Bowl Games in general
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M1911A1Hawkeye
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I enjoy watching the bowl games. Would have been better had Iowa won but it didn't work out that way.
tm3308
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I sure hope you watched the Rose Bowl.
WinOneThisCentury
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I totally disagree with this assessment. I'm not sure what you watched today, but the Wisky / SC game was entertaining as hell...or what I saw of it. Shaw played out of his head to beat them. I thought the Iowa game was entertaining as I loved watching out defense. MSU / Stanford was a classic matchup...great game. Even Nebby and Georgia was entertaining. Not sure what you are watching...
WinOneThisCentury
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One last thing, "Learn the damn Game..."
okeefe4prez
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How did your team, Iowa State, do in its bowl game?
RocknRollface
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Pretty much agree. The bowl system is done.
Once the playoffS start the bowls will seem even lamer.
The playoffs will just keep getting bigger because people will love it and the money will be huge.
twinlaker
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And when it goes to 8 teams, which it will... even better and more money!
HawkeyeWalker
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I think they beat your team, NW, in the massive hand bowl.
Sorry ok4p, had to do it.
Seth53
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Agree.
It'll go to 16 teams eventually, with seeding...higher seeds get home games in rounds one and two.
(They could have made this work this year but the suits calling the shots are uber-conservative and afraid to do what's right).
(Time to keep playoff money at home rather that in some FL chamber of commerce coffer)
Need to raise the bowl eligible wins to 7.
Need to eliminate any bowl which had 6-6 teams in it this year.
A couple of years from now, people will look back at the entire BCS mess, which could have been rectified a decade earlier, and scratch their collective heads as why it took so long. Wetzel is so spot on it's scary.
HawkeyeWalker
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Agreed all around, except I can't see them going to 16 teams. 4 more weeks would be great but I don't see it, unless they shorten the "break".
WinOneThisCentury
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Yeah, I can't wait to see LSU and FSU play in the Rose Bowl in one of the playoff games. So much for tradition. I want to see a true national champ as much as the other guy, but I honestly think an "and one" game would have solved the issue 99% of the years in CFB. Very rarely are their 3 teams after the bowls complete that can legitimately lay claim to a NC. Like this year? Who's arguing about the match-up? What four teams this year should be in the playoff. FSU, MSU, Alabama, OSU, Auburn, and Baylor...that's six teams for four spots that have an argument? So you take out OSU and Baylor for late losses or whatever. Alabama lost their division, should they be in? Then it comes down to subjective reasoning just like the BCS...the SEC is the best conference so they should have two teams etc.
Eight teams is better, but it still is a mess logistically and I think you could have left the bowl system alone and done an NC game a week later, if you line the bowl games up correctly.
Eight teams is better, but it still is a mess logistically and I think you could have left the bowl system alone and done an NC game a week later, if you line the bowl games up correctly.
Seth53
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Agreed all around, except I can't see them going to 16 teams. 4 more weeks would be great but I don't see it, unless they shorten the "break".
Yes...shorten the break for the playoff teams. Bowl (non playoff) teams would need to shorten up the break a bit also.
Play the semi's on New Year's Day in the traditional bowl locations.
16 teams, 10 conf champs, 6 wildcards. Conf champs get seeded above non-conf champs who might perhaps have a better record...i.e. you make being the conf champ mean something.
Seedings based on disinterested committee's decision. Criteria weighs heavily on SoS. Regular season games versus sisters of the poor will magically disappear.
#17 going to cry? Of course. But #16 teams is a large enough statistical sample where #17's voice will certainly be drowned out by #9 (8 team playoff) or #5 (4 team playoff).
Seth53
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You can still have your old fashioned Rose Bowl pitting non-playoff Pac-10/B1G teams. Playoffs don't eliminate the bowls.
No subjective reasoning at all. SoS rules the day. Pity games go away. Idiotic sports writers' political voting goes away.
Again, bowl system is untouched, just watered down in prestige. You win the B1G and you're into the playoffs rather than the Rose Bowl where your "hopes" of winning a NC is left up to the idiotic/homer voters. You lose the B1G champ game and you're probably in too, just at a lower seed.
ColoradoHAWKEYE
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You know, I felt that way for a long time myself, mostly because I liked the New Years Day tradition. However, the bowl season has become so watered down now with so many bowls, and then the big games that don't even play on NYrs Day anymore.
The playoff would of worked with a plus 1, but I think a four team playoff will still fit into the current bowl structure that has emerged. There is certainly an arguement for 8 teams as well. (I personally don't like the 16 team format a laid out above).
The excitement and enthusiasm that is drummed up in the NFL for playoff games, certainly is not made up, and will carry over to the college games without too much disruption (to the way bowl games no longer really emphasize tradition outside the Rose anyhow these days).
