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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 4048769, member: 527"]
Nope, a 4 team playoff that used the bowls wasn't the end of the bowls. A 12 team playoff will though as that will replace a lot of the bowls.  With a 12 team playoff, some/most of the playoff games will have to be played "on campus" and not be tied into bowl games as  you can't expect fans to travel to 3 sites or so and "follow their team."

And the corporate money that goes to fund these bowls will pull out and get more for their advertising dollar by buying add time during that Round 1 (example) Michigan-Pitt game than if they ran the Duke's May Bowl played at 11am on a Thursday.

There aren't enough 6-6 teams to play in all the bowls now. Remove 8 of those teams and insert them in a playoff that isn't tied to a bowl and bowl games will start dropping like fly's. Then, when the big money sponsors realize their bowl game is getting no attention at all (less than they currently do) and truly getting 2nd tier teams as the big boys are all in the playoff because the playoff dwarfs everything, they will just close shop.

Follow the money. These smaller bowl games are going to die overnight.
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