12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow

DrinkinwitTerrellFarley said:
I'd throw a bone to the Bowls and they can have the semi-finals and the championship.  Everything else should be on campus of the better seed in a better environment for fans of the game.
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I can appreciate this take (semis and champ game being bowl games)...but, this is a perfect opportunity for the ability to promote the tourism of college towns/cities...you are going to have viewers (TV) regardless of where it is played , so put more effort into viewership for your 2nd tier cities...plus, you have the ability to have insane games at a true homesite...imagine Alabama at Nebraska in Decemeber, Michigan at Clemson, Ohio st in Miami/Miami at Ohio St, Florida at Iowa St, Georgia at Boise St, and so on and so forth.

Tennessee at Ohio St drew HUGE TV numbers

 
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UniversalMartin said:
I can appreciate this take (semis and champ game being bowl games)...but, this is a perfect opportunity for the ability to promote the tourism of college towns/cities...you are going to have viewers (TV) regardless of where it is played , so put more effort into viewership for your 2nd tier cities...plus, you have the ability to have insane games at a true homesite...imagine Alabama at Nebraska in Decemeber, Michigan at Clemson, Ohio st in Miami/Miami at Ohio St, Florida at Iowa St, Georgia at Boise St, and so on and so forth.

Tennessee at Ohio St drew HUGE TV numbers
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I agree TV will always have huge numbers, but at some point they need to go to the 'neutral site' games in the playoffs if not just to ensure ticket sale numbers.  Imagine if Boise was hosting, they would lose out on probably 20-30k tickets that could have been sold!  Of course, I'd imagine in general any team hosing a semi-final/championship game would be a big time program with a big time stadium, but it isn't guaranteed.

 
admo said:
Didn't Husker fans hate and complain about playing Miami or FSU in the Orange Bowl down in Florida?  I am pretty sure that was a real sentiment forever.  
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Yeah, because those were supposed to be neutral sites that never were. The anger was because those teams were often giftwrapped an advantage they weren't supposed to have, and we never were.

If home field advantage playoff games had been a thing in the 90s, we would've been hosting a lot of them.

 
admo said:
I may be in the minority but I prefer a neutral site for all playoff games.  It keeps things even.

Didn't Husker fans hate and complain about playing Miami or FSU in the Orange Bowl down in Florida?  I am pretty sure that was a real sentiment forever.  

But now, If NU makes the playoffs and has to go play Clemson (for example) on a Friday or Saturday night in Death Valley - yall going to lose your s#!t over it. 

"That's not fair" and "Why can't it be played on a neutral site" is what we will hear.  
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It is crazy how much power the SEC and Big Ten have over all of this,  I don't blame them for using it,.  

And it is shocking how the other conferences just have nothing.  No say, no power, no nothing.  

 
teachercd said:
It is crazy how much power the SEC and Big Ten have over all of this,  I don't blame them for using it,.  

And it is shocking how the other conferences just have nothing.  No say, no power, no nothing.  
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Exactly what the SEC/B1G were hoping to accomplish with the attempt to destroy the Big12 and Pac12 respectively. TV ratings rule the day now. Its the only reason ND has been able to successfully remain independent. 

 
hskrpwr13 said:
Exactly what the SEC/B1G were hoping to accomplish with the attempt to destroy the Big12 and Pac12 respectively. TV ratings rule the day now. Its the only reason ND has been able to successfully remain independent. 
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Yeah for sure!  ND has no reason to join a conference at all, not yet anyway, maybe never.

They make amazing money and they split it one way...That is a pretty good deal.

 
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