I've Been Thinking About This For A While...
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I've Been Thinking About This For A While...
You know how in baseball and basketball (both college), conference champions are determined through tournaments? Well, it got me wondering what if football did it that way, too? As opposed to a single championship game. The new playoff system that they've adopted got me to thinking that.
After the regular season, hold a conference tournament in December.
Yeah, it'll probably never happen because football's a pretty rough and rowdy game. And players probably would need up to a week to rest and fully recover. And at that rate, if conferences did determine championships that way, then chances are that a champion wouldn't get crowned until after Christmas. I don't think many folks would like that.
But still, it doesn't hurt to imagine.
After the regular season, hold a conference tournament in December.
Yeah, it'll probably never happen because football's a pretty rough and rowdy game. And players probably would need up to a week to rest and fully recover. And at that rate, if conferences did determine championships that way, then chances are that a champion wouldn't get crowned until after Christmas. I don't think many folks would like that.
But still, it doesn't hurt to imagine.
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The logistics of a football tournament would be tough to manage unless you abandon the idea of drawing fans in person and plan it to be a TV only event. Between finals and the holidays, it would be tough to accomplish a football tournament.
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I thought finals were in January.
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mrsticka wrote:I thought finals were in January.
UNL finals are in Dec. second semester starts as soon as the students are back in Jan. I think most schools on a semester system are this way.
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Almost all schools have them in December. A tournament would dilute the regular season.
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Mike is right. The logistics would be a cluster |expletive|. 15-20 thousand basketball fans for 1 game is manageable, even when duplicated for several teams at once, or an entire bracket regional. But football is too large of an in-house audience, and the logistics needed to pull off the even is too great.
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An 8 team playoff is inevitable, its not a question of if but only when. As far as the arguement for logistics of a playoff system, that could be easily solved with the higher seeded team hosting the game.
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Unless I read it wrong, I was thinking his idea was for individual conference playoffs, then a national playoff. Agree, an extended national playoff is probably going to happen, conference playoffs will never, for all the logistical reasons stated above.Linkin5 wrote:An 8 team playoff is inevitable, its not a question of if but only when. As far as the arguement for logistics of a playoff system, that could be easily solved with the higher seeded team hosting the game.
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How?Greg S wrote:Almost all schools have them in December. A tournament would dilute the regular season.
Greg
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Right now every game counts. Even losing one game can know you out of contention, even with the playoff (look at TCU and Baylor). Even Ohio State had to sweat making the playoffs. College football has the best regular season because of this. You can not afford to take a game off. If you have 8 or especially 16 teams in a tournament, you can afford to have one and most likely two losses if you are in a power 5 conference.
Greg
Greg
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An 8 team playoff would not ruin the regular season, that is the same tired argument the BCS proponents kept making every year about a 4 team playoff. Last year was one of the most exciting post seasons (as well as profitable) I have ever seen in college football, and 8 team playoff would only enhance that and would not dilute the regular season at all.Greg S wrote:Right now every game counts. Even losing one game can know you out of contention, even with the playoff (look at TCU and Baylor). Even Ohio State had to sweat making the playoffs. College football has the best regular season because of this. You can not afford to take a game off. If you have 8 or especially 16 teams in a tournament, you can afford to have one and most likely two losses if you are in a power 5 conference.
Greg
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Linkin5 wrote:An 8 team playoff would not ruin the regular season, that is the same tired argument the BCS proponents kept making every year about a 4 team playoff. Last year was one of the most exciting post seasons (as well as profitable) I have ever seen in college football, and 8 team playoff would only enhance that and would not dilute the regular season at all.Greg S wrote:Right now every game counts. Even losing one game can know you out of contention, even with the playoff (look at TCU and Baylor). Even Ohio State had to sweat making the playoffs. College football has the best regular season because of this. You can not afford to take a game off. If you have 8 or especially 16 teams in a tournament, you can afford to have one and most likely two losses if you are in a power 5 conference.
Greg
Does it stop at 8? Or eventually go to 16?
Greg
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Eight is the absolute max I, I thought it should have been eight in the first place.Greg S wrote:Linkin5 wrote:An 8 team playoff would not ruin the regular season, that is the same tired argument the BCS proponents kept making every year about a 4 team playoff. Last year was one of the most exciting post seasons (as well as profitable) I have ever seen in college football, and 8 team playoff would only enhance that and would not dilute the regular season at all.Greg S wrote:Right now every game counts. Even losing one game can know you out of contention, even with the playoff (look at TCU and Baylor). Even Ohio State had to sweat making the playoffs. College football has the best regular season because of this. You can not afford to take a game off. If you have 8 or especially 16 teams in a tournament, you can afford to have one and most likely two losses if you are in a power 5 conference.
Greg
Does it stop at 8? Or eventually go to 16?
Greg
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Yep, that's right.S33 wrote:Unless I read it wrong, I was thinking his idea was for individual conference playoffs, then a national playoff.Linkin5 wrote:An 8 team playoff is inevitable, its not a question of if but only when. As far as the arguement for logistics of a playoff system, that could be easily solved with the higher seeded team hosting the game.