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If we ignore the obviously weird age gap. No other coaches wife/girlfriend is on the field until the game is over. It’s so odd. You don’t just insert yourself into your partner’s job
He has never had 23 year old punani, even when he was 20 years old. He is sprung
 
That's cozying up to their media partners. In effect, that 9th conference game gives the networks 9 more broadcast-worthy games (18 teams) instead of 18 games they don't have much use for such as Clemson vs Furman.
2026 is going to be interesting to see how many ACC and SEC teams are going to be bowl eligible relative to B1G and Big 12 now that half of those conference’s teams will now have one more loss.
 
2026 is going to be interesting to see how many ACC and SEC teams are going to be bowl eligible relative to B1G and Big 12 now that half of those conference’s teams will now have one more loss.
I think that the bowls are going to die. Looking at attendance, fans don't care like they used to and I don't know that they still have much impact for the host city. The only reason they seem to exist is for ESPN to have CFB content to air in between the conference championship games and the start of the playoffs.But I've seen cost cuts with the broadcasts getting really bare bones - like even having the announcers do the game call remotely from the studio instead of traveling with a full production crew for a week.
 
I think that the bowls are going to die. Looking at attendance, fans don't care like they used to and I don't know that they still have much impact for the host city. The only reason they seem to exist is for ESPN to have CFB content to air in between the conference championship games and the start of the playoffs.But I've seen cost cuts with the broadcasts getting really bare bones - like even having the announcers do the game call remotely from the studio instead of traveling with a full production crew for a week.
This is why expansion of playoffs makes sense. Bowls still make money and the networks make money. They won’t do away with bowls unless it’s replaced by a playoff game or something similar
 
I think that the bowls are going to die. Looking at attendance, fans don't care like they used to and I don't know that they still have much impact for the host city. The only reason they seem to exist is for ESPN to have CFB content to air in between the conference championship games and the start of the playoffs.But I've seen cost cuts with the broadcasts getting really bare bones - like even having the announcers do the game call remotely from the studio instead of traveling with a full production crew for a week.

This is why expansion of playoffs makes sense. Bowls still make money and the networks make money. They won’t do away with bowls unless it’s replaced by a playoff game or something similar
Expand the playoff to 16-24 and everyone else plays in on campus bowl games and one of the teams home stadiums where the schools split the revenue which is assuredly more than a neutral site bowl game.

Like, if CU was in the Sun Bowl or whatever but it was played at Folsom. I bet that game gets close to selling out
 
I think that the bowls are going to die. Looking at attendance, fans don't care like they used to and I don't know that they still have much impact for the host city. The only reason they seem to exist is for ESPN to have CFB content to air in between the conference championship games and the start of the playoffs.But I've seen cost cuts with the broadcasts getting really bare bones - like even having the announcers do the game call remotely from the studio instead of traveling with a full production crew for a week.
I have always been a big fan of the bowls but with the changes in college football a lot of them don't make sense any more.

For decades getting a "bowl championship" meant something. Now with the emphasis on the playoff it means a lot less. Also expanding the number of bowls to a point where some .500 teams or even below go just to fill them makes them irrelevant.

What we end up with is a bunch of bowls with 6 or 7 win teams that nobody has heard of or cares about and some bowls with big name programs that had disapointing seasons. The small schools now have their stars sit out hoping to transfer to a bigger NIL school and the big schools stars sit out to stay healthy for the draft.

I'm not a big fan of the playoff but if they are going to have them the solution is to focus on the playoffs. Cut a lot of the minor bowls, maybe keep a few of them for the teams that had good seasons (8-9 wins or more) and weren't included in the playoff.

A lot of the smaller bowls don't draw much interest anyways. It doesn't help college football to show a stadium with only 15-20 thousand fans in it and the bowl payout doesn't leave the teams making money, maybe even losing money on it.

Either way the bowls are now kind of like the NIT tourney in basketball. The post-season for the teams that weren't good enough rather than a reward for a good season.
 
Expand the playoff to 16-24 and everyone else plays in on campus bowl games and one of the teams home stadiums where the schools split the revenue which is assuredly more than a neutral site bowl game.

Like, if CU was in the Sun Bowl or whatever but it was played at Folsom. I bet that game gets close to selling out
The moment neither Colorado or Nebraska make the CFP in the future, schedule a game at the new Broncos stadium on New Years day
 
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