Ratings collapse
Comments
-
The format is going to 16 teams. The first 2 rounds will likely be home games for higher seeds. It's possible they'll keep the bowl tie-ins for the quarterfinals, but it's asinine and would only be to appease sponsors.
The biggest problem with bowl tie-ins is the way they throw off the timing. The quarterfinals shouldn't be played on New Years. They need to be 1-2 weeks earlier so that there's no more than 7-10 days between CCGs (preferably get rid of them altogether) and each round of the playoff.
It may take one more cycle of revision (after the 2026 revision) to clean up the scheduling nightmare caused by bowl tie-ins, but it will eventually happen.
-
wild idea that I saw floating around; reduce non-con schedule by 1 game and get rid of fcs games. Would move everything up one week. Then, to help keep those fcs teams afloat who rely on those payday games, allow the spring game to be a full 60 minute game, fbs v fcs.
-
2.2 serpent
-
Sports, and especially college football, is challenging the fatigue reservoirs of fans so hard imo. I think an underrated element of stuff too is every year that goes by is another year of things that have happened in sports which can make them less special. It's crazy to think now to me that when I was a kid the first Super Bowls I was invested in watching were only in the 20s of them ever happening. Everything feels a little less essential or special possibly as more of them happen.
-
I know you're being sarcastic but NFL teams get a quarter of their entire revenue from butts in seats and college is probably closer to half
-
I actually like this idea and think it would be a big score, especially at first. I'm way more inclined to go to or at least watch a game against an FCS school in spring when I'm super football starved. I assume you'll also draw in casual viewers who are desperate for football. You can probably create some games like the Colorado South Dakota State one this year.
Problem is a lot of players won't play in bowl games, why are they going to play in exhibition games against FCS schools?
-
How completely Dominant is the 800k lb gorilla in the room NFL tv viewership that every other Pro and College Sports (inc Colllege) figures out every avenue to not put their games up against them.
College Football semifinal games which ESPN paid 1.4 billion a year for played them on Thursday and the most dead tv viewing day of the week Friday as opposed to Saturday to avoid NFL Wildcard Weekend,
College Football will move up regular season so everyone starts on week zero (last weekend in August) so that they can play the semifinals New Years Day and final week after.
-
I had literally forgotten there was still a college game to be played. The current playoff schedule is retarded.
Check that. The playoffs are retarded.
-
The final game being this late in January is weird. Need to capitalize on the time around the holidays. One of the great things about bowl season was it was around the holidays when work slows down/shuts down, you're sitting around with family and getting fat, and watching football. Feels more like a corporate chore in late-January.
