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Message: [QUOTE="Timonen, post: 869620, member: 81"] unfortunately, you lose the regionalization in this scenario which will make it trickier for sponsors and attendance. If I'm running a game in Florida, I want an ACC/SEC team there. Under your scenario, it could be Pac-10 vs. Mountain West in the Russell Bowl. That's actually an underrated potential hiccup on the tourney next year. You're asking die-hard fans to travel three times in a month (conf championship, semis, finals)...and to plan that finals trip as a contingency. A single bowl game trip can be planned in advance, but this is a riskier proposition. And it's not analogous to basketball where tickets are split four ways and the 16/8 week are often smaller venues. Asking a team to fill 50K tickets three times in a month sounds really dicey...at least long term after some novelty next year. [/QUOTE]