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Yes, you're screwing every team not in the Big 6. I have a big problem with that. You are urging them to play more weak OOC teams instead of strong ones [why take the risk now? There's no point if I win my conf] and we both *know* this will happen. You're giving an autobid to a 8-3 VaTech team over a 11-0 Houston, Hawaii, Wyoming, or CMich team. Doesn't work.

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Najdorf, do you see anything wrong with my system? Quarterfinals at campus sites before bowl games/finals start. Semifinals at bowl sites on New Year's Day. Championship a week later at the bowl site of the semifinal where the #1 team played.

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Yes, many conferences have Conf title games then.

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There would still be some fans that couldn't go to both, but I don't think it would be completely unworkable. It would still be much easier than trying to coordinate getting Final Four tickets/reservations after winning an Elite Eight game for example.

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First off, hosting a home playoff game is a RIDICULOUS advantage. Be serious! NCAAB got rid of that system over 20 years ago -- it'd be such a massive advantage it's not funny. Miami is #5 and PSU is #4 so Miami has to go play at night in Dec at PSU? Whaaaat?
How is that fair? Assume they are both undefeated or 11-1, isn't one team getting royally hosed?

Miami fans in your scenario have to schedule flights to say, Happy Valley, then Anaheim, then say Tempe. Unworkable. And book hotel rooms at the last minute when they are generally unavailable [esp in places like Happy Valley!!] and rent cars and buy tix and.....No.

NCAAB has 4 teams filling up 18k seat arenas. You only need 4500 people from each school.
Now switch to 2 teams and a 100k stadium for football - works for 1 Nat'l title game, doesn't work for the others.

Finally, no one involved in the Conferences thinks a new playoff system will bring in more money. They do a bangup job of maximizing revenue with the BCS, no doubt.
No one's shown or demonstrated more $$ otherwise, so you can't kill the golden goose without a guaranteed replacement. Many, many, many schools the successful football program pays for some/most of the rest of the Ath Dept - Miami, ND, PSU, etc.

What if I said make NFL best of 3 to make it more fair? 2 home 1 away for the better team. More games! Fairer method! To me, yours and many of these suggestions are the same -- unwiedly, unworkable change for change's sake.

Does anyone think Auburn was better than USC?