B12 should rethink co-champs.

bamaslaw said:

I really like the 8 "groupings" of 10 teams that all play each other and the winner goes to the playoffs. I'd do it without divisions and make 1 and 2 in each group play a championship game. I shy away from calling it conferences, because I think it maybe needs some tweaking each year. Obviously, this means blowing the whole thing up. For football at least, no more SEC, ACC, Big 10, etc.

There are lots of different good ideas, but the more and more I think about it, we need to take the "eye test" out of the equation. It's great for us because we generally get the benefit of the doubt because we are Alabama, but I understand why other fans are fed up with the idea.

I am for anything that guarantees undefeated teams get a shot at the title. I am not for colleges hiring PR firms in the hopes they get a shot. The sort of campaigning is going to happen every year until we make it a definitive, on the field criteria to get in.

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Redwood Forrest said:

It appeared to me that Ohio State winning 59-0 put them in ahead of Baylor and TCU, even though both Baylor and TCU did not lose.

Maybe the Big12 will have a better chance next year, not sure if you've seen the 2015 OSU schedule but they'll need to go undefeated AND beat most everyone 59-0 to be considered for the playoff next year. It has to suck for fans like B1GTide knowing your team is favored by two or three touchdowns every game with almost zero chance of being knocked off. Their toughest two games are Michigan and then MSU at the end. If Bama played that schedule I'd probably be reduced to just watching the games on radio!

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GrayTide said:

As I have said before, if the conference champions of all the power 5 conferences finish undefeated then 1 undefeated conference champion is going to be left out. This is where the selection committee comes in and decides with trends and "the eye test" which undefeated team gets left out. That is why an 8 team playoff will eventually replace the 4 team playoff. The 5 power conference champions and the next 3 highest rated teams. If you are not going to use the BCS selection model to pick the 4 best teams then the 8 team playoff trumps the 4 team playoff.

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