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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3754835" data-attributes="member: 360">I'd like to think so, but probably not. I'd guess there are two possible routes to a I-A playoff.The most likely is a slow slide to a true playoff from the BCS system. This would mean implementing a "plus-one" game in the only rational fashion (a 4-team mini-playoff) in the next round of BCS agreements. Then 5 or ten years later, after seeing that a 4-team playoff isn't the end of the world, and still leaves deserving title contenders out, expanding to 8 teams, and then all the way out to the sixteen that's the minimum I-A really needs.*The other possiblity is that some organization decides to set up a playoff with the champions of the five 'mid-major' conferences and the best other teams that they can get (if set up right, they could probably get the runner-ups from the Big East and Pac 10 -- as those conferences have bad bowl deals, and the #3 teams from the other BCS conferences), and that eventually public pressure would force big-name schools into the playoffs rather than the bowls.* There are 120 teams in I-A; if 10% of the teams aren't playoff worthy, there's somthing wrong. Nearly 20% of division I makes the basketball playoffs (65 of 339 teams). MLB's 8 of 30 teams (a little over 25%) is the lowest percentage of playoff teams in American pro sports.</blockquote>