OUInsider - Owen Field

I agree with the SEC. I want to see the top 4 teams. Is it much of an accomplishment to win the Big East? There have been years when 2 Big 12 teams would have been in.

IMO - - it ought to be conference champs; it doesn't make sense to say "we're national champs, but could not win our conference". I think the Bama/LSU game has brought this to a head. Should they have played a "rubber match" - - best two of three? There probably was not a team in the top 10 that LSU would have beat on that championship night. (I know the Sooner played for the national championship after losing the conference - - that wasn't right either.) I believe the SEC's stance is self serving. Hopefully, we can make improvement on removing the bias from the voting - - I see ESPN promoting certain teams and I think the Coach's poll show bias toward their conference and other teams they play. (Doubt if they watch many games of teams they will not play.) At any rate, whatever the system - - it makes for good conversation.

Here we go...........everyone has emoted over "winning the NC on the field. They do it in every sport save college football." Well, you can't have it both ways, 3 of the last 5 Super Bowl Champions were Wild Card entries. You want an NFL like playoff experience? Look for regular season mediocrity.

It should be the 4 best teams but I think the regular season would be better if it had to be conf. champs

We know that there will be a deal where if the fighting irish win six games they will get consideration in being one of the four picked. The whole thing will be a mess. You could go to an eight team playoff where the six major conferences the pac 12,big 10,sec, big 12, acc & big east get their conference champ in and then there are two teams that are wild card teams.

OUManiac

College football would be just fine without ND.

No way it should just be conference champs, because then you have a 9-4 conference champion playing for a national title they have no right to play for with and 11-1 or 10-2 OU, LSU, Alabama etc not getting a chance because their league was tougher to win and their lone loss was to a top ranked team. It's idiotic to determine a national champion by not including the best teams especially in a playoff format, might as well not have one then.

Just because your record is better does not mean your team is. Its too subjective to say "just pick the top four". Well, thats what has us in the mess in the first place. Its obvious that the top teams cant be picked without bias and good ole boy stuff going on. So, picking the top four isnt that simple. Im all for taking opinions out of it by saying conference champs only, but people just cant warm up to that because of their...................opinions as to who is better and who isnt.

All champs kills the polls, kills the bias. Win your conference or stay home. It cant be made any more plain than that. Your conference harder than others? Oh well, you picked it because of money. This way, your tradtion, what you did last year, whos your coach, your budget, your facilities, your TV contracts or your conference wont mean a thing. Its all about what you did this year on the field. If you dont get in, you can still go to these bowl games they are so giddy about.

Why should Oklahoma be rewarded and allowed to play for it all when they got their ass handed to them? People have talked about how close the lsu/bama game was last year and that was one of the reasons that the second game was, in some peoples eyes, ok to play. We didn't just get beat in that title game in 2003 we got our butts handed to us by ksu. I believe the final was 35-7 or something along those lines. That was about as one sided as a hanging. I can tell you that if it was a big 10 team that got beat like that in their title game I wouldn't want them playing for the national title.

I really think this whole four team playoff is going to really piss a lot of fans off. There will be conference champs that might have only lost one or two games and they will not get a shot at the big prize because only four teams can be picked and you've got six BCS leagues. Then you've got arrogent jerks in the sec talking about how they might have the four best teams in the country.

From Stewart Mandel, SI:

"On one side, we have the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC and Big East, all of which have endorsed incorporating a conference-champion requirement for most or all of the four teams selected. On the other side, we have the SEC and Big 12, whose leaders made it clear this week they want the top four teams, period, whether those teams are chosen via a revised BCS formula or an NCAA tournament-style selection committee.

The sides are drawn, and it's starting to get ugly, with SEC commissioner Mike Slive criticizing other conferences for trying to "gerrymander" the playoff field and Alabama coach Nick Saban calling out "self-absorbed people who are worried about how it affects their circumstance or their league rather than what's best for college football." Saban, of course, was referring to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, who previously said, "I don't have a lot of regard for" a team that doesn't win its own division (cough, 2011 Alabama, cough).

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/06/01/three-and-one-playoff-model/index.html#ixzz1wZeF6eay"

The Big XII(and OU) are in a great position, they have the luxury of siding with the SEC, their Champions Bowl partner, but realize that the other 4 BCS conferences, who have more votes, are likely to push for four conference Champions, which short term is the probably the best arrangement for the Big XII. Win, Win.

Obvioiusly it's easier to win a 10 team conference, than a 14 team conference, but to truly make the 4 team format work, you need 4 Super Conferences. Four Super Conferences is the best way to make the regular season relevant and create the best playoff. I only wish we could hear the behind the scenes conversations with the real power brokers in this deal.

- the Big XII rises from the ashes and becomes a Super Conference, based partially on their management of third teir rights and individual University Networks(Thanks Chuck N)
- ND is forced to join a conference to be relevant
- Conference Championship Games become a Play In game to the final four

NOTE: don't be shocked to see a change in how the Conference Championship Games work. OU-Texas in 2008 and LSU-Bama in 2011 should have been Conference Championship games. Fix this issue, and it will be easier to have the Four Conference Champions in the Final Four.

Once it was decided that we would have a Four Team Playoff, this thing took on a life of it's own. The next two or three years will be fun to watch. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

i'd rather it be the best 4. but if the 4 have to come from the pool of conference champs, that still beats the hell out of anything to date.

i know it's dead in the water but i loved the idea of the top 2 seeds hosting the semis.

how about 4 conference champs but you must be ranked in the top 10(7 or 8 maybe) of a RPI ranking with an emphasis on strength-of-schedule. if you are not ranked in the top 10, then that spot goes to the highest rated wildcard until all four slots are filled. This gives the teams an incentive to play a tougher schedule and if you lose a conference game you still might get in. ND gets in if they win on a tough schedule. If you have a weak RPI conference then schedule tougher OOC games.
I think that this can be modified alittle to be a fit to everyone. Just my opinion.