Could this be the new Trend?

[GloryDawg]

Could this become a pre season bowl? Do you think that the other bowls might start doing this? <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3780396">

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[tossedoff]

Have a Big 12/SEC matchup in the Superdome every year. You could have a 3 game weekend with a game each night of the Labor Day weekend.

 

[GloryDawg]

Plus it could shake the polls up a little if one team got it back end handed to them. Kind of like Clemson last year. I wonder how long they would have played that game? I also wonder if Alabama would have made that big jump in the polls?

 

[Todd4State]

if some of these bowls fear that a playoff is inevitable, so they are going to do the next best thing- have a "pre-season bowl".

I don't mind having pre-season bowls, but I think I may be the only person in the Universe- or at least that's what the media wants me to think- that actually likes the current college football format. Am I the only person that thinks that a playoff wouldn't necessarily solve all the world's problems?

If you have an 8 team playoff, what's going to happen is that 9th team is possibly going to be left out, and if that team is a Utah or someone like that, they're going to talk about how they should have a chance to play and how the non-BCS/pl.

I know it's not popular, and people will probably rip me a new one, but I actually like the fact that a small school like a Baylor can go to a bowl game after a good season- like 7-5- and can finish on a winning note. Yeah, yeah, I can hear Dan Hawkins- THIS IS D-I FOOTBALL! GO PLAY INTRAMURALS! (I know it's Big 12, but I had to make it fit for context). But at the same time, is there really anything wrong with being happy at the end some of the time at least? I remember us last year at the Liberty Bowl and having a great time on Beale St., and let's face it, MSU winning the NC in football is a pipe dream at best.

Plus, the bowls have some charm. It's part of the holidays. They're great. I enjoy watching Troy play some team from C-USA and beating the tar out of them. I love watching WAC teams with weird offenses take down a PAC-10 team. And then my most favorite of all is watching the service academies take down some team like Wake Forest. And then it builds all the way up to the NC game.

Let college basketball have the preseason tournaments and the Cinderella's, and all that. I like that stuff- in March. Just not in December.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Not with the playoff part, but with the bowl part. Yes, the 9th place team would complain but so do "bubble" teams every year in the NCAAs. At least with an 8 team playoff you actually settle something on the fields. There should also be minimum standards to compete. You have to have a championship game in your league (that's you 10s Pac and Big as well as the Big East). You have to have at least 11 wins to get in (I am talking to you ACC) and no more than two from any conference. Notre Dame, welcome to the Big East or Big 10leven, or you are not invited to play. Undefeated Mountain West have dibs on at large over the Ohio State's of the world who get in because of their history. Undefeated MAC or WAC or CUSA do not but can be selected.

Who gets in this year? Bama, UF, Texas, OU, USC, Penn State, Utah, and I guess Cincy since they won their league. Opening round games played on a Friday night and Saturday, so this year the sched would be:

Dec. 26/27
UF v Cincy
OU v Utah
UT v USC
Bama v Penn State

Jan 3
Florida v USC
OU v Bama

Jan 10
winners

All the other bowl games proceed as planned but the can't be set a time that conflicts with these games. Conferences can have all the tie ins they want. Fans can still go. Teams can still celebrate their winning seasons and enjoy a trip somewhere in December. Nothing at all wrong with that.

 

[patdog]

I am totally against anything that takes away from the regular season in college football. Make the conference games really mean something. If both Florida and Alabama could get into a playoff this year, then who the hell would care about the SEC title game? For all the fun of March Madness, the truth is the college basketball season is completely irrevalent. When Duke and North Carolina play in the regular season (or ACC tourney), at the end of the year it doesn't make a damn bit of difference which one wins.</p>

 

[DawgatAuburn]

What is the best regular season team loses? If you have to be a conference champ, then what happens? If, for instance, a 9-3 Mississippi State team went to Atlanta and beat a 12-0 Florida team, would you leave Florida out to take the WAC, MAC or CUSA champ? I agree the regular season should count, but there has to be a point where you have nothing left to prove and winning the SECCG just helps your seeding. Maybe even play the first round games at home fields, so you REALLY have something to shoot for (being a 1-4 seed and hosting). The flip side is when you have a 9-3ish team that wins, they become the Cinderella that everyone is talking about.

 

[GloryDawg]

The Big Ten really screws it self with this eleven team deal. Why not add another school, have a championshsip game the same weekend as everyone else. The Bi 10 season is over two week before all the other coference. They are out of mind for that period. They also should play some more regular season night games. That could not hurt.
The only bad side effect to them creating divisions would be how you break the conference down. Now if you broke it down like the SEC it would look like this.

East
Indiana
Michingan
Michngan STate
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue

West
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
North western
Wiscosin
NEW SchooL

On a regulare basis which division is stronger? I say east.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Too bad for the Big East.

 

[GloryDawg]

I wonder how long it is going to take before NBC to not make any money on that ND contract? Plus I wonder how long it is going to take ND to figure out that things aren't the way they use to be and until they join a major conference they are at best going to be a eight win team.

 

[4suredog]

I went to the FSU/ Bama game 2 years ago in Jacksonville. It had the feel of a bowl game in midseason. The hotels, bars, etc.... had t-shirts, banners and all that welcoming both schools. At the riverwalk on Friday night the band on the main stage actually played sweet home alabama and the war chant through out the night. We had a great time and I think both schools got some very good checks for playing. All in all, I think it is a very good idea. However, you go back to an SEC shool already had enough on the schedule with our regular season, to add a top ten team to that schedule would sure make it a long season.

 

[jfs131]

Have a Big 12/SEC matchup in the Superdome every year. You could have a 3 game weekend with a game each night of the Labor Day weekend.

Literally the best idea I've heard in a while.

 

[FlabLoser]

I know you asked about bowl game like interconference matchups between good teams.

Just saying - Dr Pepper used to sponsor some kind of season kickoff game. I remember seeing OU play Arkansas (when neither were any good) several years ago in a highly-advertised season opener that Dr Pepper was a big part of. DP also used to sponsor the Texas-OU game. Don't know if they still do.

But I can totally see corporate American not waiting on playoffs and getting into college game sponsorship as much as possible.

I wonder if the SEC and other conferences are still revenue-sharing these games amongst their members.

 

[Pony Express.sixpack]

DII and DIII gives programs in trouble the opportunity to beat the **** out some small program, but it does nothing for the fans and probably nothing for the program. I would like to see a requirement to play a minimum of 11 BCS games for each BCS team.

Plus, if we are going to play a small team, I would play a good academic university in a hot recruiting market.

To kick some *** play: Rice, Baylor, Duke, SMU, or Tulane (smart kids, usually bad, all in big markets we would love to recruit)
For a good test play: Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, UCLA, Mizzou, and Miami (all big programs, big markets, and hot recruiting grounds)

I see no value in playing La Tech, La-Lafayette, La-Monroe, Troy, USM, or UAB. Tulsa and TCU are good mid-majors but they could own us and provide limited upside.

 

[Emanonion]

Also no 1A team plays division 2 or 3 teams. They do occasionally play a 1AA team, but thats it.

 

[Gene Swindoll]

why not copy the playoff format of D1aa and D2.....seems to be working out fine.

 

[Eureka Dog]

I advocate eliminating the Conference Championship Game (CCG). Each team plays all of their conference brethren every year. You want to make EVERY regular season game count? That's the way to do it. You'd better win your reg. season games because there'd no longer be second chance waiting for you in the CCG.
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