Everyone gets a chance at the playoffs. 12, eight team regional pods with ten of them being locks and two others are regional promotion and relagation.
Seven games in each pod, winner goes to the playoffs. Non-Pod games can be scheduled interpod, lower league, and FCS (2-2-1 or 3-1-1 model). This will allow wealth to be distributed lower. At least one from each class has to be played.
These interpod/league games will be used for SoS in at large games. Same within the pods.
The bottom two in each Pro/Rel league are sent back to the lower league. The winners from each lower league pod also go to the playoffs, then get promoted the next year.
The playoff can be 20 or 24 as well, where at larges come from the major league pods, minimum standing has to be 2nd (tiebreakers can be used). No Bama/Auburn/LSU/Georgia stack.
Just roll everything back to 1991. You get the Big East, 10-team B1G, SWC, PAC-10. Really the optimal lineups for basically everyone. Apologies to UCF and Boise.
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This has always been the perfect conference framework and the most viable. I am sure we can find room for UCF in the SEC and Boise in the WAC, original WAC.
espn is destroying college football. At this rate we will see two power conferences and everybody else can find pennies to budget a football program. This is where it is heading. A 20 minutes rivalry, two to five hours drive is what college football is all about. Everything else is pure non sense. College programs keep spending more and more therefore they have to find the money…
Who says you should have a Taj Mahal of a stadium? We keep escalating and when you keep escalating at some point you will lose your footings. How many DIV I FBS schools operate in the red? That is what no one wants to speak about.
You have 10 conferences playing within their geography. Each winner gets to the cfp. The best independent is selecting only if it has the same numbers of wins as the average of wins of all the DIV I conference winners. You have five at large that have the best W/L and you have your 16 cfp model.
You all remember that the nfl operates with a salary cap.
DIV I FBS is the total Wild Wild West…and 90% of these schools are public schools.
One, bottom performing teams in pods over MULTIPLE years, like bad bad, get sent to pro/rel and is swapped with a high performing team. This will likely happen to G5 promos and bad low market P4s like Purdue
Two, this can kinda work for basketball too? ANd other sports?
Either a 14 team round robin schedule in pod and 17/18 out of pod games, or scheduling agreements with the ole conference mates. Instead of 10AQs from FBS and 21 from FCS, it becomes 16+21, leading to a 37 AQ and 31 at larges. This could appease the ESPN Gods since there’s more teams coming from the major league. 8 Team mini tournaments.
Ok check it out. This is a wild idea so stick with me. Take all the conferences in D1 FBS… Autobid the conference champions. Right. Then fill in the at large (to whatever size bracket you want) with a computer ranking. Use can seed with a committee if you absolutely need a committee of human morons to be involved.
It’s a crazy idea I know. But I think it’s a pretty good one, I’m surprised I’m the first person to ever think of it.
