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Bowl Games (other than ours) and associated silliness 2024 Plus the Playoffs
- Thread starter MtnBuff
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If they had something to play for, they would have dominated in the CFP for sure.Michigan winsSTFU SEC whiners/aplogists.
SEC really struggling to make the best of favorable matchups this season. A ranked 9-3 Mizzou pulling out a win against an 8-4 Iowa is a highlight. Arkansas had a worse record than TT, so I'll give the SEC credit where it's due, I guess.
So if Bama made the playoffs you think they would have rolled? What on earth would make anybody think that?
Of course not. Only an SEC! SEC! fan would think that.
For the bowls, and more importantly the cities that are hosting the bowls ticket sales are almost irrelevant.
What they care about is visitor count.
It wouldn't be that hard to put Georgia in Atlanta, ASU in Phoenix, etc. and they would probably sell out at a premium. That though wouldn't serve the real purposes of those host cities because most of those fans would drive to the game, watch the game, then drive home.
Instead of having 70,000 people in the stands they would rather have 20,000 people staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, shopping, and in general spending money.
Even a city like El Paso with the Sun Bowl. If they can get 15-20 thousand fans combined from the two schools flying in for the game it is a huge injection of cash into the economy.
The thing that makes it all viable though is TV paying enough for the game to pay the teams and the general operating cost of the game.
The real risk now is that with all the attention on the playoff, with the playoff rendering the games meaningless and star players opting out, will enough fans turn on their TV for the advertisers to be willing to pay for the games.
For a game like this Alabama-Michigan bowl I think it will still continue, footballs fans even if not focused on them will turn it on.
What is hard to see continuing are the games like the Arizona Bowl. Officially attendance was over 40,000 but hard to imagine that a lot of fans of either CSU or Miami (OH) travelled to see it, they don't even go watch those teams play when they are at home. Title sponsor is Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice, again not a high budget product. And the game on the CW Network it's hard to belive that the TV money even covered the cost.
Even worse are games like the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl on Dec 14 in Montgomery Alabama. Official attendance was a bit over 12,000 which is not surprising. Western Michigan and South Alabama don't have giant fan bases. For South Alabama it is a day trip and they didn't show up. As ugly as Western Michigan can be in December not a lot are going to take time off from work and spend their vacation money to go to Montgomery. That isn't exactly on most peoples vacation bucket list. As well neither team is going to inspire many people to turn on their TV sets.
Don't think that the non-playoff bowls are going away anytime soon but as it stands now it's hard to see all of the current bowls continuing. I used to think that we needed to start by eliminating 3-4 of the bowl games, now it might make more sense to get rid of at leat 5 or 6 of them amd maybe more.
This will probably mean that some 6 or even 7 win teams from G5 conferences stay home but the eventual shakeout of big time college football is going to deal with many of these programs anyways.
I missed the sarcasm font….
Yeah, no. Godzilla game
**** Bailer
The NCAA tournament had a similar problem which is why they went to pods and typically try to send top 4 seeds closer to home. It also isn't as much of an issue due to smaller venues plus there are 4 fanbases involved for each round. In the short term the CFP committee will probably put more of an emphasis on trying harder to send teams as close to home as possible for the quarters but that's obviously tough, especially for the B1G schools.
I think the committee will be hard-pressed to move the quarter final games to campus with all the money the bowls provide.
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
They're down 14-0 already. Shut it off.
I believed that I had spewed so much SEC hate on Allbuffs that sarcasm font was unnecessary.
I'm not watching the game, just the score. What's going on with bailer. I mean, **** bailer and all, but what's their deal today?
The first round CFP games feel like they happened 3 weeks ago.
The CFP should start early enough to play the Final on New Years Day.
CFB gives away all its momentum with the huge breaks in this part of the calendar.
The CFP should start early enough to play the Final on New Years Day.
CFB gives away all its momentum with the huge breaks in this part of the calendar.
Told you! Brought to you by the "iT's uFAiR tHaT TeNNesSEe hAd tO Go tO OhIo sTAtE" contingent. Otherwise known as ESPN and the SEC.
I mean, from a scheduling standpoint this is much better then the 4-team CFP. But they basically lose a week with the Army-Navy game but that would be a tight window with the selections being on Sunday and then the first round starting on Friday. Having 4 games on NYE/NYD is awesome but they continue to have the absolute worst day for the championship game being on a Monday night. If they want to avoid the NFL playoffs (which I don't think they should worry about) they should move this title game out another 5 days to the weekend of the AFC/NFC championship games. The CFB championship game needs to be on a Saturday.
Why do they lose a weekend with Army-Navy? That game is not going to cause all of college football to avoid doing what's best for everybody as if there's something sacred about it or something.
I avoid saying this because I haven't wanted to pee on anyone's cheerios, but IDGAF about that game, I never have, and I am far from alone in only paying any attention because it's the only thing on. Give me any sort of alternative and I'm watching that.
Agreed. I brought this up on this board during the game. Put that game over Thanksgiving weekend and call it a day. It ain't 1958 anymore.
Or make it Week 0 to kickoff the season since there's interest and tradition. Yale-Princeton (oldest CFB rivalry) would be another good one for that week.
That was my point - CFB loses a weekend by letting Army-Navy be a standalone game. It would be a tight schedule though as I mentioned
That PI call on Louisville was questionable to say the least
hawg1
Well-Known Member
Yikes. Karma in the end.
Jed gets it. AllBuffs rule says you go first 2 in meaningless bowl games.