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2011 Selection Saturday: Ground Rules
By Paul Myerberg // Mar 12, 2012
It’s hard not to watch the N.C.A.A. unveil the men’s basketball tournament and wonder what the F.B.S. could achieve with a similar format. New year, same opening: I wrote the same sentence roughly a year ago today, leading into a post discussing how an F.B.S. bracket might look based on the 2010 season, but that was long before the recent push for a four-team year-end playoff. Now, any talk of a postseason playoff system for college football has a different feel – we seem closer today than ever before to a playoff, though it wouldn’t greatly resemble the men’s or women’s basketball bracket. But what if the F.B.S. did bust out a large-scale playoff?
Tags: College football playoff, N.C.A.A. tournament
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NASCAR Talk, Starring Jerry Glanville
By Paul Myerberg // Feb 28, 2012
When I do watch NASCAR, it’s for the same reason as I watch hockey: for the fights. Or the fiery, Michael Bay-approved crash and burns, much like the one unveiled by Juan Pablo Montoya during last night’s already rain-delayed Daytona 500. Crash? Uh, I think Montoya’s breaks went out. Burn? My goodness. Part of me expected a Transformer to burst out of the flames. In summation: NASCAR is better with fire, like most things. And since this needs to involve college football in some fashion — and since it’s most definitely the offseason — let’s add Dana Holgorsen and Jerry Glanville into the conversation.
Tags: Bill Snyder, Bo Pelini, Bret Bielema, Chip Kelly, Dana Holgorsen, Derek Dooley, Frank Solich, George O'Leary, Illinois, Jerry Glanville, L.S.U., Larry Coker, Larry Fedora, Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier, Tom O'Brien, U.C.L.A., Will Muschamp
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12 Conference Champs, 4 At-Large Bids
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 27, 2012
Twelve conferences. Two major conferences, 12 smaller leagues. Seven super conferences. Not just 124 F.B.S. teams, but a whopping 128. An eight-team playoff. A 16-team playoff. No playoff. No New Mexico State or Western Kentucky, among others. We’ve seen it all over the last week, with several readers submitting well-researched and interesting plans for realignment — some tip-toeing the line outside the box, others leaping outside the box altogether. The next plan comes from Josh Hines, and like Matt’s proposal from yesterday, it takes into account the four programs due to join the F.B.S. over the next two seasons. Here come the stipulations:
Tags: Conference Expansion
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Round-Robin, Geographic Symmetry, Playoff
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 25, 2012
So, once again, a recap. Anu’s realignment plan plugged the F.B.S. into 15 eight-team leagues. A day later, Andrew created seven super conferences but knocked seven teams out of the F.B.S and into irrelevance — or further irrelevance, for some of those unlucky few. Bob’s plan for 12 conferences was stellar, but lacked a definite playoff plan. Yesterday, Burnt Orange did the impossible: he created an eight-conference F.B.S. that not only included the four soon-to-be F.B.S. additions but also added another quartet of current F.C.S. programs. Today, Matt Roberson kicks things up a notch by, in a way, keeping it simple. But not that simple.
Tags: Conference Expansion
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124 Teams? Let’s Try a 128-Team F.B.S.
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 24, 2012
So let’s see what we’ve done so far. The first plan, from Anu, realigned the F.B.S. into 15 eight-team leagues, with the eight highest-ranked conference champions meeting in a postseason playoff. The second, from Andrew, created seven super conferences but knocked seven teams out of the F.B.S. altogether; in terms of a playoff, Andrew’s plan included the seven conference champs and the highest-ranked non-conference title winner. The third, from Bob, featured 12 conferences with 10 teams apiece but lacked a clear playoff plan. Here’s a fourth realignment plan, this one from Burnt Orange, which achieves what others were unable to do: add the four new F.B.S. programs into the mix.
Tags: Conference Expansion
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12 Conferences, But No Postseason Plan
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 22, 2012
We’ve seen two realignment plans thus far. The first, by Anu, put together a 15-conference F.B.S. with an eight-team playoff, with the eight highest-ranked conference champions meeting to decide the eventual national champion. Yesterday, Andrew created a realignment plan with seven super conferences, which was nice, but it also gave the boot to seven F.B.S. programs. Adios, New Mexico State. Andrew’s plan was interesting, however, for how it settled the playoff scenario: the 14 conference title games served as a de facto first round, with the seven conference winners and the highest-ranked non-conference champion meeting in an eight-team playoff. Now here’s a third plan, this one from Bob Jones — he of the famous ranking system. It comes with a twist, however.
Tags: Conference Expansion
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Seven Super Conferences, Seven Left Out
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 21, 2012
Yesterday, I put forth a realignment plan created and emailed to me by Anu Heda, a loyal reader with some time on his hands over the holidays. The plan was relatively simple, such as these things go. Fifteen conferences containing eight teams apiece, split along geographic lines and without too much consideration for fair and equal balance. There were drawbacks to the plan, as well as a few positives. Most notably, creating a 15-conference plan might streamline a new playoff system, with the eight highest-ranked conference winners meeting in a simple, eight-team playoff. Before discussing the plan, I asked for more realignment possibilities from you, the readers. One reader, Andrew Mitchell, responded. Here’s Andrew’s plan, leading with his stipulations:
Tags: Conference Expansion
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One Massive, 15-League Realignment Plan
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 20, 2012
This isn’t my idea, but rather the realignment plan from a loyal reader, Anu Heda, who sent me the following email in late December:
So I got a little free time from the kids to put together a realignment plan. I created 15 eight-team conferences that I think would be great for (wait for it) the fans and kids. I know the Larry Scott’s of the worlds wouldn’t want smaller conferences so this isn’t going to happen. Anyhow, thought to share. (And yes, I didn’t know exactly where to put Middle Tennessee State. I assume someone with a background in linear algebra could optimize this a bit.)
As a side note, I love these sort of emails, so keep them coming. Anu’s plan, as you can see above, is fairly simple — in theory, at least. Fifteen leagues, each holding eight teams, with the following stipulations:
Tags: Conference Expansion
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