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    Mr KLC
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    New Year's Day Just Doesn't Seem The Same Anymore

    No games worth a damn being played, unless you're a fan of one of the teams. Only one game on a major network. All these games being on cable channels subliminally make them lose their luster. Would have enjoyed the playoff games being played today, instead of on New Year's Eve when a lot of people want to party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post
    No games worth a damn being played, unless you're a fan of one of the teams. Only one game on a major network. All these games being on cable channels subliminally make them lose their luster. Would have enjoyed the playoff games being played today, instead of on New Year's Eve when a lot of people want to party.
    Something doesn't feel right, but at least they are not playing a lot of games after January 1st. I really hate that shit.

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    The College Football Playoff committee raised some eyebrows when it moved the semifinals from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve, and that risk ultimately didn't pay off from a ratings perspective.

    According to John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal, the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl drew ratings of 9.9 and 9.7 respectively, down significantly from last season:


    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...mming-national

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    Thank the Rose Bowl

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    All the games today have been complete blowouts,what a shit show it's been for Bowl Game's.

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    Yeh

    It is just a regular day now..nba games, college games

    Never was like that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post
    No games worth a damn being played, unless you're a fan of one of the teams. Only one game on a major network. All these games being on cable channels subliminally make them lose their luster. Would have enjoyed the playoff games being played today, instead of on New Year's Eve when a lot of people want to party.
    I agree KLC. Bad move to put the playoff games on NYE. Don't know what they were thinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMoneyShot View Post
    I agree KLC. Bad move to put the playoff games on NYE. Don't know what they were thinking.
    See post #4

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    It's retarded how the entire playoff schedule has to bow to the Rose Bowl. When the Rose Bowl hosts a semi-final, we get a New Year's Day final 4, which is how it should be. But on those years where the Rose Bowl is not a semi-final, they move the playoffs to New Year's Eve.

    It's retarded how the Rose Bowl has more sway than the playoffs, and it's retarded how they moved it to New Year's Eve instead of January 2nd. The current schedule calls for this for the next 10 years so unless they change anything, we better get used to it.

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    Nothing like giving the 2nd best (debatable) Big 10 team, and a team for a conference that couldn't even make the playoffs top billing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
    Thank the Rose Bowl
    Quote Originally Posted by Booya711 View Post

    See post #4
    Why not just have the playoff games on Saturday January 2?

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    Why not have a 12 team playoff and get rid of the bowls? Would like to see how teams like Houston would do if given a chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StatePenn View Post
    Why not have a 12 team playoff and get rid of the bowls? Would like to see how teams like Houston would do if given a chance.
    All about the cash...bowls aren't going away

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    Playoffs need to be 8 teams. 5 Power Conference winners, Highest ranked conference winner from the smaller ones, and 2 wild cards.

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    Why not just do a 120 team playoff and let everyone in?

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    Leave it as it is. Who cares when they play the damn thing, next year get the teams right. Ohio State and Stanford should have been in instead of Mich St and Okl

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    Bottom line - Waaay too many meaningless bowls! 5-7 teams playing in empty stadiums - just brutal! Simple solution: Expand the playoff to 8 or even 16 teams and use the shit bowls for these games. Interest will be increased as well as attendance. Yea, I know - that solution is too simple for the powers that be in college football...

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    8 team playoff is what needs to happen

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMoneyShot View Post
    Why not just have the playoff games on Saturday January 2?
    Exactly. Only CFB can mess this up. They don't play a bunch of games after the CBB final four. The semi-finals should be the pinnacle of the season, not treated as an afterthought. Ratings down 40% proved that also.

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    There must be logistical reasons why they couldn't play these semifinal games on January 2nd.

    If all of us can figure out it was stupid to play them on New Years Eve, there must have been a reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post
    No games worth a damn being played, unless you're a fan of one of the teams. Only one game on a major network. All these games being on cable channels subliminally make them lose their luster. Would have enjoyed the playoff games being played today, instead of on New Year's Eve when a lot of people want to party.
    Soon the playoff will be 8 or 16 teams and NYD will be busy again

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    There must be logistical reasons why they couldn't play these semifinal games on January 2nd.

    If all of us can figure out it was stupid to play them on New Years Eve, there must have been a reason.
    They (probably ESPN) wanted to start playing the semifinals on NYE as a new tradition. The only traditions in CFB is the rose bowl and trying to bilk more money from its fans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RockBottom View Post
    They (probably ESPN) wanted to start playing the semifinals on NYE as a new tradition. The only traditions in CFB is the rose bowl and trying to bilk more money from its fans.
    Well, if that's the case, that's just idiotic. Those games didn't even feel like playoff games. They had more of a feel of a meaningless bowl game.

    I didn't realize this was going to be the tradition moving forward. How lame.

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    Lets see what happens next year

    The ratings could not of been great either

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    New Years Day line up should always be cream of crop. Not this year and blowouts don't help

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    The Rose Bowl has become a joke. With the Playoff system in place we are basically watching the 2nd place Pac 12 and Big 10 teams play each other. The results point out that the Big 10 is brutal......apologies to Ohio State and a pat on the back to Michigan. Iowa was just terrible, Northwestern worse.

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