sarcasMike College Football Playoff 2013

I've done this a few times in the past so it seems like a good time to break it out again.

My playoff preference would be:

All conference champs
Use the BCS and the CFRC to select the at-large teams
Avoid conference match-ups in the first round
Home games until at least the semi finals
At-large teams play on the road when facing a conference champ
Some sort of bias for independents if they are ranked highly enough

Our 10 conference champs (with CFRC rank) are (after the jump)

New 68 team NCAA Men's Tournament

I like the restraint the NCAA showed in limiting the expansion to 68 teams instead of 96 originally thrown around. What I don't like is putting teams that earned their way to the tournament by WINNING their conference treated like they red-headed step children in their own little mini bracket in Dayton on Tuesday.

Way not have the last 8 at large teams compete in the play-in games instead of 8 conference champs? Wouldn't there be more interest in the games if they were Virginia Tech vs. Cal instead of Arkansas Pine-Bluff vs. Winthrop? Instead of getting teams people would be interested in seeing play - more TV money and better attendance in Dayton, we settle for keeping the little guy down.

SE Michigan sports radio bracket

Here's my latest bracket smackdown creation. SE Michigan sports talk radio hosts.

http://www.bracketsmackdown.com/#/1384/

I had about 40 names to cut down to the 32 to begin with. I'm not sure I spent enough time with the seeding. I tried to go with who I thought was more "popular" area wide. Obviously the seeding then was very subjective. Stoney was the overall #1 seed, then just a sine wave throughout the 4 "regions" so essentially Ben Holden is the 32 seed.

Bracket Smackdown

With the summer months making topics dwindle - I think it might be time to branch out into Stoney and Wojo's realm - a bracket. There's a book out, The Final Four of Everything, that apparently has all sorts of bracketed lists of the bests of everything. They allow the common folk to create their own brackets for whatever they want on this website http://www.bracketsmackdown.com/#/HOME/

Maybe we can start with mainish characters who have died on Lost..

Trying to brainstorm the bracket:
Mr Ecko, Faraday, Charlotte, Locke, Boone, Boone's sister, Charlie, that couple with the poisonous spider, other who took pregnant Claire

I've become really bad with names -