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Say we play the full 10 game season this year how will the bowl games and playoff work with only the SEC and Big 12 and ACC?
 
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If (big if) the remaining 3 conferences play, there might be bowls. Can't see the playoff happening.
 
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If we get through the regular season without major problems, there will definitely be bowls. And there will definitely be playoffs.

Why?

Because every single interested party will super-want them to happen. ESPN will be salivating. The players and coaches of the conferences and teams that played will be excited for them. The bowl host cities will be desperate for them (mostly). And the NCAA will by that point be wanting to reestablish some kind of normalcy.

There will be no one who doesn't want those bowls and the playoffs, except the teams and conferences who sat the season out. And they gave up their voices.

So sure, if we pull a regular season off, the post season will follow.

Go Vols!


p.s. The playoffs could look like this: Bama, Clemson, Oklahoma, and Tennessee (okay, maybe Georgia instead). In other words, just like every other year. Heh. We lose very little without the B10 or PAC, when it comes to playoffs. Just Ohio State laying an egg in the first round once every few years.

p.p.s. There will be less than the "normal" 40 bowls, of course. Some cities won't be in good position to host a bowl. Others will decline for political reasons, perhaps. The Rose Bowl will probably decline out of a sense of solidarity with "its conferences." And we won't need 40 bowls. The # of bowls can be pared down to match the expected # of eligible teams with a smaller pool of teams.
 
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Cmacsmokey said:
Say we play the full 10 game season this year how will the bowl games and playoff work with only the SEC and Big 12 and ACC?
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It's unknown just yet. Nothing would be drawn up or figured out this far ahead with it still being so much of a theoretical.

Or am I reading this incorrectly, and what you're asking for is not an answer, but what everyone's own individual thoughts/ideas/models are on how they would handle this type of situation?
 
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there's 7 or 8 bowl games that the SEC has ties with that involve the ACC and Big 12. While there is the potential for bowls, its doubtful the cities with host them if there are no fans since that's their source of revenue and its used to pay the teams.

Next thought is if there is spring football, will they have bowls in May and June? Kinda defeats the purpose of so many warm weather locations when the weather is already warm.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
If we get through the regular season without major problems, there will definitely be bowls. And there will definitely be playoffs.
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Your entire post was very sensible, but I'm just quoting the first two sentences because this is the absolute answer. If the SEC/Big XII/ACC are playing in November, you can bet Bill Hancock goes from "hopeful" to "see you in Miami" about the playoff immediately as every passing week beginning September 26th increases the likelihood that the CFP can exist and make a boat load of money.

Members/fans of the Big Ten/Pac-12 would complain for a good fifteen years about the illegitimacy of the season without their presence, but the revenue generated from a CFP that still boasts an SEC champion/Clemson/Notre Dame/Oklahoma (as an example) is literally the only driving factor if 75%+ of the scheduled games are played. You can cut bowls in half to around 22, figure out an equitable way to deal with a 4-6 Auburn team with solid SEC wins getting an invite and make A) a lot of people happy (generating more revenue) while B) allowing the bowls that have struggling sponsors/downtrodden cities to have a break.

The only way there wouldn't be bowls (the CFP will happen regardless) is if the conferences still feel the need to impose the somewhat-senseless OOC ban by preventing their teams from playing against opponents outside of state lines. I assure you, the television money generated from seeing the only major out of conference matchups all season would make bowls more meaningful than they have been in the last 30+ years.
 
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bamawriter said:
If (big if) the remaining 3 conferences play, there might be bowls. Can't see the playoff happening.
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Actually I see it the opposite. 4 team playoff with three being conference champions and a 4th "highest ranked" at-large. Don't really see a bowl season, although a scaled back schedule could happen.
 
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BogeyVol said:
Actually I see it the opposite. 4 team playoff with three being conference champions and a 4th "highest ranked" at-large. Don't really see a bowl season, although a scaled back schedule could happen.
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The problem is that the playoff is run in conjunction with the other conferences. Will the conferences that aren't playing sign off?
 
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bamawriter said:
The problem is that the playoff is run in conjunction with the other conferences. Will the conferences that aren't playing sign off?
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The other two didn't ask for sign off on dropping the season. All of that is out the window now. Remaining conferences can come up with their own. There will some kind of post season playoff...
 
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BogeyVol said:
The other two didn't ask for sign off on dropping the season. All of that is out the window now. Remaining conferences can come up with their own. There will some kind of post season playoff...
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They won't be putting together an ad hoc playoff within a few months. That's pie in the sky talk.
 
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