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CFP WRECKING BOWL TRADITION?
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:19 pm
It appears the current 4-team playoff system has made all but TWO bowl games so irrelevant that attendance has plummeted. This year’s Sugar Bowl barely drew 55,000 (stadium seats 75,000), and I’m sure there were lots of empty seats at the Orange, Citrus, Cotton, etc. I don’t have an answer.
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Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:22 pm to chasseur4
Had the same thought. Think 32 team seeded playoff using bowls as regional sites may be only answer.
This post was edited on 1/2/20 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:25 pm to chasseur4
All things end at some point.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:26 pm to chasseur4
TV revenue is all that matters. It’s not that uncommon for the Sugarcto have in the 50s attendance depending on match up.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:26 pm to chasseur4
Life is expensive...
Tickets are pricey...
Travel, food, etc...its too much...
Cost of college is 5x what it was 30 years ago
Enjoying game on TV is awesome
Tickets are pricey...
Travel, food, etc...its too much...
Cost of college is 5x what it was 30 years ago
Enjoying game on TV is awesome
This post was edited on 1/2/20 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:29 pm to chasseur4
I almost posted something similar to this. I even tried watching some of the other top tier bowl games and just couldn't make it through. They were boring and some of them even featured SEC teams. It has definitely dampened some big games. I always thought there were too many bowl games anyway, but I don't particularly care for what it's done to even the ny games.
This post was edited on 1/2/20 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:30 pm to chasseur4
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This year’s Sugar Bowl barely drew 55,000 (stadium seats 75,000), and I’m sure there were lots of empty seats at the Orange, Citrus, Cotton, etc.
You think a 75,000 seat stadium is going to sell out for two teams that had to travel 1,100 miles between the two of them?
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:31 pm to chasseur4
I understand the thread but does the title have to be in all caps?
This post was edited on 1/2/20 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:31 pm to chasseur4
My wife has just started getting into football in the last year or so and didn’t understand why I was watching a game that didn’t mean anything while I was watching the Rose Bowl.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:34 pm to tigbit
quote:
Think 32 team seeded playoff using bowls as regional sites may be only answer.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:36 pm to TigerGman
Good point.
We live in a time where unless you win it all you are not successful.
Can't we just all get a participation trophy?
We live in a time where unless you win it all you are not successful.
Can't we just all get a participation trophy?
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:37 pm to tigbit
I’m not trying to see LSU put up 86 points in the first round against Indiana or Virginia Tech.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:37 pm to chasseur4
And everyone with a working brain knew this would happen once a playoff system started.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:38 pm to chasseur4
Maybe low attendance is due to LSU playing at a stratospheric level and makes everybody else look like a 3rd-grade tea party. Do you want to pay good money for tea parties?
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:41 pm to memphis tiger
There were at least 5,000 empty seats at the Peach Bowl Semifinal game.
People are just less willing to travel to games and sit in bad seats. Attendance is declining in most places.
If you think bowl attendance is poor now, watch and see what an 8-team playoff does to the other bowls.
People are just less willing to travel to games and sit in bad seats. Attendance is declining in most places.
If you think bowl attendance is poor now, watch and see what an 8-team playoff does to the other bowls.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:48 pm to memphis tiger
It was happening before the playoff system. Attendance has never been huge at lower tier bowls. The NY6 bowls usually had pretty good attendance if the teams were in the hunt for the NC or a top 5 or so finish. There were usually only two to three bowls that really mattered in a given year. Because only those bowl outcomes determined the AP/Coaches Poll NC, and a matchup between nos. 1 and 2 was pretty rare. Televised games, ticket prices, travel costs, and demographic changes are affecting attendance. Most schools are having considerably greater problems in selling regular season tickets now. Stadiums in many places are finding they have over expanded. The playoff system may be contributing, but it isn’t the sole or even major reason.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:51 pm to chasseur4
So when the BCS was a thing and they had one national championship game, all was fine. But when they added a 4 team playoff, it ruined the rest of the bowls?
Explain to me how it's any different?
Explain to me how it's any different?
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:51 pm to GeorgeWest
I think this year gives a good argument for not expanding. The top 3 teams are so separated from the other top 8, it really doesn’t make for a competitive playoff.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 6:55 pm to chasseur4
the matchup has a lot to do with it.
Georgia fans are probably already tired of going to NOLA to face a big xii team after just missing the playoffs.
and Baylor?
there was 5,000 more people at this game than the biggest crowd in the history of their stadium.
Meaning even if this was a freaking home game in their own stadium they wouldn’t have had a crowd this big.
Georgia fans are probably already tired of going to NOLA to face a big xii team after just missing the playoffs.
and Baylor?
there was 5,000 more people at this game than the biggest crowd in the history of their stadium.
Meaning even if this was a freaking home game in their own stadium they wouldn’t have had a crowd this big.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 7:00 pm to memphis tiger
quote:
And everyone with a working brain knew this would happen once a playoff system started.
Weird, yesterday had better attendance than the second to last Sugar Bowl before the CFP.
People that think this is new are the ones who don't have a brain.
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