So I've come up with a proposal for the NCAA.
You want the rankings to mean something provable?
Move all teams to 12 games, and the NCAA will schedule at least 2 of the 4-ish non-conference game spots based on previous year end rankings. Teams can opt in to a Tier structure for a given year, and they'll take whoever the NCAA spits out. Teams with less than 8 conference games can schedule more games in the system if they wish.
So 4 Tiers. Top 10, Top 20, Top 50, All.
Then there will be fantastic opportunity for fun games between schools.
Rule 1) no extra in-conference games, these are all out of conference
Rule 2) Tier selection will be taken into account on the BCS (or sucessor) ranking systems
Rule 3) Money for the Tier games is put into a pool, and split between the teams involved, as compared to with the conferences. Schools are not required to participate (but the TV money will strongly encourge that.)
Then the rankings give people an idea how to compare teams up.
And we can avoid a playoff. (and we know where I stand on that)
Thoughts? Where can we improve this to make it work?
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I would love schools scheduling better games to watch. When Ohio State and Texas played the home and home series a couple of years ago, that was awesome. We need more of that in college football. Take the college basketball season, only about 3 weeks in, and we've already seen great matchups like UCLA-Michigan State, North Carolina-Kentucky, and Kansas-Arizona.
But here's the rub, and you are not going to like it. The reason college basketball schedules those games is the reason why college football doesn't; College b-ball has a playoff. Teams like Michigan State and Kentucky can afford early losses, and still have a shot at the title. How can you convince Urban Meyer or Bob Stoops to play other top teams, if they already have a tough conference schedule to play, and they know an extra loss might knock them out of the championship hunt. That's one of the strange twists to this story, if there was a playoff, the scheduling for some teams wouldn't be so embarrassing, because they know that one loss wouldn't kill them.
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