Playoffs are here, sad day indeed

**pied** · 06-27-2012, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Austin109

I would fully support a 16 team playoff like pied described. Rotate conference foe each year. Easy.

Take the top 5 unselected teams from the polls. Keeps every conference game important and still lets polls have a noticeable effect.

Excellent idea pied

Nice....

Really why not just divide all the teams into two leagues and then smaller divsions within those leagues. Then the winner of each division makes the playoffs, and if the numbers work we can add a couple/few wildcards.

Ditch the Bowl system and play home and home until the final game.

Easy as pie and I guarantee that it would affect the regular season and would be better than what we have now. Who's with me?

**DrEdward** · 06-28-2012, 08:25 AM

It would appear that under the new plan, the national semifinal games will be rotated among six existing bowls. It is unclear which two bowls will be added to the current BCS lineup of the Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowl. My guess would be the Cotton Bowl at Jerry World and the former Peach Bowl, currently the Chick-Fil-A Bowlin Atlanta. The semifinals will be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the championship game played about a week later, on a Monday.

**pied** · 06-28-2012, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by DrEdward

It would appear that under the new plan, the national semifinal games will be rotated among six existing bowls. It is unclear which two bowls will be added to the current BCS lineup of the Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowl. My guess would be the Cotton Bowl at Jerry World and the former Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The semifinals will be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the championship game played about a week later, on a Monday.

Heard that as well. Brings up some of the travel questions I've had regarding the schools' fans. Today, your team might play in the Conference Championship game, the first weekend of December. If they make a the Championship game or Bowl game, you have about 3-4 weeks notice to make travel arrangements.

Going forward, you will have the same, but then perhaps another trip the following week. I think that makes it very difficult for most/many fans to attend the game.

**DrEdward** · 06-28-2012, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by pied

Heard that as well. Brings up some of the travel questions I've had regarding the schools' fans. Today, your team might play in the Conference Championship game, the first weekend of December. If they make a the Championship game or Bowl game, you have about 3-4 weeks notice to make travel arrangements.

Going forward, you will have the same, but then perhaps another trip the following week. I think that makes it very difficult for most/many fans to attend the game.

Sure will make for an expensive December/January if one were to attempt to attend them all as a fan of your team.

**pied** · 11-21-2012, 02:13 PM

Update - Still not good news for us purists, but good for the $$.

ESPN Strikes Deal for College Football Playoff

The group that will administer the coming major-college football playoff agreed in principle for ESPN to broadcast the playoff games and "selected other games" for 12 years, it was announced Wednesday by the group formerly known as the Bowl Championship Series. The four-team playoff and the broadcast deal will begin after the 2014 season.

A person familiar with the negotiations said it is worth about $470 million annually or $5.64 billion for the duration of the contract.

Combined with previous deals to broadcast the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls, Wednesday's agreement could give ESPN the rights to all the games involved in the new postseason arrangement, according to a news release. That system will include six bowl games, three of which have yet to be determined, through which the two semifinal games will rotate. ESPN also will broadcast the three yet-unnamed bowls when they are not semifinal sites, according to the release.

The championship game will be held at a separate site that will be bid out like the Super Bowl and will be played at least a week after the semifinals. ESPN also will own the rights to "branded content throughout each season, including the official team-selection announcement," according to a news release.

"Because of college football's widespread popularity and the incredible passion of its fans, few events are more meaningful than these games," ESPN President John Skipper said. "We are ecstatic at the opportunity to continue to crown a college football champion on ESPN's outlets for years to come, the perfect finale to our year-round commitment to the sport."

The current BCS postseason is broadcast on ESPN and consists of a championship game and four other bowls: the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange. The BCS name—sullied at times by controversies as teams were left out of the No. 1 vs. No. 2 title game—will disappear when the playoff begins. A new name for the postseason system has not been chosen.

Unlike virtually every other major college sport, the Football Bowl Subdivision postseason is run by its member conferences and independent member universities, not the NCAA. The agreement with ESPN is subject to "definitive documentation and all necessary approvals," the release said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...970790516.html

**pied** · 11-21-2012, 02:17 PM

So, just to talk money. $470M anually to four teams ~ $117M/year.

A 14 team(SEC/B1G) conference would add ~$8M per school in the conference.

So what, isn't that great? Yeah, but what I see is a power struggle to what access that is for the Bowl games. HArd for me to see any conference allowing 2 teams in, in any given year.

Four 16 team conferences, would appear to satisfy that. Weird that the B1G would add Maryland and Rutgers, kinda out of the blue. Real powerhouse tradition oriented schools right there.

**Austin109** · 11-21-2012, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by pied

So, just to talk money. $470M anually to four teams ~ $117M/year.

A 14 team(SEC/B1G) conference would add ~$8M per school in the conference.

So what, isn't that great? Yeah, but what I see is a power struggle to what access that is for the Bowl games. HArd for me to see any conference allowing 2 teams in, in any given year.

Four 16 team conferences, would appear to satisfy that. Weird that the B1G would add Maryland and Rutgers, kinda out of the blue. Real powerhouse tradition oriented schools right there.

Just think of the haul Notre Dame would get if they cracked it.