Bonus Content: The Doc's College Football Playoff

A few weeks ago we heard The Juice's plan for a college football playoff, now its the Doc's turn. This is clearly not the BEST proposal, but I think it is the most REALISTIC plan based upon the clear alliance between the Bowls and the College administrators.

Basically, I would return the current 4 BCS games (Orange, Rose, Sugar, and Fiesta) to New Year's Day and make that the quarterfinals of national play-off. That is 8 teams, but if you include the conference championships, it would be a de facto 12 team play-off as follows:

1. ACC winner in the Orange Bowl.
2. SEC winner in the Sugar Bowl.
3. Big 12 winner (which is actually 10 teams) in the Fiesta
4. Big 10 (which actually has 12 teams) in the Rose to face...
5. The Pac-10 winner (since this is how the Big 10 and Pac 10 really would prefer things anyway, let them be matched up!).

That leaves three spots:
6. Big East winner
7. Highest ranked team from a non-BCS conference
8. At large spot for the remaining highest ranked team regardless of conference.

Teams 1-3 and 6-8 would be ranked and then matched up 1-8, 2-7, 3-6.
Semifinals would be Orange-Sugar and Fiesta-Rose winners (I don't care where they play, they can alternate for all I care).

So how would it look this year (by seedings):
1. Auburn
2. Oklahoma
3. Virginia Tech

4. Oregon (these two are automatic)
5. Wisconsin

6. TCU
7. Stanford
8. UConn

Orange- Virginia Tech vs. TCU
Sugar- Auburn vs.UConn

Fiesta- Oklahoma vs. Stanford
Rose- Wisconsin vs. Oregon

Orange-Sugar winners (likely Auburn vs. TCU)
Fiesta-Rose winners (likely Oregon vs. Oklahoma or Stanford)

Advantages:
1. Every school in a BCS conference has a chance
2. Improves access to non-BCS conferences
3. Maintains current Bowl system
4. Dramatically improves New Years Day which now has 4 awesome games!
5. Adds 2 more games for 2 teams and 1 more game for two teams (not that bad) and only extends the season by 1 week for 2 teams (that's reasonable)
6. Dramatically increases interest in conference championships for leagues where all schools are out of contention for BCS title game (For instance, the ACC championship is far more important when playing for entry into the tournament)

Disadvantages:
1. Still not a true play-off
2. Still relies on some kind of ranking system
3. Decreases interest for games by undefeated teams that have already clinched their league title (for instance, Auburn-Alabama was a big game this year, but would not have mattered in this system since Auburn already clinched the SEC West).

Overall- I think this is a system you could sell to the Bowls and the Conferences, only 3 more games, more interest in current games, and a lot more $$$ overall.