Post-Season Swishoff System Analysis

A post-season playoff that leads up to the National Championship would settle the dispute of how to choose the fair way to determine the national champion. Each school would then get fair chance at the championship. For the 2014-2015 season, there is a playoff system, that was proposed, in effect through the 2025 season. This playoff system will consist of two playoff games with the top four teams, chosen by a selection committee, going for the title.
The number one and number four seeded teams will face each other, while number two and number three will face off. Many people still think that this system is too closely related to the BCS system, the playoff system before this new system was proposed. To make the playoff system less disputable, the playoffs …show more content…
The sixteen team playoff system is simpler and and easy to figure out. It won’t be a mess like the BCS system, and also it will help settle down the angry fans that don’t like the normal system. The BCS gives undefeated teams better seeding, so schools would try to get an easier schedule to get that high seed. The playoff system will remove that easy schedule and make the championship only about performance. National champions in other major sports are determined by using a playoff system, so why not do a playoff system for college football? It should at least be attempted.
The new playoff system is using two bowl games as the semifinals to the championship. Every year, the semifinals will switch bowl games. For the 2014-2015 season, the semifinals were at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. For the 2015-2016 season, the semifinals will rotate to the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. And then the next season, the semifinals will be the Chick-fil-A Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. The winners of those bowl games will go on to the championship. This system is very confusing and only gives the bowl qualifying teams a shot at the national