What Would a 64-Team College Football Playoff Look Like?

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So, jumping over the promised four-team college football playoff format that goes into effect after the 2014 season, I read this article here and said, "YES"!!! Drop the 4 non-conference games and add one extra week, this will allow for a regular 8 conference game season, plus the conference championship game, the bowl game, and a 64-team playoff. Or make the bowl games the start of the playoffs, and this would leave the extra week off of the schedule. There are 35 bowl games right now, so 70 teams already get to play. Thus, drop 3 bowls, or make them non-playoff bowls, and you have your 64-team playoff.

 
Here's a mock bracket from this past season from the article. If we could get past Texas A&M, think we would have been in the Football Final Four playing either Ohio St or Georgia to get into the championship game.

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No thanks. I don't need the #4 team in the Sun Belt in a tournament to figure out a national champion.

 
Lol the seeds make me laugh Baylor, Boise, Northern Ilinois, San Jose St, Utah St, & Texas do not deserve that high of a seed.

 
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Mavric said:
No thanks. I don't need the #4 team in the Sun Belt in a tournament to figure out a national champion.
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UL-Monroe played in the Independence Bowl (and promptly got rolled by Frank Solich and company). But, that is my point. The games are going to get played anyway. This would make the non-conference games and those lesser bowl games mean just a little more.

 
NU-Bo said:
Mavric said:
No thanks. I don't need the #4 team in the Sun Belt in a tournament to figure out a national champion.
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UL-Monroe played in the Independence Bowl (and promptly got rolled by Frank Solich and company). But, that is my point. The games are going to get played anyway. This would make the non-conference games and those lesser bowl games mean just a little more.
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Yes, but if, in your example, Nebraska happened to lose to Arkansas St., their season would be over. If they lost to them in the current format, they would still have a chance - albeit a small one - of winning the national title.

Also, without any non-conference games it gets harder to figure out who the top teams are. A 9-3 Northwestern team looks a lot better with wins over two non-conference teams that won their bowls than a 5-3 record would look if they didn't get any non-conference games pre-tournament.

 
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