8 Team NCAAF Playoff

Hey this is just reason #111 on why the NCAAF should have a playoff:

FST RANKINGS
1) Oregon
2) Auburn
3) TCU
4) LSU
5) Boise St.
6) Stanford
7) Wisconsin
8) Alabama (pending victory over Auburn, Ohio State slides in if they lose)


Reason #111 for playoff: Look at the level of talent and please tell me that this way wouldn't be more profitable $$$ (NCAAF #1 concern...$$$) for the bowls and the NCAAF than the current system.  You have the next John Elway type of QB in Andrew Luck, "potential shut down corner" in Patrick Peterson, Cam Newton and that explosive offense, last year's NCAAF champion Alabama, everyone's favorite "cinderella teams" in Boise State and TCU, Oregon and their 60pt offense every game, and the Wisconsin Badgers a hard nosed big ten team that put up 83 on the Indiana Hoosiers (against the Hoosiers, but still impressive).

Obviously the rankings would change if Alabama would win this Saturday and FST would rank it like this:

1) Oregon
2) TCU
3) Auburn
4) LSU
5) Boise State
6) Stanford
7) Wisconsin
8) Alabama

FST Made up bowl games: For Example these games would be held on Jan 1st (hey actually good Jan 1 bowl games...I'm hungover give me FOOTBALL!!!)

Sugar Bowl: Oregon vs Alabama (maybe this year's champ vs last years champ).
Fiesta Bowl: TCU vs Wisconsin
Orange Bowl: Auburn vs Stanford (2nd best 1st rd game: best college QB vs best pro style QB, AKA the QB Bowl)
Rose Bowl: LSU vs Boise St. (LSU shaky but lets see that great defense and PP vs lets see how "for real" Boise St is vs a SEC team)

Then the second round would be the next Saturday Jan 8
FST Bowl: Oregon vs LSU
Google Bowl: Auburn vs TCU

National Title January 15th...
National Title (rotates every 7 years): Oregon vs Auburn (I am rooting so hard for Auburn this week [even tho I think BAMA will win] b/c I don't want to see Boise or TCU vs Oregon)


I just threw out three random bowl games at the end but you would need three more bowl games added to the four we already have and I'm sure companies would have no problem sponsoring a game like Oregon vs LSU or Auburn vs TCU or even the game everyone wants to see Oregon vs Auburn.  I just can't think of a reason why you wouldn't want to have a playoff:

1) It gives every team in every "contending conference" a chance for the national title.

2) It gives teams an opportunity to overcome losses and adversity during the season.

3) The NFL is trying to add two more games to the regular season so why can't the NCAAF?!?!? I have been against the NFL adding two more games for statistical purposes and records but I feel the only way the NCAAF is going to change to a playoff is if the NFL adds two more games because then the NCAAF can't argue that the players need more rest, etc because the NFL will be playing 18 regular season games vs 13 games.  Rookies need a smooth transition you can't just make them play 5 more games against "the NFL elite" and expect them to be successful and not get worn or burned out before the year is over.  Just like most things in life you have to give up a little (NFL adding two more games) to get what you want (PLAYOFF).

4) MORE MONEY

5) At the end of this playoff, you can't argue that the winner didn't deserve it because they will have to play at least two difficult games to win it all (cough cough TCU and Boise State this would be your first tough game of the year).

6) You give teams the opportunity to go 15-0 and you could start to establish "best ever" teams and establish "rank" in NCAAF history because they deserve it if they win it all.  Plus hell NCAAF step your game up, the NCAAB has 65 team tourney and so much drama in that tournament. It is hard to one-up them but hey let's get some drama of our own. With the current system, is Boise State or TCU really deserving of putting their name in history if Oregon, Auburn, or both lose this week and they both or one of them get a shot for the national title???  I love football and the NFL draft is my 5th favorite day of the year and I am telling you I would not watch TCU vs Boise State to determine the National Champion.

7) You give these young men a chance to live their dream...win the national title. It is not going to be fair to Cam Newton and Auburn to go the entire year undefeated and to get tripped up in a slugfest vs a hell of a ball team, a RIVAL, in THEIR HOUSE, (ya Alabama's house) for the LAST GAME OF THE YEAR and fall one game short (still have to play SEC champ but still some teams don't have Conference titles).  That is the most anti-climatic finish to the college football year.  With the current system, we would then have the pleasure of watching Oregon kill Boise State or TCU.

....the way I set it up here the NCAAF season would be elongated by 5 days and has jam packed action the 1st half of the month of January.  So, two teams would play one more game than everyone else, and the teams in the national championship would play two more games.....big deal?? I think not.

With a playoff, you also create drama which apparently "sells" in 2010. You have three SEC teams, (LSU beat Bama, Bama beats Auburn?). A possible re-match of Auburn vs Alabama in the national title game.  Could you imagine that? Alabama beats Auburn this week and squeaks into the top 8 so they are eligible for the playoff.  Then with Alabama and Auburn on separate sides of the bracket they could potentially play each other in the national title game.  However, Alabama you have to earn it to get to the national championship.  They would have to play the #1 team in the country (Oregon) and then LSU (whom they already lost to) to get there.  A playoff just creates so many stories and different scenarios that would generate more exposure to these athletes, as well as more money and more hype to the school in the playoff and would also make recruiting more easier....("hey we have been in the playoff for 8 consecutive years").  You would also give athletes like Andrew Luck and Patrick Peterson more "PRIMETIME ACTION" and exposure and help them raise their draft stock and show the NFL what they got..possibly making the NFL draft a more exact science b/c you see these players against "elite" competition, not Boise St vs Wyoming and say wow that Kellen Moore should win the Heisman. Shut up with that shit!!


My most convincing argument is look at what they got right now. According to CBS Sportsline, these are the projected bowl matchups. I count one enticing game and that is Auburn vs Ohio State.

National Title: Oregon vs Boise State....Oregon by 17
Sugar Bowl: Auburn vs Ohio State
Orange Bowl: TCU vs Virginia Tech...YUCK
Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State vs Pitt....YIKES
Rose Bowl: Wisconsin vs Stanford....where is that green YUCK sticker we got in 1st grade b/c we need it now.


It is nice to see Alabama getting rewarded though for going through a tough SEC schedule (10-2) and beat the #2 team in the country in the last week for nothing. What is your argument? They had two losses? They played in my eyes 7 "lose-able" games. Boise State played 3 (I counted Nevada, VA Tech, and Oregon St as their lose-able games vs Alabama who played 7 tough SEC teams and had to be prepared week in and out). Way to go NCAA!!