[Hieronymus]

At some point why play a regular season? Let’s just start a tournament day 1. 138 teams. Have 20 play in to get down to 128. Take 16 groups of 8. Top of 2 in the group advance to a 32 team single elimination bracket. Basically World Cup college football style. Bleep tradition. Bleep rivalries. Bleep conferences. nobody plays more than 13 games and realistically 12. Setup the groups and brackets by geography to curtail the travel madness. And cash the check baby.

Top 3 if you want to go 48 teams - 16 byes in the first knockout round - instead.

I know you meant this as a joke, but I suggested this about 15 years ago. First five games determines playoff seeding. After that, the remaining seven games are standard single elimination -- loser plays loser, winner plays winner.

I am actually serious as well at this point despite the wise-ass tone. Something like this would solve a lot of current problems and likely increase revenue. It would kill off the bowls finally. And conferences. But they are both mostly croaking or not worth saving anyway. I suppose you could brand a bunch of the knockout games with existing bowl games extending the current playoffs model You might even be able to resurrect a few rivalries as well.

So yeah I am with you and all in on this.

The one big controversy would be creating and adjusting over time the groups for pool play.

[Hieronymus]

At some point why play a regular season? Let’s just start a tournament day 1. 138 teams. Have 20 play in to get down to 128. Take 16 groups of 8. Top of 2 in the group advance to a 32 team single elimination bracket. Basically World Cup college football style. Bleep tradition. Bleep rivalries. Bleep conferences. nobody plays more than 13 games and realistically 12. Setup the groups and brackets by geography to curtail the travel madness. And cash the check baby.

Top 3 if you want to go 48 teams - 16 byes in the first knockout round - instead.

I know you meant this as a joke, but I suggested this about 15 years ago. First five games determines playoff seeding. After that, the remaining seven games are standard single elimination -- loser plays loser, winner plays winner.

I am actually serious as well at this point despite the wise-ass tone. Something like this would solve a lot of current problems and likely increase revenue. It would kill off the bowls finally. And conferences. But they are both mostly croaking or not worth saving anyway. I suppose you could brand a bunch of the knockout games with existing bowl games extending the current playoffs model You might even be able to resurrect a few rivalries as well.

So yeah I am with you and all in on this.

The one big controversy would be creating and adjusting over time the groups for pool play.