A Playoff Solution For College Football

[jstnrgrs]

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The bowls suck. Either eliminate them and come up with a real playoff (min 12 teams) like every other sport in the modern civilized world, or keep the crappy system in place. Seriously, if they eliminated the bowls in 15 years everyone would look back and laugh at the lunacy that used to exist.

There actually really only has to be some very minor tweaking to the system to make everyone happy. Institute the following rule:

-Play according to the previous bowl system prior to BCS
-National Championship is played two weekends after New Year's Day between teams #1 and 2 at a neutral site. Eureka!

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This wouldn't fix anything. Last year, USC, Oklahoma, and Auburn would all have won their bowl games, which would leave an undefeated team out of the titile game. (This isn't even considering teams like Utah, who would still have no chance.)

In all of the lower divisions of CFB, there is a 16 team playoff. This is not so many teams that the regular season is meaningless, but it is enough to be sure that all deserving teams are included. (I don't feel bad for the 17th team that will be whining every year, because they could have earned their spot just by winning more games.)

Logistically, these smaller schoold (where the players are actually their for an education) still manage to make it work.

There is no reason that this couldn't be done for D-1A.