SIAP: The Harbaugh Playoff Plan

The single best thing about this article is how Chris Ash appears at the very beginning of the second graphic looking very sad, and with the word FIRED next to his name.

Harbaugh:  Check out my model, we just need to get rid of these conference championship games, hell we don't play in them anyway.

The only way Harbaugh gets into the Playoff is if we expand it.  I don't think that actually bodes well for Michigan though.

I love that Harbaugh and Leach are two of the four who said they don't trust the selection committee. Taggart too; I'd hire him just based on that.

1. Conferences shouldn’t have divisions.  We all know they’re not capable of making them even.

2. Anything more than 8 teams is too much.

3. There should be uniform schedule requirements mandated by the NCAA.  Interesting how the SEC doesn’t want this.

I think the only fix to this problem is a dramatic shifting of conferences. Four power conferences. 16 teams each. 12 game regular season, and only two out-of-conference games at the front of the schedule. That's a ten game conference schedule. You would have eight teams in the playoffs, because the conference championship would be the default first game of the playoff. The second round is all the conference champions.

Furthermore, I would institute a relegation system. Match up a conference to a lower tier conference. The champion of the MAC would move up to the B1G, and the worst team in the B1G would move down to the MAC (goodbye Rutgers, hello perhaps Ball State or Miami (NTM)).

I think the biggest problem is that there are just too many teams in D-I. Cut it down to four conferences of 16, and the playoff picture becomes a lot easier.

I like Harbaugh's proposed playoff system, but I have 2 questions:

1) Can a non-Power 5 team ever be the number 1 seed? The way Heather Dinich phrases it, it reads like they could only ever be ranked as high as #2.

2) It looks like the top 5 teams all get first-round byes, not just seeds 1 and 2. Am I missing something?

Harbaugh's plan is overly complicated.

Here is how it should be

Use the old BCS system, and rank the teams 1 through 25

Pool of teams

• 5 P5 champs get an auto bid
• highest ranked G5 gets an auto bid (ND is not G5)
• top 6 at larges (including ND)

Top 4 P5 champs get a bye and a reseeded as 1 through 4

Then fill in seeds 5 through 12 by the BCS rank of the remaining teams.

For the many people that are convinced JMFH will bolt for the NFL, it's an awful lot of thought to put in to something intended to fix a problem with college football. 

Harbaugh Plan = Frikin genius!

You just simply cannot convince me Harbaugh didn't come up with his plan immediately after viewing that scene from "This is Spinal Tap."

If Harbaugh was the men’s bowling coach, yes playoffs seem reachable.