{"id":1064,"date":"2015-11-02T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:11:37","slug":"a-comprehensive-plan-to-crown-a-true-football-champion-without-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"A Comprehensive Plan To Crown a True Football Champion that would work"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"post-meta\">\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010.jpg\" alt=\"college-football-schedule-2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010.jpg 500w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/college-football-schedule-2010-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h4>A repost from Nov. 2015.\u00a0 With the interest in a smaller and more competitive Division One, here is a plan that would work.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>I have never thought of college football at the highest level as\u00a0having a fair process of &#8220;choosing&#8221; a National Championship team.\u00a0 With money at the top of the list of reasons, the universities and their leadership, from the presidents of said institutions through the different governing bodies (NCAA for one)\u00a0down to the sponsors and money changers (that include the corporations and bowl committees), <em><strong>college football has been a<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> fraud<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Picking teams to \u201chave\u201d a chance to win a National Championship from men and women on committees,\u00a0or from\u00a0polls of coaches and sports writers, continues to muddy the waters of a \u201ctrue on-the-field champion.\u201d That should be accomplished through play on the field and not in someone mind as an opinion.\u00a0 Every team\u00a0at the highest level should have\u00a0an opportunity\u00a0to be\u00a0the National\u00a0\u00a0Champion, no matter of past history or feel from the\u00a0\u201cchoosers\u201d.\u00a0 Until we get to a system as I propose in this article, all National Championships won by every school from day one back when Rutgers took the field in 1800\u2019s is a tainted title, one that can be disputed, and most often is by the schools that were considered \u201cnot passing the eye test\u201d of being worthy to participate.\u00a0 Can you say TCU 2014?<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>My\u00a0football\u00a0system would consist of\u00a072 teams;\u00a0they must make the cut of attendance statistics and size of stadium, program brand, and money put forth to participate at the highest level.\u00a0 The teams that I include in my system can be changed out after a five year run, and if certain teams do not make the criteria of being worthy of a Top\u00a072 team ranking, they could and would be replaced, again,\u00a0after\u00a0that initial five year run. That gives up and coming schools\/programs an opportunity to get into that highest group.\u00a0 The 73rd school\u00a0would join another \u201cclass\u201d of schools that could and would decide how they crown an additional National Champion on their level of play. Fact of the matter, you just\u00a0cannot\u00a0say you play college football at the highest level, you have to prove it.\u00a0 Basically, things are not written in stone on the Top\u00a072 and that gives schools that want to try to get into the highest group a fair opportunity to replace a program that is not cutting the mustard.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1058\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images.jpg 288w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/images-99x60.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>To make the top\u00a072\u00a0 minimum requirements are not that hard to meet if the school and their brand is significant to play at the highest level with support from their school\/administration\/fan base. Four (4) conferences of 18 teams divided into two (2)\u00a0nine team divisions.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>The conferences:\u00a0\u00a0The Power Midwest, the Power\u00a0South,\u00a0the Power Heartland and\u00a0the Power West\u00a0 The traditional conferences would still exist\u00a0in other sports but for the highest level of\u00a0varsity\u00a0football, no.<\/h4>\n<h4>The winner of each of the\u00a0eight divisions (of the\u00a0four conferences) would make the True College Footballl playoffs and play in one of the four quarter final games (as selected by lottery for participation and site).\u00a0 Winners would play in\u00a0two National Semi-final games (as selected as by lottery for opponent and site), and one National Championship Game for the semi-final winners.\u00a0 The Championship game would rotate\u00a0be in the rotation of sites\u00a0each year.\u00a0 Sites of all\u00a0seven games\u00a0include:\u00a0 Dallas, Atlanta, Pasadena, Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix, Indianapolis.\u00a0 (Again, all teams would be picked by draw, quarter and semi-final rounds.)<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>All teams would play twelve games (regular season),\u00a0eight\u00a0in-conference games and\u00a0four non-conference games that would have no bearing on conference titles to make the playoff system. This allows teams to play a better non-conference schedule that could and would include intersectional rival games.