You’d have ACC Championship Game crowds at those…people don’t go to the early rounds of the basketball tournament and those are 17,000 seat arenas, good luck filling up a football stadium

butters – history lesson time: For a decade, schools have had to shell out big bucks for unsold seats. not to mention that the higher seeds in a 16-team playoff host games. (not to mention NCAA tournament is a bad comparison to NCAA football tourney, we’ve been over that)

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/sfc/sfcfs69.htm

BYU’s big deficit, for example, was swelled by 12,923 unsold tickets. Colorado was left with 7,325 unfilled seats valued at $329,625.

It will be the same 60 teams in 30 Bowls – just that 8 teams will be playing for a shot at another rounds

Wouldn’t there be challenges associated with asking some fanbases to travel up to 3 times to support their school at neutral sites? Or am I reading this wrong.

Play the Bowls the same as now except instead of 1 meaningful game and 3 semi meaningful games, the Bowls would get 6 huge games (the quarterfinals and the Semi-finals)

You’d have ACC Championship Game crowds at those…people don’t go to the early rounds of the basketball tournament and those are 17,000 seat arenas, good luck filling up a football stadium

Here is what I have been proposing:

Eliminate the Conference Championship games (they are mostly rematches just done for revenue anyway). Use that week for the first round of the playoffs. 16 teams, the 12 conference division champions plus the 4 highest BCS teams – the Independents, highest ranked small conference teams and at large. Probably only 2 at-large once Big East and Mountain West go to 2 divisions.

1st Round, for example, the SEC East would rotate playing an ACC Division champ, Big East team, Big Ten East or at large team. The SEC West would rotate with the Big 12 Divisions, Big Ten West or even Mountain West. If the SEC is so good, they would get 2 of the final 8 (maybe 3 if they get an at large and that team wins), weak conferences would get 0 as they would lose their first round match ups. The school presidents should be able to live with this because the playoffs would add only 3 total games to what is played now (the 2 semi-finals and NC)

Play the Bowls the same as now except instead of 1 meaningful game and 3 semi meaningful games, the Bowls would get 6 huge games (the quarterfinals and the Semi-finals). You could use the Big 4 bowls and promote 2 Bowls – maybe Cowboy Stadium and Yankee Stadium. The NC could be bid out between cities and played the week between the Conference Championships and Super Bowl.

[and] continue to take hundreds of millions annually from the pockets of actual colleges.”

Huh?

Thanks TBL.

/ended in a tie

In another powerful column from Dan Wetzel that continues to chip away at the shaky foundation of the BCS

lol.

I’m thankful for TBL.

Wetzel is as much of a buffoon as bowtie boy.

it was just a tool created so private bowl games could continue to operate (and profit handsomely from) college football’s postseason

Isn’t Wetzel’s big playoff argument that it will make more money and thus profit handsomely off of college football’s postseason?

And if a bowtie was good enough for Brother Mouzone then it should be good enough for the president of the nation’s largest university