My Ideas for a College Football Playoff System

The argument is being shouted by a lot of people. Switch from the current Bowl Championship Series to an 8-team single elimination tournament. So instead of having a bunch of 1-loss teams complaining about being left out in the cold because they are not in the SEC or Big 12 (defense not included) conferences, have 8 teams fight it out.

Well, I read an argument against a playoff, and it was actually a good argument. Here is the link: http://www.fanblogs.com/ncaa/007562.php

If we have 6 automatic bids for making the playoffs, that leaves only 2 at-large bids. The blogger is right, the tv people would not sign off unless there were provisions for Notre Dame to get in. That leaves just one at-large bid if Notre Dame was involved.

So here are my ideas.

1. The six BCS conferences get an automatic bid as long as said team is in the top 12. Any lower, and sorry. There's no point denying a top 5 team a spot because we had to invite a Big East or ACC team ranked in the 20s.
2. If Notre Dame is ranked in the top 12, they get a spot in the brackets.
3. No more than two teams from a single conference.
4. Additional spots not provided for conference champs or Notre Dame are selected strictly by the polls, starting from the highest rank and going on down. No allowing the BCS (or BPS) to pick and choose the biggest cash cows from an available pool.
5. Rankings are based on a system similar to the BCS, with two human polls and a strength of schedule (or victory) rank. No more computer polls created by people and we don't know how they got that number.
   

Based on this system, here are the teams (based on the current BCS rankings):

#1 Alabama (SEC Champ*)
#2 Oklahoma (Big 12 Champ*)
#3 Texas (at-large)
#4 Florida (at-large)
#5 USC (Pac-10 champ*)
#6 Utah (at-large)
#7 Penn State (Big Ten Champ)
#8 Boise State (at-large)

Not Invited: Texas Tech (3rd team in Big 12, ranked #7), Cincinnati (Big East champ, ranked #13), Boston College (ACC champ, ranked #17)

First Round Matchups
#1 Alabama vs. #8 Boise State
#2 Oklahoma vs. #7 Penn State
#3 Texas at #6 Utah
#4 Florida vs. #5 USC

*Yeah, I know these teams aren't conference champs yet. I'm basing this on the highest rated team theoretically winning the conference championship.

Game Day!

This has been one of the more entertaining presidential elections in memory. I'm both excited and saddened to see it come to an end. This time tomorrow, we should know who is going to run the country for the next four years. Will it be Obama-Biden, or McCain-Bush...err...I mean, McCain-Palin.