Sportsmeat

I’ve floated this before but I’m not sure if I ever put in on paper. So here goes. Once again the BCS is a mess and once again people are clamoring for a playoff. My proposal is to go back to an 11-game season and add an eight-team playoff that would look like this:

-) The winners of the six BCS conferences and two at-large teams.
-) If a non-BCS school finishes in the Top 12 of the BCS, it gets in. (If there are three such teams, the Top 2 get in.)
-) The at-large selections are decided by BCS rankings.

Thus, this year’s field would currently look like this:
ACC: Virginia Tech
Big East: West Virginia
Big Ten: Ohio State
Big 12: Missouri
Pac-10: USC
SEC: LSU
At-Large Qualifier: Hawaii
At-Large: Georgia

Ranked in BCS order, we’d have:
1) Missouri vs. 8) Hawaii
2) West Virginia vs. 7) USC
3) Ohio State vs. 6) LSU
4) Georgia vs. 5) Va. Tech

I’m not really that concerned where the games are played. The bowl sites should be utilized at some point (perhaps the first round hosted by the home team, semis at the Sugar and Orange Bowls, with the final at the Rose Bowl and the Fiesta getting the two best teams not in the playoff), but it doesn’t really matter. It’s that they play.