16-team Playoff

I am not a huge fan of the idea of a 16-team playoff. I think that if it were implemented it would cheapen the regular season a little bit. Most proponents of a 16-team playoff say that the first round of games would be played in the home stadium of the higher seeded team, and it would probably take place today...the first Saturday in December (Championship Saturday as it's known now). The idea of 8 playoff college football games going on today is pretty enticing. Using the BCS standings, this is how it would shake out (using the 11 conference champion, 5 at-large format).

12:00 - 16 Florida International (Sun Belt Champ) at 1 Auburn (SEC Champ)

1:00 - 12 Virginia Tech (ACC Champ) at 5 Wisconsin (Big Ten Champ)

2:00 - 14 Miami (OH) (MAC Champ) at 3 TCU (Mountain West Champ)

3:30 - 9 Oklahoma (Big 12 Champ) at 7 Arkansas (at-large)

4:30 - 13 West Virginia (Big East Champ) at 4 Stanford (at-large)

5:30 - 11 Boise State (WAC Champ) at 6 Ohio State (at-large)

7:00 - 10 LSU (at-large) at 8 Michigan State (at-large)

8:30 - 15 Central Florida (C-USA Champ) at 2 Oregon (PAC 10 Champ)


Michigan State would play the 10 seed and Arkansas would play the 9 seed to prevent two teams from the same conference playing each other in the first round.

Imagine that day right there, that would be pretty great. Or if there were a 4 or 8 team playoff but all conferences were having championship games today, that might be just as exciting.

JB