The Perfect BCS Playoff System

    Why has the most controversial topic in sports today, next to steroid testing, for some reason, gone unsolved when the perfect BCS playoff format is at the countries fingertips?  Most of the things that make a BCS playoff, supposedly impossible, are all dealt with in my perfect plan to make over 80% of college football fans, including myself, happy.  This is not a crazy plan with 64 teams, or impossible lengths of playing time to be finished by the beginning of January, as the college season always has.    I see no reason why this playoff system would not work.  In my BCS playoff system bowl games would still be used, just for neutral playing fields, not for money winnings or a trophy.  Teams in the top 30 rankings in the BCS poll would get money at the end of the season.  Furthermore, this playoff could be played during the same time frame that the bowls always have been televised, such as mid-December to the first few days in January, after the conference championship games are played.  

    I believe this is a unique format because it would offer a chance for any small school in the top 30 BCS ranked teams to step up and win a big money BCS bowl game.  Those times of the undefeated #4 team not getting into the National Championship game over a #2 team that happened to have a tougher schedule would be over, as the top 6 seeded teams in the BCS ranking would square-off against each other in a playoff for the national championship where the #1 and #2 ranked teams would get a bye.

For the other 3 bowls, that would continue to rotate each year for the National Championship game, Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, or Orange, would have their own 6 team playoff system where the #7& #8, #9 & #10, and #11 & #12 would get the bye for those playoffs, then teams ranked #13-#23 would fill in the rest of the brackets while #24 & #25 match-up in a play-in game to determine the last spot, and the loser would be inserted into the last spot of the consolation tournament for the Cotton Bowl, which hosts teams ranked 24 or 25-30, as shown in my attachment.

   The pair of games in the middle of each of the brackets, which are the lower seeds, could be played on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of week 1 after the conference championships, then the second round games of each tournament would be played on the following Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, afterward the title games of the consolation and 4th championship game playoffs would be played on the Friday, and the 2nd and 3rd championship games on Saturday, with the National title game on Monday Night as it normally is. Each week’s games would be televised in the order by days, in the arrangement of the championship games importance, for instance, last years bowl game order would have been Rose bowl games on Wednesday, Fiesta bowl games on Thursday, Sugar Bowl games on Friday, and Orange bowl games on Saturday.  No game would be played on Sunday, so there would be no competition in ratings with the NFL.

The consolation bracket championship games, or Cotton Bowl games, could be played, two games a day, on the Tuesday’s of each of the three weeks that the other games are being played.   This system is extremely fair because there would still be 5 champions in Division IA football, which has 117 teams, as opposed to 1 overall champion in Division IA college basketball, which has 330 teams.  It is also fair because just for being in the BCS rankings at the end of the season schools would still get money in the order of rank, and repetition of conference members also in the BCS.  

  To see a picture with more detail of the playoff system with rankings and bowls from last year email me at my address listed and I will send you the picture.