I am going to fix College football
Posted: January 10th, 2012, 11:27 pm
We all know college football is an extremely flawed sport, run by corrupt, greedy old men who have no concept of what their fans want or how to run an organization in the modern age. SO, I am going to fix their mistakes, and I'm test driving it on you, members of the fantaverse! Here is my plan:
4 conferences, 64 teams, as has been talked about on numerous publications all year. Only the 64 most relevant teams are included. Sorry Eastern Michigan, no one cares about you. All other teams can be relegated to Division 1-AA, because they wouldn't have a chance in this system anyway.
4 divisions for each of the 4 conferences, with the winner of each division earning a <gasp!> Playoff spot.
Which makes for a 16 team, entertaining as hell, December Madness tournament.
I've been working on my 4 conferences and their divisions all night and I have settled on this for a lineup. I tried to take into account proximity and rivalries as best I could, and obviously some great new ones would start up!
Big East
Division A
1)Louisville
2)Virginia
3)Virginia Tech
4)West Virginia
Division B
5)Boston College
6)Connecticut
7)Rutgers
8)Syracuse
Division C
9)Cincinnati
10)Maryland
11)Penn State
12)Pittsburgh
Division D
13)Georgia Tech
14)North Carolina
15)North Carolina State
16)Wake Forest
Big North
Division A
1)Michigan
2)Michigan State
3)Notre Dame
4)Ohio State
Division B
5)Iowa
6)Iowa State
7)Minnesota
8)Nebraska
Division C
9)Boise State
10)BYU
11)Colorado
12)Utah
Division D
13)Illinois
14)Missouri
15)Purdue
16)Wisconsin
Big South
Division A
1)Alabama
2)Auburn
3)Mississippi State
4)Ole Miss
Division B
5)Florida
6)Florida State
7)Georgia
8)Miami
Division C
9)Clemson
10)South Carolina
11)Tennessee
12)Vanderbilt
Division D
13)Arkansas
14)Baylor
15)Kansas State
16)LSU
Big West
Division A
1)Oklahoma
2)Oklahoma State
3)Texas
4)Texas A&M
Division B
5)California
6)Stanford
7)USC
8)UCLA
Division C
9)Oregon
10)Oregon State
11)Washington
12)Washington State
Division D
13)Arizona
14)Arizona State
15)TCU
16)Texas Tech
Teams would play each team in their own division as the final 3 games of their schedule. Each team would play one Division 1-AA school in week 1 of each season. Each team would play 2 non-conference, Division 1A teams and 6 inner-conference, non division teams (half the conference, so you could have these games alternate every other year).
If there were to be a tie at the top of a division, tiebreak would be head to head record. If there were a 3-way tie, division record, followed by conference record would act as tiebreakers. Only one team per conference would make the playoffs.
Once we had our 16 division winners, a seeding committee would seed each team, regardless of conference, in the 16 team bracket, with the number one overall seed playing the number 16 and so on. If the 4 best teams are all from the same conference, they wouldn't have to play each other in the first two rounds, they would get to beat up on the worst teams to make the tournament.
Who WOULDN'T be glued to their TV every December and January for that!
And the non-division winners could play in bowl games, so we can still have the bowls, with the some of the best teams that couldn't quite make it! Best of both worlds! What do you all think???
4 conferences, 64 teams, as has been talked about on numerous publications all year. Only the 64 most relevant teams are included. Sorry Eastern Michigan, no one cares about you. All other teams can be relegated to Division 1-AA, because they wouldn't have a chance in this system anyway.
4 divisions for each of the 4 conferences, with the winner of each division earning a <gasp!> Playoff spot.
Which makes for a 16 team, entertaining as hell, December Madness tournament.
I've been working on my 4 conferences and their divisions all night and I have settled on this for a lineup. I tried to take into account proximity and rivalries as best I could, and obviously some great new ones would start up!
Big East
Division A
1)Louisville
2)Virginia
3)Virginia Tech
4)West Virginia
Division B
5)Boston College
6)Connecticut
7)Rutgers
8)Syracuse
Division C
9)Cincinnati
10)Maryland
11)Penn State
12)Pittsburgh
Division D
13)Georgia Tech
14)North Carolina
15)North Carolina State
16)Wake Forest
Big North
Division A
1)Michigan
2)Michigan State
3)Notre Dame
4)Ohio State
Division B
5)Iowa
6)Iowa State
7)Minnesota
8)Nebraska
Division C
9)Boise State
10)BYU
11)Colorado
12)Utah
Division D
13)Illinois
14)Missouri
15)Purdue
16)Wisconsin
Big South
Division A
1)Alabama
2)Auburn
3)Mississippi State
4)Ole Miss
Division B
5)Florida
6)Florida State
7)Georgia
8)Miami
Division C
9)Clemson
10)South Carolina
11)Tennessee
12)Vanderbilt
Division D
13)Arkansas
14)Baylor
15)Kansas State
16)LSU
Big West
Division A
1)Oklahoma
2)Oklahoma State
3)Texas
4)Texas A&M
Division B
5)California
6)Stanford
7)USC
8)UCLA
Division C
9)Oregon
10)Oregon State
11)Washington
12)Washington State
Division D
13)Arizona
14)Arizona State
15)TCU
16)Texas Tech
Teams would play each team in their own division as the final 3 games of their schedule. Each team would play one Division 1-AA school in week 1 of each season. Each team would play 2 non-conference, Division 1A teams and 6 inner-conference, non division teams (half the conference, so you could have these games alternate every other year).
If there were to be a tie at the top of a division, tiebreak would be head to head record. If there were a 3-way tie, division record, followed by conference record would act as tiebreakers. Only one team per conference would make the playoffs.
Once we had our 16 division winners, a seeding committee would seed each team, regardless of conference, in the 16 team bracket, with the number one overall seed playing the number 16 and so on. If the 4 best teams are all from the same conference, they wouldn't have to play each other in the first two rounds, they would get to beat up on the worst teams to make the tournament.
Who WOULDN'T be glued to their TV every December and January for that!
And the non-division winners could play in bowl games, so we can still have the bowls, with the some of the best teams that couldn't quite make it! Best of both worlds! What do you all think???