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I came up with a two flight multi playoff system with these 3 assumptions:
A) Somehow we will get player contracts like other pro sports and players will actually play postseason.
B) The Bowls are dying. (this is generally IN PLACE of bowls assuming they keep fading away)
C) How Can G5 be involved in a way that is legit, meaningful and fair.
D) There needs to be more than 12 teams with a meaningful postseason but a massive 32 team playoff kind of kills the amazing regular season that always made college fb great

Structure:
1 - Two 16 team playoff brackets. If you're familiar with soccer this is Champion's League and Europa League.
3 - All 9/10 conference champs guaranteed in the 32 teams, but none are guaranteed in the top flight.
4- Conferences can choose however they want to crown a champion as long as it's clear before the year.
5 - My dream is to go back to ranking similar to BCS ranking to select the other 22 teams but for this year I used CFP committee top 25 and then filled in the few extra spots with computer average.

Here's how this would've looked this year with conf champs in bold:

College Football National Championship:

1-Indiana
16-USC

8-OU
9-Alabama

5-Oregon
12-BYU

4-TTech
13-Texas

3-Georgia
14-Vandy

7-ATM
10-Miami

6-Ole Miss
11-ND

2-OSU
15-Utah


Walter Camp Championship (Or whatever other name we come up with):

1-Arizona
16-Western Michigan

8-JMU
9-North Texas

5-Houston
12-Tennessee

4-Tulane
13-Duke

3-Virginia
14-Boise State

7-Iowa
10-South Florida

6-Georgia Tech
11-Washington

2-Michigan
15-Kennesaw State
 
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I just think they should have a mid major type national title tournament. You have the 4 big conferences play for the title and you have all the rest play for the lower D1 title
 
Drew0311 said:
I just think they should have a mid major type national title tournament. You have the 4 big conferences play for the title and you have all the rest play for the lower D1 title
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I think that's an idea too...but is it weird that mid level P4 teams can just go forever without meaningful postseason?

This second flight I think programs like ISU, KSU and Iowa would do well in as they strive for top flight where without it they might barely miss top 16 pretty constantly. Every power conference is going to have good programs that maintain and just can't crack a 12 or 16 team bracket hardly ever...and to me bigger than that ruins the best regular season in sports.

In the main bowls thread I was pointing out that the best G5 progerams all got absorbed, the distance is getting further apart. None of these G5 teams outside of maybe Boise/Memphis/USF have resources anywhere near programs like Utah, TCU and Cincy that used to be the top programs outside major conferences.
 
Just do a 16 team playoff and just have a computer system rank the teams. It would force the smaller conference powers like Boise and a JMU to schedule up in the regular season to prove their worth. Have conference champions in the Big 5 get home games regardless of the seeding like division winners do in the NFL.
 
I gotta say, if the first word in step one of your plan is "Somehow..." your idea might be a bit of an uphill battle. All due respect, of course. Just some feedback.
 
deadeyededric said:
Just do a 16 team playoff and just have a computer system rank the teams. It would force the smaller conference powers like Boise and a JMU to schedule up in the regular season to prove their worth. Have conference champions in the Big 5 get home games regardless of the seeding like division winners do in the NFL.
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That, but 24 team like FCS. Ditch conference championships
 
HFCS said:
I came up with a two flight multi playoff system with these 3 assumptions:
A) Somehow we will get player contracts like other pro sports and players will actually play postseason.
B) The Bowls are dying. (this is generally IN PLACE of bowls assuming they keep fading away)
C) How Can G5 be involved in a way that is legit, meaningful and fair.
D) There needs to be more than 12 teams with a meaningful postseason but a massive 32 team playoff kind of kills the amazing regular season that always made college fb great

Structure:
1 - Two 16 team playoff brackets. If you're familiar with soccer this is Champion's League and Europa League.
3 - All 9/10 conference champs guaranteed in the 32 teams, but none are guaranteed in the top flight.
4- Conferences can choose however they want to crown a champion as long as it's clear before the year.
5 - My dream is to go back to ranking similar to BCS ranking to select the other 22 teams but for this year I used CFP committee top 25 and then filled in the few extra spots with computer average.

Here's how this would've looked this year with conf champs in bold:

College Football National Championship:

1-Indiana
16-USC

8-OU
9-Alabama

5-Oregon
12-BYU

4-TTech
13-Texas

3-Georgia
14-Vandy

7-ATM
10-Miami

6-Ole Miss
11-ND

2-OSU
15-Utah


Walter Camp Championship (Or whatever other name we come up with):

1-Arizona
16-Western Michigan

8-JMU
9-North Texas

5-Houston
12-Tennessee

4-Tulane
13-Duke

3-Virginia
14-Boise State

7-Iowa
10-South Florida

6-Georgia Tech
11-Washington

2-Michigan
15-Kennesaw State
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This admission sours me on your proposal.

"a massive 32 team playoff kind of kills the amazing regular season that always made college fb great"
 
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deadeyededric said:
Just do a 16 team playoff and just have a computer system rank the teams. It would force the smaller conference powers like Boise and a JMU to schedule up in the regular season to prove their worth. Have conference champions in the Big 5 get home games regardless of the seeding like division winners do in the NFL.
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What’s going to force the P4 teams to schedule Boise and JMU? Winning teams in the FCS already struggle to get games. Gotta imagine it’ll be the same for the G5. Once they show they can compete, they’ll be blacklisted by ADs.
 
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How about stipulating that these games must be played at actual university venues and not at the Amazon Thunderdome in Timbuktu or at the Free-to-Lay Koliseum across the street from the brothel in Pahrump? (and don't say you don't know which one)

Gonna reform, might as well chase the moneychangers from the Temple while you're at it.
 
We should go back to not having CCGs anymore. The existence of ND blows that concept up unfairly.

I like the rest of the idea though. Basically an NIT for football that might really have slightly more meaning to it than the actual NIT does. Big bonus if you can attach NIL prize money to this sub-tournament.
 
Cycsk said:
This admission sours me on your proposal.

"a massive 32 team playoff kind of kills the amazing regular season that always made college fb great"
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It’s two 16 team playoffs. The second one isn’t for the NC.
 
MeowingCows said:
We should go back to not having CCGs anymore. The existence of ND blows that concept up unfairly.

I like the rest of the idea though. Basically an NIT for football that might really have slightly more meaning to it than the actual NIT does. Big bonus if you can attach NIL prize money to this sub-tournament.
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If anyone follows soccer, the Europa Cup has a ton more passion than the NIT. Yeah Michigan in my example wouldn’t be passionate about it, but most of the other programs would be.
 
Mr Janny said:
I gotta say, if the first word in step one of your plan is "Somehow..." your idea might be a bit of an uphill battle. All due respect, of course. Just some feedback.
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Even the current 12 team playoff is in trouble if we have pro sports without pro contracts.
 
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