Postby Spence » Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:29 pm
If they are going to use this format to decide ( and I think the model isn't bad) is fire the commitee #1. #2, put together 4- 20 team conferences; 8 10 team divisions. Yes, that means some current FBS teams are left out. #3 play a round robin schedule in your division. #4 the 2 best teams in their division play in a conference championship. #5 - the 4 conference winners playoff to a winner. It is an absolutely objective way to determine a champion. All teams have a path to the championship. You can use a committee to seed it if you like or draw seeding out of a hat. Doesn't matter. Every team controls their own destiny when the season starts. If Cincinnati wins all their games, beating everyone in their division and winning their conference game they go. If they don't, they didn't do what they had to do. It is all on them. Donovan would not whine about that format. He just wanted a path. I think there should be a path. It doesn't have to be easy, but this format would everything ensure that the same 4 to 6 teams don't finish at the top every year. No one gets the benefit of the doubt. We don't need the eye test. Every game is very important. No one gets a do over in their championship game.
The only reason not to do it is fear that the teams in could be Coastal Carolina, Cincinnati, UCF, and BYU and TV cuts the payouts because the games aren't sexy enough. If you must include every team you would have to have 6-20 team conferences. I'm not for a bell curve to determine the best team. I am for a survival of the fittest format.
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