brybull

...still get an automatic BCS invite when we join. If I'm correct the BCS contract doesn't expire until the end of the 2005 season and we joing for the 2005 season. So in theory, if we won the conference that year we would be in a BCS bowl. Also, if everything is moved up to 2004 then we would be eligible for two years until the contract expires. Is this right?

School presidents and college professors would never approve a sixteen team playoff, without an eight team playoff first. In all honesty, they would probably never go straight to an eight team plyoff after the BCS expires. We are probably looking at a championship game after all the bowls are over. From there it would evolve into a four or eight team playoff. Sixteen would be stretching it and thirty-two will never happen.

Here is my proposal for a college football playoff. It would be an eight team playoff with one play-in game. Bids would go to:

ACC champ

Big 10 chanp

Big 12 champ

Pac 10 champ

SEC champ

At-large

At-large

Play-in winner

The play-in game would match the the two highest ranked conference champions from the Big East, MAC, C-USA, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.

If you applied this to this year, your playoff would look "something" like this:

Play-game: Miami, OH vs. Boise St (nuetral site)

Miami, OH/BSU vs. #1 USC

#5 Texas vs. #4 Michigan

#6 Florida St. vs. #3 Oklahoma

#7 Kansas St vs. #2 LSU

These games could be played at the higher-seeded campus or at nuetral sites. The semi-finals and finals could rotate around through three or four existing bowls.