I think it is inevitable. Just like the NCAA basketball tournament has expanded, the football one will too.
Yep. They'll realize how much more money they're making off of it and expand it. I'd bet it's 8 teams before 2020.
This is going to make NCAAFB so, so, so much more popular. I don't even care about the non-title games. BCS? Don't care. TAMU plays LSU in the Cotton Bowl? Didn't care. In all honesty nothing matters during bowl season for me. I have nothing invested in it. Yes I watch. Yes I gamble. Yes I enjoy. But I never really care. Nobody cares. This... this I will care about. Can't wait.
Multiple schools from the same conference adds subjectivity to the system. Anything that adds subjectivity is a bad thing. Only conference champs should have the opertunity to play for the Championship. Conference champions are decided on the football field. Picking a second place team over a different conference champion when they did not play the same schedule is subjective. Only conference champs should be eligible for the play-offs. The SEC does not even use highest ranked teams for their own conference championship game or Georgia would not have played LSU in the SEC conference championship game last season. They select the teams to play in their conference championship based on which teams win their respective decisions so why should college play-offs be any different.
I'm fine with subjectivity, in that sense. I'd much rather see a second elite team from the SEC or Big 12 in a playoff than a middling, 10-2 or 9-3 Big Ten champ simply because they were the best of a mediocre lot. The point of a playoff, to me, is to put the best X teams in the nation together on a neutral field after the regular season. If that's the goal - and I think it is, for most folks - it's highly subjective to assume that you can make a strong case each year for four different conference champions.
As a fan it's simply not about that to me. Let the top 4 BCS ranked teams in. Maybe subjectivity isn't such a bad thing. If OU and UT are both top 4 teams why shouldn't they be allowed in? Are you saying you want 4 guaranteed bids? 4 playoff eligible conferences? Just let the best teams in. Sure the SEC might get two teams in now but college sports change, the Big 12, Big 10, or Pac 12 will have multiple elite teams in them eventually.
No it's not.... Not even close. The Super Bowl is a national holiday plus numerous events on Friday and Saturday. College football just doesn't resonate the same. Sure it will be popular amongst the fanbase of the competing teams, but that's where it stops.
I actually disagree with both of y'all. No, it wont rival the Superbowl, nothing in America can, you'd have to look at European soccer, and even then I imagine it's not as finely of a tuned machine (minus the ads on jerseys). Run on sentence much? Anyways... I do think this format has the backing to become the #2 sporting even in America. Right now #2 is just a cluster of sports, one of which is college football which may already be #2... but it will rise high. I think it's already predicted to generate something like 4 more billion in revenue.
Just do it like they do it in Champions League. Expand the playoffs to 12 teams. Total of four rounds, you can play four games in one day. First weekend and second weekend will have 4 games. Start times, 11AM, 2:15PM, 5:30PM and 9PM. Start on the east coast, finish out west in Seattle, in Los Angeles, Phoenix or San Francisco. You can do this all in December. No one is in class at that time. When I say do it like they do in Champions League European soccer, I mean this. Some leagues/conferences are better than other leagues, so they'll deserve to have more teams in the playoff. SEC could be allocated 3 spots. Big 12 could be allocated 2 spots, other conferences 1. And if they want to grant half a spot to a weaker conference, go ahead and make them play a play in game. You can change how many spots are allocated by conference based on the last four years of the strength of your conference. Sounds good? dumb? what?
Agreed. Considering that's not even the case now with a system everyone hates, there's no way this is correct.
i think using a group system like the world cup and euro do would work very well. having all the different matchups in the group stage would expand markets to cities that usually wouldn't play each other. also teams would get to at watch their teams play at least 3 times before being eliminated.
When I say popular outside of the fanbase , I am referring to celebrities, other athletes and just regular people flocking to that city to party and have a good time. That will not happen with college football. When the Super Bowl was in Houston the Galleria essentially turned into Hollywood. All the chicks we met were from different cities outside of Texas. From Portland to DC and everywhere between.
