Your CBS playoff system.
 

Prolly a repost.

If they devised a playoff system how should they do it?

1. How many teams should be in it?
2. How would you add the bowl names in them?

etc....

Top 12 teams, Bowl name used for each game.

My ultimate dream of each conference's champion being put in a playoff will never happen, so I'd be happy with just taking the top 16 or whatever.

4 teams would be the most you can do with out shortening the season and starting the playoffs in november

16 teams - 11 conference champions, 5 at-large; seeded by BCS rankings

This year:

Dec 8, 15 - Home games for higher seeds, losers go back into bowl pool
Jan 1 - Football Final Four, rotating BCS Bowls (Fiesta and Orange this year)
Jan 7 - Sugar Bowl (essentially a third-place game)
Jan 8 - National Championship game (New Orleans)

So complicated.

My brain matter is on the wall that was so complicated.

Start the playoffs late December.

Do a 12 team playoff or something that would give the #1 and #2 teams a bye with major bowl names being used for each game and give the other smaller bowls to the other top teams.

What about when the students have to take exams?

You mean like those NFL-lite I-AA players who are unfortunate enough to be playing for a national title?

But yeah, standards are so strict for college athletes. There's no way there'd be any wiggle room for players from the 8 schools that would be practicing during finals.

So you are going to have college students play 16 games? I would think you need to pay them at that point.

You're fakeposting, right?

It's not even the same league. D-2 and D-1 are even the same game in preparation. Like I said though...they started their playoffs two weeks ago. The winner depending on seating with play at most 14 games. And by exam time there are 4 teams left I believe.

I-AA, II, and III all have playoffs; and most of them aren't at school for the football.

I am not. When people start talking about this it amuses me because they are looking at it from a fan perspective and totally neglect the fact that these are students. And they're students first.

The schedule wouldn't have ever been extended to 12 (and by extension, 14 for some teams) if the players being overworked was an issue.

By exam time, there would be a whopping 8 teams left in a 16-team playoff system. Four of those teams would be playing at home, and 50-something other teams would be preparing for their bowl games anyways.

I don't really care. This is the first season I have really gotten into college ball. I just remember last year in my coaching class the coach asking us to make a playoff system for college ball and this is what we all came up with.