Challenging The Rebuttals

Whenever a college football fan brings up the ill-fated playoff word in front of the administrative Godfathers who control the sport via their self-serving monopoly, you can bet the administrative bigwigs will quickly stomp out the playoff fire with the often used rebuttal (ace in the hole) how will the fans be able to attend from week-to-week because they will be traveling cross-country to the events?

This is certainly the million dollar question, but if we begin to think like the late Tom Mickle, the ACC Conference administrator who created the initial version of the BCS, called the Bowl Coalition in 1992 by thinking outside the box, we can quickly challenge and defeat this oft used rebuttal.

Although this is certainly a major hurdle to consider, when adding some careful planning and consideration to our outside-the-box mindset, we can revive the playoff fire and put this rebuttal to bed. The highest hurdle we face, which is similar to the NCAA college football bowl format, is history and tradition.

Whenever a sports fan conjures up the image of a playoff model inside their cranium, they immediately think of a traditional loser out NFL or NCAA March Madness bracketed model, where the winners move on down the road to glory, and the losers pack their bags and head to the off-season of would-a, could-a, should-a land.


In this regard, you could conclude that the BCS Buster Regular Season Bracketed Playoff Model is, in fact, an outside-the-box playoff model. If you look at the image above you can clearly see that there is both a winners bracket and losers bracket within this model. Each team, which would begin their season by playing 8 conference games before moving to bracket play in the last 4 weeks of the season, is guaranteed 4 games within the brackets to complete a 12 game regular season.

The logical chronology is to follow the brackets where you would know who your next opponent would be just by looking at the brackets. This is where the BCS Busters Model wonders off the map and bounces outside the box.

The winners side of the BCS Bracket is going to flow in a logical, chronological, linear flow for weeks nine and ten, while the losers bracket is likely going to flow into a regional pool which has one purpose in mind...defeating this often used rebuttal regarding the fans attending playoff games.

The standard operating procedure for all of the brackets is a fairly simple concept to follow. If there are two competing teams from the same conference who enter the week number ten brackets and have not competed against one another during the regular season (first 8 games), then the conference match-up takes precedence.

If the two conference members have competed against one another during the regular season, then the match-ups are determined according to the closest competing teams within the regional pool. Lets give you an example:

The BCS Bracket has the specific purpose of not only determining the national championship game, but the remaining BCS Bowls and the upper-tier bowls as well. Therefore, the conferences need to be aligned according to proximity because once we determine a conference championship game and have narrowed the field to the final eight, we need to have the schools aligned in the regional format which creates the proximity needed for the fans to attend.

Therefore, the BCS Bracket is aligned according to the following format.

The Big-10 Conference Champion versus the Big-East Conference Champion.
The SEC Conference Champion versus the ACC Conference Champion.
The Big-12 Conference Champion versus the PAC-10 Conference Champion.
The newly created Rocky Mountain Conference Champion versus the winner of the MAC and C-USA Champions.

Here is the Complete BCS Bracket Based on the 2007 College Football Division I-A Season To Demonstrate How The Regional Pooling Concept Applies.