I was listening to sports talk radio down in South Carolina and they brought up an interesting topic. The pac 12 commissioner has come out with statements along the lines of not expanding the playoff. His reasoning is with 12 teams and the recent expansion the sec could theoretically get up to 6 teams in. Now I don’t think that would ever happen but it made for good discussion. What’s everyone thought.
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Every change to the bowl system has been negative. Having the bowls make up matchups on the fly and then picking a champion in the newspaper on Jan 2 was better than the formulistic deal of automatic bid like #4 ACC plays #5 SEC in the Gator Bowl which was better than the BCS which was better than what we have now which is better than an 8 team which is better than a 12 team.
You start on Labor Day. You play the most meaningful regular season in all of sports. You get matched up in a bowl based on what is appealing to that particular market. Whole thing ends on New Year’s Day. Sportswriters pick a “national champion”. Other teams might have the same record, better schedule up next time. Lots of teams can be happy with a good season.
Good for everybody. But ESPN wants minor league football, with a grinding, yet meaningless regular season, and then deep playoffs among teams that have already played each other to produce one winner and 200 losers. ESPN is evil.
I get so sick of hearing how a playoff would diminish the regular season. Some of you are sheeple that buy that line. You still have to win your conference to get a locked in bid and in order to gain an at-large bid you'd have to have a better resume than the other teams gunning for one. You couldn't just pull a Baylor and pad your OoC schedule with a bunch of patsies. True playoffs work at every other level of football.
The part that has made every move "negative" is that the teams in the playoffs have been decided on by a committee full of biased talking heads that even admit they don't necessarily match up the most deserving teams, but the more compelling teams. Translation: The teams that bring the most ratings.
Which is what exactly? You think playing in the weedeater bowl makes for a better season? How about the NM Bowl for a piece of pottery or better yet a lawnmower bowl for a toy pirates chest trophy. None of which matters in the grand scheme of things.
Almost all the by the way were complained about by our fans. Mark it down. This year we'll complain about our bowl selection and the opponent we're playing.
Having a playoff does not cheapen or diminish your regular season. You still have to win your conference or have one of the best resumes in order to get bid. Maybe basketball should scrap march madness and come up with a bowl type system for them too because having a shot at playing for a national title is nothing compared to getting a backpack full of potato chips and some spencers mardi gras beads.
You know what diminishes/cheapens a regular season? Being able to make post season play based off a .500 record. Makes your program and coaches complacent because they can hang their hats on "making bowl games". See Doc Holliday, Mike Hamrick, and the last 4-5 seasons of Herd football.
Attendance. TEN home games is too many (and the idea that they can use minor bowls as part of the playoffs, thus asking fans to be-bop around the continent for three or four non holiday weeks with 5 or 6 days notice is silly). When we were winning championship and LOSING money in I-AA, a big part of it was because people simply did not want, or could not afford, ten home games and passed on the meaningless regular season games.
So Pittsburgh @ Baltimore in Week 13, knowing both will make the playoffs and will probably meet again in a month and a half, means as much at Alabama @ Auburn in the Iron Bowl?
Laughable.
And playoffs, in which Marshall will NEVER participate are better because?
If you don’t like the bowls Marshall is in, change the channel. The system we have now, is ONE G5 team goes to the “access bowl” and everybody else plays each other in these ESPN owned bowls. That is what Marshall football is all about. It is what ALL G5 football, is all about. And, bluntly, playing in minor bowls is what football is about for 60 or 70% of the P5 as well.
But go ahead. Let ESPN kill the bowl system and have their playoffs, with one winner and 130 losers.
And let the reward for going 9-3, be you Marshall, Kentucky, WVU, Kansas State, UNC, or whoever be the same.
Not a d—n thing. And when does basketball start?
You know how many teams with 5x the budget MU has, can't make a .500 record?
I really can't think of any aspect of college football that existed in 1978 that hasn't been FFFF'd in the A in the time between.
Everything has been bought, sold, licensed, diluted, expanded, humped, diddled, and Cleveland Steamer'd right across the chest of Competitive Play. It's hard enough each fall just fitting the condom back on and convincing myself she still loves me.
Everything has been bought, sold, licensed, diluted, expanded, humped, diddled, and Cleveland Steamer'd right across the chest of Competitive Play. It's hard enough each fall just fitting the condom back on and convincing myself she still loves me.
