2021 NCAA Postseason Stuff

[Rocketcan]

Hello Coaches!

 

The season is well underway as we work into week 2. As such, we have been doing some logistical work in the background to make sure we do things right for the post season. This post is the result of that work, the NCAA Football Selection Committee and the playoff/bowl format!

 

Selection Committee

 

The Selection Committee will be made up of users that are representatives of different conferences, polls and administration. For now, these roles are just for representation, however, the conference representatives will become the conference commissioners by next season. The structure of the committee will be 12 members as follows:

• Conference Representatives/Commissioners:
  
  • AAC
    
  • ACC
    
  • Big Ten
    
  • Big XII
    
  • C-USA
    
  • MAC
    
  • MWC
    
  • PAC-12
    
  • SEC
    
  • Sun Belt
    

  [*]Poll Representatives

  • Coach's Poll
    
  • Computer Poll
    

Following the 2022 season (so starting season 3), a yearly election will be held within each conference for conference commissioner and, by extension, Selection Committee representative.

 

The members for the 2021 season are (Only 11 for this season):

• AAC: @SyndaKyt (Navy)
  
• ACC: @Kirby (Florida State)
  
• Big Ten: @subsequent (Michigan)
  
• Big XII: @Vivid (Baylor)
  
• C-USA: @anonemuss (North Texas)
  
• MAC: @PoopyRhinoPickle (Bowling Green)
  
• MWC: @Bellwood (Colorado State)
  
• PAC-12: @TuscanSota (Washington State)
  
• SEC: @tsweezy (Tennessee)
  
• Sun Belt: None
  
• Coach's Poll: [uSER=49]@J'aimebo[/uSER] (Boise State)
  
• Computer Poll: @Rocketcan (Penn State)
  

I will set up a discord channel and create a role that I will assign to these members. Once week 6 is complete, I will take the results of the computer poll and merge them with the results of the coach's poll. This will be the basis of the first top 25 presented to the committee. The committee will deliberate and vote on that list, making adjustments as agreed upon by the committee. The committee will make a firm decision weekly and publish their rankings on a weekly basis from there on out.

 

The Committee will also, after Conference Championships, publish their final top 25 rankings as well as the list of assigned bowl berths (See Bowl Games below).

 

Playoffs

 

The format for the National Championship Playoff will be as follows:

• 12 team playoff bracket
  
  • Top 4 seeds with first week BYEs
    
  • Highest seed will face the lowest seed, second highest vs. second lowest, etc. Lowest seeded winner with face the highest seeded team with a BYE, etc.
    

  [*]6 Automatic Berths

  • Top 6 Conference Champions
    
  • This guarantees at least 1 G5 team in the playoffs, although there will likely be more.
    

  [*]6 At-Large Berths

  • Remaining Top 6 teams
    
  • Any conference
    

  [*]All games will be considered "Bowl" games. The bowls that will be used are as follows:

  • First Round
    
    • Sun Bowl
      
    • Gator Bowl
      
    • Citrus Bowl
      
    • Liberty Bowl
      

    [*]Quarterfinal Round

    • Peach Bowl
      
    • Cotton Bowl
      
    • Orange Bowl
      
    • Fiesta Bowl
      

    [*]Semifinal Round

    • Rose Bowl
      
    • Sugar Bowl
      

    [*]National Championship

    • NCAA Football National Championship Game
      

  [*]Teams will be seeded based on the final Selection Committee Rankings. Conference Championships do NOT guarantee higher seeds.

Bowl Games

 

Teams that do not get selected for the National Championship Playoff may still be eligible for a post season game in the form of a bowl game. In order to participate in a bowl game, the following criteria must be met: Must have at least as many regular season wins as regular season losses (for example, a 6-6 team that loses a conference championship game to fall to 6-7 still meets this requirement)

 

All teams that meet that criteria will be given a bowl game. Unlike in real life, there are no contracts to worry about, so we will not have teams with losing records playing in bowl games in order to fill slots. We will only have enough bowl games based on the number of teams eligible. A sample of the list of bowls that will be used are as follows (will be added to and subtracted from as necessary):

• Independence Bowl
  
• Holiday Bowl
  
• Outback Bowl
  
• Cactus Bowl
  
• Las Vegas Bowl
  
• Alamo Bowl
  
• Idaho Potato Bowl
  
• Music City Bowl
  
• New Orleans Bowl
  
• Hawaii Bowl
  
• Texas Bowl
  
• Armed Forces Bowl
  
• Etc.
  

I imagine we will end up with around 30ish bowls per year. I am not too fond of the "Corporate Sponsor" names, but if you guys like them, I can added them back in. Also, depending on how desperate we are for games, I might offer to have some nominations and votes on new bowl game names. As stated previously, the Selection Committee will also assign bowl berths. In the event that there are an odd number of bowl-eligible teams, the lowest ranked team based on the final Selection Committee rankings will NOT play a bowl game.

 

Well, there you have it! Some of the things we are all striving for laid out for you. If there are any questions, suggestions or ideas, please let us know below!

 

Until next time,

 

Rocketcan

[caesari]

Wow! Can't wait to see who I get to host in the second round of the playoffs this season.

[Rome]

"Road to the Championship" more like road to post-air raid stress disorder.