Five questions: Terry Bowden
Q: You’ve obviously coached at Division I-A at Auburn, but also at other levels. Could a playoff system work in I-A?
A: I think playoffs would be great for Division I-A football. It’s been great for everyone else. I think you should have them. There’s no reason we cannot have bowls included and use those in the process of having playoffs. There’s no question Division I-A football should be played in a playoff. That’s the only way to have a national champion.
Q: How would you organize it?
A: You always hear four (teams), but I’m a big proponent that you start at eight. You start at eight, take seven top bowls, you go to the Saturday and Sunday closest to Christmas and you play two games on Saturday, two games on Sunday. So you have the top eight games playing four games in four top bowls, then the four winners play two games on Jan. 1 and the national championship is played on the eighth.
It would be the top seven bowls and, just like the BCS they have now, you would take those bowls or whichever bowls bid for those games. Every year they could rotate those things around. The other dates, the other bowls exist just like the NIT does.
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