Finally a Playoff?

[Pell City Tiger]

It's all subjective when you get down to it, but there will have to be some input by humans on who the cream of the crop is. At least on who gets to play. I think most people can agree who the best 4/8/16 teams are. Then, let them all control their destiny from that point on.....

If we were talking about the humans choosing the National Champion, just 1 team of all 120, I would be inclined to agree with you. But looking at wins, dominance, SOS, etc - it shouldn't be that big of a deal to choose X amount of teams to play for it all.

ESPN, the sports writers, and coaches do this now and always stack the deck against the non-traditional schools. How many times have we looked at the preseason poll and wondered "what the fuck?"; seeing Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc given the gift of a high ranking year after year based on nothing more than their name - the "safe bet" ballot, if you will. The human factor has failed us.

Adding 2 wildcards (1 to each side of the bracket) would be a good option, but would add another game to the equation, something the AD's and university president have been firmly against.

[The Prowler]

Here's what I'd do...

We have 8 major conferences in D1. Scrape 1 cupcake off the regular season schedule, to reduce it down to 11 games. Have the champion from each of the major 8 entered into the championship pool. These teams play for it all and, by making it a requirement that a team be their conference champ, it removes ESPN's bias that produces the horseshit we have seen since the BCS's inception. In this scenario, only 2 teams will have to play a 15th game, but we will have a true national champion that is decided on the field. No bias, no bullshit, win your conference & you get a shot.

Everyone else (that qualifies) plays a bowl game.

Boom!

[Godfather]

Here's what I'd do...

We have 8 major conferences in D1. Scrape 1 cupcake off the regular season schedule, to reduce it down to 11 games. Have the champion from each of the major 8 entered into the championship pool. These teams play for it all and, by making it a requirement that a team be their conference champ, it removes ESPN's bias that produces the horseshit we have seen since the BCS's inception. In this scenario, only 2 teams will have to play a 15th game, but we will have a true national champion that is decided on the field. No bias, no bullshit, win your conference & you get a shot.

Everyone else (that qualifies) plays a bowl game.

Boom!

It's like PCT writes it and then you rewrite it several days later....deja-vu

[GH2001]

ESPN, the sports writers, and coaches do this now and always stack the deck against the non-traditional schools. How many times have we looked at the preseason poll and wondered "what the fuck?"; seeing Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc given the gift of a high ranking year after year based on nothing more than their name - the "safe bet" ballot, if you will. The human factor has failed us.

Adding 2 wildcards (1 to each side of the bracket) would be a good option, but would add another game to the equation, something the AD's and university president have been firmly against.

They stack them at the beginning of the season but once Texas and Notre Dame lose their yearly 4-5 games, its impossible to keep them ranked high - no matter how much of a hard on the media has for them.  The 0 and 1 loss teams will rise to the top over them.  I would say as flawed as the human polls are, they get the top 10 pretty accurate more times than not. It's when you ask them to pick 1 team as the National Champion or 2 teams to play for it, that you get controversy. At least with 4/8/16, the selection field is being expanded, so that #3 or #4 can't bitch.

[JR4AU]

It's like PCT writes it and then you rewrite it several days later....deja-vu

Fuck sakes, what's next?  Prowler reposting year old vid...wait what?

[GH2001]

Fuck sakes, what's next?  Prowler reposting year old vid...wait what?

The guy - he amazes me.

[Godfather]

The guy - he amazes me.

His skreets have no boundaries   

[Snaggletiger]

His skreets have no boundaries

And no name either

[Pell City Tiger]

It's like PCT writes it and then you rewrite it several days later....deja-vu

I am the skreets!