Automatic Bids:
ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Conf USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC
*Not Eligible* Ohio State (12-0), UNC (8-4), Penn State(8-4), Miami (7-5)
* I adjusted the bracket giving the top 4 teams in each bracket a bye* Since everyone seems to think this was too many games for all the team to play. But you have to remember a lot of team will only play one or two games, etc. There's no losers bracket.
Too many teams, Too many games.
ReplyDeleteLoses any version of being worth it.
8 Teams max, I might buy 12, but I think in college football, 8 teams max and you keep the regular season worth it AND get a compelling 3 weeks of playoffs.
I disagree, sure 64 seems like a lot now. But so did everyone when the basketball started at 8, then went to 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, now its like 68 or something. All other divisions of College football have 64 team tournaments, as well as most highschool football, etc, etc. All sports in College go 64 or close to it. But thanks for expressing your opinion. I wouldn't expect it to start at 64, but just move there over time. Adding so many teams adds to the excitement, just like in Basketball when a small team, or unexpected one makes a run.
ReplyDeleteand a 17-week season for unpaid student players would be fair? Besides, think of it from a television angle. You really think the NFL is going to let the NCAA Football playoffs compete with the NFL playoffs and the Superbowl?
ReplyDeleteNice graphic - totally not going to happen.
You do know that all i mean all the subdivisions of College football, DII, DIII, NAIA, etc play 64 team tournaments right. Are you saying the DI schools aren't tough enough to do it or what? All they would have to do is cut the regular season back to 10-11 games.
DeleteI know it is only a mock up, and a good one, but you missed on Nebraska's record and (lack of) top 25 ranking. Not sure if all the others teams records and ranks are right; didn't check.
ReplyDeleteSorry should have stated that I used my top 30 to ranked them. Since it was fictional, they would probably get rid of the BCS and some secret committee that wouldn't tell us why would seed everyone in a strange way like March Madness anyway. I just used by Top 30 as a guide. Thanks though, the records should be correct.
DeleteIf only this were real... Heading down that road though. I think College Football will max out at a 16 team tournament somewhere around 2025 before eventually growing larger. First they need to figure out how to compensate these kids though.
ReplyDeleteNone of the NCAA divisions play 64-team football tournaments. FCS tourny has 20 teams, D-II has 24 teams, & D-III has 32 teams. That works out to 16.4% making the tourny in FCS (20÷122), 16.2% in D-II (24÷148), & 16.1% in D-III (32÷199). Therefore, the number of teams is predicated on the number of teams in that division.
ReplyDeleteSo, to have 64 teams or HALF! (50%) of the 128 teams that will be in FBS by 2015 in a D-IA tourny is ridiculous. The D-I basketball tourny has 68 teams because there are 346 D-I basketball programs. This works out to 19.7% or a little more than the football tournies have---another issue with the expansion last year.
A bigger D-IA football tournament is in order but not 64 teams. I believe 8 teams would be sufficient (maybe 16) although 20 would be the number that would equal 16%.
Another issue with more than 8 teams is the scheduling and monetary conflicts for the fans. The other levels do not have as many fans traveling to games. To ask 50,000+ fans to travel to more than 2 or 3 games is too much. With the B-ball tourny, there are 2 games at each site---much easier for the fans. Also, there aren't nearly as many fans at those games as there are at bowl games.
An additional reason for 8-team over 16-team is that teams outside the top 10 have very little claim to a National Championship shot. The logisitical and ancillary obstacles to adding 8 more teams isn't worth it. D-IA is simply not the same as the other divisions---significantly more athletes, greater costs, exponentially more fans, etc.
All this adds up to the best option being an 8-team playoff. More fair, more true to tradition, and less strain on the average fan. You could play the first round 2 weeks after championship weekend, the second round 2 weeks later (New Years week), and the championship 2 more weeks later (mid January). This way the tourny finishes before the start of Spring classes, won't interfere with Fall finals, and would maintain the current regular-season format.
Your bracket is intereating though.
Also FBS football is played at a MUCH higher level than the other divisions---better and bigger athletes=harder and tougher games and more need for rest after a playoff game.
Deleteok, this was just a thought. I wanted something that gave all the small conferences a chance to be in like basketball. But maybe your right. Maybe i will have to work on a tournament where the top seeds get a bye, and the others play week one, etc. Kind've a bonus for doing well regular season, etc.
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