Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I was reading some ideas on tweeking the CFP to make it better with out expanding it. The one I liked the best was based on a point system.
Before I explain it let’s go over what we’d want to accomplish.
Have a true national championship. Originally the CFP was intended to give conference championships heavy weight when selecting teams. It only took two years for a rogue committee to undermine that intention and send us back to National Championship by proxy.
Determine playoff teams on the field and not the committee room.
Eliminate subjective polls in the selection process.
Maintain the most meaningful regular season in team sports.
Make non-conference games meaningful to eliminate scheduling disparities.
Place more weight on division and conference championships.
The point system would be fairly simple. Each team wins a point for each victory during the regular season. For each victory against a top 5 conference team an additional point is awarded.
In addition a division champion is awarded 3 additional points and a conference champion is awarded 5 additional points.
This system would punish teams that schedule four weak mid majors as non-conference games and punishes teams that don’t play a conference championship game, as they should be, for playing one less game.
The question of a tie breaker comes up but some objective criteria can be used for that.
Before I explain it let’s go over what we’d want to accomplish.
Have a true national championship. Originally the CFP was intended to give conference championships heavy weight when selecting teams. It only took two years for a rogue committee to undermine that intention and send us back to National Championship by proxy.
Determine playoff teams on the field and not the committee room.
Eliminate subjective polls in the selection process.
Maintain the most meaningful regular season in team sports.
Make non-conference games meaningful to eliminate scheduling disparities.
Place more weight on division and conference championships.
The point system would be fairly simple. Each team wins a point for each victory during the regular season. For each victory against a top 5 conference team an additional point is awarded.
In addition a division champion is awarded 3 additional points and a conference champion is awarded 5 additional points.
This system would punish teams that schedule four weak mid majors as non-conference games and punishes teams that don’t play a conference championship game, as they should be, for playing one less game.
The question of a tie breaker comes up but some objective criteria can be used for that.