The NCAA is finally capping the number of bowl games (until 2019)
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How about they take away a few bowl games while they're at it.
No doubt. Not even 6-6 really deserves a trip. The bowl game product is too diluted.
if it is too diluted, they would be losing money, ticket buyers, ratings & go out of business. the growth in the number of bowls seems to indicate the opposite is true.
people love college football, love it. The more of it the better, love all the spring games on the SEC N & B1G N. if you don't want to watch a mid December exhibition game between a 6-6 MAC vs a 5-7 SEC school played in some podunk town in the south, then don't. ESPN especially is ponying up the money that lots of fans do want to watch this. Advertisers & sponsors think so as well.
sucks for the state of South Carolina. they get rid of the Confederate flag which prevented them from hosting NCAA events, and now the door gets shut before they can go in. a bowl game in December down there would be fantastic.
people love college football, love it. The more of it the better, love all the spring games on the SEC N & B1G N. if you don't want to watch a mid December exhibition game between a 6-6 MAC vs a 5-7 SEC school played in some podunk town in the south, then don't. ESPN especially is ponying up the money that lots of fans do want to watch this. Advertisers & sponsors think so as well.
sucks for the state of South Carolina. they get rid of the Confederate flag which prevented them from hosting NCAA events, and now the door gets shut before they can go in. a bowl game in December down there would be fantastic.
What the NCAA really wants is a bigger slice of the bowl pie, that is more $ from the minor bowls. When that happens their "freeze" will be thawed.
A BOWL game is not a playoff if you meet requirements and have a Sponsor you get a plus one game and since you met requirements you deserve it. Since it is not a playoff I thank all teams should be allowed a plus one to make a level Playing field.
Love the bowls. IMO, From about the 15th of December when bowls begin until the championship game in January, there's not a greater 3 weeks in sports. I can watch any two college teams play football any time.
I agree ram - love the bowls. I would like to see 7 wins be the requirement, with 6-6 teams allowed to fill in when there aren't enough teams with 7 wins. Teams that are 6-7 or 5-7 need not apply....
But to go there, we'd have to drop about 6 bowl games - there were only about 70 teams last year that had 7 wins or more in the regular season, and we needed 80 to fill all the bowl slots.
But to go there, we'd have to drop about 6 bowl games - there were only about 70 teams last year that had 7 wins or more in the regular season, and we needed 80 to fill all the bowl slots.
Yes, for the reason you mention above and others, I am not holding my breath for a 7-win requirement anytime soon. It's what I'd like to see happen, but it is clear that it is more than the NCAA cares to see happen.
All the NCAA is trying to accomplish is to make it very unusual for a 5 win team to qualify for a bowl game. This announcement will help in that regard by holding the line on the number of bowl games while a few schools decide to make the jump to the FBS level. Once that happens, it will again become rare to see a 5 win team in a bowl game.
I agree, if the NCAA didn't sanction them NCAA teams wouldn't be playing in them. I see an alternative to having to invite 5 win FBS teams is to invite 9-10 win FCS teams, I bet they would jump at the chance to get the exposure and nice check. Of course some FBS teams say they lose money on bowl games, but they don't cut any corners on their travel. A FCS team within driving distance of a bowl to play a 6-7 win FBS school would be as interesting as 2 6 win teams I don't have any feelings for, at least I could pull for the underdog.