Monday, December 6, 2010

The E-Dunc Playoff System (EPS)

The current college football postseason appears to have been thought up by a bunch ignorant fools who have never played a down of football in their lives. Being an ignorant fool who has never played a down of football in my life, I too am apparently qualified to make up a college football postseason. So I did. Without further ado, I present the E-Dunc Playoff System or EPS:

Format: 16 teams, 4 weeks, 1 undisputed champ


Seeding
The champion of each of the 11 conferences automatically qualify. The next five highest seeded teams in the BCS rankings are awarded at-large bids. Seeding for the Top 8 follows the BCS rankings regardless of whether or not a team won it's conference. The lower 8 seeds follow the BCS rankings but can be manipulated to avoided conference match-ups in the first round if possible (note: they do this for March Madness).



Venues:
First Round
The Top 8 seeds are given home games.

Second Round
Three of the four games will be played at neutral sites. The fourth will be played at the major bowl (Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar) to hold the National Title game the year before (ex: last year the Rose Bowl hosted the national title game, so they would host the second round game)

Final Four
The two major bowls not hosting the title game this year or the year before.

National Title Game
Rotating yearly among the four major bowls.

Schedule
First Round
Third week of December (except for when Christmas is on a Wednesday or Thursday). One primetime game on Wednesday and Thursday, and the other six games on Saturday (noon, 12:30, 3:30, 4, 7 and 10).

Second Round
 Most years, one primetime game the follow Thursday and three games on Saturday. When Christmas is on a Monday, two games on Saturday, two games on Christmas Day. When Christmas is on a Tuesday, two games on Saturday, one game in primetime on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Final Four
New Year's Day.

National Title Game
First Monday or Tuesday a full week after New Year's Day

Following this format, we get this bracket for the 2010 college football postseason:

Automatic Qualifiers
Auburn - SEC Champs, #1 seed
Oregon - Pac10 Champs, #2 seed
TCU - Mountain West Champs, #3 seed
Wisconsin - Big Ten Champs, #5 seed
Oklahoma - Big 12 Champs, #7 seed
Virginia Tech - ACC Champs, #11 seed
Nevada - WAC Champs, #12 seed
UConn - Big East Champs, #13 seed
UCF - CUSA "Champs," #14 seed
Miami (OH) - MAC "Champs," #15 seed
FIU - Sun Belt "Champs," #16 seed

At-Large
Stanford - Pac10, #4 seed
Ohio St. - Big 10, #6 seed
Arkansas - SEC, #8 seed
Michigan St. - Big 10, #9 seed
LSU - SEC, #10 seed
To be fair, though, I spent a good 20 minutes coming up with this system, I'm sure the BCS doesn't have that kind of time to just throw around.

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