Based on Final BCS standings:
1st Round
- (12)FLorida State at (5)Kansas State
- (11)Oklahoma at (6)Stanford
- (10)South Carolina at (7)Georgia
- (9)Texas A&M at (8)LSU
Home games for seeds 5-8
2nd Round
- (1)Notre Dame awaits lowest remaining seed
- (2)Alabama awaits second lowest remaining seed
- (3)Florida awaits second highest remaining seed
- (4)Oregon awaits highest remaining seed
- Home games for seeds 1-4
Semifinals
Lowest remaining seed at Highest remaining seed
Second lowest remaining seed at Second highest remaining seed
Final
2 remaining teams at chosen site
This obviously isn't a perfect scenario but it sure would make for some great football!
I got into an argument with my cousin who is an SEC-homer and she believes because the B1G is so weak and irrelevant that the Rose Bowl should do away with the auto-qualifier for the Big Ten and that 6 teams from the SEC should be in BCS bowls, Rose Bowl included. I'm guessing she's sore some of her favorite schools got slighted because of the cap on teams per BCS slot. I told her to put her hooka pipe down and to quit playing cards with the Cheshire Cat. Woody Hayes will rise from his grave and curse somebody if that happens.
Your idea has merit though I wouldnt watch a playoff with that many SEC teams in it. I think their top 3 is enough. I don't care how good the SEC is I support democracy in the college sports. Give the other conferences a chance. Maybe the SEC will become so arrogant and comfortable they'll slip up. They have to. I hate being around her.
"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever
I was basing it off of the final BCS standings. I too thought too many SEC teams but man it would make watching football a lot easier than watching all of these crap bowl games!
If you're going to have a large playoff (12 teams if I count right), then you should do it like the NFL. All BCS AQ conference champs are in the playoffs. The top four conference champs would get the byes. Not winning your conference means you are effectively in as a wild card- no bye for you and also no home game for you. Those rights belong to conference winners.
In a minute here you'll see why NFL style in fact doesn't mean the best teams have the easiest path. There's a reason the best team isnt always the Super Bowl winner. Everyone's reactions to this will be interesting. In any large playoff scenario, conference championships will matter.
If you ran it like that, NFL style, the playoff would be (and I counted Notre Dame as a conference champ b/c of their special deal with the BCS regarding BCS game access):
NOTE: All rankings are the seed.
SEEDS
#1 Notre Dame (highest ranked conf champ), bye
#2 Alabama (2nd highest ranked conf champ), bye
#3 Kansas State (3rd highest ranked conf champ), bye
#4 Stanford (4th ranked conf champ), bye
#5 Florida State (5th ranked conf champ)
#6 Louisville (6th ranked conf champ)
#7 Wisconsin (7th ranked conf champ)
#8 Florida (highest ranked non-conf champ)
#9 Oregon (2nd highest ranked non-conf champ)
#10 Georgia (3rd highest ranked non-conf champ)
#11 LSU (4th highest ranked non-conf champ)
#12 Texas A&M (5th highest ranked non-conf champ)
FIRST ROUND
Byes: Notre Dame, Alabama, Kansas State, Stanford
Home Games: Florida State (conf champ), Louisville (conf champ), Wisconsin (conf champ), Florida (highest seeded non-conf champ)
1) #12 Texas A&M at #5 Florida State
2) #11 LSU at #6 Louisville
3) #10 Georgia at #7 Wisconsin
4) #9 Oregon at #8 Florida
SECOND ROUND
1) #1 Notre Dame plays winner of Oregon/Florida (yes, that's how the cookie crumbles)
2) #2 Alabama plays winner of Georgia/Wisconsin
3) #3 Kansas State plays winner of LSU/Louisville
4) #4 Stanford plays winner of Texas A&M/Florida State
THIRD ROUND
1) Stanford game winner at Notre Dame game winner
2) Kansas State game winner at Alabama game winner
then the Championship Game
Interesting that when you make conference champs matter, as they surely would in any larger scenario, the games can fall hard on some teams unfairly. Happens in the NFL all the time.
You can mitigate that somewhat if you go to 16 (no byes) b/c then you get #1 versus #16, but you have to remember that #1 through #6 are the conference champs. No "wild card" qualifier can ever rank above a conference champ.
That's true in almost every sport that has a playoff.
Interestingly, even at 16 ranking the conference champs higher than the wildcards means Oregon v Florida is still a first round game at Florida. And the winner is still playing Notre Dame in round 2 (assuming that Notre Dame beats the lowest ranked wildcard, Clemson)