re: Just go ahead and either cancel these bowl games or expand the playoffs

The solution is simple. 16 team playoff. 10 conference champs and 6 at large.

The playoffs were created to find the #1 team. Not keep a bunch of quitters on a team for a bowl game. Ultimately bowls are exhibitions, just how they started. Bowls lost their luster before the playoffs. It’s a lot cheaper to watch on tv than to spend thousands of dollars for a few days for a football game. Fans were quitters before the players were.

Even before the playoff, I always thought, who gives a frick about any bowl, if you aren’t playing in the National Title game? Really?’ It’s not even worth risking injuries...

I’m pretty sure the bowls mostly put those kickoff games on as it is. Obviously they’d like to have both, but I’m sure they’d rather slap a Sugar Bowl logo on the field for LSU V. Florida St in a couple years if their only other option is going extinct.

I don’t like it, but I think it could happen.

To me it's not even about the bowl game opt outs, as others suggested, kids will get 5 or 6 good games on tape and start quiting earlier and earlier.

I didn't want playoffs as I thought it would be a thing we're everyone was seen as a loser if they didn't make it, I and many others were correct. It's been horrible for college football as a whole.

Unfortunately there is no putting the genie back in the bottle and only way to really save cfb as we know it is as follows

Lower scholarship limits to a max of 70, 20 kids per class, grad transfers don't count toward the class, only total. Have to have parity somewhat and all parts of the country involved or you are fricksd long term and we revert back to it being a regionalism sport.

Kids gets one free transfer out of conference after freshman year only. After that it's a 2 year sit out unless it's a grad transfer. No hardships or any other bullshite. No the coach is leaving bullshite, no some random fan called me a mean name bullshite, no I got beat out bullshite, no I'm mentally ill bulkshit. You get 1 and only after freshman year. Or bust your arse and graduate, otherwise stfu

All coachingbstaffs have the same number of on field coaches and a max amount of analysts allowed and also max amount of other behind the scene personel allowed.

Expand the playoffs to 16 teams. 5 conference champs, 11 at large. This is if G5 wants to stay apart of it. If not, just do 8. If 16, we need to cut it to 8 conferences. 5 power plus 3 smaller conferences. Win one of the smaller conferences with 1 loss or fewer and you are in if you also have a win over a p5 team.

Use original bcs formula to make up 50% of seeding, playoff committee ranking for other 50%. Seed 1-16.

Cut regular season to 8 conference games for all conferences. All conferences must have championship game. 8 conference and 2 non conference games.

All bowls but the biggest 4 are moved to the season opening weekend, labor day weekend.

Comfernece championship is played 1st Saturday in December.

1st round is 3rd Saturday in December. Played on site of the conference champions or higher seed if 2 non conference champions are playing against each other.

2nd round(round of 8) is played new years day at the four big bowls. Can bid this out, but my suggestion would be

Sugar- 8:45 pm
Rose - 5:30 pm
Orange- 2 pm
Cotton- 10:30 am

You are taking back new years day. Its your day and it would be huge.


Semifinals on one of the middle Saturdays in January, usually close to 10 days, but can't be more that 2 weeks after round of 8. This is played on the campus of the conference champion or the higher seed. This year it would be on the 9th, a simple one week

Finals are the Saturday before the super bowl at a site bid out. Make it huge like the superbowl. Huge half time show, huge pre game show etc.

It works cause it keeps teams in the race much longer. It also works because it gets all sides of the country involved. It works because no more super teams or the same two teams playing every year. It will hurt the big boys, including lsu, but overall it's good for the sport snd only way it survives long term.

Players wouldn't opt out cause they would have something to play for. Preserves the bowl system with them being at the beginning and allows a ton of flexibility in scheduling. You could even have conference challenges like big 10 vs pac 12 etc etc cause one or two losses doesn't kill you anymore.

It puts the emphases on conference champions. Gives the G5 the ability to create 3 really good conferences and ability to get in and pkay for it all. Gives them the ability to host, etc etc.

I'm good with the sport going back to a really regionalized sport like the 70s-90s, but realize all the money stops flowing then too.

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Lower scholarship limits to a max of 70, 20 kids per class, grad transfers don't count toward the class, only total. Have to have parity somewhat and all parts of the country involved or you are fricksd long term and we revert back to it being a regionalism sport.

Kids gets one free transfer out of conference after freshman year only. After that it's a 2 year sit out unless it's a grad transfer. No hardships or any other bullshite. No the coach is leaving bullshite, no some random fan called me a mean name bullshite, no I got beat out bullshite, no I'm mentally ill bulkshit. You get 1 and only after freshman year. Or bust your arse and graduate, otherwise stfu

All coachingbstaffs have the same number of on field coaches and a max amount of analysts allowed and also max amount of other behind the scene personel allowed.

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This really needs to happen or a lot of historic colleges like Texas, USC, Michigan, Tenn, FSU, etc... will never be relevant again. They would have to make a great coaching hire and have several high ranked recruiting classes in a row to catch up to the teams that have been in the playoffs the past few years. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

The only way the opt outs are going to stop is if the NFL starts punishing the players that opt out. I can't say that I blame them for opting out, they can easily come back if needed to finish their degree.

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And strictly from a revenue standpoint, moving the bowl games to the beginning of the season as someone else suggested earlier in the thread is an intriguing idea. You don't have to worry about this crap, and the conferences still get paid.

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But wouldn't it destroy the regular season instead of the bowl season?

Once a team realizes it's not going to a conference championship or playoff game, the best players will opt out.

Then we'd destroy traditionally big rivalry games because it'd be the scrubs playing for nothing. Or you'd have an undefeated Alabama team playing a 2-3 loss Auburn team and Auburn would have its NFL prospects opting out.

Just go ahead and cancel the playoffs and put the two best teams in the championship. Notre Dane is not good enough, Ohio State hasn’t earned it with 1/2 a season. Only two semifinal games have been competitive since the start the playoffs.

Instead of further diluting a bad product they should consolidate to improve it. Fewer bowl games and no semifinal would be a start. Nobody realistically thinks Oklahoma or Florida have a chance at beating the best.

Mad dash to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs...

1. Pay the kids. Preferably with a bonus system for participating in postseason/bowls.
2. Limit scholarships to 20 per team, forcing at least some parity.
3. Eliminate in conference transfers and reinstitute sit out penalties for transfers.
4. Play only one non-conference game per year. That’s it for live warm ups.
5. Swap to DII 16 game playoff system.
6. Eliminate all other bowls.

The kids view the bowls as injury risk and the schools/NCAA getting a payday at their expense. They’re right about it too. Until you make all postseason activity meaningful, the best will not participate.

Even with the adjustments, the best prospects on mid-level and bad teams will opt out to preserve themselves for the draft. Frankly, they should.