Originally Posted by
ebbearsfb1
last night Sugar Bowl? and the Sugar Bowl in 09, not much reason to remember them unless your a Ute fan or Ville fan. games were largely uncompetitive, and uninteresting..
march madness gets by fine with only one team winning their last game. so i dont buy the big win would lose its luster. plenty of memoriable march games are remember and didnt lose luster. i know its a different sport.
and 35 teams win bowl games... YAY everyone finishes with a trophy. its like its little league, everyone gets a ribbon for showing up
almost 30% of college teams finish with a bowl win, 6-6 gets ya in a bowl game 6-7 the past few years for some teams, and over half the teams get into a bowl game, just by being average at best..
an 8 team playoff would not hurt the importance of the record season though, every game would still be important.. teams still wont be able to go and lose 3 games and think they have a shot, 2 losses will knock a lot of teams out of the conversation anyway.
and the rest of the bowl games can still be kept in place to a certain extend... they would still be able to keep almost 20 bowl games outside of the playoff..
the reason i mentioned 16 was to at least give a team like ville, or an undefeated boise , san jose st. a shot at the party where with 8 teams they really still wont have a shot.
8 team could work with travel and everything, as the first round could be higher seeds place.
then semis and finals neutral bowl sites...
for people to say anything about travel, people would actually travel if the game was MEANINGFUL and not just a regular odd bowl game.. They pack 100,000 in some of these stadiums, they can get people to go to playoff games
and this year a 4 team playoff ..
oregon gets in?
florida gets in?
neither team even won theire division let alone their conference.
but they are both ranked higher than Stanford, and Georgia..
So sure a 4 team playoff is an improvement, but how do you justify putting oregon in over stanford, as oregon is currently ranked 4...
8 would be great... maybe one day it will happen...
i can hope... and its not like people can say the 1 vs 8 game would be be lousy either..
this year it would be nd vs lsu or a&m.
then again yay 35 trophies, 70 particpants, the only way you dont get a chance is if your terrible.. Being average is just fine now a days in most things it seems