CFP & Bowl Games

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Bucktown
Mr. Tibbs said:
the easiest answer is 16 teams
first round same weekend as now - seeds 1-8 play at home

the only issue is TV schedule . do you have some games on at same time or do you spread it over more than days somehow ?
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Break the ESPN monopoly on the CFP like the NFL playoffs. The first round could overlap a couple games times. The 1 v 16 game and 2 v 15 games may not be so appealing anyway. The TNT games don't get great ratings anyway. The ESPN games get almost 3x the viewers of the TNT games. Let CBS, Fox and NBC bid on the additional 4 games and that would add a lot of money to the pool.

I would also be ok with 8 teams. There is a potential for saturation with too many games; ratings were down 7% vs last year in the first round.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
Bucktown said:
Break the ESPN monopoly on the CFP like the NFL playoffs. The first round could overlap a couple games times. The 1 v 16 game and 2 v 15 games may not be so appealing anyway. The TNT games don't get great ratings anyway. The ESPN games get almost 3x the viewers of the TNT games. Let CBS, Fox and NBC bid on the additional 4 games and that would add a lot of money to the pool.

I would also be ok with 8 teams. There is a potential for saturation with too many games; ratings were down 7% vs last year in the first round.
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a. agree 100% . needs to happen asap

b. the toothpaste is outta the tube. that ship sailed three years ago . it will never happen . too much money on the line
 
#256      
hooraybeer
hooraybeer said:
actually hope IU breaks the streak.

expecting major changes this offseason. conference championship games cancelled. 16 team playoff, no byes, top 8 seeds host first round, higher seed hosts second round. the ability to host incentivizes the regular season games. cutting out conference championships moves everything up a week, prevents rust. not sure how rose/fiesta/orange/sugar/cotton/peach bowls get sorted out, some sort of revolving system could make sense
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and get rid of any g5 or conference champion autobids (tulane, JMU this year). top 16 make the tournament, period. the gap between p4/g5 is getting wider and wider, will lead to worse and worse matchups in the future if these guarantees continue
 
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OrangeBlue98
STLini25 said:
That will happen. Possibly as soon as next year.
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If we see 0-8 or 1-7 for top 4 seeds after tonight, I would be shocked if we don’t see 16 teams next year. We might see it anyway no matter what.
 
#261      
Epsilon
Mr. Tibbs said:
what was with Lanning scoring at the end?
He & McGuire have a personal beef ?
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I think two reasons:
1. Most important I think he wanted to give the offense some confidence after their struggles this game.
2. Why not make it a 3 score game? Tech was getting the ball back and they already ran it back for a TD. It’s just safer.

FWIW he may not have worried at all about 2 but I think 1 was very important.
 
#263      
eas23
Both of these teams list Crimson as their official color. :unsure:
 
#264      
OrangeBlue98
STLini25 said:
I agree. Plus, Lanning lets up in blowouts so it’s extra odd.
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I’d probably subscribe to the theory that something happened over the course of the game that made Lanning want to rub some salt in the wound at the end. I personally didn’t see anything watching the game, but obviously things happen on the field that we don’t know about watching on TV.
 
#270      
OrangeBlue98
Sometimes, coaches just outsmart themselves. That Alabama play call on 4th and 1 is a real head scratcher. You have a 370 pound left tackle and a 320 pound left guard against a smaller IU defense. Power football.
 
#271      
Chase321
Is there any current college football coach that has weirder expressions than Kurt Cignetti does from the sidelines? I can’t decide if it’s fair to just say it’s intensity or more like psychopath?
 
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