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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4910345, member: 27"]
While on this topic, can we discuss how the expanded playoffs will impact bowl games?

When we went to the four game playoff, existing bowl games were given the host rights to all 4 games.

My understanding is that with the 12 game format, the top 4 seeds will given byes, and seeds 5 through 12 will play each other with seeds 5-8 being the home team and the games played at their home stadia.  So I would think these games will have no impact on bowl games other than there will be 8 less schools available for bowls to choose from.

Then the 1-4 seeds play the 4 winners of the 5-12 games.  I believe these games will be neutral site games played in normal warm weather bowl locations so they probably will also be bowl games.

After that, we have a 4 team playoff and presumably the same type of bowl participation and rotation we have been using.

So bottom line is, 4 more bowl games become part of the playoffs and there will be 4 less bowl worthy teams available for bowls to choose from.  With the dreck available today for the lowest bowls to choose from, maybe the 4 weakest bowls are discontinued?
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