Tim Brando: College football has become a colossal bore

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That's because collage football is becoming more and more like the NFL. The NFL is as boring as MLB and the NBA.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
I hope it eventually gets expanded to 16 teams:cool:
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This. Part of what makes March Madness great is that it allows for "Cinderella" teams to make some noise in the tournament and keep it interesting. If March Madness was ran like the College Football Playoffs we'd be forced to watch Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, and one revolving door every year.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
If it's such a bore for him, maybe he should quit his job. College football is still my favorite sport. I enjoy it much more than the NFL and college basketball (which is only interesting for about 2 months).

I will agree that there are too many meaningless bowl games, though. That has gotten out of control, but the regular season, the major bowls, and the playoffs are still very interesting.
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I agree & as to Brando it's not boring to me in relation to when Bowl games meant something. I used to watch in no particular order the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta(really a late comer Big Bowl) Rose. Those for sure every year and occasional
Liberty, Peach,Citrus& Tampa Hall of Fame Bowls. I still watch those.
The rest including the Music, Belk & other no name bowls etc etc.. the Johnnie come lately's I never watch, unless UT is in it and still just the extra practices for the next year are more enticing than the game itself.
In other words your practicing for next year and if there is a marquee player worth watching he will probably be advised not to play and protect himself for NFL Draft.,
 
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BornonRockyTop said:
Agree or disagree with Tim here? His premise is that the current playoff system has greatly diminished "meaningless" late-season games. Whether you disagree or not it's a great interview here:

Fox Sports' Tim Brando: college football has become a colossal bore -
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I agree. I watch and enjoy all the bowl games. It's a chance to see matchups that rarely happen and watching teams play that we don't see very often. Then of course I play in several bowl pickem contests and that's enough incentive to watch and pull for certain teams. Also means football season is almost over and last chance to get that football fix handled.

There definitely should be more than 4 teams. Although not every Power Conference (Pac-12) deserves to get a team in, it still doesn't give each Power Conference a fair chance to happen. 8 teams would be perfect. Room for all 5 Power Conference's and 3 at large. I do get tired of seeing Ala, Clemson and Oklahoma playing in the playoffs. I just don't think a team( Ala in particular,) deserve to get into the playoffs if they can't win their conference, much less their Division. Say LSU and Ala both end in the top 4. LSU got penalized for beating Ala and having to play in the SEC Championship, while Ala is rewarded for losing to LSU and doesn't have to play the extra game like LSU. If they were to expand to 8, then it would make it more fair and exciting. JMO
 
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Roustabout said:
I hate the playoff system. I hate that there are so many bowls.
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I don't think there could ever be too many bowls. Bowl season I will take as many games as they can throw out there. Bowls mean the season is coming to an end and the more bowls the more chance to see college football. There can definitely be some really bad matchups but that also happens during the season with some of the putrid, Non Conf games. Just my opinion on it and I'm sure many disagree. GBO
 
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jasonvol18 said:
I don't think there could ever be too many bowls. Bowl season I will take as many games as they can throw out there. Bowls mean the season is coming to an end and the more bowls the more chance to see college football. There can definitely be some really bad matchups but that also happens during the season with some of the putrid, Non Conf games. Just my opinion on it and I'm sure many disagree. GBO
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I agree completely. I get wanting a different playoff format. I don't get complaining about too many bowl games.
 
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VolsSince78 said:
What's boring is the latest television deals the conferences (on behalf of their member universities) made to line their pockets, requiring fans to sit through 3.5 hour games instead of 3 hours. It's more $ to the universities in exchange for us fans enduring more commercials if watching by TV at home, or in person watching the guy on the field at Neyland holding the clock that counts down from about 3 minutes while TV commercials run.

Oh yeah, the student athletes whose welfare is so valued by the universities? How bout the 3 minutes of commercials on ESPN that ran after midnight Eastern Time with 30 seconds to go in this year's UT - Bama game in Tuscaloosa? That was an injury timeout, but the injured player was already leaving the field when the TV coverage went to commercials. Not sure when our Vols finally got home after that game.

Rant over!
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my sentiments as well. It's ironic that (at least IMO) that the conferences jumped all over the cash cow TV contracts where all games are televised, but now hardly any games are sold out or butts aren't in every available seat.

TV contracts must pay much better than butts in seats.

I really wish that every game was not televised so we wouldn't have to endure all the non stop commercialism.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
I don't think there could ever be too many bowls. Bowl season I will take as many games as they can throw out there. Bowls mean the season is coming to an end and the more bowls the more chance to see college football. There can definitely be some really bad matchups but that also happens during the season with some of the putrid, Non Conf games. Just my opinion on it and I'm sure many disagree. GBO
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Uh no. It’s like trophies for losers. It diluted the achievement of making a bowl. The fact that UT or any team can make a bowl at 6-6 is laughable.
 
