OPINION

Playoffs To Determine An NCAA Football Playoff System

Written by Matthew T. Sussman
Published December 17, 2007
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12. Simulate a season on Xbox 360

Every year advancements in technology are made to improve gameplay, reduce errors, and make the game more fun. (Just like the NCAA.) Plus, injuries in this game are fake, so it's okay to piledrive someone after the whistle. And educational!

13. 97-team playoff

Why 97? It's a prime number, and would likely set up a complex system of byes and tiebreakers. And the BCS loves complexity and tiebreakers. It wouldn't be college football without them.

14. Plus-shaped football field

I've had the idea of a Y-shaped, plus-shaped, asterisk-shaped field for some time, where multiple teams duke it out on the same field, eliminating the need for a messy tiebreaker or playoff system. But my main man twoeightnine finally depicted his vision using the Shop of Photos what I was always thinking:

What I didn't initially visualize was the 50-yard epicenter being protected by mountains, ninjas, and pirate hookers. But I see nothing wrong with this hallucinogenic addendum.

15. The Price Is Right Big Wheel

All the makings of a thrilling championship tiebreaker. Les Miles spins the wheel. Drew Carey asks if he wants to say hi to anyone. ("I'd like to say hi to my buddy Bill Martin up in Ann Arbor, how you ... actually, I'll just text him later.") And then when he lands on 95 cents, even if he loses the BCS game, Miles can fervently say that his team's never lost a game on the big wheel, so in a way they're undefeated.

16. USC wins every year

Pete Carroll has so much fun coaching. Look at him and those puppy dog eyes.

Snubbed Playoff Systems Who Didn't Make It Into The Bracket

(What would a playoff be without them?)

• 128-team playoff bracket
Super Sloppy Double Dare physical challenge
Double Jeopardy question
• Modified Stableford point system
• Swimsuit competition
• 1-team playoff bracket
• One of those contests where you have to stand the longest while having one hand on the car, and if I knew what that kind of contest is called, this entry would be much shorter. Oh, and instead of a car, it's the Sears Trophy.

The Bracket

After I finished this, I realized that enabling a 16-team playoff might inherently assume advocacy for a 16-team playoff system. That's not the case. I'm an impartial sports bystander who advocates no one system. Well, except the BCS. That thing rules.

Aw hell. If you submit votes to me, I may include them in the following rounds of the NCAA Playoff Bracket Playoff Bracket.

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Matt SussmanMatt Sussman is the former sports editor of BC Magazine and also writes for Deadspin, SPORTSbyBROOKS, The Futon Report, and the Toledo Free Press. Catch him with Tuffy on Treehouse Fort, the official show of BC Sports.

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Published: December 17, 2007
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#1 — December 17, 2007 @ 11:38AM — Tuffy [URL]

The plus-shaped football field system gets its championship shirts from Lane Bryant.

#2 — December 17, 2007 @ 11:52AM — Druxxx

I like the reality TV vote off.

I think there are 119 teams in Division 1A.
We play 118 weeks, one team is voted off each week.

So what if that takes over 2 years. The BCS makes no sense, so why should the new system.
Plus everyone says how much they love college footballs "regular season." This just makes it over 100 weeks longer. And college football would become year round.

#3 — December 17, 2007 @ 19:33PM — RJ Elliott [URL]

10. World Cup-Style Pool

Sixteen teams in four pools. Everyone in a pool plays each other. Top two teams advance to the final eight. Plus ... international referee scandals! That always sweetens the entertainment. Stipulation: games have to be played at 5 a.m.


Hilarious!

#4 — December 18, 2007 @ 19:18PM — Jordan

Oh please, anything but #9. With Mark May and Lou Holtz running things we'd have a USC-Notre Dame title game for eighteen years in a row.

#5 — December 18, 2007 @ 19:21PM — Jordan

Actually, scratch that: #9 and #16 are the exact same thing.

#6 — December 19, 2007 @ 14:59PM — The other anonymous

Round 1 winners:

USC wins every time
ESPN's 10 team bracket

X-Box 360
97 team playoff

8 team playoff
no championship game

Reality TV vote-off
Plus 1 game

Round 2 winners:

USC wins every year (same as the ESPN picks)
X-Box 360

No championship game
plus 1 game


Round 3 winners:

X-Box 360
No championship game


GRAND CHAMPION:

NO CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!
College football returns to the 80's

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