In the old four team playoff the majority of games were decided by 3+ scores. Thats just part of the sport.
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I think it’s possible we see disastrous attendance numbers for the Orange Bowl. A weeknight game with only a week of lead time and a trip to the natty a week later for the winner doesn’t sound very appealing from a travel perspective. The Cotton Bowl should be relatively inoculated because they’re fortunate enough to have an in-state team, but this has potential to get real bad.
I vote for 16 teams with all Conference Champs participating.
The seeding will be like March Madness…1-16.
And,yes, like in March Madness the low seeds will get demolished.
But…your school’s students and Alums can have pride that they made The CFP. Ever hear someone complain they made March Madness as a #16 seed?
This requires 15 game sites. No home games, just like March Madness.
We have way more than 15 Bowl Game sites right now. Some get automatically eliminated due to small seating capacity, difficulty of getting there, etc.
This could be super exciting and spread College Football fever all over the USA.
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The NCAA isn’t running this, nor recognizing it. It’s just as mythical as before.
If the 12 team playoff existed in 2015, how far would the 2015 UH team advance?
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Lets really make it interesting. 6 conference games. Best 64 records divided into 4 regions. Next 6 games, one and done. Loose, you get close by regional games. Win, you advance to the next weekend in the tourney. National Champion crowned week 12 of season, week 6 of tourney.
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Did you know Houston lost $375,000 on that defintely not targeting call?
Did you know that the financial windfall Houston is justifiably excited about is hanging by a thread and threatened to be DOA just as your P4 experience is getting out of the gate?
Think real wages vs inflation.
You guys have been through a lot. I get it. You’re here with us now, and we’re thrilled to have you. You’re entitled to celebrate and be optimistic about your future. So this isn’t an attack. It’s just something that needs to be at the forefront of your minds as fellow members. We need to be united, vigilant, outspoken, and active.
At some point when the Coogs and Coogfans get their P4 sea legs underneath them… it won’t be Big 12 Houston vs Pre-Big 12 Houston. It might not even be allowed to be Big 12 Houston vs Other Big 12 members. At least in a context that is all that different from your previous life in the AAC. The deck is stacked against us and the horse has left the barn.
Let me explain:
Below the bolded is a transcript I typed out from Iowa State’s actual NIL director. He’s addressing Cyclone fans yesterday in the wake of the Athletic Department announcing sweeping price increases and donation level benchmarks to alumni and fans…for everything.
Keep in mind, ISU has basically no debt, and this is a fellow Big 12 program that is borderline crushing it by every controllable realistic metric, on and off the field. Everything, and I mean everything, could not be better at ISU.
But you know what? I get it. I don’t blame them.
THIS IS ABOUT THE NETWORKS AND THE CFP
…So here’s what the SEC and the Big 10 have done in the last 18 months… they have taken more of the playoff Revenue…we’re talking about 10 million per year away from Iowa State [same for other Big 12 members]
…Then you get an extra 4 million for making a playoff. 6 million for winning a game. 8 million if you make the final [each total per instance of occurrence, which will be spread evenly amongst conference members]… this adds up over time!
Not to mention, what TVs trying to do is devalue the Big 12 [in the next media rights negotiations (which talks will actually begin sooner than you may think, and the new 5-year deal, of which Houston is about to become a full member, hasn’t even kicked in yet!)] so they [ESPN & Fox] don’t have to pay as much by saying “well you don’t have any playoff teams” Right?
Like, it it all adds up here…to the benefit of the SEC, when they’re already [going to be getting approximately] 35 million [more than Big 12 members] a year per school in [non-CFP] TV Revenue, because they’re in that conference! Same with the Big 10.
So it just makes it really hard and ultimately, I feel for the fans here, I really do. Because if you want Iowa State to be competitive, ultimately now, who’s responsible for Iowa State to remain competitive? The fans. The same people that have been the biggest asset that Iowa State has had for the last 40 years…
-Brent Blum, ISU We Will Collective Director, formerly ISU Radio Network/Learfield Sports
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Bowls suck within this playoff format. Its unnecessarily taxing for the fans. Besides, the higher seeds SHOULD be rewarded with home field advantage.
He was talking to me…sorry.
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WOW!!!
So the Big 12 and former Big 12 were a MAJOR draw!!!
Just imagine what the ratings for a ND vs either UT or OSU will be!
Only the Super Bowl will be bigger!
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Relax. The NCAA FCS championship has 10 conference champs and at-large selections from a committee to create the 24-team field.
What do you think the NCAA would do differently for the CFB playoffs?
You know the NCAA isn’t perfect, right?
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I was just pointing out that this is just as mythical as ever. Myths may have lots of legitimacy when lots of people believe them, but they are still myths.
