Who said playoffs

If you win you move on, and if you win the last contest in the playoff chain, you are the Champs. That's it. There is no argument about who was really first, or who was cheated out of a chance because of poll favoritism.

The best team on that given day wins. The FCS league works the plow on a pretty complete set of playoffs. So exactly how do we get from here, to a rational playoff system? We admit the current NCAA configuration for Division 1 is a messy nonsense; build a divisional structure that provides a competitive base for a divisional championship, and we add a single extra potential game to the tournament schedule.

Division 1 is made up of 7 power conferences of 2 divisions each I'd prefer 8, but I don't see the teams capable of supporting it. These teams and conferences would pretty much parallel the current structure between the following:. PAC 12 - The PAC 12 needs to beef up considerably and come up with either conferences or schedule that determines a true champion.

A single team wild card could be chosen as the best among the competitors by record and some formula for the tie breaker. The Sweet 16 if you will playoff level already exists, it's week 14 and 15 of the Regular season that is reserved for Conference Championships and classic matchups like Army - Navy. It would be better to put the Conference Championship games on the week 15 schedule, though since that is usually the 1 st weekend in December unless the weekend starts the month, then it would be the 2 nd.

The Conference Championship winners would all get a Bye week, and be seeded into an 8 team Bowl Sponsored Weekend and week before Christmas game schedule. This is the extra game for these 8 teams, only. It also provides 4 Major Bowl sponsors with prime viewership scheduling. Once the four winners of the round of 8 are determined, the current scheduling for the FBS Championship takes place.

The Regular Exhibition Bowls are not disturbed. Those games can proceed through the holidays as they always do. There would be a scramble for the sponsorship of the round of 8, and then the final two Bowls before the Championship Bowl, but those are easy to work out. I know there are going to be lots of complaints, and lots of people saying there is too much involved, the money, extra games, etc.

But the truth is that there is really only one extra game for the winning schools, and maybe some people will just have to choose where they'd like to be for the holidays. Most revenue comes from TV rights anyway. It's nice to have rumps in seats, but no school should be punished because its alumni and student body couldn't make the trip. Oh, and my opinion as to why this hasn't been done in Division 1?

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Search our Knowledge Base Search. When you look at the rest of the schedule, and then look at how the Vikings have been playing, you think o yourself 'yeah, they can do this'. So let's look at how they could possibly make it in, by breaking down the rest of the regular season schedule:. Chicago: We've laid out what the Vikings need to do to beat Chicago, and this is their best opportunity to escape the Windy City with a win since And let's face it, the Vikings have to beat the Bears to keep any chance at the post season alive.

A loss puts them at , and no realistic shot. Green Bay: The Vikings have been on the short end of the stick more often than not against Green Bay and Chicago in recent seasons, but I don't know if I was ever more dis-spirited than after the Thursday night debacle in Lambeau. In the wake of that disaster, the Vikings defense actually played a decent game, until the three and outs piled up by the offense just got to be too much.

This is going to be one of the two toughest remaining opponents the Vikings face, and a win here would be huge. Can they do it? With Teddy Bridgewater , at home, I think they can.

I can't emphasize how big two division wins would be for the Vikings here. Not only for playoff positioning, but as a 'stand up and take notice that we're here to stay for awhile' kind of statement. We all want to beat the Packers , but if the Vikings are going to start their climb to the top of the NFC North and stay there, they have to start beating them.

Starting that climb here would be fantastic. Carolina's o-line is a mess, their defense is bad, and it's a Southern team coming to a cold weather climate.

As bad as a beating Newton has taken, he might not even make it to the Vikings game in one piece. I have this game pegged as a Vikings win. The Jets are still terrible, and will still be terrible when they come to Minnesota.

I've got this one in the win column. Detroit: Hey, remember when I said the Vikings could afford to lose one more game? Of the remaining games left, this is the most probable loss, followed by the Packers game.