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MWC sends proposal to BCS

Filed under college football by JoeM at 8:13 pm

The Mountain West Conference is not giving up.

The league sent a proposal on Wednesday to the BCS to make an eight-team playoff system for Division I-A football. It calls for an end of the current BCS, where only two teams have a chance to win a national championship, and to stop using the BCS standings as a way to determine how teams are selected for the bowls.

In short, one team from each conference that is considered an “automatic qualifier” would make the playoff and a 12-team committee (made of one representative from each of the 11 conference and a rep from Notre Dame) would select the rest of the teams if there aren’t enough “AQs.”

There are stories with more details at both espn.com and USA Today.

Long-time readers (those of you who have been around for two months) will know I would be in support of any playoff system that gets rid of what we currently have in Division I-A college football. But I don’t think this is far enough. All the other levels of college football have 16-team playoffs. Why is that not possible here?

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    Right on, 16 teams are needed. Each conference champ is in. For bigger conferences like the SEC that has an East and West Divsion breakdown, then send the East and West winners. This leaves a small handful of at-large bids for the independent teams or for a conference team that just missed out based on BCS (or some similar ranking system). Ranking 1 through 16 tourney based on BCS.

    The bottom line is this: each Division I team will have a shot of winning it all. No team will go undefeated and end up on the outside of a playoff system.

    Most people around here don't take college football seriously because there is no playoff. Meanwhile NCAA hoop is all the rage during March. Hmmmmm I wonder why?

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