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Could everybody pushing an 8-team playoff please spontaneously combust?

1. Move the extra point try to the 10-yard line, and require it be a drop kick. Award two-points for a successful drop kick. Allow 3-points if a team can run or pass it into the end zone.

2. Eliminate Maryland and Rutgers from the Big Ten. They haven't added much. I would only do this if #3 were adopted, as well.

3. Roll back to 11-game schedules. Twelve games are too hard on the body.

4. Enforce the "false start" rule. Once the offense is set, I don't want to see linemen stand up and look at the sideline. It's not allowed by the rules. Recently I saw this draw a defensive offside when, after the linemen were set, they all stood up and looked at the sideline. That's a "false start." Enforce the rule.

You want to see why ties are awesome.?  #5 Tenn at #3 AU 1990, I think this is late Sept., as I remember USC beat Ohio State this day and Nebraska beat Ore St.  Ron Franklin and Gary Danielson on the call.

I was little bit off, it was 26-10 Tennessee in the 4th and AU has a nice rally and scores a TD with about 1:56 left scoring on a tough 4th and 10 pass by Stan White and kicks the PAT for the tie.
Tenn drives into a FG range, and at 2:32.10 you can watch it unfold.  Notice a Volunteer player fires a water cup off the helmet off of his kicker's helmet after he saunters off the field after missing the kick.   Auburn is delirious of course.

one other footnote:  is it me, or was a lot louder at college football games years ago?  I've thought this for awhile,  the video boards, the piped in music and of course smartphones has interfered as much as anything, but this game is loud, all the freaking time.


https://youtu.be/6kV9-2n7PAU

UT at AU 1990

If they have to keep commercial breaks, I would prefer they be more evenly distributed throughout the quarter.

Instead of after every possession change, have the breaks 11:00, 7:00, and 3:00 munutes

Just stop trying to turn it into two hand touch/flag football. 

As for ties, it simply is not practical to have overtime only for the playoffs.  Something needs to be in place in the regular season that establishes how overtime works. 

Now maybe in the regular season you can just end the game in a tie after 2 overtimes.  But I don't like ties.  There always needs to be some kind of tie-breaker to say who wins.  Whether its division or conference champions or regular games, there has to be something that breaks the tie.  

Conference point differential, with a cap at 25 points for each game (3+ possessions).  To break a conference or division tie, include only conference or divisional games.  For a national playoff, use point diff for the whole season.  It doesn't eliminate strategy - both teams know before the game starts who can afford a tie (win with a tie) and who has to go for the win.