Playoffs VS Bowl Games

[SolarHawk]

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.

Yeah, because the players are the problem with college football. lol, get a grip.

 

[The Tradition]

That was a bang, bang last two minutes of the half in the Clemson-Texas game. Longhorns lead 28-10 at the half.

 

[DooBi]

The playoffs are great but there is no reason to get rid of the bowls. I love watching bowl games. There is some great football in some of the games. I try to watch at least some of every single bowl game and as many full games as I can.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

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.

I just lost a playoff game. Time to go play in the shitwater bowl so some punk team can beat us and say they belong.

Pass.

 

[Moral]

The playoffs are great but there is no reason to get rid of the bowls. I love watching bowl games. There is some great football in some of the games. I try to watch at least some of every single bowl game and as many full games as I can.

Sounds like you like watching bowl games.

 

[DooBi]

Sounds like you like watching bowl games.

 

[The Tradition]

Clemson is making this interesting... down 24-31 with 12 minutes left in the game...

 

[The Tradition]

Oops. Texas 77-yard run for a TD.

 

[The Tradition]

Huge goal line stand there. Texas is gonna win.

 

[jdw10224405]

Like they rewarded FSU last year?

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

FSU absolutely got screwed last year.

Surprised they didn't put Bama in over SMU this year. Now watch SMU's poor performance today be cited as a reason to keep non-SEC teams out.

 

[cjnoles9399]

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.

I agree. Just let all the teams have the extra practice in December. The schools could probably sue the ncaa for it and win anyways.

Then with NIL money pay for the seniors and draft guys to go on a cruise to their warm destinations of choice instead of shoehorning them into a stupid bowl that only the organizers make money off anyways. And the bowls haven’t been all about great weather and destinations for a long time.

 

[millah_22]

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.

2002 and 2015 Iowa prob hosts. 2009 Iowa is an away team.

2002
1. Miami* (bye)
2. Ohio State* (bye)
3. Georgia * (bye)
4. USC* (bye

5. Iowa v Penn State
6. Washington State v Michigan
7. Oklahoma* v. Texas
8. K State v Notre Dame

2009
1. Alabama* (bye)
2. Texas * (bye)
3. Cincinatti* bye
4. TCU* bye

5. Florida v 12 LSU
6. Boise v 11 Virginia Tech
7 Oregon* v 10 Iowa
8 Ohio State v 9 Georgia Tech

2015
1. Clemon* (bye)
2. Alabama* (bye)
3. Michigan State* (bye)
4. Oklahoma * (bye)

5. Iowa v Ole Miss
6. Stanford* v TCU
7. Ohio State v North Carolina
8. Notre Dame v Florida State

 

[BioHawk]

I'm really, really, really liking these playoff games on campus. They need to add more of these to the system. In fact, I'd be kind of upset if I got one of the top 4 seeds and did not get to host a game at my stadium.

 

[millah_22]

I'm really, really, really liking these playoff games on campus. They need to add more of these to the system. In fact, I'd be kind of upset if I got one of the top 4 seeds and did not get to host a game at my stadium.

They should flip the round that gets home field. 1st 4 games are the bowls. Bye teams get home field campus advantage.

 

[BioHawk]

They should flip the round that gets home field. 1st 4 games are the bowls. Bye teams get home field campus advantage.

Ideally they cut out the bowl games completely and just have the last game at a neutral site National Championship game.

 

[torbee]

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.

This grumpy old man has been right all along - college football was way more fun when it was built around regional rivalries, bragging rights and post-season arguments that were impossible win but fun to have 🤷‍♂️

 

[torbee]

Ideally they cut out the bowl games completely and just have the last game at a neutral site National Championship game.

Ideally, they trash heap the playoffs and go back to having a half-dozen or so kick ass bowl games played over the New Year holiday featuring awesome teams from different parts of the country for bragging rights.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Ideally, they trash heap the playoffs and go back to having a half-dozen or so kick ass bowl games played over the New Year holiday featuring awesome teams from different parts of the country for bragging rights.

Pretend the winner of the playoff games don’t play again if that makes you happy.

Quit pretending blowouts in bowl games never happened.

Indiana was fake and they were getting blown out against anybody good. Bowl game or playoff game.

 

[SolarHawk]

This grumpy old man has been right all along - college football was way more fun when it was built around regional rivalries, bragging rights and post-season arguments that were impossible win but fun to have 🤷‍♂️

Ideally, they trash heap the playoffs and go back to having a half-dozen or so kick ass bowl games played over the New Year holiday featuring awesome teams from different parts of the country for bragging rights.

 

[torbee]

It’s a side effect of being smarter than most people I think 🙂

 

[BioHawk]

Ideally, they trash heap the playoffs and go back to having a half-dozen or so kick ass bowl games played over the New Year holiday featuring awesome teams from different parts of the country for bragging rights.

Nope. This has always been stupid.

 

[torbee]

Nope. This has always been stupid.

I think you’re stupid!

 

[onlyTheObvious]

God damn it I want to wear my Rose Bowl sweatshirt in the bar for 3 decades and pretend we were one of the best.

Just say it.