The final element of this new system of college football is that it will produce a playoff, the ultimate goal in providing an equal shot to teams deserving of competing for a national championship.
Using the new conference alignment, the top team in each conference will get an automatic spot in the postseason playoffs. The remaining seven at-large spots will be filled with the highest-rated teams.
For this web site, composite rankings put together by Kenneth Massey of mratings.com were used. A composite ranking system similar to that or the BCS formula should be used to rank teams because it gives the traditional polls a continued voice in the system and takes into account several versions of power ratings. However, we won't hand the BCS the absolute power to select the only two teams in the country that deserve the right to play for the title. Instead, the revised ranking formula will simply be used to seed the teams that make the playoffs.
Playoff games will take place at the higher-seeded team's stadium of choice with the lower seed getting 30 percent of the tickets. The site could include the higher-seeded team's regular home field or a nearby stadium that is larger. Some nearby cities may want to bid on moving playoff games to draw tourism dollars. Even though this practice could become bowl-esque, at least the game would actually mean something. Unlike now.
Click here to see an example of conference realignment and playoff seeding.
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