The standards in Stillwater are pretty high.

That's it. We need a playoff in 2009! This whole thing has become a joke. You could get away with this crap up until 25 years ago but ESPN killed traditional college football wether you like it or not. Let's get our brackets ready for December Madness!

The NCAA needs to get its head screwed on .and try a playoff for next year.Feel bad for good teams who dont get a shot at a good bowl. Hell lets face it a team who is 12-0 durning the season should get a chance to play a top ranked team it all adds up to the MONEY for a zillion bowl games

People need to realize that playoff would not solve the OU/Texas/TTech cf. "But a playoff will settle it on the field!" Uh, those teams -did- settle it on the field; and they each beat each other. A playoff is basically saying, ok, let's replay the same games, the first time didn't count.

"I think Alabama and Penn State will probably play for the national championship," Quinn said.
You do?
"They're the only undefeated teams, aren't they," Quinn said.
Uh, actually, Penn State has a loss.
"Oh well," Quinn said, "those Big Ten teams have a lot of votes."
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Incredible. Simply amazing. I was born only to see this.

Wow.............just................wow

#6 - it wouldn't solve the issue of who won the Big 12 South. But a 16-team, 11 conference champs + 5 at-large (at-large teams and seeding determined by a basketball-style committee) single-elimination tournament would solve the issue of who's national champs in a way that leaves little room for error. If I make the rash assumption that the higher-ranked team will win all the conference championship games (somewhat of a stretch for Florida/Bama), and the at-large teams selected exactly match the next 5 teams in the BCS ratings (which my system would not require, but I can't project exactly who a hypothetical selection committee might select) my playoffs look like so...
East
1. Alabama (SEC)
2. Florida (at-large 2)
3. Penn State (B10)
4. Ohio State (at-large 4)
5. Ball State (MAC)
6. Cinci (Big East)
7. Boston College (ACC)
8. Troy (Sun Belt)
West
1. Oklahoma (B12)
2. Texas (at-large 1)
3. USC (P10)
4. Utah (MWC)
5. Texas Tech (at-large 3)
6. Boise (WAC)
7. TCU (at-large 5)
8. Tulsa (CUSA)
Note that Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech are all in the playoffs.

Cuse Fan,
I like the idea, quite a bit. The only qualm I have is actually just a quibble - instead of having two brackets, I'd just go 1-16 overall. Thus, if the two best teams are in the East or in the West, they can still meet up in the Championship game, theoretically.

The problem with the 16-team playoff is you have to have a +1 first. Get to that and expand later.

That man should lose all rights to vote for anything, ever. I bet he voted Bush for a 3rd term

Why would you need a +1 first, LD? Just implement the 16-team system at the end of next season.
I used to be a backer of an eight-team playoff, but then I realized who would have been left out this year. A 16-team system is far better.

Playoffs or not, forget the polls. There are awful Harris Poll stories like this every year, though this one definitely exceeds expectations of misery. Give me a selection committee a la the NCAA tournament, working off tools like the computer rankings, strength of schedule calculations, etc. A committee using a base like the RPI works awfully nicely for college hoops, doesn't it?

stop snitching

stop snitching

CusefaninSoCal,
I like the way you think. I have a short attention span so break it into N,SE & W. then you'd have my vote. If Penn St., plays for a national championship, I'll never watch college football again. I don't care who plays just not THE OHIO STATE SUCKEYE's again.
How about a UT/USC replay...

You go with a +1 because there's no way the powers that be go for wholesale change to a 16-team playoff. Besides, why would you want a 16-team playoff? No one wants to see Bama play Tulsa. No one wants to see OU play Troy. Start with a +1 and once that's established you can work towards an 8-team playoff. I realize the concept of incremental change is anathema to a bipolar community with a propensity for slack-jawed outrage and overreaction, but I'm just putting it out there as a judicial precedent.

Has it occurred to anyone that the OSU SID might be joking?
I work in a cube farm with a bunch of engineers, and pretty much ANY of them (who follow NCAAF at all) know that Penn State lost a game. They might not be sure to WHOM they lost, but they know that much.
The SID could be sidestepping a question that he felt placed him in a difficult spot by making a joke.
Just a possibility.

Jeff - the reason for the east/west regional split is to reduce travel distances (any playoff with more than 4 teams has to play the first round or two at the home stadium of the higher seed -- or just possibly a nearby NFL stadium -- or no tickets will be sold), so it's at least remotely possible for fans of the road team to make first and second round games, and the semi-final sites may actually be reachable by car. It also reduces costs.
Randy R - Even getting a rational east/west bracket is tough; this year happened to fall out with 8 eastern teams and 8 western teams, but more often than not a minor conference champ is going to get sent to the 'wrong' regional as convenient.
LD - if you're arguing for a 4-team playoff/seeded +1 now, then an 8-team playoff later, and ending with a full-on sixteen team playoff, I'll support that plan. The only pseudo-playoff I won't support as better than the current system is the 'pure +1' where you play the 'traditional bowls' (which have no tradition as far as I'm concerned, since this year's USC/Penn State game will be only the second matchup of the Big Ten champ and Pac 10 champ in the Rose Bowl in the BCS era, and the first only happened because the BCS screwed USC out of the title game); I don't like that one, because it rarely helps, and sometimes will give you a #1/#2 game in the traditional bowls.

his knowlege of the game is about as good as the pieces you write,,,,

16 teams? Will never happen. Anyway, does anybody truly believe that Troy or Tulsa deserves a shot at the MNC?

I believe it's possible that at some point the champion of CUSA or the Sun Belt may deserve at least as much of a shot at the real national championship (the point of a 16-team playoff being to have a non-mythical NC) in football as the Ivy League or MEAC champ does in basketball.

Thrilla - ya gotta aim higher than that.
Stillwater News-Mess shines on as the worst local paper in a college football town - fish are ashamed to be wrapped in it.

"we need the play-off for college football" said MR.OBAMMA
that why i vote for him, he know what he talking about jajajaja

No matter how many teams you put in the playoffs you will ALWAYS have a team that is left out. The best solution is a plus 1. The traditional bowl structure stays intact and there are usually only 3 teams who are truly deserving of a title shot.