The End Is Near

[Wayne SW/MO]

Well the bowl games have started and some questions will be answered and some will not.

My first thought is how is the new format committee going to address the situation if they see results similar to this year? You have one given, FSU is undefeated and from a major conference. After that it gets sticky just as it did under the BCS. You have 5 teams with one defeat, again from major conferences. You have 7 with 2 losses.

I have to mention the ones with because of the glaring fact that Stanford is ranked ahead of 2 teams with one loss and all the 2 loss teams, yet their losses are to an unranked team and the 25th team. They are said to be better than Baylor, Ohio St, Mizzou. Mizzou lost to the 2nd ranked team and the 9th, OSU lost to a one loss team which lost to a 22nd ranked team and Baylor lost to a 13th ranked team. It seems that there is some magic in the Pac 12.

Bottom line is I don't think the new committee will change anything, too many faults with the polls them selves. The committee will be looking at a flawed process.

The bottom line is that the major conference winners should play it out. No polls involved, no committees, just conference winners with maybe a wild card or two.

[Quillback]

I'm all in favor of the conference champion playoff scenario. Doubt we'll ever see it happen however.

[ozark trout fisher]

Bottom line is I don't think the new committee will change anything, too many faults with the polls them selves. The committee will be looking at a flawed process.

The bottom line is that the major conference winners should play it out. No polls involved, no committees, just conference winners with maybe a wild card or two.

Unlikely to actually happen, but I'm all for it. Have the bottom two conference champions have a play in game to take the four spot in the four team playoff. That way you actually earn your way in based on winning and losing, not perception in the polls. This season you would have (if I was seeding it) 1. Florida State playing 4/5 Michigan State/Stanford (your Rose Bowl would serve as the play in game) and #2 Auburn against #3 Baylor. I put Baylor ahead of MSU because of a couple more quality wins in the Big 12 and a slightly stronger non-conference schedule, but that could easily be reversed.

Either way, sign me up.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Yeah it would depend on the number of acceptable conferences and I think the AL/AU games shows that some way to pick wildcards to even up the numbers should be in the mix. The first game match ups would be irrelevant unless places were added, but I think those should be left to the polls.