Ball State versus Buffalo and Boise State versus Fresno State are games with $10 million dollars on the line.  If the Cardinals win and the Broncos get hammered, there’s a payday for the MAC in the Doug Franz College Football Playoff.  Don’t worry WAC fans, Boise State would still make the playoff but the MAC would take the money out of the hands of the big, bad Big 12.

Every week I’ve been destroying any point made by the “Anti-Playoff” crowd in my “Doug Franz College Football Playoff” blog while giving my version of what a playoff would look like.

Let’s review the Doug v. “Anti-Playoff” argument by each week of the BCS.

Now that I’m 6-0 in beat downs against the opposition, let’s move to the playoff. I would be thrilled with almost any system of determining the outcome on the field. However, I like my playoff because I create conference rivalries.

Right now the MAC and the WAC are battling it out for the final automatic spot in the playoff. Only the top 8 conferences get an automatic bid. This keeps the rif-raf (Sun Belt) out while still rewarding winning a regular season championship. If the MAC passes the WAC, Ball State’s in as a 13 seed. They would take Missouri’s spot because Boise State would move from an automatic bid to an at-large and knock all the at-larges from Ohio State to Oklahoma State down a notch and push Mizzou off the table.

All first round teams get $10 million, plus the home team gets to keep the gate receipts. The second round is at the site of the higher seed but I have the playoff set up like a bracket. I do not re-seed the playoff. The reason is simple: OFFICE POOLS. Who wouldn’t be doing a Doug Franz College Football Office Pool Bracket. The bracket drives the popularity.

Here’s the steps I take to make it work.

1.    Rank all 120 D-1 teams using the BCS formula (Alabama-Western Kentucky)
2.    Rank the conferences 1-11 based on the average of all teams in the conference
3.    Learn all the tie-breakers of each conference and award a winner of each of the top 8 conferences in the “if the playoffs started today” category
4.    Use the BCS formula and take the top 8 teams that weren’t already picked as the conference champion
5.    Rank the 16 playoff teams (8 conference champions and 8 at-large) using the BCS formula
6.    Set-up bracket to award home field to the higher seed

The conference rankings didn’t change although the WAC is getting stronger (…and Leon is getting larger).

35.83

36

41.75

46.25

47.91

56.78

60.6

73

80.54

Ball State is still on the outside looking in.  They’re going to get a big jump with they’re win Tuesday night.  If they win the MAC championship, the computers might put them over Mizzou - assuming Mizzou loses in the Big 12 championship game.  It’s either that or root for Fresno State to crush Boise State and hope that brings down the rankings of the WAC.

The match-ups in this week’s DFCFP are great.  Ga Tech with the short trip to Tuscaloosa is solid.  The big games are in Lubbock and Salt Lake.  Ohio State and James Laurinaitis try to prove themselves worthy against Texas Tech’s offensive attack while Georgia makes another trek to the Mountain Time Zone against Utah.

Here’s the match-ups after week 6 of the BCS standings in the DFCFP.

16) Ga. Tech        @           1) Alabama
15) Oregon St.     @          2) Texas       
14) Cincinnati      @           3) Oklahoma
13) Missouri         @           4) Florida     
12) OKla. St          @           5) USC            
11) Georgia           @            6) Utah          
10) Ohio State       @          7) Texas Tech 
9) Boise St.              @          8 ) Penn St.