PLAYOFFS?? TALKIN ABOUT PLAYOFFS?!?!

Listen, I love college football.  Always have, always will.  I watched Wisconsin vs UNLV this morning on DVR, JUST so I could feel the rush of the sport again.  HOWEVA, there is one thing major college football could do to improve things.  Plain and simple, we need a playoff.  I don't mean a silly "plus 1 model," or some kind of superconference playoff.  I mean a genuine, honest to goodness playoff to determine a national champion.  I have come up with a model (cause I'm that smart) that I think is both practical and would work.  I'll detail that here and update the standings every week, until crowning a National Champion at the end of the year using (hopefully) fan votes for the at large entries and the weekly playoff results.  If no one votes, The Bagmen will vote.  So without further ado here goes nothin:

• Regular season remains as such.  12 games beginning Labor Day weekend and ending the first weekend in December.  Every team in the country and finish all 12 games (with a bye week and a possible conference title game) in these 14 weeks.
• Every league submits to the NCAA how they will crown their champion at the beginning of the season, title game or regular season record.  This is how they do it for March Madness, hence the Ivy League sending their regular season champ to the Big Dance.
• 12 teams make the playoffs, six on each side of the bracket, similar to how the NFL has theirs set up.  Top two teams in each bracket get a first round bye, while the other four at large teams battle it out.  The 12 teams would be determined as follows: Champions from SEC, ACC, Big 12 (if it still exists), Big East (groan), Big 10, and Pac 12 are guaranteed a playoff berth, two spots are reserved for the champions of two non-BCS conferences (as determined by the selection comittee), the remaining four spots are also chosen by the selection committee and can come from any conference.  This guarantees two spots for the "Little Sisters of the Poor", as well as ensuring the big boys get the lion's share of the playoff spots. 
• The teams can be seeded in any manner.  Just because the SEC champ makes it doesn't mean they will get a higher seed than, say an undefeated Mountain West champion, it just means they qualify.
• The four week tournament starts the second weekend in December, with the national championship being played on the first Tuesday in January (to avoid conflict with NFL games).
• All games are played at the higher seed (thereby giving higher seeds more incentive to try and win the top seeds in each bracket) with the National semi finals and National Title games played on a rotation of the four major bowl games.
• Bowl games are reduced (sorry BBVA Compass Bowl fans...all 4 of you) and still offere for teams that don't qualify for the playoffs.

Before you even start, I have an answer for all the excuses given as to why there isn't a playoff.
      But Bagmen, the regular season means so much!  Every week is a playoff in college football!!
If that's the case, why did a two-loss LSU team win the 2007 National Championship?? Why did undefeated Auburn and Utah teams not get a sniff of the national title in 2004?  Why did the same thing happen with TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State in 2009 and TCU again in 2010?
   The bowls make so much money! No one would leave that!
Ask UConn how much money they made with last year's Fiesta Bowl.  Go ahead and google it, we'll wait (elevator music).......see what I meant?  Plus with the extra home game revenue, teams will see more of a bump in the bottom line.
  The season is so long now, we don't want to extend the season and cause kids to miss more class time!
If people are so worried about that, why are there playoffs at every level of every other sport in the NCAA?  Including every level of football.  Kids who are not on scholarship, and schools who don't have the support resources find a way to make it work.  Why can't the big boys??

There ya have it, I have single handedly solved the biggest problem in college football!  You can thank me later or you can rip me later.  Either way lemme know what you think.  I'll keep it updated throughout the year.
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