re: Tim Brando: Fiesta Bowl is a glorified exhibition

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Unless you have a stipulation in your contract that rewards you for having 10 total wins in a season. 

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CEO got 100k+ as a bonus for making a bowl game. Not sure if it was based on NY6 bowl but still.

12 Teams. 4 highest ranked conference champions get a first game bye. Remaining 8 teams play first round. Then it's 8 teams left for the second round.

Get rid of one of the regular seasons games if you need to. This system rewards conference champions, and reduces the number of additional playoff games that they need to play.

Had LSU beaten TAMU, we would be in a hypothetical 8 game playoff.

There is an arguement for 8 and not 16

The fact that we have 5 major conference, little inter conference play, an entire G5 and only 4 spots means we have to pick between conference champs with the same record on eyeball test alone.

Not to mention the playoff was there to May reward a team in a tough conference who maybe played one of the other best teams in the country.

8 team playoff.

Conference champs get in.

3 at large. 1 is the top ranked G5 team if they’re in the top 10.

Ditch the committee

Go back to the BCS formula.

Works pretty much perfectly.

If you think you should be in: win your conference.

In short, we'd all like conference championships to mean more, but in college they just can't. I care about winning the SEC. It's a huge accomplishment. It's not like it means nothing at all. But look over at the ACC and big Ten, or PAC-12 a lot of years. There isn't much competition.

College football is and has always been it's own entity. Parts of it are mythical in nature, and that can be frustrating, but it also makes the entire season so much more intriguing, in my opinion.

Your argument is ignoring the entire basis of my point, dude. This ISN'T the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL or NCAA basketball tournament.

Again, in the pros you have a very limited number of teams where you can just take the best records in each conference (aside from the division champion being an automatic qualifier). You're dealing with a lot more teams, and the competition is not anything close to equal for even all of the power 5 teams.

And the NCAA basketball and baseball tournaments have auto bids because they have 64 and 68 team fields. You can't do that in football. And, also, who said the auto bids were even a good idea in those tournaments? I hate that are so many crappy teams, and teams with losing records, that get in over teams from real conferences who actually play somebody all year.

You see my point? It fixes nothing. It just muddies up the field and waters down the significance of the regular season.

Expanded playoffs... something needs to be done.

Once upon a time, there were a very few bowls, and those teams that got to go to them did so as a reward for a great season.
"National champion" was a title voted on by the AP and UPI. The teams played to win their conferences, and the various bowls: Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange etc.

Bowls sprouted everywhere, coaches liked them because you got to practice an additional month; good teams got better.
The media got overinvolved, and finally forced the BCS on us. Suddenly, teams played for "the Title", not to go to/win a specific bowl. Note- the very best USC, Ohio State and Michigan teams would never play the best Alabama or Oklahoma teams, because one group would be at the Rose, the other at the Sugar, Orange, Cotton etc.

From that moment on, if you didn't make the "elite" game(s), you were second class.

At that point, honestly, you had killed the bowl system. Winning the Cotton Bowl ceased to be anyone's goal, same for the Rose, Sugar and all the rest. The main reason they remain now is to satisfy the coaches and ADs, to continue practicing an additional month so your program is in better shape next year.

Now, players are increasingly skipping bowls, just as they skip their senior seasons. The games don't mean anything anymore, why risk it? Fans are also fading; smaller programs are still happy to get in, but the bigger programs don't buy into the "New Year's 6" jargon. If it's not The Playoffs, it's not relevant. I've seen recent Orange Bowls half empty, something inconceivable 20 years ago.

It's time to put an end to the charade. They wanted playoffs, so go ahead and give us a real playoff system. The current one is too small, it's destroying major conferences. We in the SEC might not have a lot of sympathy for the Pac 12, but if this had happened in the 90's, it would be the SEC champs being left out all the time. It's blind luck that we were prospering during the change.
Just as top recruits used to file to the bigger conferences in the past to get their shot at winning, that's going to continue. People aren't going to want to go to the Pac 12, or somewhere else like that, if they get an offer from an SEC team and have a greater chance to get into the playoffs that way. More teams in= more teams that can recruit, giving us better overall competition and games.

Saints fans, media, coaches or players don't give much of a shite if the saints lose or win a preseason game. Now those are glorified exhibition games. Those games also dont' count for anything where as college bowl games count plenty and go a long way in determining how a season is viewed.

you can't make conference champ auto qualifiers without first balancing out the conferences. It is not the same accomplishment being the big 12 champ as being the sec champ. 2nd and 3rd place in the SEC is tougher to achieve than being big 12 or ACC champ. Clemson played PITTSBURG FOR ITS CHAMP GAME AND Oklahoma PLAYED A CRAPPY TEXAS TEAM.