I still say use the BCS to pick the top 2 teams and if there are 3/4 worthy team it enacts the popular ‘plus one’ system in place that was pitched years ago. Unfortunately, while the plus one system is great on paper, if isn’t practical in terms of securing sites, ticket sales, and a ton of other issues.
So now, on a yearly basis we will have teams getting a guaranteed bye before the playoffs because they weren’t good enough to play for a conference title?
Completely disagree. Bowl games are not all equal, in terms of what game is being played and what school is playing in it. Most smaller schools need the publicity and the cash for their programs. While a Bowl Game does nothing for a P5 team with a 6-6 record, this is the only time a 6-6 G5 team has center stage for once.Bowl games are meaningless and honestly one of the stupidest ways in which a champion has ever been crowned. Even today with the CFP, teams going to the gator bowl, birmingham bowl, whatever... if you aren't in the playoff, they are literally consolation prizes. Pity. Pathetic and literally mean nothing. Most people don't complain simply because football and football and we will take everything, but the whole idea of bowl games is really stupid if you actually stop and think about it.
You mean the thing that has only happened once under the current model?
I have straight up been saying this for years. The problem is AD’s are smart enough to know more separation from the P5 means less money that comes to them. If it truly was about getting a level playing field this would have been pitched long ago. But it’s not, it is about the money these smaller schools are able to leach off of from keeping the current system.
Adding was probably not the best word, but I meant by having vs not having CCGs doesn’t effect the regular season like adding more to the CFP. I can see the appeal of having more games to watch but my fear is that I don’t want CFB to turn into like every other sport where I’m tuning in only when the playoffs come around. 8 teams probably wouldn’t effect the regular season or maybe it would make it better in a way but for me, what’s not broke don’t fix it. At the end like you said, it comes down to money
But theoretically, lets say I am running the NCAA, what reason would I have to allow you to collect from this paycheck that goes out to all conferences/schools that are helping build up the CFP and generate revenue? No, you choose to create the for peanuts title game, which will likely need a major network to support it just for all schools to break even.
What I have an issue with is, there will never be satisfaction. 8 turns into 16 which turns into 32. There will always be crying.
Also only happened twice in 16 years with the BCS when a team did’t play in a conference title and Nebraska was a beneficiary of one of those times.
‘04 was a nightmare scenario similar to what would have happened this year with no playoffs. To add to it, Utah was unbeaten as well, although playing Pitt really wasn’t a great showing of how good they truly were.
In a world that doesn’t need money, I agree. I stand by playing FCS/G5 schools for the mere fact that these schools need the cash. While that is not the purpose for these P5 teams scheduling these games, it doesn’t take away that it is a necessity for some schools to keeps athletic departments going.
