PLAYOFFS?!?

This year's College Football Bowl Games have been announced, and as usual, people are pissed. TWO ACC teams in BCS bowls? Michigan in a BCS bowl, and Michigan State, who destroyed them, going to a lesser bowl game?

It is now time for me to reveal MY PLAN for a playoff. Now I'm a loser and I casually follow the FCS (formerly 1-AA). These are your Montanas, your Sam Houston States, your Maines, all of those smaller schools. They have a playoff system, and last year it expanded to 20 teams. Now I don't know TOO much about their system, but I do believe the NCAA could easily replicate this process for the FBS.

That is the FCS playoff bracket as of today, December 5. As you can see, there are four play-in games, with the winners of those games playing the four top-seeded teams. Then we have an actual playoff to determine the actual National Champion! Pretty cool, huh?

Now my idea for a Playoff uses the AP Poll and other various rankings to determine seeds, along with Conference Championships. So if we were to use the FCS formula, my playoff bracket would go something like this:

See? Was that so tough?

Now my idea tourney would be a 32 team playoff. Yes, it's a lot of teams, but it does add in some stranglers who probably should have gotten in anyway. It would look something like this:

I'm sure there are some flaws, and there would need to be some teams/seeds reshuffled (And I would add first round byes for some teams), but I think this is a good size for a tournament.

Here's how I would sort the thing out:

-- Regular Season: 12 games, and season ends the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Rivalry Weekend)
-- Saturday December 3: Conference Championship Games commence
-- Saturday December 10: First round games commence at stadium of higher seeded team; top seeded teams and Conference Champs get a bye through this round
-- Saturday December 17: Second round games commence at stadium of higher ranked team
-- December 22 and 23: 3rd round games commence at neutral sites; games take place in Arlington, TX (Cowboys Stadium; Cotton Bowl), Phoenix, AZ (U of Phoenix Stadium; Fiesta Bowl), San Diego, CA (Qualcomm Stadium; Holiday Bowl), and Atlanta, GA (Georgia Dome; Chik-fil-A Bowl)
-- January 1: 4th round games commence at neutral sites; New Orleans, LA (Superdome; Sugar Bowl) and Miami, FL (Dolphin Stadium or whatever it's called now; Orange Bowl)
-- January 7 or 8 (later if bye week implemented before championship game): Championship Game commences from Los Angeles, CA (Rose Bowl)

Yeah, it's messy, and would take forever to finish, but it's the same amount of time between the MNC game and the last game of the regular season that we have now. That's why there would probably be much less teams included. Plus, it would actually decide a champion.

Don't like my idea? Well, I don't see you coming up with anything...