We haven’t even completed the first season or received the final rankings of the first year of the 12-team playoff regime. But one school is already making proposals for changes.
Eliminate Conference Championship Games
Why play a meaningless exhibition game when both teams are likely to already be in the playoffs? Just begin the first round of playoffs one week earlier.
Procedure For Awarding First Round Byes
The rule whereby conference champions get first round byes in the playoffs is backfiring. Some teams which may get byes could easily include mediocre teams like Miami, SMU, Colorado, Boise State, being awarded byes only because they are conference champions instead of being better teams who deserve to have earned a bye. Under current rules teams could get into the playoffs only because they were conference champions, not because they were voted in by the Playoff Committee.
That rule needs to be changed to require any team getting a first round bye be ranked in the top 10 by the Playoff Committee. If a conference champion is not ranked in the top 10, then that bye should go to the next highest ranked top 10 team that was not a conference champion.
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Take a look at the most recent rankings by the Playoff Committee and guess which school is making these proposals? You get three guesses, and the first two don’t count!
Eliminate Conference Championship Games
Why play a meaningless exhibition game when both teams are likely to already be in the playoffs? Just begin the first round of playoffs one week earlier.
Procedure For Awarding First Round Byes
The rule whereby conference champions get first round byes in the playoffs is backfiring. Some teams which may get byes could easily include mediocre teams like Miami, SMU, Colorado, Boise State, being awarded byes only because they are conference champions instead of being better teams who deserve to have earned a bye. Under current rules teams could get into the playoffs only because they were conference champions, not because they were voted in by the Playoff Committee.
That rule needs to be changed to require any team getting a first round bye be ranked in the top 10 by the Playoff Committee. If a conference champion is not ranked in the top 10, then that bye should go to the next highest ranked top 10 team that was not a conference champion.
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Take a look at the most recent rankings by the Playoff Committee and guess which school is making these proposals? You get three guesses, and the first two don’t count!