\u00a0 All non-division games would be scheduled by the schools themselves.\u00a0Ranking systems could still have polls but they would not have any thing to do with the final\u00a0eight schools for the playoffs.\u00a0 Example, Oklahoma and Texas would both be in the Heartland Conference but in different divisions, but the OU\/UT game would still be played the\u00a0second weekend in October.\u00a0 All inter-divisional games would be played in the final\u00a0eight weeks of the regular season with the first\u00a0four non-conference games played before that\u00a0the\u00a0sixth week.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>All teams of the\u00a072 will play\u00a0eight in-division\u00a0conference games that would constitute\u00a0how we get to the\u00a0eight playoff contenders.\u00a0Win the division and you are in.\u00a0 Games outside the division\u00a0do not have a\u00a0bearing on the division title. \u00a0Again there would be\u00a0eight division champions, with head to head determining the champion in case of a tie. In a three-way tie, the point differential between the three teams would be the decider, and in case of a tie in that scenario, you would again go back to head to head with the two that remained tied. In case of a three way tie after point differential, the least points allowed would be followed by the most points scored, and finally, a coin flip. (I do not think you would ever get to that coin flip as the odds of that happening are probably a billion to one.)<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Minimum Requirements<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4>An existing member of a Power\u00a0Five school or a invitation by the Commissioner\u2019s committee of five.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Requirements for invitation:\u00a0 For those that are not from a Power\u00a0Five school, the five year attendance of possible schools would be ranked.\u00a0 A school would also have to have a minimum stadium seating capacity of 40,000.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>A minimum dollar amount dedicated to the football program as determined by the lowest dollar amount spend on the football program of lowest Power\u00a0Five school. This would make sure that any school added to the proposed conferences would have a dedicated amount to participate in the top echelon of schools.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>All conferences (four) would have a commissioner that would have\u00a0one\u00a0vote in decision making with\u00a0one overall head commissioner that would rotate from\u00a0the\u00a0four sections where the\u00a0four\u00a0 conferences come from\u2026.making a total of\u00a0five voting heads, allowing for decisions to always be on the odd number\u00a0 with no abstentions on voting.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>The Conferences and their schools would be as follows:<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>The Power\u00a0Mideast\u00a0Conference<\/h4>\n<h4>Division A:\u00a0 Ohio State Penn State, Rutgers, Maryland, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minnesota, , Notre Dame, Syracuse<\/h4>\n<h4>Division B:\u00a0 Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Indiana, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Boston College<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Power South\u00a0Conference<\/h4>\n<h4>Division A:\u00a0 Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,\u00a0Vanderbilt, Duke, Florida State, Miami (Fla), Georgia Tech,<\/h4>\n<h4>Division B:\u00a0 LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, North Carolina State, Clemson, Florida, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Wake Forest<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Power Heartland Conference<\/h4>\n<h4>Division A: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Louisville, Memphis, Missouri<\/h4>\n<h4>Division B:\u00a0 Texas A&amp;M, Texas, Texas Christian, Baylor, Texas Tech, Central Florida,\u00a0West Virginia, Cincinnati, Temple<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Power West Conference<\/h4>\n<h4>Division A:\u00a0 USC, UCLA, Arizona State, Arizona, Utah, BYU, Colorado, Fresno State,\u00a0Houston<\/h4>\n<h4>Division B:\u00a0 Washington State, Washington, Boise State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, California, East Carolina, Colorado State<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Again, schools must have a 40,000 seat stadium and attendance will be monitored for compliance as the schools that have the lowest home attendance are subject to be replaced. The non-Power schools accepted in year one into the system are:\u00a0 Memphis, Colorado State, Fresno State, East Carolina, Cincinnati, Central Florida,\u00a0 Temple, BYU, and Boise State.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Please Note:\u00a0 The placement in the divisions in this article can be changed and would be changed, I am sure if it was to be implemented. \u00a0 This is just a system to get to an on-the-field way to get one true National Championship team.<\/h4>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1064\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1064\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 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