Should college football just do away with bowl games and expand the playoff?

Yes

2020 is not the season to make any longterm decision on.

The regular season game has been the king of college football for 100+ years. A big playoff will kill anything BUT that playoff.

Yes, because there are no injuries during the playoffs.

Also, no injuries happen at practice, or while doing private workouts/training.

No. Your idea of a sixteen team playoff is nonsense.

It’s the only thing that can save it. The thought that postseason is meaningless without a championship has thoroughly set in. Bowls no longer have a purpose unfortunately.

It just makes too much sense to me that I can’t imagine why they don’t do something like this. You can still have bowls if you want. Take the top 7 bowls and then you have the championship as the 8th. Still way to make money and you still have conference championship games to make money off of too.

I'll have to dust off the notes, but I put something out quite a while back that would give us both a better playoff AND keep the bowls. Some of the things that were required to change to make it work have changed, like making Notre Dame join a conference and making all of the power 5 conferences play a conference championship game. With that said, it broke down like this:

- 7 Bowls designated as "playoff" bowls
- Keep traditional Bowl tie-ins (to some degree)
- Power 5 conference champs get automatic bids
- Highest ranked non-power 5 team gets a bid
- 2 at large
- Bowls set by ranking

There would be a bowl rotation similar to what they have now with the bowls rotating to host the semis and the NCG. The 4 bowls not hosting would be the first round that would get us to the final 4. Proposed Bowls would be:

Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Peach Bowl (Chick-Fil-A)
Fiesta Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Orange Bowl
Highest Bidder (Probably Capital One or Sun Bowl)

First round would be played New Years Day, semis the weekend after and the NCG 2 weeks after that.

There are more details, but this accomplishes a number of things. It keeps 7 bowls extremely relevant. Some of the other bowls should also benefit by being played during the holidays leading up to the playoff bowls. Having at large teams and seeding keeps the regular season relevant because those last 2 teams in will be selected the same way that the current 4 teams are. It also keeps teams from having to play a lot of extra games. All of these teams would have played a bowl game anyway. At most, the 4 teams who advance will play one more game than they would have in the current system.

Yes they should expand to at least 8 teams. The non playoff bowls have become insignificant. You will see more and more star players opt out of the bowl games to prepare for their NFL career rather than playing in these games. Hell, it even appears that the fans could care less about these games. The playoffs have been great, but it seems fan interest dwindles in top teams when their team gets a 2nd loss and thus eliminated from playoff contention. Who really cares about the Texas bowl or Indy bowl or even the orange bowl?

I’ve said this for years.

The playoffs have made other bowl games meaningless and rightfully so.

Who even gives a shite about a “NY6” bowl anymore?

Pandora’s Box has been opened with a four team playoff and you can’t close it back again.