2011 College Football Playoff Seeds Announced
Ok we don’t have a real playoff system in place but if we did I would like to see it look like this. I present to you a sixteen-team playoff that takes place over a period of four weeks leading to a title game just like NCAA D1 AA, D2 and D3. The eleven conference champions get automatic bids with five at large bids. The at large bids as well as the seeding would be determined by the current BCS rankings so not to ruffle too many of the establishment’s feathers. The current bowls could bid for the playoff locations just like cities bid to host NCAA tournaments in other sports. The bowls that did not win the bids would host teams with winning records like they do now. (Most of these lower bowls are meaningless in the big picture anyway.) Just for fun I will conduct a playoff this year again using this season’s version of EA Sports College Football to simulate the games and report them here.
With that said here is the seeding for this years tournament that will give us a true NCAA D1 college football champion. Not someone’s opinion of who the champion is.
Tournament Seeding:
1. LSU SEC Champion BCS 1
2. Alabama At Large BCS 2
3. Oklahoma State Big 12 Champion BCS 3
4. Stanford At Large BCS 4
5. Oregon PAC 12 Champion BCS 5
6. Arkansas At Large BCS 6
7. Boise State At Large BCS 7
8. Kansas State At Large BCS 8
9. Wisconsin Big 10 Champion BCS 10
10. Clemson ACC Champion BCS 15
11. TCU Mountain West Champion BCS 18
12. Southern Miss C-USA Champion BCS 21
13. West Virginia Big East Champion BCS 23
14. Arkansas State Sun Belt Champion BCS NR
15. Northern Illinois MAC Champion BCS NR
16. Louisiana Tech WAC Champion BCS NR
Who is left out?
South Carolina, Virginia Tech and Baylor. I know you are saying that these teams could beat the 14, 15 and 16th seeds and probably you are right but don’t tell that to Butler. That is what makes March Madness so exciting. The same should be here.
This weekend’s games:
16. Louisiana Tech vs 1. LSU
15. Northern Illinois vs 2. Alabama
14. Arkansas State Sun Belt vs 3. Oklahoma State
13. West Virginia vs 4. Stanford
12. Southern Miss vs 5. Oregon
11. TCU vs 6. Arkansas
10. Clemson vs 7. Boise State
9. Wisconsin vs 8. Kansas State
December 17, Sweet 16 (The first date of this years bowl games)
December 24, Elite 8 (You have a captive audience for these four games since folks are stuck at home)
January 2, Final Four (Normally played on Jan. 1 but that’s a Sunday in 2012 so we play on Monday)
January 9, Championship Game (Played on the same date that this years game is played)
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