellow conference presidents. The short version: Form a limited liability corporation that, like the BCS, would work outside the framework of the NCAA. Try to utilize the current bowl structure, but distribute revenue to all 119 Division I-A schools instead of keeping most of the money for the schools in the six “power conferences.” The market, Machen said, would determine whether to play an eight-team, 16-team or “plus-one” format.

SEC presidents have made no promises, but they have agreed to listen. Machen isn’t the first to pitch a playoff, but never before has the current national champ’s president done the pitching.

What are your thoughts? Should there be a playoff, and if so, what should be the format? And how should the bowls be included, if at all?

It could work with a 16 team format, using 8 mid-tier bowl games (like Peach, Alomo, Holiday, etc) in the first round, then have 4 more prominent bowls ( four games at say any of the following venues: Cotton, Orange, Outback, Gator, Fiesta, Rose, Sugar) in the second round then have a Final Four where week 1 trims the field to 2 and then a final National Championship game at a rotating venue.  This should only last one or two weeks longer then the current format.  Other bowls would still be played for the 6,7 and 8 win teams who do not make the “Sweet 16” as there are like 28 or 29 sanctioned bowl games currently and the first two rounds of the stated format would only occupy 6 of them.  A playoff would eliminate any doubt of a true National Championship (like when Auburn finished its perfect season a few year’s back undefeated but were denied the Championship game ala BCS)....  I hope they come up with a good plan, the BCS is too political and ESPPN has a vested interest in hyping conferences it covers (Big 10) and thus pumps them while other conferences do get overlooked.

Should be a playoff of the top 4 teams. #4 plays #1 and #2 plays #3.

You cant have a complete playoff due to the bowl games. There is too much money and history invested in these games to just wipe them away. So you play the bowl games and then the top four teams after the bowl games play against eachother to figure out who goes to the national championship game or not.

Why not make it simple and make only conference champions eligible to play for the title? And, to make it even more fair, require those conferences that don’t have a championship game to play each other in a one game elimination round. Their final rankings could be used to seed them.

I’d like to see a playoff.

Anybody else have an opinion?

Should there be a playoff for the shoe spammers?

I think i’d go with yes. It should be interesting.

Regards,
Chester
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