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College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason

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J.D. said:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/awful-...here-is-a-limit-to-greed-001910612-ncaaf.html
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Just as a quick poll here:

When should the Semi-final games take place?

Personally, I'd go with the Saturday after New Years and then have the title game the following Monday... The NFL is the problem here... Like mentioned in the article, Week 17 has a stranglehold on the Sunday after New Years... Next year, Jan 1 will be an NFL day... If they want viewers, they need to just accept things and move a bit later into January...
 
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RaceBoarder said:
Just as a quick poll here:

When should the Semi-final games take place?

Personally, I'd go with the Saturday after New Years and then have the title game the following Monday... The NFL is the problem here... Like mentioned in the article, Week 17 has a stranglehold on the Sunday after New Years... Next year, Jan 1 will be an NFL day... If they want viewers, they need to just accept things and move a bit later into January...
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The issue with that, is that you then run into NFL playoff games on Saturday/Sunday after Jan 1. Sure, it's only 2 NFL games/day, but it's still competing for timeslots and viewers.

The issue (specifically looking at next year, but could also be a problem going beyond that) is... Do you look at the consecutive Monday's for the CFP's? So next year, for example, would be Jan 2 and 9? There's no NFL games to compete with, but does that hurt physical attendance? Or do you possibly have the semi's the Thurs/Fri beforehand, then the championship the following Monday?

Not sure there is a good solution, with their stubbornness and the NFL being the primary TV cash cow that it is.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
The issue with that, is that you then run into NFL playoff games on Saturday/Sunday after Jan 1. Sure, it's only 2 NFL games/day, but it's still competing for timeslots and viewers.

The issue (specifically looking at next year, but could also be a problem going beyond that) is... Do you look at the consecutive Monday's for the CFP's? So next year, for example, would be Jan 2 and 9? There's no NFL games to compete with, but does that hurt physical attendance? Or do you possibly have the semi's the Thurs/Fri beforehand, then the championship the following Monday?

Not sure there is a good solution, with their stubbornness and the NFL being the primary TV cash cow that it is.
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I think the NFL will have Week 17 Jan 1st or later from this point on since they start after Labor day... So that opens up the one Saturday (Jan. 1-6)... So there is a window for the NCAA... This year also shows that New Orleans and Arizona can host the NFL and NCAA games on consecutive days...
 
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason

RaceBoarder said:
Just as a quick poll here:

When should the Semi-final games take place?

Personally, I'd go with the Saturday after New Years and then have the title game the following Monday... The NFL is the problem here... Like mentioned in the article, Week 17 has a stranglehold on the Sunday after New Years... Next year, Jan 1 will be an NFL day... If they want viewers, they need to just accept things and move a bit later into January...
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Have the playoff semis the weekend before New Years. Then you can arrange the final in any way you which, and you won't be running the **** thing out to mid-January. With the way NYE fell this year, you could have played the semis on Tuesday/Wednesday, and you could have set up the final any way you want.
 
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Hammer said:
Have the playoff semis the weekend before New Years. Then you can arrange the final in any way you which, and you won't be running the **** thing out to mid-January. With the way NYE fell this year, you could have played the semis on Tuesday/Wednesday, and you could have set up the final any way you want.
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I'd continue to avoid NFL Sundays. Otherwise, you've got the right idea. Avoid NYE; nothing about having the playoffs on NYE justifies losing 40% of the TV audience. Beyond that, there's nothing wrong with being flexible from year to year. Saturdays would be fine; consecutive weeknights would be fine. Just don't encroach on the traditional M-F workday and the audience will be there.
 
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Hammer said:
Have the playoff semis the weekend before New Years. Then you can arrange the final in any way you which, and you won't be running the **** thing out to mid-January. With the way NYE fell this year, you could have played the semis on Tuesday/Wednesday, and you could have set up the final any way you want.
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The trouble with this is the traditional bowls lose New Years Day, and that would be a shame (not to mention that the guaranteed holiday gives those venues a license to print money which they will never, ever, ever relinquish).

The way to make it work would be to make the semifinals the non-traditional bowl games, and then rotate the national championship game among the Rose, Cotton, Sugar and Orange. (Screw the Fiesta. Try as they might to jam it down our throats, it still has all the gravitas and pageantry of the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl). Restrict NYD to just those 4 bowls, play the other three at 1 and 4 and then play the national title game at 7.
 
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The playoff system is making the rest of the bowls a series of participation awards.

I'd say get rid of them, but hoops has 3 or 4 consolation tournaments for schools not in the top 68.
 
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joecct said:
The playoff system is making the rest of the bowls a series of participation awards.

I'd say get rid of them, but hoops has 3 or 4 consolation tournaments for schools not in the top 68.
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I've watched far more of the other bowls than the two semi- finals. And don't intend to watch the last game. I'd rather them dump the "championship" and add more bowls.

At least the rest of the games don't hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours talking about the game. There's probably been 3-4x as many hours of talking about the 3 games on ESPN than actual play. I'm so tired of it, I'm not interested in the last game.

Whereas some of the smaller bowls were interesting to watch.
 
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All American and Jim Thorpe winning Iowa CB Desmond King returning for his senior year. A huge surprise and a huge boost to the Hawkeyes next year. They now return 8 starters on defense.
 
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Umm...c'mon refs...Clemson should get an extra step or two to stop the mighty Derrick Henry. :p:D:D
 
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Early advantage to Alabama. Field position will be a key factor in this game...and Alabama should have a big advantage in that regard. Clemson's special teams is anything but special.
 
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I haven't been a believer of Clemson all year, but putting up 14 in the first against 'Bama had changed that. Will be a great 3 more quarters
 
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haulin oats said:
I haven't been a believer of Clemson all year, but putting up 14 in the first against 'Bama had changed that. Will be a great 3 more quarters
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Nobody has been a believer in Clemson...yet all they have done is beat 4 Top-10 teams en route to a 14-0 record. We'll see if they can make it 5 Top-10 teams and a 15-0 record, but Clemson is a very good team.
 
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