(02-23-2020 11:28 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  CBB is mostly a weeknight affair. Big ticket Saturday/Sunday games are only viable in some niche markets where CBB is the number one sport and they normally don’t draw a national audience besides your Kansas Kentucky UNC etc. if that. Certainly I think CBB regular season will be weakened further that we may see 96 or 128 teams qualify sooner than later.

Another thing is, would you play all the QF games on the 31st and 1st? Put 6:30-8:00pm ET kickoff on NYE or the 30th (if 31st is Sunday) followed by three QF bowl games on the 1st. This would be week 17 of the NFL season. The only other place to play two SF games would be hypothetical week 19 meaning NFL would need two byes or 18 game regular season.

One of the primary issues will be that other bowls will follow suit if the CFP expands into mid-late January. Much of the postseason will likely end up after New Year's Day and that will take up a ton of weeknight slots. In other words, no reason to play day games and mid-afternoon games during December if almost every bowl can get a prime time slot during January.

Unless they move the college basketball season to an entirely Spring semester sport then the leagues will be competing with themselves for attention.