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Official 2021 Bowl Games Thread

Stampeder said:
Welcome to the future of college football.
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I think expansion will actually help the competitiveness of the top end of CFB, though. It might create more of a gap between the top 5-10 teams and everyone else, but at least the playoff won’t be so boring like it typically is.

Based on the final 12 team rankings it would have gone like this…

Round One (Bye - Bama, UM, UGA, Cin)
5 v 12 - Notre Dame vs Pitt
6 v 11 - Ohio State vs Utah
7 v 10 - Baylor vs Mich State
8 v 9 - Ole Miss vs Oklahoma State

I also don’t think they would feel obligated to put Cincinnati in the top 4 if there were 12 playoff spots.

How much more exciting would these NY6 games be if they actually meant something? It’s why every NFL playoff game is so highly anticipated.
 
Well that sucked. Appreciate what Saban has accomplished but it’s making college football stale. It’s not fun to have only 1 or 2 potential champions in any given year with 1 of those almost always Bama.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Those were two of the most boring semi final games I’ve ever watched. Honestly, outside of a couple games, this bowl season has been complete ****.
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I have enjoyed a number of the bowl games this year. A lot of fairly close games, interesting match ups of teams that normally don't play each other.

It may be that I have enjoyed them because I didn't have high expectations of the playoffs. In most years the semi finals have been blowouts and I didn't expect this year to be any different.
 
hawg1 said:
Absolutely. That level of play among big, fast, strong players is always enjoyable to me. Michigan is fast and strong. They liked small and scared yesterday.
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Michigan isn’t even close to competing with those two programs and Bama could have dropped 40 on Cincy if they wanted.

I guess I just don’t get the appeal of lopsided semi final games.
 
If every other sport can figure out how to conduct a playoff rather than most of the top teams playing in an exhibition game, I think CFB at the FBS level can figure it out.

Bowls have become almost meaningless. They're fun trips that make some broadcast money and serve as a nice advertising vehicle for a sponsor. Not unlike the NFL's offseason all-star game the league aptly named.
 
Duff Man said:
Kinda?

You're kidding yourself if lack of competitiveness in the semifinal games is not a glaring issue at the moment.
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It’s an issue for large swaths of the country. Not sure expansion will fix it. At a minimum maybe it minimizes opt-outs in another round of games.
 
Alfred91 said:
My issue is not Saban. He is who he is and in a lot of ways, you're right - Alabama would be dominating no matter what.

But what today proved to me is that there's no chance at diversifying the college football landscape to wider than the regular cast of characters. If Clemson truly drops off, there's no one replacing them. Ohio State has the ability to come back, but Michigan and Penn State aren't joining the club.

The pie is getting smaller and smaller.
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The future looks much better than you make it out to be as far as different teams reaching the CFP. Nobody saw Michigan making the playoff this year and very few saw Cincinnati making it. But there's a number of schools where the football future looks bright - Jimbo is building something at A&M, Texas is bound to get back on the national stage, Kelly will get LSU going again, The U seems to finally have it together although that could take a while, Tucker has MSU coming on strong, Riley will undoubtedly get USC back to prominence and soon,and Oregon continues to recruit well.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
The future looks much better than you make it out to be as far as different teams reaching the CFP. Nobody saw Michigan making the playoff this year and very few saw Cincinnati making it. But there's a number of schools where the football future looks bright - Jimbo is building something at A&M, Texas is bound to get back on the national stage, Kelly will get LSU going again, The U seems to finally have it together although that could take a while, Tucker has MSU coming on strong, Riley will undoubtedly get USC back to prominence and soon,and Oregon continues to recruit well.
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Every one of these schools could be immediately worthless if the HBCU's decided to go all in on College Football! Spend $500 million on each HBCU and possibly other mostly black schools and bring all the best black players together to play in their own league. They would immediately be better than any other school, and could likely be very valuable for NIL and of course be the place where most NFL players would come from. The big programs have ALL the things in place to be dominant, EXCEPT, absolute control of the #1 thing, the players. Deion Sanders may have a master plan that could be executed pretty fast.
 
Is the Big10 ever going to learn to recruit speed? God lord, every team in that conference still recruits and plays like it’s 1986. It’s pathetic.
 
Buffnik said:
If every other sport can figure out how to conduct a playoff rather than most of the top teams playing in an exhibition game, I think CFB at the FBS level can figure it out.

Bowls have become almost meaningless. They're fun trips that make some broadcast money and serve as a nice advertising vehicle for a sponsor. Not unlike the NFL's offseason all-star game the league aptly named.
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Looking at the results of the semi-finals yesterday is there anything to indicate that an expanded playoff would result in more meaningful games. I don't think so.

One of the things that makes college football special is the meaningful games in the regular season. Oregon beating Ohio State meaning that the Buckeyes pretty much had to win out the rest of the season to make the playoffs (they didn't and didn't.) That same Ohio State team playing Michigan for what most understood would be a playoff spot.

With an 8 or 12 team playoff neither of those games would have held that significance.

If you want the NFL with half the teams getting into the playoffs watch the NFL. I like college football because games that should matter do matter.
 
MtnBuff said:
Looking at the results of the semi-finals yesterday is there anything to indicate that an expanded playoff would result in more meaningful games. I don't think so.

One of the things that makes college football special is the meaningful games in the regular season. Oregon beating Ohio State meaning that the Buckeyes pretty much had to win out the rest of the season to make the playoffs (they didn't and didn't.) That same Ohio State team playing Michigan for what most understood would be a playoff spot.

With an 8 or 12 team playoff neither of those games would have held that significance.

If you want the NFL with half the teams getting into the playoffs watch the NFL. I like college football because games that should matter do matter.
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If more teams have a chance to make the playoff every year, talent will spread out over those teams rather than gravitating towards to the only 2-3 schools in it regularly.
 
Highlander said:
If more teams have a chance to make the playoff every year, talent will spread out over those teams rather than gravitating towards to the only 2-3 schools in it regularly.
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I don't think so.

I think those kids who are going to Bama, Georgia, Ohio State, etc. are going to watch the other teams get blown out and still go to to the 2-3 schools.

We had much more even distribution of talent before we had a playoff.
 
MtnBuff said:
Looking at the results of the semi-finals yesterday is there anything to indicate that an expanded playoff would result in more meaningful games. I don't think so.

One of the things that makes college football special is the meaningful games in the regular season. Oregon beating Ohio State meaning that the Buckeyes pretty much had to win out the rest of the season to make the playoffs (they didn't and didn't.) That same Ohio State team playing Michigan for what most understood would be a playoff spot.

With an 8 or 12 team playoff neither of those games would have held that significance.

If you want the NFL with half the teams getting into the playoffs watch the NFL. I like college football because games that should matter do matter.
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It was what always made CFB special, but it was balanced by the conference title being tied to a meaningful bowl game & by the limited number of bowls that made those games significant.

Now, all that really matters is making the playoffs so a 2nd loss means you're done in terms of your team being nationally relevant.

An expanded playoff with auto-bids for winning your conference is the only thing that will keep the regular season meaningful beyond mid-October for most of the country instead of our talk turning to recruiting and which coaches need to be fired.
 
Kentucky could be dangerous if they had a QB who wasn’t absolute hot garbage.
 
tOSU without 24 scholarship players, 4 AAs, 5 starters on D. Another DE game time decision.
 
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