What if the NFL played its season out, and then instead of having a playoff to determine who would play in the Super Bowl, the NFL decided to let cities across the country invite teams to play in postseason games in order to increase the host city's tourism dollars and promote the game's corporate sponsor?
The selection of teams to play in these NFL postseason games would be based on how much money that team could make for the host city by selling tickets and bringing fans to town, so teams in regions close to these games would have a distinct advantage in being invited even if a team had a relatively poor season. Then when all the postseason games were over, the NFL would leave it up to sportswriters and assistants of the coaches to vote to determine the NFL champion.
Also, it would be up to the teams to decide what conference they played in regardless of geography, which would allow all the most successful teams to band together to make more TV money for each other and keep the lesser teams from ever gaining success.
Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Yet that's just the system college football has in place.
Project Playoffs is a solution to the BCS. Its goal is to realign college football conferences into fair and competitive divisions resulting in a sensible playoff format that produces a true national champion absent of politics.
Quick facts about this proposed system for college football:
• Colleges separated into nine nine-team divisions based on goegraphy
• The top 81 schools for the top conference are chosen based on average home attendance
• Conference winners automatically advance to 16-team postseason playoff
• The remaining seven slots in the playoffs are filled by teams with highest composite ranking
• Playoffs held at higher seed's stadium of choice until championship game
Click here to read more about Project Playoffs in part 2.
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