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Have a 13 game regular season. Play 10 conference games each year. Require each conference to have a Championship game. Expand to 16 team playoff.

I would love the opportunity for the Vols to play 18 games every year. That would give me the opportunity to watch them more. As for now the max is 15 games. I’ve been counting the Orange & White game and the Signing Day Celebration Breakfast as must see events.
 
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I have said this before! The NCAA should require schools to play tougher schedules! Step 1 require all to play 9 Conf games! Then make it to where if you schedule an FCS school it won’t count as a W but will count as a loss! Bam!! Already college football is better cause more good games for us fans! And 6 wins mean a little more!
 
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to me I think he was meaning that the way that the committee trys to "prop up" the blue bloods, i.e., many trying to argue the value of Bama still being good enough to be in the mix with a loss and a lost QB versus an Oregon team or Big 12, etc.,....what gets me is why even comment on this when the regular season is not even over yet...:D

GO BIG ORANGE...WHUP MIZZOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Proud Army Wife said:
Yep. Refs were determined for Bama to win. They also did all they could to help Uscjr and KY. Funny how against SC, 2 td's got called back (rightfully so), but their 3rd shouldn't have been. Just stupid. If you watch the replay, you can clearly see the ball is in his left hand and doesnt quite make it to the goal-line. Should've been 41-14. With KY, we had 3 called back over bogus penalties. They were trying their hardest not to call our touchdowns. The illegal receiver call in particular baffled me. How is a TE not a legal receiver? 🤦
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The TE was covered up by a receiver on that play. Either the WR didn’t line up correctly or the QB didn’t know the TE was being used as a decoy in that play.

This website explains the rules on that play. What Is: A Covered Tight End/Receiver | mgoblog
 
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I'm not sure what he's arguing here. If he's arguing that the playoff is bad and we should go back to the BCS, then that is so stupid it doesn't even really warrant a coherent response. The issues that always get brought up with the playoff were the same issues then and worse. If he's arguing the format of deciding teams needs to change, that I can listen to. But if it's that the playoff needs to go, then I'm dismissing him as a cranky old man who's yelling at the clouds.

All the "issues" brought up to complain about the CFP have been issues for a long time. People complained to high heaven about how the BCS selection process was tainted and the complaining led to the 4 team playoff. People complained that outside the BCS nobody cared about the other bowls. The reasons people "don't care" about the other bowls has little to do with the BCS or CFP, it's because there are too many for the typical fan to keep up with and the blunt truth is most of them have teams that not many really even care about. If you ask why fans don't seem to care about a bowl like the New Orleans bowl, then the answer is the same reason most fans don't care about a typical regular season CUSA or Sun Belt game. People aren't suddenly going to care about a team like UTEP or South Alabama or FAU just because you put them in a bowl game. Heck most fans don't really care about roughly half of the teams in each P5 conference.

In the end, the truth is people just like to complain. They could come up with the "perfect" playoff solution and a good segment would complain.
 
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All of the games,including the playoffs,are meaningless to me if Tennessee isn't playing but I watch a lot of bowl games because I like college football. I don't like the playoff system at all but that's just me. Seems like people are trying to make college football NFL lite. There's nothing wrong with the way college football used to do it. A lot of people said if we just had a playoff, then we would have a true champion so now we get to see the same boring group of teams almost every year.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
I wouldn't mind the season being shortened to 11 games that wouldn't be much of a sacrifice:cool:
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I can assure that won't happen, for one simple reason:

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Tarkus said:
All of the games,including the playoffs,are meaningless to me if Tennessee isn't playing but I watch a lot of bowl games because I like college football. I don't like the playoff system at all but that's just me. Seems like people are trying to make college football NFL lite. There's nothing wrong with the way college football used to do it. A lot of people said if we just had a playoff, then we would have a true champion so now we get to see the same boring group of teams almost every year.
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There was a ton wrong with the way they used to do it. Also I don't get this "the same boring group of teams". If we had the BCS in place that wouldn't magically change, it would still have been the "same boring" teams fighting for 2 spots instead of 4.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
There was a ton wrong with the way they used to do it. Also I don't get this "the same boring group of teams". If we had the BCS in place that wouldn't magically change, it would still have been the "same boring" teams fighting for 2 spots instead of 4.
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Go back to the way it was during the 1970s-1990s when Conferences had Bowl agreements and there was no National Championship Game and it was settled with the Final Top 25 Poll.
 
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