Playoffs in College Football

This is an argument that has been discussed and discussed again. The bottom line to me is that NCAA Division 1 college football is the only major sport, men or women above a high school level that does NOT have a playoff. That is f'n ridiculous no matter how you slice it. The NCAA division 2 schools do a playoff. Are those student athletes just more capable? NO.

Here's my thought on how we should do playoffs. People say 4 team playoffs, 8 team playoffs.

I say 16 teams. Too much? No way.

Most teams take the month of December off anyway, fill those weekends! You could still have all of your meaningless bowl games. Take the top 16 teams by ranking and let them duke it out for 4 weeks. December Madness would be as great as March madness. Think of all the match ups.

Here's what last December would have looked like under my format. (based on week 14 BCS rankings)

1Ohio State Vs 16 Tennessee
2LSU Vs 15 Clemson
3 Virginia Tech Vs 14 Boston College
4 Oklahoma Vs 13 Illinios
5 Georgia Vs 12 Florida
6 Missouri Vs 11 Arizona State
7 USC Vs 10 Hawaii
8 Kansas Vs 9 West Virginia.


ROUND 2 (for this example we'll just assume all the higher ranked teams win)

1 Ohio State Vs 8 Kansas
2 LSU Vs 7 USC dream match up we missed thanks to the BCS
3 Virginia Tech Vs 6 Missouri
4 Oklahoma Vs 5 Georgia

Round 3

1 Ohio State Vs 5 Georgia (now way OK woudl beat GA last year.)
2 LSU VS 3 Va Tech

Championship -

LSU over Ohio State 35 to -7.

In my personal opinion Georgia would beat Ohio State and USC would have beat LSU. GA vs USC was the game I was drooling for last year. Instead I got to watch GA man handle HI and USC destroy IL. Way to go BCS, those were very interesting match ups.

So in this format who would be left out. Teams 17-20 were BYU, WI, TX, VA. Anyone think they'd have a right to complain?