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Should college football just do away with bowl games and expand the playoff?
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:22 pm
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:22 pm
After watching D’Eriq King suffer what looks to be a torn ACL in a meaningless game is it time to rethink how college football does its postseason? It seems there is always one of these injuries every year in bowl games that mean nothing with it all starting with Jaylon Smith’s injury years back. One of the players from OK State decided to not play the 2nd half after watching King go down. Why not have an expanded 16 team playoff over 4 weeks instead? You’d have more teams with something to play for and less reason to opt out during the year.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:26 pm to TopWaterTiger
Absolutely. A basketball-like approach.
Would be phenomenal.
Would be phenomenal.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:33 pm to lsutigermall
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.
The regular season game has been the king of college football for 100+ years. A big playoff will kill anything BUT that playoff.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:36 pm to LSU_30A
Giving 8 a shot at a title is hard to justify, giving 16 teams a shot is just taking a fat dump on the regular season and conference standings in general. No. 4 is right. Bowls are great except this year. Kids love the swag, TV coverage is great, interesting matchups if only because they are rare. There are probably 5 too many bowl games (in a normal year), but overall I love it.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:41 pm to LSU_30A
Yes, because there are no injuries during the playoffs.
Also, no injuries happen at practice, or while doing private workouts/training.
Also, no injuries happen at practice, or while doing private workouts/training.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:44 pm to LSU_30A
Just make college the new NFL and get rid of the actual NFL.
Superbowl and playoffs for college
Superbowl and playoffs for college
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:44 pm to LSU_30A
No. Your idea of a sixteen team playoff is nonsense.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:45 pm to calcotron
4 just leaves too many teams out and produces too much bullshite about who didn’t deserve to be there vs who did. 16 teams and there is no way anyone can complain about not getting a fair shot. I think it would be more exciting than the cheez-it bowl. The kids don’t care about the stuff they get at the bowls as much as not wanting to cost themselves money by getting hurt. Opt outs aren’t going away now that they have started so this way you keep more kids interested in staying in school.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:53 pm to DmitriKaramazov
FCS expanded to 24 awhile back. A good number for the FBS. Include conference champs (10) and have many at larges (14). Give teams something to play for most of the regular season. Otherwise FBS will die a slow death with the current bowl system.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:57 pm to LSU_30A
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.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 8:59 pm to LSU_30A
And it was fairly obvious to most that a four team playoff would always eventually expand.
The ncaa should hold its own tournament for all teams left out the CFP. Would be interesting.
The ncaa should hold its own tournament for all teams left out the CFP. Would be interesting.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:08 pm to OceanMan
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.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:23 pm to LSU_30A
10 automatic conference champions
6 at-large highest ranked teams
1st rd played at higher ranked teams home
2nd rd played at select bowls
Final 4 played liked they are played now.
I think this approach keeps the regular season games important because you want the auto qualifier or ranked the highest possible to get extra home game.
6 at-large highest ranked teams
1st rd played at higher ranked teams home
2nd rd played at select bowls
Final 4 played liked they are played now.
I think this approach keeps the regular season games important because you want the auto qualifier or ranked the highest possible to get extra home game.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:30 pm to LSU_30A
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.
- 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.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 9:40 pm to LSU_30A
Why can’t bowls be incorporated into a larger playoff? Ex. winner of Alamo bowl plays winner of music city bowl. Etc.
Posted on 12/29/20 at 11:08 pm to Jack Daniel
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?
Posted on 12/30/20 at 12:50 am to GeorgeWest
quote:
The regular season game has been the king of college football for 100+ years. A big playoff will kill anything BUT that playoff.
Regular season would seed the playoff. Would be really cool. Issue may be like this year where there are a clear front four. In that situation, if I’m one of them, I’m pissed I have to play multiple lesser opponents.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 2:58 am to LSU_30A
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.
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.
This post was edited on 12/30/20 at 2:59 am
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