Playoff

[cowpoke pride]

I think the number of schools declining a bowl invite will continue to grow each year.

 

[Wyolie Coyote]

I think the number of schools declining a bowl invite will continue to grow each year.

It doesn't make much sense anymore to go to a bowl. You have coaching staffs in flux, players entering the portal, and players refusing to play to avoid injury before the draft. Pretty senseless, the fans are the only ones that seem to care about going to a bowl game.

 

[doreno5]

It doesn't make much sense anymore to go to a bowl. You have coaching staffs in flux, players entering the portal, and players refusing to play to avoid injury before the draft. Pretty senseless, the fans are the only ones that seem to care about going to a bowl game.

The fans are ones who basically finance the program and are the main reason the bowls existed. I tend to agree that they will fade away over time as the restructuring of college football into 2 or 3 super conferences and some tiers below them.

 

[Cowboy20]

I saw a YouTube video/podcast in which Chuck Todd had an interesting idea: move the Bowl Games to the first game of the season, so the intersectional matchups had meaning. I could get behind that.

That doesn’t even make sense. A year after the fact? Teams are completely different rosters. Matchups would be hard to promote or predict.

 

[Cowboy20]

I think it is inevitable, but I worry about the finances. My sneaking suspicion is that we (everyone left out) regress much closer to fcs-level revenue. After much study on the audience thing, I think the non-market fans are most critical. Who will non-market fans tune into? It isn't as much the local tv market as it is national appeal. Currently, g6 is vying for a playoff spot which creates national appeal. Once that is gone, I don't think any of us rejects will command much of an advertising appeal. Nobody is going to give a shit about bsu if they aren't trying to be "bcs buster" of old and whipping a big dog on a big stage.

I think when the split does happen, it's going to be a lot worse for the rejects than we are anticipating.

That is definitely the worry and the reason the pacstabbers broke away. Their hopes are to be invited to the big boy table and having the infamous label of PAC12 is the ONLY thing they can hang their hat on. What they are slowly realizing is that the entire college football woo has already relegated them to G6 level. They don’t care what the “brand” was. If college football is going to keep its luster, it needs the G6. Even if they don’t want to admit it. A semipro league won’t work and they know it- see NBA G league, minor league baseball, and past attempts at a league during the NFL offseason.