Bowls and BCS and Playoff
by thestos on Dec 11, 2008 2:25 PM CST
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PrintUse the Bowls to create an 8 team playoff. This year it would look like this.
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2008-09 College Football Bowl Schedule |
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BOWL |
LOCATION |
DATE/TIME |
NETWORK |
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Konica Minolta Gator Boise State(9) vs. Utah (8) Play-In Game |
Jacksonville, Fla. |
Dec 13, 6 p.m. |
ESPN |
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New Mexico |
Albuquerque |
Dec. 16, 7 p.m. |
ESPN |
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magicJack St. Petersburg |
St. Petersburg. Fla. |
Dec. 17, 7 p.m. |
ESPN2 |
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Pioneer Las Vegas |
Las Vegas |
Dec. 18, 7 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Orange Bowl |
Miami |
Dec. 20, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Tostitos Fiesta |
Glendale, Ariz. |
Dec. 20, 5 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Capital One |
Orlando, Fla. |
Dec. 20, 2 p.m. |
ABC |
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AT&T Cotton |
Dallas |
Dec. 20, 11 a.m. |
FOX |
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R+L Carriers New Orleans |
New Orleans |
Dec. 21, 8:15 p.m. |
ESPN |
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San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia |
San Diego |
Dec. 23, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Sheraton Hawaii |
Honolulu |
Dec. 24, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Motor City |
Detroit |
Dec. 26, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Allstate Sugar (Semifinal) |
New Orleans |
Dec. 27, 4pm |
FOX |
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Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi (Semifinal) |
Pasadena, Calif. |
Dec. 27, 8pm |
ABC |
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Meineke Car Care |
Charlotte, N.C. |
Dec. 28, 1 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Champs Sports |
Orlando, Fla. |
Dec. 28, 4:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Emerald |
San Francisco |
Dec. 28, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Independence |
Shreveport, La. |
Dec. 28, 8:15 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Papajohns.com |
Birmingham, Ala. |
Dec. 29, 3 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Valero Alamo |
San Antonio |
Dec. 29, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Roady's Humanitarian |
Boise, Idaho |
Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Texas |
Houston |
Dec. 30, 8 p.m. |
NFL Network |
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Pacific Life Holiday |
San Diego |
Dec. 30, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Bell Helicopter Armed Forces |
Fort Worth, Texas |
Dec. 31, Noon |
ESPN |
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Brut Sun |
El Paso, Texas |
Dec. 31, 2 p.m. |
CBS |
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Gaylord Hotels Music City |
Nashville, Tenn. |
Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Insight |
Tempe, Ariz. |
Dec. 31, 5:30 p.m. |
NFL Network |
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Chick-fil-A |
Atlanta |
Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Outback |
Tampa, Fla. |
Jan. 1, 2009, 11 a.m. |
ESPN |
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Capital One |
Orlando, Fla. |
Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. |
ABC |
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Konica Minolta Gator |
Jacksonville, Fla. |
Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. |
CBS |
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Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi |
Pasadena, Calif. |
Jan. 1, 2009, 4:30 p.m. |
ABC |
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FedEx Orange |
Miami |
Jan. 1, 2009, 8:30 p.m. |
FOX |
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AT&T Cotton |
Dallas |
Jan. 2, 2009, 2 p.m. |
FOX |
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AutoZone Liberty |
Memphis, Tenn. |
Jan. 2, 2009, 5 p.m. |
ESPN |
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Allstate Sugar |
New Orleans |
Jan. 2, 2009, 8 p.m. |
FOX |
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International |
Toronto |
Jan. 3, 2009, Noon |
ESPN2 |
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Tostitos Fiesta |
Glendale, Ariz. |
Jan. 5, 2009, 8 p.m. |
FOX |
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GMAC |
Mobile, Ala. |
Jan. 6, 2009, 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
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FedEx BCS National Championship Game |
Miami |
Jan. 8, 2009, 8 p.m. |
FOX |
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All the teams currently in bowl games are represented, including the (4) .500 teams that weren’t invited to bowl games. The Eagle Bank bowl had to be eliminated, but the matchup remained. Complete with TV schedule, and it’s not like the sponsors won’t change the names anyway. Screw the leaders of the BCS, this took about an hour to figure out. 7 bowl games were added with one subtracted, to a net gain of 6 bowls, with more schools involved, and a true National Champion. More games, more schools, more TV, more revenue… There may be a bowl game or two added or subtracted, depending on how many teams are eligible for bowls. Some of the matchups were improved for added flavor. The only "problem" is that some bowls happen twice, once as a playoff, and once for their usual time slot. Not a big deal though.
Obviosuly, these can be reworked a lot of different ways. The crap bowls would work out differently based on bids, and accceptance. The playoff portion of the bowls would be set ahead of time, and follow a normal tournament format.
I owe the construction of this schedule to my friend Aaron.
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You're preaching to the choir
Any team that has been royally screwed out of a BCS championship opportunity (USC in 2003, Auburn 2004, arguably USC and Michigan in 2006… so on and so forth) wants a playoff. They aren’t going to do it because they are greedy retards.
by TheElusiveShadow on Dec 11, 2008 3:08 PM CST reply actions
if greed is what's holding a playoff back,
why are they walking away from the billions a tourney would generate? it would completely dwarf every other big-time sporting event combined.
Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis.
+1
Very close in practice and theory, nice work. I would suggest changing the schedule to allow for a bye for the top four or two teams. This would add/keep importance on the regular season schedule and discourage cream-puff OOC scheduling. This way you’d have four play-in teams. Follow me on this:
1) CCGs would have to be done away with.
2) #5-8 would play in place of CCG – more interesting anyway – these would be play-in teams
3) Then you’d have the winners of these two games play #3 & #4
4) Then #1 & #2 would play the winners
5) Championship game
Thus, teams #5-8 would have to play 4 games for NC, #3-4 3 games, and 1-2 only 2 games. Wait, maybe that’s too many games. Oh well. Good thoughts thestos.
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