You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.
I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.
This. The players don't give a shit about the bowls any more. College football as we knew it is dead. Expand the playoffs to 6 or 8 and just get rid of the bowls. Power five champs qualify with the rest at large.
You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.
I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.
This. The players don't give a shit about the bowls any more. College football as we knew it is dead. Expand the playoffs to 6 or 8 and just get rid of the bowls. Power five champs qualify with the rest at large.
95% of bowl games never meant anything, even pre-playoff.
You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.
I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.
Look if we’re gonna go this route, then we need to take the 32 best programs in college and create a super division with like say 4 conferences of 8 teams. 7 conference games every year + 4 out of conference games against good teams ever year (2 home and 2 road). Make a neutral scheduling committee if need be. If we are going to go NFL with college football then I only want to watch good teams. I want Bama or Clempson to have to come to Seattle for a regular season game that counts in the win/loss standings.
I'd also like to see about half the bowls disappear. They're stupid. I'd like to get back to a time when you could say, "hey, fuck you. we played 8 bowl teams last year" and have that mean something of an indication that you played good teams.
Forgot the one-tie Cotton in the above list.
Limit bowls to Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Holiday, Sun, and maybe one more. I know it's new and that Miami just "played" in it (if that's what you can call it), but the Pinstripe (stupid name) bowl is interesting in that it involves the Big Apple in bowl season. Cool place to go, and they actually make Yankee stadium work well for the game.
But all these other shit bowls should just go away.
I'd also like to see about half the bowls disappear. They're stupid. I'd like to get back to a time when you could say, "hey, fuck you. we played 8 bowl teams last year" and have that mean something of an indication that you played good teams.
Forgot the one-tie Cotton in the above list.
Limit bowls to Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach, Holiday, Sun, and maybe one more. I know it's new and that Miami just "played" in it (if that's what you can call it), but the Pinstripe (stupid name) bowl is interesting in that it involves the Big Apple in bowl season. Cool place to go, and they actually make Yankee stadium work well for the game.
But all these other shit bowls should just go away.
I think I mentioned this in another thread but I DGAF about how the playoffs are structured right now because of how poorly regular seasons are being handled. With the SEC and ACC playing fewer in conference games than the Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten, the BAMAs, Georgias, and Clemsons of the world are always going to be stacking the deck in their favor regardless of if we keep the existing 4 game playoff, go to a 8 team playoff, or return to the traditional bowl system.
Of course no one in a position to change this will do anything about it because they’re getting richly paid (hi Larry!), and seem happy with getting the chance to *maybe* beat Saban every few years.
Enlist one of comedy’s great ‘coaches’ or ‘fans’ to star in a digital series that addresses the challenges of selecting teams to play in a college football playoff
How dare you... HOW DARE YOU! I love that one of my 6 home games at Husky Stadium celebrates local colleges to the likes of Portland State and Eastern Washington.
You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.
I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.
This. The players don't give a shit about the bowls any more. College football as we knew it is dead. Expand the playoffs to 6 or 8 and just get rid of the bowls. Power five champs qualify with the rest at large.
95% of bowl games never meant anything, even pre-playoff.
They never meant anything but the teams in the bigger games were always trying to win. But I understand for some of us football was invented in 1994 and bowls were already starting to get watered down at that point.
Bowl games outside the playoff are dead. If the non power 5 teams still want to do them fine but it's trending more toward an exhibition game that shouldn't count on the record.
Enlist one of comedy’s great ‘coaches’ or ‘fans’ to star in a digital series that addresses the challenges of selecting teams to play in a college football playoff
You guys who compare wanting a playoff to waiting to turn this into the NFL are hilarious. Literally every other team sport has some sort of a playoff to determine a true champion. All of them. Including every other division of college football. You don't have to love the nFL to want a playoff, you just have to love sports.
I get that you guys are college football purists and that's cute and all but the past is for doogs and you're all living in it.
Look if we’re gonna go this route, then we need to take the 32 best programs in college and create a super division with like say 4 conferences of 8 teams. 7 conference games every year + 4 out of conference games against good teams ever year (2 home and 2 road). Make a neutral scheduling committee if need be. If we are going to go NFL with college football then I only want to watch good teams. I want Bama or Clempson to have to come to Seattle for a regular season game that counts in the win/loss standings.
Well yes everything you just said needs to happen. I'm even fine with the 64 team (four 16 team conference with two divisions each) idea where you play 7 from your division, 2 from the other division and 3 non conference per year. But yes the way non conference scheduling is done is a huge issue in college football, as is the fact different conferences don't play the same amount of conference games.
The playing field needs to be leveled for sure.
Honestly everything you said would be an improvement with or without going to an 8 team playoff. Even the plus one model would be improved in this scenario.
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Of course no one in a position to change this will do anything about it because they’re getting richly paid (hi Larry!), and seem happy with getting the chance to *maybe* beat Saban every few years.
Enlist one of comedy’s great ‘coaches’ or ‘fans’ to star in a digital series that addresses the challenges of selecting teams to play in a college football playoff
Bowl games outside the playoff are dead. If the non power 5 teams still want to do them fine but it's trending more toward an exhibition game that shouldn't count on the record.
Right now the money and talentvall reside in the hands of the SEC
The $$$ part is undeniable
The talent is more debatable ... but a huge issue in the P12 right now is losing elite players outside of our geographical footprint
The playing field needs to be leveled for sure.
Honestly everything you said would be an improvement with or without going to an 8 team playoff. Even the plus one model would be improved in this scenario.