OSU vs ND

I have loved watching the NFL playoffs with the shit weather in KC, Buffalo and especially Philly this weekend. Cold and snow football is badass. Making the SEC weanies come to our buildings in December and January is awesome. Like the NFL, I would go home stadiums until the championship game and then a neutral site dome or warm weather NFL stadium for the big one.

Keep all the bowls and just go back to tying those bowls into the conferences with teams outside of the playoff teams. The bowls won't like that, but so what? They can take it or leave it. If/when college football breaks away, if I am the commissioner I tell the bowls they will get the teams they are assigned. Not the other way around. The bowls need the teams much much more than the teams need the bowls.

With respect, Grady, I disagree on the length of the season. Hell, extend the damn thing. I am already lamenting that I only have 3 football games left this season. Nooooooo!!!!
 
SwirlinLingerie said:
I'd like to see college football look out for the fans a little more moving forward. I know, probably a pipe dream. I think that starts with prioritizing traditional/regional rivalries.

And I'd like to see the playoffs mirror FCS more or less. Start rolling with them soon after Thanksgiving.

Almost all playoff games on campus (that's the coolest part when watching on TV, and also astronomically better for fans of those teams).

Maybe you have the Final Four (so two games) on New Years, followed by the championship game a week later. Although I wouldn't be against trying to figure out a way to play the title game on New Years.

And then play the championship game every year at the Rose Bowl. I know I am biased growing up as a fan of the Big Ten, but it's the best tradition left in college football. Embrace it. There is no reason to continue calling it the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, etc. once those venues changed.

Play the title game every year at basically the same place and time (late afternoon kick in the Rose Bowl). And have it either on New Years or one of the first Saturdays after.

In my opinion, college football's post season lost a lot of its appeal once they moved title games indoors on Monday nights.
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The first round games in home stadiums of higher seeded teams was a great move.
The 'old' bowl structure gives the SEC teams a real 'home-field' advantage in terms of fan proximity and playing conditions. This year's venues:

Quarterfinals
Fiesta - PHX (B12)
Rose - LA (B10)
Peach - ATL (SEC)
Sugar - NO (SEC)

Semifinals
Orange - MIA (SEC)
Cotton - DAL (SEC)

Finals
Mercedes Benz Stadium ATL - GA (SEC)

The semi's and final's were all played in SEC territory. And half of the quarterfinals, for a total of 5 of the 7 games.

I would like to see the subsequent round quarterfinal playoff games be played in the home of higher seeded teams as well.

That leaves 3 games - semi's and final - to be played in a reasonably neutral venue, and/or sufficiently rotated among cities to equalize any geographic bias.
 
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SCHawkeye2 said:
The first round games in home stadiums of higher seeded teams was a great move.
The 'old' bowl structure gives the SEC teams a real 'home-field' advantage in terms of fan proximity and playing conditions. This year's venues:

Quarterfinals
Fiesta - PHX (B12)
Rose - LA (B10)
Peach - ATL (SEC)
Sugar - NO (SEC)

Semifinals
Orange - MIA (SEC)
Cotton - DAL (SEC)

Finals
Mercedes Benz Stadium ATL - GA (SEC)

The semi's and final's were all played in SEC territory. And half of the quarterfinals, for a total of 5 of the 7 games.

I would like to see the subsequent round quarterfinal playoff games be played in the home of higher seeded teams as well.

That leaves 3 games - semi's and final - to be played in a reasonably neutral venue, or sufficiently rotated among cities to equalize any geographic bias.
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Strong points. If you used the Rose, Fiesta, and rotated the Peach and Orange Bowl, you would be ensuring that the semis and finals were within the footprints of each of the four major conferences.
 
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