Anyone else want to see a BCS selection committee?

[Nick Douglas]

I remember that Herbstreit touted this idea a year or so ago. Rather than allowing biased, reactionary pollsters determine who plays in what postseason game, I'd rather see the BCS put together a selection committee similar to the NCAA basketball selection committee.

My idea for this committee would be to have the committee select the two participants in the championship game and to give the four BCS bowls a list of 4-6 at large teams to choose from for the remaining 3-4 slots.

With this idea, I think the bowls would be satisfied because they'd still have some level of choice so that they can sell tickets and grab TV viewers. I think teams and their fans would be more satisfied because then you'd have a professional, qualified committee analyzing which team is best rather than having coaches and commentators vote for teams in their spare time.

What do you all think? We all know that a playoff isn't happening (which I think is good, but that's another argument for another time), so don't you think a selection committee would be a better tool than a couple of polls and six computers?

 

[Mags]

That might work Ben.

But I would like them to take 4 teams, actually 8, and play 3 weeks of playoffs to determine the winner.

They could cut 2 games off the season to do so - and play a 10 game regular season. 9 games for conferences that stage a champtionship game.

Shouldn't all teams play the same number of games each year?

 

[Nick Douglas]

Playoff logistics are impossible. I have yet to hear a realistic playoff plan. Remember, as George Will once said, "Morality without practicality is immorality."

 

[UGA12]

Playoff logistics are impossible. I have yet to hear a realistic playoff plan. Remember, as George Will once said, "Morality without practicality is immorality."

Add 1 more bcs bowl as gthey have already talked about. 1&2 in bcs get byes, 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5 in first 2 bcs bowls, winners play in next two bcs bowls winners play in bcs NC game. BCS bowls rotate yearly so all enjoy semis every other year. Shorten the season by 1 if not 2 games. I dont want to hear anything about time out of class or length of season as other sports miss more time and drag out longer. JMO :shrug:

 

[Nick Douglas]

First of all, a 6 team playoff would mean that there are no at-large teams. That means that Independents and non-BCS conferences are completely shut out.

The bigger problems is that I just don't see how you could schedule 3 weeks of a playoff. Does the playoff start 1/1 and go until mid-January? That stretches the football season all the way until mid-January, which means players get no semester break, coaches in the playoff lose recruiting time and seniors get very little time to prepare for the NFL combine. If you start the playoff 12/25, then how do you fit in the other bowl games? That'd mean that fans can no longer travel to watch their teams in bowls as easily because fewer people have the week before Christmas off.

I'm telling you, a playoff is a logistical impossibility. The only possible solution I could see is going back to 8 BCS teams and having the 1/8 game be a matchup of the top two teams after the 4 BCS bowl games are finished. For example, you could eliminate Notre Dame and LSU from this year's bowl matchups and have OSU-USC, UM-UF, OU-BSU and WF-UL. After those games are finished, you then take the top two teams and let them play for the championship on 1/8.

The only problem there, of course, is that you'd get plenty of whining when USC would end up playing Michigan for the championship .

 

[Wolver98]

Take the top 4 teams in the BCS and have 4 play 1 and 2 play 3 in 2 of the BCS bowls. Add one game and have the 2 winners play for the NC.

 

[UGA12]

first off it is an eight team playoff with 1 and 2 getting the winners of the before mentioned games. Second if you start 1/1 1/8 and 1/15 you have gone one week longer than what is in place now:shrug: you mention recruiting time and semester breaks like coaches and players would give a damn, its one week, for the National Championship. I see no reason my senerio wouldnt work, but at the very least a four team playoff is evn more simple.

One Week Longer :shrug: