Time for a change–A real college football playoff scenario that works

College football post season is an argument that seems to have no end in sight.
However, there may be a way for playoff proponents and those who love the cash cow of the BCS bowl system to have their cake, and stuff their Saturday gameday faces with it, too.
The disclaimer to all of this information and scenarios laid out here is that there is a lot of ifs and buts– nevertheless–there has to be compromises made by everyone to finally give the nation a true national championship.
As a fan of Boise State football and all that it entails, I have grown to have a hateful remorse for the Bowl Championship Series–but I am also intelligent (somewhat) enough to know that playing through a season in the Western Athletic Conference, or the Mountain West Conference starting in 2011–pales in comparison to running the gauntlet in October and November in the SEC or other qualifying conferences.
But, it is still college football, and the players from top to bottom are scholarship athletes who can compete at this level. And the athletes are all amateurs and should be given the fair ability to compete for a championship like every other level of football and athletes in college sports in America.
It is a travesty that not only the athletes, but the students, the fans, the towns and cities involved with these programs do not get the chance of a Butler in men’s basketball or Fresno State or Oregon State in college baseball.
Utah broke the mold in 2004 by going undefeated and beat a three-loss ACC Champion Pittsburgh team handily.
Hawaii went undefeated in 2008, only to lose to a 2-loss Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.
Boise State and TCU have both won BCS bowl games against BCS powerhouses in Oklahoma and Wisconsin, but settled for playing each other in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl.
In the seven seasons since Utah became the first non-AQ team to be invited to a BCS bowl game, a non-AQ team has played in a BCS bowl game six of those seasons.
Only two of those seasons were two undefeated teams playing in the national title game while there was an undefeated non-AQ team in another BCS bowl game–including following the 2009 regular season when Alabama beat Texas for the national title and Boise State and TCU played each other in the Fiesta Bowl. (note: an undefeated Texas team beat a 12-0 USC team in the title game when there was not a non-AQ in a BCS Bowl game.)
The fact that neither Boise State nor TCU made the title game after the 2009 season remains because there were two teams from AQ teams that were undefeated. So that season, yes, the BCS was correct in their bowl alignment.
However, if you combine the 2004-08 BCS matchups when there was an undefeated non-AQ team playing–there was a combined 15 two-loss teams playing in other BCS bowl games, two-3 loss teams and a even two-4 loss teams playing BCS bowl games. One of those two loss teams was the eventual national champion LSU team in the 2008 title game.
That season alone should have rocked the boat enough to get something changed immediately after six-2 loss and a 3-loss team made a BCS bowl game and Hawaii was never considered for the title game.
Why?
Not really sure there is one argument that will suffice–meaning it’s time to build on the future and not fret the past.
Here is an easy solution that obviously will not be as easy to make happy way to create a playoff scenario and keep the bowl games in place.
For argument sake, the BCS will still be the name sake for the college football playoff scenario because the formula calls for an 8-team playoff involving the four current BCS bowl games, the Fiesta, Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls, respectfully.
All other FBS teams eligible for a bowl game still get invited from the other already in place bowl games as it stands now.
The top-8 teams from the end of regular season last year in the BCS standing will be placed in two-4 team brackets.
No. 1 Auburn will play no. 8 Arkansas in a home game for Auburn.
No. 2 Oregon will play no. 7 Oklahoma in a home game for Oregon.
No. 3 TCU plays No. 6 Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.
And, no. 4 Stanford plays no. 5 Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
By doing this, the BCS has to be willing to drop the automatic qualifying status from the six current conferences who hold automatic bids into the BCS. Obviously this will be like pulling teeth, but steps need to be made. And on the opposite, it will be harder for a non-AQ team to finish in the top 8 without still scheduling harder non-conference games early in the season to improve their standings going into November.
From there the normal 1-8 team match-up plays the 4-5 match-up in the Orange Bowl and the 2-7 plays the 3-6 in the Sugar Bowl. For argument sake–Auburn beats Arkansas 35-24 and Stanford beats Wisconsin 24-17. And Auburn then beats Stanford 28-21 to advance to the title game.
Oregon beats Oklahoma 38-17 and TCU beats Ohio State 17-14 to give the world the same national title game we were given this past season in Glendale, Ariz.
But the biggest change is that now teams like TCU, Boise State and maybe, Tulsa or Fresno State can now be given a shot to get to the title game without the bureaucracy of who is an automatic qualifying team. Which team has what affiliation with what bowl game. And, who has the most fans to go to bowl games to produce more money for the already fat-cat pockets.
Obviously timing will have to be taken into consideration for holiday breaks and who takes the chance of playing 11-12 or 13 game schedules.
Teams will be less inclined to play tougher non-conference games in September, but given the chance that the top two seeds get a first-round home game gives that program an extra home game late Dec-early Jan to get the revenue from the attendance of the game.
This is not a scenario that is too far fetched at all.
Play the first round on New Years Day and the day after. Play the second round the very next week and the national title game the next week after, as the title game is already played almost that late as it is.
Teams will already have a month off from the regular season to rest. School schedules will not be affected because semester-calendar universities will be on break and most will not start the spring semester until the end of January.
And finally, everyone gets their cake (keeping the bowls in place, and having an 8-team playoff) and get to eat it, too.
Grab some milk and plop on the couch and watch history unveil itself.
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