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The only appealing part of playoff expansion to me.
That and watching what happens to mid majors that get a big boys full attention in a playoff game.
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AJHawkfan
Wanna make $14 the hard way?
Personally, I would like to see it limited to the top 8 and the top 4 get home games (which'll never happen because money). The selection committee system they're using now is a joke and until they change that, it doesn't matter how many teams get in. I like the idea of going back to a mixed method of coaches polls, media polls, and computer rankings to determine the teams that get in. As a part of this, no polls should be released until at least week 6. Preseason polls and the inevitable segments discussing "who's in (right now)?" are stupid and bring no value or benefit to the sport.
Byes (and home games, for that matter) will make an already slanted playing field that much worse. Making two top 10 teams battle it out for the right to play a fully healthy Bama (or Clemson, or tOSU) will make it that much harder for them to get to the semis.
Byes (and home games, for that matter) will make an already slanted playing field that much worse. Making two top 10 teams battle it out for the right to play a fully healthy Bama (or Clemson, or tOSU) will make it that much harder for them to get to the semis.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
In theory, that'd be great.
However, I found the loophole: "They" will control the seeds. Even when Ohio State gets a 2 seed, and Clemson gets a 6 seed, Clemson will play AT #3 Georgia, and Ohio State will host #7 Notre Dame. It'll be controversial. "How did Clemson move up to #6? They lost to Pitt and South Carolina! Notre Dame beat Pitt, and lost in a couple of close games." Something like that. It'll be a cold day in Columbus before any of those southern teams comes to play a playoff game hosted by Ohio State.
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I know we'll never get a home game but I'd be happy with even neutral site games played outside of the SEC footprint. There are domes in the north. Use them.
Southern teams travel for shit, they shouldn't get every big game in a stadium that's less than a 5 hour drive for their entire fanbase.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
It would depend on the stadium, but a 105K in Ohio Stadium minus Ohio State's expenses puts more money into the pot than 80K in the Sugar Bowl minus expenses. What's the smallest stadium in the Great Lakes/Northeast that could realistically host a playoff game? Wiscy or Domer, and they're both 80K. It'll never happen because SEC! will never agree to a system where their teams have to play in cold weather, because it just matters more.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
The "old way" ship has sailed. The CFPs are all about the money now (and this article is a year old, expanding the CFP will be even more $$$):
Here’s The College Football TV Money At Stake For Each Conference And Network
Indeed, the richest college conferences have been reshaped over the past decade or so by the big increase in money the networks have ponied up to televise college football. For 2020, for example, ESPN/ABC, Fox and CBS are on the hook for a combined $1.4 billion (see chart below), excluding the 12-year, $5.6 billion deal ESPN has to televise the playoffs. It also does not include conference networks, in which media companies also have sizable investments.
Entire article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoz...-each-conference-and-network/?sh=720ee3477dc9
Hmmmmm, so how much does Notre Dame get for being "kinda" in the ACC? Oh, and how much NBC money goes to the ACC?
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Speaking of off season, anything new with Zach Smith?
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