Univ. of Georgia Prez Proposes 8-Team Playoff System

[MrMustang1965]

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- The president of the University of Georgia proposed an eight-team playoff system to determine the NCAA's national football champion.

Michael Adams, chairman of the NCAA executive committee, has opposed a playoff for 20 years but said Tuesday the current BCS system is "undercutting the sportsmanship and integrity of the game."

Adams wants the NCAA to seed eight teams into the four bowls. If one of the major bowls declines to participate, then another bowl could fill the void.

"I believe the season is already too long and demands too much of athletes and the universities that serve them," Adams said at a news conference. "But this year's experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion that the current system has lost public confidence and simply does not work."

Adams would like a special NCAA committee to work out the particulars, but the plan calls for the winners of the four major bowls -- Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta -- to play semifinals at least one week later, with the championship game the following week.

In a statement posted on the NCAA Web site Tuesday afternoon, Brand said he would take Adams' request to the Division I board of directors Monday at the NCAA convention in Nashville. Brand said the structure of postseason football for the Football Bowl Subdivision rests with the presidents.

[crazy horse]

The only problem is who will be the 8 teams selected?

Until they come up with a system where every division 1 has a legit chance of winning a national championship and there are no freebie rides for select teams or conferences, the NCAA/BCS will always be a joke.

You have to create a system like they have at every other level or in college basketball that is based on merit and not alumni size or media interest. Anything less is unacceptable.

Plus, the Big 10 and PAC 10 must expand to 12 and have a championship game or they will continually muck it all up and place teams in bowls that just don't belong.

I never thought I would long for the old days of a bunch of bowls and polls, but that is what the BCS has done to me. What a worthless system!

[SWC2010]

16 team "no brainer" playoff:

[1] Drop the conference playoff game-- it's a trap game for any good team.

[2] Drop one of the three "pad-your-stats" games and you can have 2 rounds completed by finals week.

Now, you're down to a "Final Four" & by NYE you're set for the finals.

Rotate the bowls each year so they get their shot at the true BCS champion game.

This is a no-brainer-- except the $$$ to the "Cartel" keeps it from happening.

We're one lawsuit away from getting a true declared FB Champion in NCAA

[couch 'em]

every conference picks a champion however they want. Champions have a playoff. Simple as that. highest rated independent represents the independents.

[MrMustang1965]

It's done every year - quite easily, I might add - in the former Div. 1-AA (now Div. 1 FCS).

[The XtC]

[quote="couch 'em"]every conference picks a champion however they want. Champions have a playoff. Simple as that. highest rated independent represents the independents.[/quote]

Independants? No way, Notre Dame, Navy and Western Kentucky dont need a spot reserved for one of them. That's like winning a 3 team conference. They can join a league like everyon else. Notre Dame cant have it's cake and eat it too, they want to stick their fingers into the Big Easts share of the NCAA tournament pie, but keep their own little football fiefdom? bugger that.

[ponyte]

Nice proposal. HE thinks that the BSC cartel bowl winners should then play for the National Championship. So an unranked team (such as Pitt a few years ago) can win the Big East and then win a BSC bowl (automatic bowl invitation since the BSC cartel has these bowls locked up) and then move on to a National Championship while an undefeated MWC, CUSA, WAC, etc team may get nothing (no automatic bid to a BSC bowl). Sounds like the cartel has it all worked out.

[couch 'em]

That's like winning a 3 team conference.

I hadn't looked at it that way. Something must be done with independants, however. Notre Dame would have no problem joining a conference, but a smaller school could theoretically make the argument that no conference will let them in, and thus they are being unfairly excluded. Very unlikely, but might as well be thorough.

[docabel]

The main problem with the above UGA proposal is that this will funnel more money to the BCS conferences and less money to the others.

Just looking at this years setup, the 8 participants would have been Ill, USC, Hawaii, UGA, Kan, VT, WVU, and OU. Obviously LSU and OSU would replace 2 of these teams - probably Ill and Hawaii. This is going to make it even more difficult for a non BCS conference to ever be invited to this "party", and much like the current BS system (not a typo), the majoirty of the money from these games will go to the schools/conferences in the game while they leave some scraps for everyone else to fight over. With this proposal, we are adding in 2 more games/money, of which to give more to the haves, and less to the have-nots.