Playoffs VS Bowl Games

[Gimmered]

With the current playoff and bowl game situation, does a team even want to be a lower qualifying team for the playoff system? Indiana's post season reward is a trip upstate to South Bend? Oh my what fun. Obviously the benefit of post season is the extra practice, but every bowl team gets that.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end anyway. Especially for post season bowls with the transfer portal and opt outs. I know Iowa is feeling a bit of pain there too, but Nashville is still a better destination than South Bend.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Frog doo Laredo dung in barge pigfilm

 

[SeaPA]

I'd guess players for Bama, Ole Miss, and miami would all rather have been in South Brnd last night than prepping for a meaningless bowl game

 

[thewop]

Frog doo Laredo dung in barge pigfilm

This!

 

[Kinnick 4 Prez]

Showcase your team to the country (with a win or blowout loss), get 4 hrs of primetime tv or play for pop tarts…….
That’s a tough one.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

The playoffs have made everything else meaningless.

Last night the entire big ten were Indiana Fans, today I feel like I have more b10 teams to watch. This has made the regional aspect of cfb cool again.


IIc if it's Oregon or OSU or Penn State, I REALLY want the b10 to have the trophy.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

I hate the playoff being 12 teams. Should be 6, top two with byes, and all within the confines of the context of current bowls. 12 waters down both the regular season and the bowl season. I can see myself and others getting more apathetic about CFB and the bowls.

 

[cjnoles9399]

The playoff doesn’t really move the needle for me at all. I was slightly interested in the game last night purely for a possible Cinderella story in IU but I switched channels at 14-0. I have no interest in a single game today. The NFL will get my attention.

 

[BlIIlken2]

I hate the playoff being 12 teams. Should be 6, top two with byes, and all within the confines of the context of current bowls. 12 waters down both the regular season and the bowl season. I can see myself and others getting more apathetic about CFB and the bowls.

No it should be 16.

 

[LuteHawk]

A team like the Iowa Hawkeyes enjoys the Bowl games and have
no chance at the Playoff of 12 teams. However the Bowl system
as we have known it will soon take a hit for financial reasons.
All top Bowl games like the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach,
and Sugar are now part of the Playoffs.

Bottom Line: Iowa in the 18 member Big Ten Football Conference
has no chance now and in the FUTURE at the Playoff of 12 teams
One reason is we cannot compete with NIL money with Ohio State,
Michigan, Penn State, and others.

 

[The Tradition]

The playoffs should have been integrated into the traditional bowls. It's the "2024 Cheez-It Bowl/Round I CFP Game."

 

[millah_22]

With the current playoff and bowl game situation, does a team even want to be a lower qualifying team for the playoff system? Indiana's post season reward is a trip upstate to South Bend? Oh my what fun. Obviously the benefit of post season is the extra practice, but every bowl team gets that.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end anyway. Especially for post season bowls with the transfer portal and opt outs. I know Iowa is feeling a bit of pain there too, but Nashville is still a better destination than South Bend.

The higher tier bowls are clinging for their life trying to be included as part of the CFP.

Last night the Sugar Bowl officially invited Notre Dame to the Sugar Bowl, give me a break.

The first round should be the high tier bowls, then the 2nd round (the teams with the byes) should get to host the at home playoff game.

 

[millah_22]

No it should be 16.

Why, so you can complain that more teams than just Indiana are "undeserving"?

 

[Gimmered]

No it should be 16.

I'm good with 4,8 or 16. I don't like byes. For me, maybe an earlier playoff game with the loser still being able to go to a bowl. Maybe eliminate the conference championship games. As they are now, they hurt the conference more than they help IMHO.

 

[Gimmered]

A team like the Iowa Hawkeyes enjoys the Bowl games and have
no chance at the Playoff of 12 teams. However the Bowl system
as we have known it will soon take a hit for financial reasons.
All top Bowl games like the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach,
and Sugar are now part of the Playoffs.

9 years out of 10 Iowa has a better shot at the playoffs than Indiana. At the rate of change that's happening now, I'm not even sure we will recognize college football in 10 years though, it's already semipro.

 

[luvmyhawks]

The playoff doesn’t really move the needle for me at all. I was slightly interested in the game last night purely for a possible Cinderella story in IU but I switched channels at 14-0. I have no interest in a single game today. The NFL will get my attention.

I don’t even know what the score was last night. I just don’t care about college football anymore. The nfl always has and always get my attention over college football though. It is a far superior product.

 

[jdw10224405]

I really like the on-campus games. I actually think the first two rounds should be on-campus. Use bowl sites only for semifinals and finals. Reward teams for having a great regular season.

 

[bcherod]

I really like the on-campus games. I actually think the first two rounds should be on-campus. Use bowl sites only for semifinals and finals. Reward teams for having a great regular season.

Like they rewarded FSU last year?

They’ll always find a way to put in the teams they want to put in.

 

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

I hate the playoff being 12 teams. Should be 6, top two with byes, and all within the confines of the context of current bowls. 12 waters down both the regular season and the bowl season. I can see myself and others getting more apathetic about CFB and the bowls.

I agree with part of the statement. I don’t care about the bowls and haven’t in a long time. We spent 100+ years doing this sport kinda stupidly for the sake of tradition.

The regular season is more meaningful than ever. In the past, Several good teams would be derailed by a single fluky upset in September or October and then the rest of their season for them was close enough to “meaningless”.

