No.
They aren't going anywhere. ESPN and the bowls have to much money invested in the product to ditch all non-playoff bowls.
People will continue to watch them because its football.
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They aren't going anywhere. ESPN and the bowls have to much money invested in the product to ditch all non-playoff bowls.
People will continue to watch them because its football.
for the near term, certainly.
but man, is the value of the bowls going crater if it becomes more of a thing for P5 schools to decline non-CFP bids.
You may be right, but then what does the G5 look like?
Do they get their own separate playoff?
How many college football playoffs does that get us - 4 (6 if you count DIII & NAIA)?
DII & FCS get minimal viewers and attendance today - will the G5 playoff do better than them if they're competing against the P5 playoff?
I mean, maybe we're just entering a new phase of arguing about how good teams are with no way of actually settling it on the field (i.e. "how deep would the G5 playoff winner go in the P5 playoff?). Maybe that's ok, as I viewed those post season
Anyway, at the end of the day, I think we're going down a path where the stratification of college football becomes ossified where it's almost impossible to move between strata, and in the long-run I think it's bad for the game. The rich get richer is never good for the whole in the long run.
Now, if there were a relegation system that allowed some movement based on performance between the strata, I'd be all in (even though dear ol' CU would have been ****ed over the last 20 years in such a system).
That's funny because I was thinking the same thing about people saying bowls are going away. I hope like hell you're wrong because bowl season is awesome.
Did they consider simply NOT getting their asses kicked by their rival at home on national TV?
I will still watch bowl games after there is a playoff.
A positive change for football IMO, although it's going to suck when half the teams are SEC & B1G. That said, the P10 is going to have a much easier route to the playoff than they do now.
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UC Davis would like a word
Don’t most teams lose money going to bowls?
Would they be? They might do well relegated. We’ve still beat most FCS teams over this **** stretch.
It is. But I wish they had about 5-7 fewer.
I was never for expansion but knew the reality that it's been coming for a couple years now and the system they came up with should satisfy both sides - those who think conference champs deserve to get vs. Put in the best teams regardless of conference. I haven't read all the details and maybe they haven't been sorted out yet so there could be stipulations on conference champs, but I'm still against conference champs if a low-ranked or unranked team pulls an upset. There's 3 good examples this week if they were to win - UNC, UCF, and Purdue. No way any of those 3 should get a bid into a 12-team playoff just because they pulled an upset in 1 game. But I will say that this should be offset quite a bit if not completely with the elimination of divisions, assuming all conferences go that way.
Yeah, but we're talking about g5.
In a relegation model, we'd have been borderline most of this whole stretch.
Probably would have been relegated once or twice, but pulled back up the next season or two.
The money made it inevitable but it will only be a matter of time until a 3 loss 11th seed beats a 2 seed that lost their key players to injury to win the title.
One of the big appeals to me about college football has always been that every game matters and that every game is a potential (probable) elimination game for the championship.
Now it's going to be about just being good enough to get in and being hot at the right time. Losing a game or games in season won't matter as long as you can be in the 12.
No way. That means less football.
Yeah. A lot of people will. That’s why bowls aren’t going anywhere.
Right.
Do you think less football is good?
Thanks to wagering.
****ty bowls like the Bahamas Bowl, Cheezit, Emerald Nut, etc. yes.
Caleb Williams on one leg is somehow finding a way to deal
Pretty impressive. They did better on that drive but his WRs are not giving him much help. Lots of drops.
…to Brendan Rice
Huskies have to be mega hyped for that
He consistently made NFL throws this year. I think the workout process would’ve made him a first or second rounder. Amazing recruiting job to keep him in Seattle for another year.
