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The top of this is all a repost...

I use the BCS standings and put the 16 teams in based on that. These would be the matchups and brackets heading into this final week.

That said, as I get older, I love the college football does it this way. As a Steeler fan, I never really felt like we were the best team after winning Super Bowl 40. I always wanted to see my squad win it, but from the 6th seed it just didn't seem as great. The year before when they were 15-1 or whatever in the regular season before bowing out to the Pats in the AFC Championship game, they seemed more deserving of the champion title. To see New England go undefeated all the way to the Super Bowl and lose one game...it just seemed crappy. They were the best team. College basketball...yeah, I love that tournament and it is exciting as all get out, but how often does the best team win? How much does the regular season matter at all? You can lose every game, win your conference tournament, and you are dancing. An entire offseason and season depend on ONE game.

Anyway, I'd support nothing more than a 16 team playoff and would really prefer an 8 team one... here we go. This can and will change after this week.


1. Alabama
16. WVU

8. Ohio State
9. Georgia Tech

5. Florida
12. LSU

4. TCU
13. Penn State

6. Boise St
11. Virginia Tech

3. Cincy
14. BYU

7. Oregon
10. Iowa

2. Texas
15. Miami


Higher seed hosts in round 1. From there, they use bowl sites.

My projections- (This is better than last week in terms of fun matchups)
Bama vs. Ohio State
Florida vs. TCU (I don't think PSU would beat them with their style of offense and fast defense)
Virginia Tech vs. Cincy
Oregon vs. Texas

Bama vs. Florida
Virginia Tech vs. Oregon (I think their style would allow them to have a real good shot vs Texas after the last two Texas showings)

Bama vs. Oregon for all the marbles...

I think your projections are great. My only issue would be the Florida-LSU matchup. I would give LSU the procedural bump and put Florida vs. Va Tech and LSU vs. Boise. I would then have Cincy beating LSU in the quarters and losing to Oregon in the semis.

Coach, you HAVE to include what you call the "duds". If there is a playoff sponsored by NCAA, then all the teams considered NCAA Div. I will have to have an opportunity via conference or wildcard/independent criteria to get in. Just like hoops tourney.

Speaking of Hoops tourney....two ideas that would make it better IMO

1. Double elimination
2. Have a I-AA tournament starting a week sooner with 16-24 teams. Invite 60 Teams (instead of 64/65) to the big dance from major conferences ONLY. The weekend of the 1st and 2nd round games to get to the sweet 16 would also include the I-AA semifinals and finals and the winner would be included, along with the 15 true Div. I first round survivors, in the Big Dance Sweet Sixteen round. That gives you a built in "cinderella" from a lower level conference, every year in the Sweet 16.

Back to football....under my scenario (Play-In games except for BCS conferences that have a Champ. game) and Jan. 1 Quarterfinals, it would have shook down as follows:

5 Play-In games- Dec. 12
ACC-Orange (G.Tech), SEC-Orange (Alab), and Big 12-Fiesta (Texas) automatically move to New Years Day.

WAC (Boise) vs PAC-10 (Oregon) winner to Rose Bowl
Big 10 (Ohio St.) vs Sun Belt (Troy)for other Rose Bowl spot
Big East (Cinci ) vs C-USA (E.Carolina) for Sugar Bowl spot
MAC (Ohio) vs Wild Card #1 (Florida) for Orange Bowl spot
MW (TCU) vs Wild Card #2 (Iowa--highest rated remaining BCS team) for Fiesta Bowl spot

Quarterfinals on New Years Day
Sugar Bowl Alabama over Cincinnati
Orange Bowl Florida over Ga. Tech
Fiesta Bowl TCU vs Texas (pick 'em)
Rose Bowl Ohio State over Oregon

Semifinals and Championship Game to follow

I would not want to see Texas play Oregon. That's exactly the type of offense that could beat them. I'm actually very happy with the BCS and how everything worked out this year. :lol:

The BCS did get the best championship matchup but yet it is still very, very sad that in this day and age in sports that 3 teams that went undefeated in the regular season do not have a chance at the national title. I feel bad for Cincy more than TCU or Boise. They play in a BCS conference, played 2 BCS conference teams in the non-conference schedule (Oregon State and Illinois) along with a usually pretty tough Fresno State team, and won all their games yet have no chance at a national title. Forget the pity that teams outside of the BCS conferences get, there are teams in BCS conferences that literally go into the season without a chance at a national title.

The duds do have a chance Roadie...

Win...and win enough to make it. WAC and Mtn West teams have done it. If Troy went undefeated, they'd be in the top 16, GUARANTEED. That's why 16 would work better than 8. If they can't win their own awful conference and end up undefeated, then they can't win it all.