(08-31-2018 12:01 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: (08-31-2018 10:55 AM)BePcr07 Wrote: Personally, I'd drop the number of bowls to like 20 or 25. Bowls used to be a reward for a good season. Now, they are a reward if you were able to beat 1 FCS school plus get lucky a handful of other times. If anything, there is a better chance of reaching 65 bowls for all 130 teams rather than dropping down to 20.
Without a lot of bowls we would go back to a 6-6 SEC/BIG/ACC team with 4 wins over weak out of conference teams (including one FCS) and two wins over other weak SEC/BIG/ACC teams getting in over a 9-3 or 10-2 G5 team. That's a no for me.
Now, if the bowls didn't have to be contracted with conferences and they had some common sense rules for taking teams based on record then maybe I'm good with it. But I don't trust that would ever happen, so until then give me all the bowls.
I agree. So let's make some rules.
The bowl system becomes a draft system.
Bowl Tiers (based on pay out and prestige/history)
Tier 1: greater than 8 million (4 million per team)
Picks 1-4 cfp.
Picks 5-12 ny6
Tier 2: 6 million plus
Citrus
Alamo
Outback
Holiday
Texas
Tier 3: 2-6 million
Camping World Bowl
Music City Bowl
Pinstripe
Belk
Liberty
Sun
Gator
San Fransisco
Vegas
Military
Tier 4: 900,000-1.8 million
Serve Pro
Biringham
Dollar General
Independence
Gaspirilla
Cheeze it
New Mexico
Hawai'i
Boca Raton
Idaho Famous Potato
Tier 5: 900,000 or less
Armed Forces
New Orleans
Frisco
Cure
Quicklane
Arizona
Camellia
Bahamas
Each tier is randomly drawn for order of selection
Teams are divided up by wins:
10 games + only teams within 1 win may be selected over you. If you have 11 wins and everyone else has 9 you must be selected.
8-9 games only teams within two wins can be selected over you. A six win team can not be chosen before a nine win team.
All teams must win 6 games and be .500 or above.
Any team can turn down an invitation to a bowl but lose their place protection for that tier on picks. The bowl will select another team from the pool available. So if a 10-2 team turns down a Music City Bowl invite, they can have any team selected before them for a tier 3 invite.
The 1 win and 2 win margin protections insure a good team is not left out for a popular mediocre team. It also gives the bowls flexibility to keep regional match ups. Bowl that offer the most stability and exposure are rewarded with top picks to create the best popular match ups.
Bowls will scout teams and casual fans will have bowls promoted to them. The fans will tune in for the bowl draft order draw like they do for group drawings for the world cup. Where you end up will be speculated on like teams being sent to sites for basketball selections.
The actual draft will have fans watching to see what match ups are made, who turns down invites, maybe which teams get left out or which bowls miss teams to fill it. It'll be like selection Sunday on steroids and drawn out.
Do the random draft order selection for each tier the day after cfp rankings are announced, tier 5 would be randomly drawn first in early November and finish with tier two's random draw the week before conference title games. Have the play offs announced and then bowl team draft a few days later.