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DT Special - 5 Moves to Improve College Football (Long)
Jul 2, 2017, 12:36 PM
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5 Things That Would Improve College Football
1. Own New Year’s Day outright (Sunday excepted). The College Football Playoff is a great improvement over the prior BCS get up. But the Semis should always be on NYD regardless of who’s hosting. Those 2 of 3 years where the Rose Bowl isn’t a host can easily be solved with an early afternoon and night game – sandwich style. The other big bowls really lose their gusto when they take place after the Semis instead of before and, with the Rose, during. The ratings this coming year throughout all the major bowl games will back that up like the first year, regardless of who’s playing.
2. Create a pool for Power 5 teams to join that serves to distribute out-of-conference games on a more short-term, relevant level. If you started planning only three years out, you would have a healthy collection of significant teams to start, and you could build from there. Keep a hole in your schedule for a home and away game, and let a committee pick your opponent for those slots at the end of the prior season from among the participating programs based on a loose seeding structure, competitive likeness, and home/away balance. After several years in action, the pool would begin to grow significantly as more schedule openings accumulate.
3. Let each conference decide for themselves how they want to schedule their regular season and establish championship game participants. This would allow conferences to jettison the clumsy division model and allow for more frequent play among its members, while creating league championship games more likely to feature the most deserving participants. This would apply to the number of league games being played each year also. Leagues west of the Mississippi have far fewer competitive college programs to schedule, and they’re often much larger schools. It’s just a different beast when it comes to 8 or 9 league games, and one is not necessarily superior than the other. It simply depends on geographic location.
4. Go ahead and expand to 8 teams in the playoff, at the expense of conference title games noted above (without divisions, it’s even easier to designate a champ). These title games are more often play “out” than play “off” in nature. Too many opponents that weekend have no chance of earning a top 4 spot, while losers can see a worthy spot go by the wayside with a slip up. Having the First 8 the first week after the regular season (CCG weekend) also opens up the losers of that first early round as participants for the remainder of the entire bowl slate. Value and revenue for Power 5’s would surely surpass the current CCG model.
5. Cut a deal with the NFL to move their Thursday night game to Friday nights, and then eliminate all Friday NCAA games. Friday is better for NFL’ers from a health standpoint, and college ball should not compete with high school. Let the NCAA reclaim Thursday and let the NFL own Friday. Saturdays and Sundays have been working like a charm.
Go Tigers!
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National referees. And have someone who knows the back
Jul 2, 2017, 12:59 PM
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grounds of the refs, in a position to keel someone like Heydt from ever calling one of our games again.
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Re: National referees. And have someone who knows the back
Jul 2, 2017, 1:14 PM
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regardless of where that guy was from he was bad and the crew terrible
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He and his crew were bad because of where he was from
Jul 2, 2017, 10:14 PM
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and who he had connections to. I am pretty sure I read that in the other 6 ACC games this crew officiated, they called 3 to 5 penalties per team, at the most. In the two games they officiated that we played in, they called 9 on us in one, and 10 in the other. In our other 6 ACC games, we averaged 3 penalties a game. He screwed us over royally. The ACC has had the worst officiating in all sports for as long as I can remember. The youngsters on here may not be aware, but back in the 80's,90's the ACC allowed Chuck Amato's brother to officiate ACC football games. Not kidding. Do you think for one second that the Head Peckerhead in charge in Chapel Hill would let Tracy Swinney officiate ACC football games? Now think about that for a second.
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Re: DT Special - 5 Moves to Improve College Football (Long)
Jul 2, 2017, 1:50 PM
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So basically turn college ball to nfl...no thanks. 4 game playoff is enough games. Win your conference or go home.
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Re: DT Special - 5 Moves to Improve College Football (Long)
Jul 2, 2017, 3:17 PM
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I agree totally that a four team play-off is enough (after previously thinking 8 teams would be better. In actuality, you don't even have to pick the best four teams, although that should be the goal. You really just have to pick the best two ....and they don't even have to be seeded one and two. If they meet in the semi-final game, the best team is probably going to win and the next game may be a little easier ....or it could be like this year and last where the best two teams do play in the final game. The goal is to crown a champion!
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Agree that 4 has grown on me, especially knowing that
Jul 2, 2017, 4:30 PM
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at minimum the two best teams aren't going to miss out. However, the conference championship games, with the playoff in place, to me no longer have near the relevance they once did. As the poster above stated - "win your conference or go home" - Penn State did just that last year yet lost out to Ohio State for a bid to the playoffs. It's not as much about 8 as it is replacing this extra game layer with more meaningful games.
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