Veterans Day...sitting home bored.
Here are my suggestions.
Regular Season:
12 Game (all teams)
Only 1 bye week
Eliminate conference chanpionships
8 Games within Conference (4 home / 4 road)
4 Games out of Conference (4 home / 4 road)
Random scheduling (Teams are put in a bucket based on previos year)
(Top teams) 1st Tier Bucket
2nd tier bucket
3rd tier bucket
(Bottom teams) 4th tier bucket
Random draw from each bucket (2 home / 2 road)
Makes the schedule fair..not perfect..but fair.
Think of the TV rating drawing for the schedule.
(Bowl Season)
Seed 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 (5 vs 6 / 7 vs 8) Rotate bowls who gets 1 vs 4
Rose
Orange
Sugar
Cotton
Keep all the remaining bowl games to keep tradition.
Add: Bowl Championship Game
Must win previous bowl game
It's pretty much a 4 team playoff with an option of a Bowl comittee to select the final match-up including taking a 5-8 seed if they win impressively)
Not perfect, but should keep both worlds happy...keeping a bowl system and
instuituting a small playoff system. Also teams don't have the option to schedule cream puffs in the regular season and it gives a better gauge who has the stronger confence if they play more games out of conference.
Just some quick thoughts...alot of logistics scheduling a regular season.
A different thought for the regular season non-conference games.
Yes I would like to see 8 team playoff...but baby steps for now.
Here are my suggestions.
Regular Season:
12 Game (all teams)
Only 1 bye week
Eliminate conference chanpionships
8 Games within Conference (4 home / 4 road)
4 Games out of Conference (4 home / 4 road)
Random scheduling (Teams are put in a bucket based on previos year)
(Top teams) 1st Tier Bucket
2nd tier bucket
3rd tier bucket
(Bottom teams) 4th tier bucket
Random draw from each bucket (2 home / 2 road)
Makes the schedule fair..not perfect..but fair.
Think of the TV rating drawing for the schedule.
(Bowl Season)
Seed 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 (5 vs 6 / 7 vs 8) Rotate bowls who gets 1 vs 4
Rose
Orange
Sugar
Cotton
Keep all the remaining bowl games to keep tradition.
Add: Bowl Championship Game
Must win previous bowl game
It's pretty much a 4 team playoff with an option of a Bowl comittee to select the final match-up including taking a 5-8 seed if they win impressively)
Not perfect, but should keep both worlds happy...keeping a bowl system and
instuituting a small playoff system. Also teams don't have the option to schedule cream puffs in the regular season and it gives a better gauge who has the stronger confence if they play more games out of conference.
Just some quick thoughts...alot of logistics scheduling a regular season.
A different thought for the regular season non-conference games.
Yes I would like to see 8 team playoff...but baby steps for now.