[Husker] End of the Season

[Jay Schlechte]

Duane, I like your ideas.  My thoughts had run in a similar direction.

The split system is the one type of scenario that I could possibly see
having any momentum.  It keeps the bowl system in place (for the most
part) and the 10-2, 9-3, 8-4, & 7-5 teams get their reward.  But I think
I would have the 4 big bowls (remember the BCS championship game isn't a
bowl game with "history" it's just at the site of one of the big 4) have
the following set up - 4 teams play two games in the Fiesta and Orange
(alphabetical order here).  The losers play the following week (for 3rd
and 4th place) at the Rose and then the winners play in the Sugar to
decide 1st and 2nd.  The consolation game should still be a great game
with the #3 and #4 teams in the country.   

GBR,

- jay

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of Duane Feldman
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:55 AM
To: List Husker
Subject: Re: [Husker] End of the Season

I like my own version of a playoff for many of Bob's reasons.

1. Twelve teams with the top four teams getting byes in round #1.
2.  Teams ranked #5-8 are home venues for teams ranked #9-12 with #5
playing #12, #6 v #11 etc (a side benefit of 12 over 8 is that smaller
conference winners are more likely to be included).
3. Winners of the first round are hosted by the top four teams in round
2 (No team has more than one home game, all venues are likely to be sold
out, rankings do make a difference so the regular season is not
invalidated).
4.  Final four teams play in three games hosted by the bowls (sites
selected via round robin fashion). (No more than two teams have extended
travel seasons EXCEPT for a cinderella team making it to the finals).
5.  Automatic entrants are winners of SEC, B12, B10/11, ACC, BEast, P10,
and perhaps top ranked "Other Conferences plus Independents."  Remaining
five come from top ranked teams (FL/GA, KU/MU, P10#2, UW/UM/PSU, and
????).  Of the last five, this year, probably GA, KU. or MU would be the
fourth home game in the first round along with the three lowest ranked
of the conference winners.
6.  Four weeks starting with the second week of December lasting to the
first week in January.
7.  All other bowls remain as they currently are with playoff invitees
not eligible for other bowls even if they lose early.

The biggest detriments are:
1.  System does not use all of the major bowls in the playoff (three
bowls participate and two sit out every year but can play on Jan 1).
2.  Bowls in general and the Rose Bowl especially will like this even
less than the BCS arrangement (special consideration for the P10vB10 to
always meet in the RB in round #2 regardless of rankings?  Tradeoffs are
neither conference champ must play in round #1 ever, but they will
always draw each other rather than potentially lower ranked teams.  RB
is no longer a Jan 1 bowl, never sits out a year and never hosts round
#3 or the title game).
3.  Four post season games for two teams (counter argument doesn't hold
water, as other divisions use a four game playoff system).



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