New feature on Sports Illustrated: Playoff Bracket. It will change each week and this is only the way they see it. Maybe the NCAA will take a hard look. Sports Illustrated's College Football Playoff Bracket - NCAA Football - SI.com So,,,,,what do you think? I will never understand why this hasn't happened yet.
A quick look at SI's playoff bracket and one can see that the National Champion would have to play FOUR more games, after the regular season to secure the title. When would these games be played? There are currently around 33 bowl games for this year...so that's 66 teams. Let's say you use some of the bowls to play the 16 game bracket. What happens to the other 50 teams and all of the other bowls? Plus they are about 5 All-Star Bowl/Games after the season (Senior, East/West, etc.) These cancelled too? What would the ratings look like if fans were asked to watch the same two teams play three times? (i.e. LSU could hypothetically play Florida in the regular season, for the Conference Championship and against each other in the Title game if they are seeded on opposite sides of the bracket. Here's another issue. Say this playoff system is up and running, the teams are seeded somehow in the more prominent bowls and the games begin. Are a suitable number (tens of thousands) of fans really going to be able to fly to say the Rose Bowl in California, then the Georgia Dome and then out to Pasadena and finally on to Miami...on consecutive weeks?
The NFC North foes Packers and Vikings play each other twice a year and still managed to meet each other for a third time in the 2004 NFL playoffs. It happens. Shrug.
A big problem with playoffs is filling the stadiums. Bowl games fill stadiums by local promotion and by inviting teams that aren't too far away. To fill 16 playoff stadiums in neutral sites would be almost impossible. How is the Cotton Bowl going to fill a stadium pitting Penn State and UCLA? You'd have to play all but the final game at a home team stadium, giving them a huge advantage that nobody would agree to. The big bucks that bowl games bring in to the BCS conferences would dry up. It'll never happen with 16 teams, in my opinion. There are rarely more than four teams still in contention for the national title by december. A four team, two weekend playoff is all we need. If you are the fifth team . . . tough. You should have made the top five, go to the Orange Bowl instead and STFU.
I think just the opposite..............I think playoff games would bring huge crowds and they could still retain the bowl affliation. They bring 50K to HS playoff games in Texas with no home team anywhere near the game. Attendance does not seem to be affected in basketball regionals either.:geaux:
