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What if the NCAA had created an eight-team playoff, and there were no BCS?(College Football)
In spring 1992, the Bowl Coalition formed to slot champions of the Southeastern, Southwest and Big Eight conferences into the Orange, Sugar, Cotton and Fiesta Bowls. The system evolved into the Bowl Championship Series, which includes the SEC, ACC, Pac-10, Big East, Big 12 and Big Ten--and the Rose Bowl, instead of the Cotton Bowl. Its ultimate goal is to match the nation's top two teams in a national title game. What if the NCAA had done the unthinkable and instituted an eight-team national playoff, and there were no BCS?
What if ...
Players wore paid?
Five years after the NCAA agrees to pay athletes, a slick Los Angeles attorney forms a players union. Demands include annual cost-of-living raises, better benefits and a percentage of apparel sales.
Players couldn't enter the draft until after their senior seasons?
Academic fraud isn't nearly the problem it is today. Players arrive at college knowing they're locked in for four or five years and must stay eligible. Few players drop out of college and show up in the NFL years later.
SMU never had gotten the death penalty?