Under the utterly unnoticed Your RHS playoff plan, this would have been the upcoming week in college football...
Troy (Sun Belt Champion, #16) at Texas (At large, #1)
Penn State (Big 10 Champion, #9) at USC (Pac 10 Champion, #8)
Virginia Tech (ACC Champion, #13) at Utah (Mountain West Champion, #4)
Ball State (At large, #12) at Boise State (WAC Champion, #5)
East Carolina (Conference USA Champion, #14) at Florida (SEC Champion, #3)
Cincinnati (Big East Champion, #11) at Alabama (At large, #6)
Buffalo (MAC Champion, #15) at Oklahoma (Big 12 Champion, #2)
Ohio State (At large, #10) at Texas Tech (At large, #7)
Could Iowa and South Carolina still play in the Outback Bowl under this system? Hell yes. It wouldn't be any less meaningful a game than it is right now.
Oh well. Someday it will happen. The laughable notion that there's no playoff because the schools are worried about the academic progress of their students will eventually go away when the money is right.
Of course, that won't be until 2015 at the earliest thanks to the sweet new BCS/ESPN deal.
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Ah, there is so much corruption in the whole thing. I'll go one more better. The argument is fair that teams from the Non-BCS conferences just can't compete year in and year out with the BCS teams. Boise State and Utah will be win, what, one out of 5 times against those guys. I say, use your format which allows a path for EACH team in Div. I (er, FBS) to play for a championship or, in the alternative, cut the FBS into the major six conferences (force Notre Dame to join a conference) and make another division for the Sun Belts and C-USAs, etc. Going with the latter, you get rid of the strength of schedule argument for the most part because you don't have 12-0 Nevadas getting to the Fiesta Bowl beating the likes of UTEP and Del. State while USC goes on the road to beat an SEC team on the road. Just my two cents.
David M. Moore, Esq.
This sounds like making college football more like high school football. I can't imagine the chaos that would ensue as schools like BYU and Utah would consider themselves to be in the elite and be forced to move to a BCS-level conference.
As for the one out of five, that's why Boise State won the Fiesta Bowl and George Mason got to the Final Four. I would gladly take that over the caste system that currently exists.
I'm old fashioned - I think we should play for our conference bowl games and screw #1. But failing that, why not introduce a title belt?
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