Bowls in this era

[JarHeadJim]

Serious question. Tulane and James Madison are in the playoffs. Last year, Boise State was in.

Indiana is dominating the B1G right now. They have a lot more money than people think, they are just deciding to invest in football for the first time. Texas Tech has a lot of money and is #4, despite being B12. BYU has a ton of money--see hoops NIL. Seems like $$$$$ is the deciding factor for competing.

But we have also yet to see Indiana or Texas Tech win it all. They are top 4 seeds, so we will see.

Setting aside fan-colored glasses, which group is more likely to have a team make the playoff next year:

A. West Virginia, Syracuse, Boston College, Wake Forest, NC State, Cal, Stanford, Cincinnati, Houston, UCF

B. Tulane, Memphis, Boise State, UNLV, San Diego State, USF, James Madison, Army, Navy, or North Texas.

In all seriousness. Group B has to beat out the rest of Group B (and worse teams). Group A has to beat out Group A (plus all the blue bloods, wannabe blue bloods, and teams getting $$$ just for being in the SEC/B1G).

And then ask yourself the question... how likely is it that a team from either Group A or Group B wins 1 playoff game? Is there that much of a difference? How about makes it all the way to win a championship?

Isn't it kind of weird that Tulane has an easier path to a playoff than Syracuse?

RutgerAl said they will be in the playoffs next season with their Lord and Savior Greg Schiano as coach!

 

[SUMBA]

There is one way for the traditional, non-playoff bowls to survive. Expand the field to 24-32, or whatever makes sense mathematically. Then, make the current non-playoff bowls play in games.

 

[Cusefan78]

There is one way for the traditional, non-playoff bowls to survive. Expand the field to 24-32, or whatever makes sense mathematically. Then, make the current non-playoff bowls play in games.

Remove the conference championship. Do Top 20 and break them down by geography. North, south, east, west. start the first round the week of the conference championships.

 

[SUMBA]

Remove the conference championship. Do Top 20 and break them down by geography. North, south, east, west. start the first round the week of the conference championships.

The conference championship games still mean something to many schools and fans. More importantly, some of them make a lot of money for the conferences.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Just take it to 24 or 32 team playoff and kill the bowl system. It’s a relic.

And if we are lucky we can be playing in April!

 

[Cusefan78]

The conference championship games still mean something to many schools and fans. More importantly, some of them make a lot of money for the conferences.

Well how much more would the add playoff games bring in. The championship game screwed byu and if bama was any other school would have claimed them ass well. They will move away from them

 

[FrancoPizza]

There is one way for the traditional, non-playoff bowls to survive. Expand the field to 24-32, or whatever makes sense mathematically. Then, make the current non-playoff bowls play in games.

At this rate, we'll have 31 games in a season like basketball.

If you want to expand the playoffs, fine, but then you have to go back to 11-game regular seasons and eliminate the conference title games.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

At this rate, we'll have 31 games in a season like basketball.

If you want to expand the playoffs, fine, but then you have to go back to 11-game regular seasons and eliminate the conference title games.

Go to 11 games. 9 in conference plus a conference championship game for conferences that have an auto-bid. Fill out the 24 teams with conference champs + remaining cfp ranked teams.

8 first round byes. 16 teams without byes would have to win 5 games for a national championship. If you start the first round in early December you’d be finished by mid January. In reality, you’d end up with two teams that would play 16 games (17 max). Most teams would still play 11 or 12 games.

This stuff isn’t that difficult to figure out. But the powers that be don’t want to give up the old structure which they control.

 

[TexanMark]

I'm going to the Cure Bowl in Orlando next week...got some tix of www.vettix.org if I get picked in the lottery which I should get picked.

I have some leftover Coneys and beer to consume

 

[Archbold44]

Go to 11 games. 9 in conference plus a conference championship game for conferences that have an auto-bid. Fill out the 24 teams with conference champs + remaining cfp ranked teams.

8 first round byes. 16 teams without byes would have to win 5 games for a national championship. If you start the first round in early December you’d be finished by mid January. In reality, you’d end up with two teams that would play 16 games (17 max). Most teams would still play 11 or 12 games.

This stuff isn’t that difficult to figure out. But the powers that be don’t want to give up the old structure which they control.

80 teams. SEC (16), B1G (18), B12 (16), ACC (17), ND, Pac 8, and Tulane, UConn, USF, and Memphis.

Just happens to work out to 4 20-team conferences.

 

[longtimefan]

80 teams. SEC (16), B1G (18), B12 (16), ACC (17), ND, Pac 8, and Tulane, UConn, USF, and Memphis.

Just happens to work out to 4 20-team conferences.

I prefer 8 X 10.

 

[MGDCuse]

Divide the country into geographic areas and take the top four non-CFP teams from each and crown regional champions. Reinvigorate some old rivalries that conference realignment has broken up. Bust out some old trophies that don't get passed around anymore (i.e. The Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy!). Play the first round on campus and host the championship in a historic bowl location within the region. Take G5 conference champs and try to minimize inter-conference matchups. This year:

MID-ATLANTIC:
Virginia vs. Navy
Penn State vs. UConn

SOUTHEAST
Vanderbilt vs. Old Dominion
Duke vs. Kennesaw State

MIDWEST
Michigan vs. Western Michigan
Notre Dame vs. Iowa State

SOUTH
Texas vs. North Texas
SMU vs. Houston

WEST
BYU vs. Boise State
USC vs. Utah

The NIT of college football