[Snorlax94]

Snorlax,

Outside of the five Power 5 conferences, how do you determine the sixth conference champion that's in?

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Here's my proposed CFP (which I also posted in another thread):

There should be 8 teams in the playoff.  The eight should consist of the five Power 5 conference champions, the top two highest ranked Group of 5 teams, and the 8th slot would go to the highest ranked team not already in.  Each of the two highest ranked Group of 5 teams would have to be ranked in the top 15 to get in.  If there isn't a Group of 5 team to fill one or both of those slots, then the highest ranked team not already in would get that slot.  Once the eight teams are established, seed them based on ranking.  Losing your Power 5 CCG should cost you a spot in the playoff unless you're ranked high enough to snag that 8th spot.

With such a system, the eight teams this season would have been Alabama, Clemson, tOSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina, and ND.  That would be an exciting 3 weekend playoff with plenty of opportunity to root for an underdog.  The end result would most likely be Alabama vs Clemson in the final, but at least other teams would have a shot.

Martyup,
I think our wishes are very similar. I too would use rankings to determine which non-Power 5 champion(s) would go in.

I think I really have only 2 differences:
First, I’d make it flexible how many non-Champion power 5 teams could get in, but I’d have an exceptionally high bar — they must be tied with a division champion and they cannot have lost the conference championship game. It should be only for exceptional cases where a 1 loss team did not get the opportunity to play in their conference championship due to tie-breaking rules. And just to dissuade any bizarre scenario, at most 2 teams from one conference should get in. The title “conference champion” should mean something.

So Notre Dame shouldn’t get in this season. as far as I am concerned, they lost the first game of the playoff bracket to Clemson and should not be re-inserted.

Second, I think non-conference champions trying to get in without a conference championship game should be restricted to teams that played half their games at home, half away. Conference champions wouldn’t need to do so, but the wildcard teams should have that requirement.

There is so much tv lobbying for the committee to intervene and “choose” the candidates. I am sick of coaches going on tv trying to influence the public to make their case. every or almost every birth should be the result of a football game the final weekend.

Or heck, if Texas A&M didn’t get the chance to play last weekend, they should take a couple of non conference champion teams and make them play each other the final weekend of conference championships. As much as possible, I want everything decided on the field. That’d be awesome — a play-in bowl game the same weekend of conference championships (and only fair — everyone should play the same number of games). If texas a&m wanted in but weren’t in a conference championship game, they could play indiana and the winner would earn that right. Alabama should have had to earn its way into the bracket in 2017 and play as many games as everyone else.

So my first 7 would be the same as yours but I’d render Notre Dame eliminated and have the 8th spot settled with a game between texas a&m and indiana. Wouldn’t that be great?

[Snorlax94]

Snorlax,

Outside of the five Power 5 conferences, how do you determine the sixth conference champion that's in?

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Here's my proposed CFP (which I also posted in another thread):

There should be 8 teams in the playoff.  The eight should consist of the five Power 5 conference champions, the top two highest ranked Group of 5 teams, and the 8th slot would go to the highest ranked team not already in.  Each of the two highest ranked Group of 5 teams would have to be ranked in the top 15 to get in.  If there isn't a Group of 5 team to fill one or both of those slots, then the highest ranked team not already in would get that slot.  Once the eight teams are established, seed them based on ranking.  Losing your Power 5 CCG should cost you a spot in the playoff unless you're ranked high enough to snag that 8th spot.

With such a system, the eight teams this season would have been Alabama, Clemson, tOSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina, and ND.  That would be an exciting 3 weekend playoff with plenty of opportunity to root for an underdog.  The end result would most likely be Alabama vs Clemson in the final, but at least other teams would have a shot.

Martyup,
I think our wishes are very similar. I too would use rankings to determine which non-Power 5 champion(s) would go in.

I think I really have only 2 differences:
First, I’d make it flexible how many non-Champion power 5 teams could get in, but I’d have an exceptionally high bar — they must be tied with a division champion and they cannot have lost the conference championship game. It should be only for exceptional cases where a 1 loss team did not get the opportunity to play in their conference championship due to tie-breaking rules. And just to dissuade any bizarre scenario, at most 2 teams from one conference should get in. The title “conference champion” should mean something.

So Notre Dame shouldn’t get in this season. as far as I am concerned, they lost the first game of the playoff bracket to Clemson and should not be re-inserted.

Second, I think non-conference champions trying to get in without a conference championship game should be restricted to teams that played half their games at home, half away. Conference champions wouldn’t need to do so, but the wildcard teams should have that requirement.

There is so much tv lobbying for the committee to intervene and “choose” the candidates. I am sick of coaches going on tv trying to influence the public to make their case. every or almost every birth should be the result of a football game the final weekend.

Or heck, if Texas A&M didn’t get the chance to play last weekend, they should take a couple of non conference champion teams and make them play each other the final weekend of conference championships. As much as possible, I want everything decided on the field. That’d be awesome — a play-in bowl game the same weekend of conference championships (and only fair — everyone should play the same number of games). If texas a&m wanted in but weren’t in a conference championship game, they could play indiana and the winner would earn that right. Alabama should have had to earn its way into the bracket in 2017 and play as many games as everyone else.

So my first 7 would be the same as yours but I’d render Notre Dame eliminated and have the 8th spot settled with a game between texas a&m and indiana. Wouldn’t that be great?