I’m in the lonely desert of thinking that the FBS doesn’t lend itself to a national championship the way other levels or sports do. I don’t generally like playoffs in any sport, because I want the regular season to matter, but also be enjoyable for its own sake. We’re talking about kids’ games played by (barely) adults. There’s no reason for this much money or importance to be placed on any of this. We’re celebrating greed, corruption, and pandering to T shirt fans for the last 50 years. I don’t like what that does to us, what it says about us, and what it does to the culture of education and the institutions.
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Hmmm.
Don’t agree.
The regular season definitely matters in this case, insofar as regular season success is what gets you in the playoffs and gets you a chance to win it all.
What I don’t like is how auto bids to the NCAA basketball tourney end up often being decided by a weekend tourney instead of regular season records.
For many conferences, their auto bid and only rep often ends up not being the conference’s best team, but rather, the one that got hot for a weekend. The regular season largely becomes irrelevant.
The BBAll tourney would be better and the regular season more relevant if regular season champs got the auto bids instead, plus some top at larges.
That’s what football now has for P4s and the best G5 champ. Expand that to all conference regular season champs……and you then have the perfect football playoff.
That said….
There will always be at large bids that are head scratchers……like SMU and Indiana this year.
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This is the only system that can satisfy all…COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS.
Can we all agree on what made college football popular?
Regional rivalries.
Regional rivalries allowed for fans to drive/tail gate from one university to the next.
Regional rivalries made family gatherings even more fun.
Regional rivalries most of all relates to everyone, everywhere.
It comes back to one fundamental point. You are either a DIV 1 FBS program or not. The p2’s are trying to strong arm the entire country and impose their own will on all of us. Again most of these schools are public. They are not nfl franchises. espn wants us to think they are. Most public schools operate their athletics budget in the red. The following question will have to be asked. Why are these same public schools operating their athletics department with a deficit and are receiving public funding?
Nobody told this university or another to realign. They did it but they are still operating in the red. This is like giving a drink to an alcoholic. There is no end to it.
Some of you are just plain hypocrites. You were the same ones asking for what I am and other asking when we were a g5.
16 teams qualify for the cfp.
10 conference champions
Six at large including one independent if their ranking is in the top 10.
The one to 16 ranking decides who is hosting and traveling.
We could even go further as having all conference champions hosting the first game. Think of a bama having to travel to Miami of Ohio and play in a hostile environment. Speak about local, regional excitement going back to the essence of college football.
You want the same teams over and over again? Besides these same schools National interest will go down.
The p2’s not happy with it?
Make the cfp payoff big enough to make these same p2’s to EARN their money on the FIELD not because they feel entitled to.
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We should definitely give the sec 3 bids every year based on the results this year…
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Yes…NIL has taken away the SECs ability to stockpile 4 &5 stars 3 deep
With the exception of a few, most are flagships in poor states with poor tshirt fans.
Players with options can now transfer to schools that will pay them.
The SEC can no longer get by on "reputation " alone
Saban easily saw the writing on the wall.
Luckily, for us…the University of Houston will be in the top 25% of schools in the New NIL era
Big Rich School
Rich Powerful State
Sits in a huge market with endless marketing opportunities
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It’s not about the things you listed at the bottom.
If it were then USF would be a power.
It’s about having a large enough number of rich alums/boosters that CARE enough about sports to fund the NIL honeypot sufficiently.
UT has it.
aTm has it.
ND has it.
Ohio State has it.
Penn State has it.
Stanford……DOESN’T have it, despite their school’s wealth and location. Their alums could truly care less about funding sports, despite their wealth; that’s why they’ve had six straight losing seasons in the NIL era.
UH really doesn’t have it either. Our fan base is too small, and most of our rich alums don’t care about our sports. That’s why I don’t see UH becoming a Top 25% NIL school (it currently is considered a poor NIL school), unless something drastically changes.
The only reason we won’t be like Stanford or USF is because we have a huge comparative advantage in two areas: a) the transfer portal; our location in the most talent rich region makes us a prime location for discontented or homesick but talented players looking to come back and play closer to home, and b) the new court ruling that gives JUCOs additional years of eligibility.
BELIEVE ME!
If we get the program back to 2015/2016 H-Town Takeover type levels…the popularity of UH football will snow ball in epic proportions!
The alums, the casual fans, and the NIL $$ will.show up in force.
Remember the BUZZ those two years!
USF NEVER had the capacity for that buzz.
I stand by my bold statement…UH HAS the ceiling to be a P2 level Power one day…in.the new NIL world.
Stop using your lawyer 1 dimesional mind.
The Houston Astros went from a 3 season 100 loss team nobody …to the most dominant anticipated road team across the country IN a 5 YEAR span.
That’s how quickly the brand changed.
The Houston Cougars have all the elements to be a BEAST!
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