The only pushback on this is that if you play in a conference title game and don’t get a bye, you are gonna have to play 17 games to win it all. Most of us are old enough to remember your bowl game being game 12. That’s gonna tax rosters injury-wise.
So, same position Texas, Penn St, Clemson & SMU were in this year then. Nobody cares how many games they play.
If conferences care about that, they can abolish their conference championship games.
Sure. Let’s just track how long it is before a title game participant makes it to finals. Probably won’t take long, but so far it feels like an advantage for teams that can avoid that.
Exactly. Or they could go back to an 11-game schedule by elimination the I-AA game. Or an 8-team playoff (which is plenty). But they won’t because they don’t care. They’ll add an 18th game before they cut games.
It’s a small & skewed sample this year. Georgia was hamstrung offensively with their QB out. Oregon had a tough rematch vs a team they were lucky to barely beat at home. ASU, SMU, Clemson should have never been in the playoffs to start with.
I feel like that’s the world we’re headed towards. The conference championship weekend throws the timing of all this off.
Good luck getting SEC & Big 10 to forego the revenue their championship games generate. Heck, SEC is even beginning to float the idea of a 3rd place game between the #3 & #4 teams. Don’t know if that’ll ever happen but more games = more money so I wouldn’t bet against it.
They're going to have to, I think. The truth is, fanbases cant afford to buy tickets and travel multiple weekends as a top seed with a chance at a Natty. If not, you'll start to see a bunch of playoff games loosely attended if certain fans think they have a legit shot to win it all and want to hold their many for the championship game
I used to not think so, but we keep funding NIL, so maybe there’s more money than I realize. A nafoom poster said many years ago that college sports was recession proof. May be some truth to that.
And the SEC gets 100% of the championship game revenue vs only 50% of the olayoff revenue. Not to mention it’s not either/or, the SEC gets 100% of the championship game money + 50% of the olayoff money. Championship games aren’t going anywhere.
If we are in the playoffs in that scenario, the faculty will make sure of those tickets going to the other fanbase.**********
What does the NCAA do, when they take over your stadium, in Baseball?
Once NFL playoffs start and men’s basketball gets well into conference play, college football kinda gets forgotten about if you’re not one of the fan bases involved
Yep, Oregon, Boise St. and Arizona St, left quickly. Ga. hung around.
While true, recession proof is very TV laden. Physical attendance still relies on a $50-$100 ticket to fill the upper deck
Truth. That's why I think college football is missing a huge opportunity to get big eyes on the playoff, if they had a 16-teamer and everyone played over the course of a weekend or a few days, even if they overlap. And by everyone I mean all teams, not just bottom 8 seeds. Similar to the basketball tournament. Once these things start advancing, yeah, like you said, it becomes about the specific fanbases. I certainly did not stick around to watch say, Tennessee baseball, win the CWS last year.
Actually they should have done the opposite. Only expand to 8 teams, and be finished Friday Jan. 10.
What do you mean by that? That they left quickly, but Georgia hung around?
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Looks like they want to protect their #1 team from a loss knocking them out (even though it didn't). But what are you going to do if 2 teams tie for the regular season championship and they didn't play each other? The "semi-final round" on the last weekend of the season sound good on the surface. But it would be completely unworkable. You'd have to cancel the last game of the season for those 4 teams (including potentially big rivalry games) and teams wouldn't find out who's hosting and where they're playing until a week before the games. And oh, that's Thanksgiving week too so arranging last minute travel for fans should be a breeze.Saw this today where the ACC is considering changing their conference championship format… which is kind of funny since you could make the argument that nobody benefitted more from having a championship game than the ACC. Looks like they are considering a lot of really bad options.
ACC will weigh changes to conference title game
ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said on Sunday the league will have conversations among coaches and athletic directors to ponder changes to its conference championship game format after a season in which two league teams made the College Football Playoff.
Certainly college football — not sure about all college sports
