Proposed NCAA College Football Playoff System details

NCAA Division I College Football Playoff System details

1.  Each conference will send its champion automatically to the NCAA football playoffs.   Conferences that have championship games will send the winner of the championship game, while conferences that do not will send their regular season champion (with all traditional tie-breakers included).  This automatically includes 11 teams, one each from the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Conference USA , MAC, Mountain West, Pac 10, SEC, Sun Belt, and the WAC conferences.

2.  The five remaining slots will be awarded based on highest BCS ranking after the 11 automatic bids are awarded.

3.  Once the 16 team field is identified, they are seeded according to BCS standings, with teams not ranked in BCS poll seeded by committee selection. No conference matchups can occur in the first round of the playoffs, and any lower seeded team that would be involved in a conference playoff matchup will switch places with the team seeded directly below them.

4.  Higher seeded team will host each of the first two rounds of the playoffs, with 1st round games being played December 14 & 15, 2007 and second round games being played December 21 & 22, 2007.

5.  Semifinal games will be played at the site of two of the BCS Bowl locations (awarded on a rotating basis) on January 5.  This year's semi-finals would take place at the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl, in Pasadena, California and Miami, Florida, respectively.

6. National Championship game will be played at a BCS Bowl location (awarded on a rotating basis) on January 12, 2007. This year's event would take place in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.

7.  Teams losing their first round playoff game are eligible to play in a bowl game to be played December 31 or later, with non semifinal or final hosting BCS bowl getting first two choices of teams.

8.  All other bowl games will be played as usual. 

Playoff Teams: (as of November 27, 2007)

ACC Champion – Virginia Tech (or Boston College)
Big 12 Champion – Missouri (or Oklahoma)
Big 10 Champion – Ohio State
Big East Champion – West Virginia
Conference USA Champion – Central Florida (or Tulsa )
MAC Champion – Central Michigan (or Miami )
Mountain West Champion – BYU
PAC 10 Champion – USC (or Arizona State or UCLA)
SEC Champion – LSU (or Tennessee )
Sun Belt Champion – Troy (or Florida Atlantic )
WAC Champion – Hawaii

At Large Team #1 – Georgia
At Large Team #2 – Kansas
At Large Team #3 – Oklahoma
At Large Team #4 – Florida
At Large Team #5 – Boston College

Teams on the bubble (still possible to get in based on outcomes of upcoming games)
Arizona State
Illinois
Clemson