Date	Game	BCS Playoff Game		Location
Dec 13	Quarter Final #1			Rose Bowl
Dec 14	Quarter Final #2			Fiesta Bowl
Dec 15	Quarter Final #3			Orange Bowl
Dec 15	Quarter Final #4			Sugar Bowl
Jan 1	Semi-Final #1	?		Rose Bowl
Jan 2	Semi-Final #2	?		Orange Bowl
Jan 7	National Championship	?		Suagr Bowl

The reason why Pac-10, Big 12 and Big Ten are grouped together is to keep the location of the games close to fans. The same reason applies to why the Big East, ACC, and SEC are grouped together. The locations are up for debate, but keeping the current BCS bowl locations might entice the current BCS commissioners into a playoff system. After all, this is the group that decided to place the 5th BCS bowl game within the original four locations.

The semi-final dates and national championship dates were easy to decide on since they fit within the current structure. The quarter final dates were chosen to be two weeks after the Dec first conference championship date, and a week before the Christmas holidays. That would be one crazy college football weekend.

The 2006 Conference Champion Based Playoffs that never was:

Date	Game	BCS Playoff Game		Location
Dec 14	Quarter Final #1			Fiesta Bowl
Dec 15	Quarter Final #2			Orange Bowl
Dec 16	Quarter Final #3			Sugar Bowl
Dec 16	Quarter Final #4			Rose Bowl
Jan 1	Semi-Final #1	?		Rose Bowl
Jan 2	Semi-Final #2	?		Orange Bowl
Jan 8	National Championship	?		Fiesta Bowl

According to this St. Pete Times story, even big time UF donors can’t get tickets to the national championship game. “There are people who have been ticket holders for 30 to 35 years who didn’t get tickets,” said UF ticket manager Bill Holloway.

Now, isn’t “fans won’t travel to the games” one of the big arguments against a playoff system? I get the feeling that UF fans would travel to more than one playoff game. I’m also sure that most of the big time programs would gladly travel with their team. The smaller schools might have trouble filling seats, but what are the chances a smaller school will play a smaller school in a playoff game?

On Yahoo by Terry Bowden

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Terry sets up his own 1vs8 bracket. We still prefer ours, but his bracket is definitely better than the BCS system we have today.

Article by Gene Wojciechowski from ESPN.com

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This article is back from the debate of USC vs Michigan, but Gene makes some good points on how subjective the rankings are. My priceless quote from the article is:

“There are worse things that could happen, such as Florida somehow squirming its way into the title mix. And nobody outside the greater Gainesville area wants that, do they?”

By John Eisenberg from the Baltimore Sun

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John’s main argument is that the BCS picks 2 out of the top 4 teams, … and that’s good enough. Your obviously wrong John when 9 out of 10 fans want a BCS playoff system now.