(04-17-2019 01:10 PM)Wedge Wrote: (04-17-2019 11:58 AM)bullet Wrote: (04-17-2019 10:46 AM)Wedge Wrote: (04-17-2019 08:42 AM)bullet Wrote: But its not as easy as he says. You have to either put the bowls at risk by having quarterfinals in December or put attendance in the semi-finals at risk as you try to do 3 games in a row and manouver around the NFL playoffs.
The biggest issue is TV. If ESPN or Fox or anyone else was offering to double the CFP TV money to get an 8-team playoff, it would have happened already. Money makes it easy to deal with every other issue. The schedule will work itself out, they'll play the first round at the higher seeds' home stadiums so that the TV cameras don't have to hide tens of thousands of empty seats at neutral sites, etc.
And if the TV money on offer isn't much more than the current money, there won't be an expanded playoff, just as March Madness didn't expand to 96 teams, even though the coaches wanted it, because CBS and Turner were not interested enough to significantly increase the huge amount they already pay to the NCAA.
I'm fine with the bowls taking the hit by having the quarterfinals at home sites in December. But a lot of people aren't. The losers aren't going to be enthused about going to a bowl game. You would almost have to have the losers play each other.
Can't see the loser of a playoff game going to a bowl game after that loss. NCAA basketball tournament losers don't jump into the NIT after being eliminated from the NCAA tournament. The bowls will have to make do with the 60 or 70 bowl-eligible teams that are not in the playoff. It's just another thing that boils down to money. If there's enough TV money involved, no one will be too bothered that the bowl guys get a team farther down the totem pole than the team they used to get.
Conference championship losers play in a bowl game in the current system. The conference championship games are similar to a pre-Final Four NCAA round.
TCU coach Gary Patterson proposed a CFP expansion that supplants the conference championship games. The money for a CFP quarterfinal round would likely be better than the money from the various CCGs.
https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/col...28585.html
I believe it would depend on when the CFP early round games were played as to whether CFP losers would still play in a bowl game.
FWIW, I love the idea to use Atlanta, DFW, Las Vegas, and Indianapolis as the CFP quarterfinal venues, with regional hosts, in lieu of CCGs. Based on 2018 pre-CCG rankings, this is what the CFP quarterfinals could have looked like:
PARTICIPANTS
(1)Alabama(12-0, SEC champ)
(2)Clemson(12-0, ACC champ)
(3)Notre Dame(12-0, at large)
(4)Georgia(11-1, at large)
(5)Oklahoma(11-1, B12 champ)
(6)Ohio State(11-1, B1G champ)
(8)UCF(11-0, G5 rep)
(11)Washington(9-3, PAC champ)
LEFT OUT: #7 Michigan (10-2)
QUARTERFINALS
December 1, 2018
Arlington:(1)Alabama v. (8)Washington
Atlanta: (2)Clemson v. (7)UCF
Indianapolis: (3)Notre Dame v. (6)Ohio St.
Las Vegas: (4)Georgia v. (5)Oklahoma
SEMIFINALS
December 29, 2018
COTTON BOWL:(2)Clemson v. (3)Notre Dame
ORANGE BOWL: (1)Alabama v. (4)Georgia
OTHER NY6 BOWL GAMES
December 29, 2018
(Based on pre-CCG rankings)
PEACH BOWL: #7 Michigan v. #10 LSU
January 1, 2019
ROSE BOWL: #11 Washington v. #6 Ohio St.
SUGAR BOWL: #5 Oklahoma v. #9 Florida
FIESTA BOWL: #8 UCF v. #12 Penn St.