(12-17-2018 10:31 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  Note that the loss in bowl value is a progressive thing, and if the media networks and the A5 conferences swung around to being moderately to strongly in favor of an expansion, the ability of the big bowls to counter that will decline over time. But if that balance of power shifts in the early 2020's, it will be a lot easier to organize things for a replacement when the current CFP contract expires than to pay the additional (and quite large) costs of breaching the current contracts.

If you're suggesting that any change in the playoff during the current CFP contract would probably include 4 of the CFP bowls as quarterfinal games and the other 2 as semifinal games, I agree. Cutting any of the CFP bowls out of the playoff in the middle of this contract would probably lead to a lawsuit. The bowl games leech tens of millions of dollars out of the system every year and won't give that up without a fight.