The absurd bowl system....

[VolnGermany]

I'd watch it

Actually would be more drama in a game like this.

Unless they tied.

:no:

 

[UT_Dutchman]

I don't see how 2 5-7 bowl teams traveling across the country is making any money. What a embarrassment the bowl system is when you can have a losing record and get rewarded with extra practices and money. How in Haiti are the crap bowls making money versus what is cost to travel the sites of these games with hardly anyone in the stands. HOW? They are watering down a great thing and a great reward into CRAP just because some big shots are making money off of it, the fans don't like it in general. GO VOLS!!!

The sponsors are throwing a large amount of money into this pot. They probably just write it off.

 

[TrueOrange]

Most schools lose money on bowl trips. Cut the bowls back to 15 or 20 of them but let every school have the extra practices.

That's also a bad idea.

And not sure that the first statement up there is correct either.

 

[TrueOrange]

If all the Bowls around now were around in 2008 Tennessee would have went to a Bowl game every season.

No they would have still missed unfortunately.

The chance of 5-7 teams making it this year is a bit more about a drop in overall teams eligible this year.

 

[TrueOrange]

I found this an interesting comment at the bottom of the article.

He looks like he's only looking at ticket sales profit, though, and intentionally avoiding aspects such as amount of money the bowls play the schools for coming, etc.

 

[VolFan4Life87]

The playoff has already diluted the rest of the bowls. Lets go ahead and go to 16 team playoffs.

That is way too many football games for college athletes. To do that they'd need to extend the number of scholarships programs can offer OR cut the regular season down to 9-10 games.

 

[VolFan4Life87]

Liked the BCS better

The "committee" is a joke. And a 4 team playoff is an even bigger joke. At a bare minimum you need 6 teams with 1-2 seeds getting a bye week and ideally 8 teams. More than 8 is just too many football games in a season IMO

 

[Biopsyman]

It's all about the money and not the actual game.. 2/3 of the bowl are poorly attended.. But who cares, TV renevue and payouts... The average fan can't name the tittle sponsor of half of the bowls

 

[TrueOrange]

Most bowl games are participation trophies. Teams do things like have eating contests, dance offs, karaoke contests, trivia nights, etc. the week leading up to the bowl game.

The players get gifts. The sponsors pay for accommodations for them and put on some banquets and such too. (Here was the total amount of food Outback Steakhouse had provided during the bowl week for the two teams playing in like 2013).

 

[TrueOrange]

Do you feel 6-6 teams should be rewarded with a bowl game?

The addition of the 12th game is what allows many of the 6-6 teams to be bowl eligible. The 12th game isn't the marquee OOC opponent but rather the UTC, APSU, WCU type teams.

Yep. Pretty much the 2006 addition of a 12th game was just "an FCS win can count towards bowl eligibility every year now rather than once every 4 years."

 

[TrueOrange]

I don't even think 6-6 teams deserve a bowl.

Us last year?

 

[TrueOrange]

Everyone has a chance in the Conf BB tournaments so why not ? Take a look at the dismal NFL records of some division leaders

Getting years like this one with the AFC South are much more the exceptions than the norms. Most of the division winners end up in the 11 to 12 win range in the season.

 

[TrueOrange]

What we've got now is just BCS +1.

And without computer polls.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

The playoff has already diluted the rest of the bowls. Lets go ahead and go to 16 team playoffs.

The bowls were diluted well before the playoff. The BCS had the exact same effect, because outside the NC game and maybe one or two of the BCS bowls, nobody really cared much about the rest of the bowls outside of the fans of the schools and in many cases, not even then.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Agreed. Sure seems simple to just expand the playoff to 8 and let the Power 5 champs in with the other 3 spots going to the highest ranked non AQ conference champions.

It's amazing how simple it would be to set it up like this, but because it's simple and makes sense, they'll probably not do it that way.