What If NCAA College Football Division I FBS Had a Playoff?

I have had absolutely enough with the BCS system. I will be the first one to admit that it is leaps and bounds better than the old bowl system. At least we have some semblance of an actual national championship. However, I was watching a Division I FCS game last weekend. It featured two teams I was surprised even had football teams, but I was intrigued. This was a win and advance, lose and go home game. I have never watched a Division I FCS game before, but I loved every second. I started to imagine what it would be like to have a playoff in the Division I FBS (which of course we would have to change the name).

I just want to point out some very interesting facts. If we were to have a college football playoff of 8 teams and seed the teams according to BCS ranking, here is how the bracket would look (Figure 1).

Another possibility is to have the championship play out the same way the FCS does their championship. They use a 16 team tournament where each conference champion gets in to the tournament automatically. There are 11 FBS conferences which leaves 5 teams to get an at-large bid to go to the tournament. Seedings could be determined by committee or by computer rankings similar to the BCS. If we were to use this general system, the championship would look like this (Figure 2).

Just sayin'.....those are some awesome matchups. Imagine we could have a selection special, and I think that any team that would have any legitimate argument for playing for a championship is included (even the mid major conference champions). Sure I don't think Troy would be able to give Alabama a game, but how many 16 seeds have beaten a number 1 seed in the NCAA Basketball tournament? But at least its settled on the field, and not by voter opinion.

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*BCS rankings obtained from ESPN.com