After the BCS National Championship game is played on January 6, 2014 between the Florida State Seminoles and the Auburn Tigers, it will mark the end of one era and the beginning of a new era in major college football. Most fans are excited about it, saying a playoff will be a fairer system in determining the National Champion. I can see its merits and understand that it will certainly add to the excitement of the sport, but I don't necessarily agree that it help determine a true champion. Oh well. Nevertheless, the playoff format is set to take place next season, so I thought it would be fun to share how I would think that playoff should look if it was happening this season.
Let me start by saying that every conference should be forced to crown a champion in the same way, whether it be by a conference championship game or by overall regular season record. It matters not to me, but every conference should be the same. It just seems weird that Big 12 teams only played 12 games while pretty much everyone else played 13. I very highly doubt that conferences with a title game would stop doing that, so making every conference have a title game seems the most feasible. Apparently there's some NCAA rule that says there have to be at least 12 teams in a conference in order to host a conference championship game, so either that needs to change or the conferences not in compliance should add some teams and get up to speed.
