The BCS Playoffs

Here is my system which I come up with during Grad School and have been tweaking each year.

Who Gets In:

Each of the 11 conferences receive one automatic bid given to their conference champion.  If the have a championship game, then the winner of that game goes to the playoffs.  If they do not have a playoff, the conference will decide who gets in and how ties are broken.

In addition, the Top 5 non-conference champs will receive a bid to the playoffs.  As so often happens, the same conference will have several teams at the top of the poles.

What are the Seeds:

The teams will be seeded based on the final BCS rankings after the conference championship games.  The BCS ranking is determined through a combination of human and computer polling.

When will they Play:

The Opening Round games will be played the Saturday after the championship games.  The Quarterfinals and Semifinals will follow on the subsequent Saturdays.  The True National Championship game will be played on the second Monday night of January.

Where will they Play:

Opening Round games will be played at the home stadium of the higher ranked team.

Quarterfinals will be played at the sites of the Peach Bowl (Atlanta, GA), Fiesta Bowl (Tempe, AZ), Capital One Bowl (Orlando, FL), and the Cotton Bowl (Dallas, TX).

Semifinals will be played at the sites of the Orange Bowl (Miami, FL) and the Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA).

The True National Championship Game will be played at the site of the Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA).

Why?

More to follow later...