is College Football Playoff. [rquoter]What's in a name: New college football playoff brilliantly titled 'College Football Playoff' 11 hours ago PASADENA, Calif. – Let’s salute the big winner in sports Tuesday. Kudos to Premier Sports Management of Overland Park, Kan. That’s the consulting group the BCS hired to help name and brand its long-awaited college football playoff. The winning name: College Football Playoff. Clever, isn’t it? I figure the folks at Premier Sports spent 15 minutes on that job, then called it a day and hit the golf course. Next day they put in a solid 30 minutes coming up with four clunky logo choices and one populist brainstorm – let’s have the fans vote for the logo of their choice! – before going fishing. For their tireless efforts they cashed what is presumed to be a fat BCS check. The minimalist, literalist triumph that is College Football Playoff left even the commissioners and athletic directors here at the BCS meetings smirking. They know the name is something a kindergarten class or Ryan Lochte would dream up. They don’t really care, since the trappings are far less important than the reality of a more legitimate way to crown a champion. “Simple,” SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. “I’m OK with simple.” “Sometimes less is more,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said. “Sometimes there’s a lot of power in that.” ESPN broke the news of the name earlier Tuesday afternoon. When informed of the reported name, eternally circumspect Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione responded, “Is that really the name or just a space filler?” The look on Castiglione’s face should have come accompanied with a thought bubble over his head that read, “Am I being punk’d? This has to be a joke. What’s the punch line?” No punch line. College Football Playoff, to be televised by Massive All-Sports Disney Subsidiary and perhaps sponsored by Football-Friendly Tortilla Chip Company, is for real. The goal seemed to be coming up with something so prosaic, so leadenly obvious and so utterly bland that the moniker couldn’t be made fun of. Aside, of course, from making fun of it for being boring. But boring is better than some other alternatives. Look what Legends and Leaders got the Big Ten – a two-year succession of mockery, as Joe Paterno and Jim Tressel helped undermine the smug division names. No wonder the league is reportedly changing the names to East and West, following the safe geographic footsteps of the SEC and Pac-12. So the BCS thought it over and decided grandiose was out. Highfalutin was out. Creative was out. Potentially dicey acronyms were out (we were told the name is not to be shortened to initials or, well, there will be big trouble). Literal is in. As the promotional video showed at the Langham Hotel on Tuesday said, “You can’t get more straightforward than that.” Lame as the name is, it’s not the only literal one out there in sports. The NBA Finals is pretty elementary. So are the AFC and NFC championship games. Stodgy old baseball, with its World Series and pennants, and hockey, with its Stanley Cup, look positively flowery by comparison. Clearly, the main thing the college football power brokers wanted was a clean and decisive break from the BCS Era. Those letters had become too toxic. It was time for a Soviet-style renouncing/cleansing of the past. Out is the word “bowl.” In is the word “playoff.” That was a clear acquiescence to public opinion. These are men who refused for years to even utter the p-word; now they can’t make it prominent enough in their business. Slive acknowledged that the crystal football, token of titles won during the BCS Era, is likely gone as well. Whoever wins it next January will almost certainly have the last of its kind, before a new trophy takes its place. (Which is too bad. The crystal football is perhaps the one non-objectionable element of the BCS. It’s actually a much more aesthetically pleasing trophy than the slabs of wood the NCAA hands out.) With almost any change comes a lot of backlash, but while College Football Playoff will provide joke fodder for a while, this is change most of America welcomes. Now the decision makers here will move on to other business the rest of the week: announcing the site for the first title game (ahem, JerryWorld) and then hammering out details about the selection committee that will choose the four teams for the CFP. (Sue me for abbreviating.) As Scott pointed out, this is all going to work out over time. The drama will be in the details, not over the name. “How do people feel about it two years from now, three years from now?” he asked. “Are they going to be mocking it, or is it part of the sports vernacular? I’m pretty sure it will be more the latter.” College Football Playoff. Only Captain Obvious is impressed by the name, but just about everyone is happy to have the minimalist triumph one step closer to reality.[/rquoter] So, basically they went through the same process many new parents go through when picking a name for their child. Coming up with the right one that can't be rhymed with or turned into something potentially vulgar.
This article is a bigger waste of time than the process used for naming the system. What the **** did they want them to name it? NBA Playoffs, NFL Playoffs, etc... it is what it is.
That's why I posted the whole thing instead of forcing anyone to click on the link and give it more hits than it's worth.
Diamond Bowl National Bowl Exceptional Bowl Photosynthesis Bowl (makes Sugar, Roses, Oranges and Cotton) Championship Bowl Student Body Bowl Bryant-Rockne Bowl
How can current AD's be on the committee, that's stupid. I'm not even going to comment on the bigger story on Rice.
Why not? Current ADs are on the basketball selection committee and it's never been controversial. As PTI said, picking the top 4 teams in the country is really not a hard thing at all. On the off-chance that one of the teams associated with one of the committee members is in a real debate between #4 and #5, they just recuse themselves and let the other 12 committee members decide.
Clemson very may well be a fringe playoff team this year (if there were playoff teams) and they have a guy on the committee? How is that fair? Also, there are millions at stake, how hard would it be for a company with interest to buy the ear (and vote) of a committee member or two? You know, ensure a snazzy 10-2 Oregon team gets in over a boring 10-2 SEC team.
Because if Clemson is at 4 or 5, the guy will just recuse himself, just like ADs/conference commissioners do for bubble teams in the basketball committee.
Gotcha. I don't like the basketball comparison though. There are almost 20X more teams in the basketball tournament and probably 200X less money at stake.
[rQUOTEr]Glendale, Ariz., and Tampa, Fla., will host college football's 2016 and 2017 championship games. University of Phoenix Stadium, home to the NFL's Cardinals, will present the game on Jan. 11, 2016, while Tampa's Raymond James Stadium will be the center of the nation's attention on Jan. 9, 2017. AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will host the first post-BCS championship game just after the new year in 2015.[/rQUOTEr]
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>CFPlayoff will mandate media access for coach, QB, award winners on campus between semis and CFB Championship Game</p>— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/schadjoe/statuses/461259812655751169">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Teams in final of <a href="https://twitter.com/CFBPlayoff">@CFBPlayoff</a> must arrive at championship game site by at least Friday. Final will always be on Monday</p>— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/statuses/461260648123342848">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Bill Hancock said 8 or 9 game league schedule not a big deal for <a href="https://twitter.com/CFBPlayoff">@CFBPlayoff</a> committee, but strength of schedule is</p>— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/statuses/461263054559531008">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The CFB Playoff Selection Committee rankings will have 25 teams</p>— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/schadjoe/statuses/461263850214400000">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>College Football Playoff schedule grid? Clip and save: <a href="http://t.co/PxbmoGtNKa">pic.twitter.com/PxbmoGtNKa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CFBPlayoff">@CFBPlayoff</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/USATODAYsports">@USATODAYsports</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFootballFour">@TheFootballFour</a></p>— George Schroeder (@GeorgeSchroeder) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeSchroeder/statuses/461285995409707008">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/CFBPlayoff">@CFBPlayoff</a> rankings debut Oct. 28, sources told <a href="https://twitter.com/espn">@ESPN</a>. Will be released Tuesday nights; start week later than BCS did</p>— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/statuses/461310492699410432">April 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
They really need to have the Championship games on Saturdays. Enough with the Monday night game crap.
The AT&T stadium in Arlington is hoisting everything , truly becoming the place to have all sorts of sporting events. I want to see the Dallas Stars hoist a New Years game soon. Make it happen NHL.