I didn’t feel the regular season was devalued at all.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Two absolute mis matches in the 1 1/2 played game in the CFP so far...

 

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

I really like the on-campus games. I actually think the first two rounds should be on-campus. Use bowl sites only for semifinals and finals. Reward teams for having a great regular season.

1000%

It seems awkward because there was a need to cowtow to the bowl interests. Fan bases don’t want four neutral site games (conference championship & up to three neutral playoff games).

Now if Penn State went on to play the next game in Boise, seriously, I would pay $40 to watch that on pay per view.

What would I basically never watch? A meaningless Fiesta Bowl exhibition game between Penn State and Boise State

This is college football as it was always meant to be. It just took decades to figure it out.

Rotate the major 6 bowls as semi/championship sites. In the off years, give them first dibs on non-playoff teams and allow them to pick the best of the rest.

As for the lower tier bowls, honestly, who cares. RIP

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Blowout city in Penn State

 

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

A team like the Iowa Hawkeyes enjoys the Bowl games and have
no chance at the Playoff of 12 teams. However the Bowl system
as we have known it will soon take a hit for financial reasons.
All top Bowl games like the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach,
and Sugar are now part of the Playoffs.

This is absolutely silly. If we did a rewind for the last 25 years there are easily 3 Iowa teams (2002, 2009, 2015) that are HOSTING a playoff game and a few others that are somewhere on the fringe.

 

[bcherod]

I agree with part of the statement. I don’t care about the bowls and haven’t in a long time. We spent 100+ years doing this sport kinda stupidly for the sake of tradition.

The regular season is more meaningful than ever. In the past, Several good teams would be derailed by a single fluky upset in September or October and then the rest of their season for them was close enough to “meaningless”.

I didn’t feel the regular season was devalued at all.

So it’s okay what happened last year?

 

[gohawks50]

This is absolutely silly. If we did a rewind for the last 25 years there are easily 3 Iowa teams (2002, 2009, 2015) that are HOSTING a playoff game and a few others that are somewhere on the fringe.

With NIL and the portal many of those teams would probably been picked apart before those special seasons. Would Banks, Stanzi, or CJ have stuck around when they weren't starting and the portal was there for the taking? Would Dallas Clark have transferred before discovering his talent as a TE?

 

[Urohawk]

No it should be 16.

And not other bowl games what-so-ever.

 

[bcherod]

It’s college NFl. It’s all about the money and the networks.

 

[BeepBeepInMyJeep]

So it’s okay what happened last year?

nope, and many other seasons and MANY MANY really good teams over the decades have been robbed.

This is the first ever season that’s truly how it should be.

 

[bcherod]

nope, and many other seasons and MANY MANY really good teams over the decades have been robbed.

This is the first ever season that’s truly how it should be.

Yes, because they couldn’t just insert ‘Bama this year.

 

[gohawks50]

Yes, because they couldn’t just insert ‘Bama this year.

They really wanted to though.

Did you see this clip from last night? It's pretty funny.

 

[bcherod]

They really wanted to though.

Did you see this clip from last night? It's pretty funny.

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That is funny.

We all saw what they were going to do to FSU last year, so Bama could get in. The writing was on the wall even before Jordan Travis went down.

 

[hawkirugged17]

And, somehow, the FCS level has a 24 team playoff.

 

[The Tradition]

Blowout city in Penn State

31-3 at the end of the 3rd quarter and PSU is in scoring position again.

 

[Herky T Hawk]

My guess is that by the end of the day we’re going to realize that teams 9-12 didn’t need to be in the playoffs.

Either make it 8 or 16. With 8 have the first round at home stadiums. With 16 have the first two rounds at home stadiums.

But, in all honesty there is no way that teams 9-16 would have a shot in a four game tournament in football. The talent discrepancy is too big between the top few teams and that lower group.

 

[gohawks50]

My guess is that by the end of the day we’re going to realize that teams 9-12 didn’t need to be in the playoffs.

Either make it 8 or 16. With 8 have the first round at home stadiums. With 16 have the first two rounds at home stadiums.

But, in all honesty there is no way that teams 9-16 would have a shot in a four game tournament in football. The talent discrepancy is too big between the top few teams and that lower group.

Really only 3 out of the last 9 National Championship Games were competitive.

Year-by-Year CFP National Championship Scoring and Stat Summary

Year-by-Year CFP National Championship Scoring and Stat Summary

collegefootballplayoff.com

 

[SolarHawk]

There is no logical argument for Bowl games to continue to exist in the current College football landscape. As the playoffs expand, bowl games will die a slow death. Nobody cares who won the reliaquest bowl between Michigan and Alabama, especially when half the starters opt out. The bowl system is antiquated and lasted much longer than it should have. Lastly, I can’t remember the last bowl game I watched outside of Iowa bowls, but I’ve watched every playoff game so far.

 

[The Tradition]

Texas is pulling away from Clemson. 21-7 halfway through the 2nd quarter....

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Playoffs prove who is the best. The days of of fans what iffing their teams to relevance are over.

Make the field and you are what you are.

 

[SolarHawk]

Playoffs prove who is the best. The days of of fans what iffing their teams to relevance are over.

Make the field and you are what you are.

 

[hawkedoff]

Very simple. Keep.bowls open ti select from the teams eliminated in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs.

Players need to be on contracts immediately with serious penalties for opting out. Hit their pockets in huge ways and that will stop.