(10-29-2017 12:28 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(10-29-2017 12:25 PM)micahandme Wrote:  

(10-28-2017 10:12 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(10-28-2017 08:59 AM)allthatyoucantleavebehind Wrote:  Exactly. I understand that we're not going to see every superstar in the "New Year's Seven" bowl games that aren't part of the playoff. I understand that the losing quarterfinal teams are not going to be highly motivated. I understand that fan bases will not travel as well (they already traveled to a CCG city [probably], they may have ponied up the money for a quarterfinal game...PLUS the incentive of winning a national title is gone). I get it.

But with the money and excitement at stake for the sport overall, it doesn't matter! Bowls NEVER meant anything, at least not in the past 20 years. And when they did, the system was asinine. Three or four different bowl games that will determine whom VOTERS will choose was the best team?!?!?

I look at the theoretical bowl games from last year (in the original post) and think that looks better than anything I remember seeing on New Year's Day or Eve in the previous 20 years...simply because there is a consolidation of the top teams (plus two of the games are actual PLAYOFFS which matter more than bowls ever did before!!!). Only 1 top-15 team got left out of the New Year's Seven bowls in my original post. That means you have great teams matched up well across two exciting days of CFB!

No you don't understand. Any player from the losing teams who has pro prospects would not play in the bowl game. Alabama loses in the QF but goes to a bowl? They'd have 10+ guys who don't play in that game.

Stever20...my friend...you are addressing a problem with bowls and amateur athletics that is bigger than my little 8-team proposal. So, let's not shoot down MY idea with issues that don't have anything to do with this idea.

No it's got everything to do with your idea. WAY more people would skip bowls after losing playoff game than you have seen before. Pretty much ANY pro prospect would skip the bowl. So instead of 1 or 2(and only the top guy)- it would be like 8-10.

The teams don't care. Its why they did away with the consolation games in the NCAA tourney. There used to be consolation games in the regional finals and the national finals.