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College Playoff

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Buckeneye said:
Never thought I'd see the game of major college football pass me by, but there it is. We had a good run.
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I figured everyone would've guessed this is street we were headed down when most fans wanted a playoff instead of the BCS, and once colleges started seeing the bags of cash bestowed upon them yearly
 
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pnuts34 said:
I figured everyone would've guessed this is street we were headed down when most fans wanted a playoff instead of the BCS, and once colleges started seeing the bags of cash bestowed upon them yearly
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With NIL, the transfer portal and a true CFP all being so new, there are a million things that will need to get worked out over time.

What day of the week games are played on is down the list somewhere around which side of the field the visitor stands on in my book.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
With NIL, the transfer portal and a true CFP all being so new, there are a million things that will need to get worked out over time.

What day of the week games are played on is down the list somewhere around which side of the field the visitor stands on in my book.
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Perhaps, you'll find this a bit more interesting (not being a smart ass Jax - I found this idea unique).

theathletic.com

Playoff dates set, will college football consider Week 0 start?

CFP leaders have acknowledged that they’re prepared to go head-to-head with the behemoth that is the NFL during their new postseason.
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College Coaches and Administrators are worried about the end of the season and all of the "jumble" now that the playoff is expanding.

“Understand that you’re fitting in championship games, final exams, coaching transition, early signing, transfer portal, NFL games, Army-Navy, commencement and New Year’s Day. There’s a lot there,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said.
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The easy solution would be to start the season earlier. Rather than have a Week 0 - everybody starts the Saturday before Labor Day.
But it has its own set of issues:

“You run into issues any time you try to do anything with the calendar,” Aresco said. “With Week 0, you have camps, and they’d have to move earlier and they conflict with summer school. That’s a real issue. Do the camps need to be as lengthy as they are? That’s something that will need to be discussed by the various committees.

“You move things earlier, do you want to play championship games on Thanksgiving weekend when students aren’t there? Do you want to move Army-Navy? … Every time you do something, it affects something else.”
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I don't have a solution - but I would miss the hoopla and excited about Labor Day weekend and CFB kickoff.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Perhaps, you'll find this a bit more interesting (not being a smart ass Jax - I found this idea unique).

theathletic.com

Playoff dates set, will college football consider Week 0 start?

CFP leaders have acknowledged that they’re prepared to go head-to-head with the behemoth that is the NFL during their new postseason.
theathletic.com theathletic.com

College Coaches and Administrators are worried about the end of the season and all of the "jumble" now that the playoff is expanding.



The easy solution would be to start the season earlier. Rather than have a Week 0 - everybody starts the Saturday before Labor Day.
But it has its own set of issues:




I don't have a solution - but I would miss the hoopla and excited about Labor Day weekend and CFB kickoff.
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as far as the jumble goes, it's more anecdotal evidence to the need to drop the charade that these are student athletes and deal with the reality that it's a full time job for young men with a unique skill set. They can be given a GI Bill-like opportunity to complete their degree and access to school sponsored lifetime health care (as examples) but they are there to help the school make their millions.

I know a lot of people don't like that but I think it's obvious that, eventually, it's coming. The final for econ 101 is not going to get in the way of big money. It just isn't.
 
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Zurp said:
Yep. Until the calendar is fixed to always having January 1 on a Saturday, it'll continue to change each year.

For the round earlier, you want to have at least a week between the first round and January 1, so it looks like they moved it to a 10-day separation to the weekend. Put one of the 4 games on Friday so you don't have to try to overlap them all on Saturday.

The next round, I'm sure they'd love to have the game on Saturday. But do you really want to poke the bear? The NFL has gone a long time of not having games on Saturday. I believe that there is an anti-trust agreement where they say they won't have games on Saturday until the middle of December, or something. Is it a coincidence that that's after college football is done? Anyway, I'd imagine that if the NFL really wanted to declare war on the NCAA, they could fight that and get games on Saturday. Most of us would still watch college football, but there are plenty who wouldn't. The NCAA should not want a war with the NFL. Don't fire the first shot by scheduling games during the NFL playoffs.

As for having the championship on a Monday, that's how it's been since at least the BCS started.
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If the NCAA wants a full blown playoff, i dont see any way to completely cede all the weekends to the NFL playoff.
But im going to guess some of the networks with NFL playoff rights also have some CFB playoff rights.
That should lead to some compromise.
Or not, and it will be total war.
 
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kujirakira said:
If the NCAA wants a full blown playoff, i dont see any way to completely cede all the weekends to the NFL playoff.
But im going to guess some of the networks with NFL playoff rights also have some CFB playoff rights.
That should lead to some compromise.
Or not, and it will be total war.
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not a war that CFB wants to fight imo
 
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kujirakira said:
NCAA has little say in it. A toothless and powerless organization.
It comes down to what networks have the rights and what wars they want to fight. NCAA is along for the ride.
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Jaxbuck said:
that's why I said CFB, not the NCAA. They are a dead org walking.
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That's a good point and I didn't think about it. It isn't going to be up to the NCAA - it'll be up to the networks. But the point is that the college playoffs will not want to try to compete with the NFL playoffs. The New Year's Day bowl games already avoid playing on Sunday. Don't they typically play Monday, January 2, when January 1 is on a Sunday?

There may be some compromises, but I think the NFL has more power than College Football has (I didn't say "NCAA", because I think you're right - they're nothing). The NFL will pick their spots and the networks will put college football in the remaining spots.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Yeah, that is a loss on the national scale. Ohio State v TCSUN would probably beat out a Denver v Miami NFL game though.
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I'm confident that The Game will outdraw most regular season NFL games, but I think head-to-head, most Ohio State games are not going to beat out the average Monday Night game. Ohio State-Notre Dame might beat out most NFL games. But remember that the rest of the games are Ohio State-Purdue and Ohio State-Rutgers, and Ohio State-Minnesota. Only Ohio State fans care. And Ohio State has a much larger fan base than most teams. NFL Team A vs. NFL Team B - if either of the teams is in a playoff hunt, the rest of the NFL has a rooting interest. Average college football fans have a rooting interest in Ohio State-Rutgers right up until the end of the first quarter when Ohio State scores their third touchdown.
 
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