I Like Drink’s Idea Of An Expanded Playoff

[Red7]

Expand it to 32 and incorporate it into the bowls. Instead of playing at home, games are assigned by slots to 16 bowls: Ex. #1 v #32 Pinstripe Bowl. This would elevate many of the minor bowls into money makers. Also, since the bowls are part of a playoff, it’s likely to increase participation by star players, thereby reducing the number of JV games we watch. The following week, you have 8 bowls, and so on. Eliminate a regular season game. The revenue generated by an expanded playoff will more than make up for it.

[ex-submariner]

Seeing as "college" football has already prostituted itself upon the altar of money, why stop there? Make it 128 teams, double elimination. That way we could have the sport all year long. Yipee!

[jcgmoi]

What ex-sub said. And what's the idea of the #1 team playing in the Bronx?

Also, while there are minor bowl games, none of them lose money, or they don't for very long. Don't confuse profit with attendance.

[Red7]

What ex-sub said. And what's the idea of the #1 team playing in the Bronx?

Also, while there are minor bowl games, none of them lose money, or they don't for very long. Don't confuse profit with attendance.

OMG, that was just an example. How about a nice trip to the Bahamas Bowl. Bowl profitability obviously comes from TV revenue. Think about how much MORE TV money would be available for a PLAYOFF game as opposed to a match up of 6-6 teams from the MWC and MAC.

[Basil Shabazz]

Expand it to 32 and incorporate it into the bowls. Instead of playing at home, games are assigned by slots to 16 bowls: Ex. #1 v #32 Pinstripe Bowl. This would elevate many of the minor bowls into money makers. Also, since the bowls are part of a playoff, it’s likely to increase participation by star players, thereby reducing the number of JV games we watch. The following week, you have 8 bowls, and so on. Eliminate a regular season game. The revenue generated by an expanded playoff will more than make up for it.

I agree with this principle. This was my idea as far back as a decade ago. I would only do 16 teams, though. 8 Bowl games over the Christmas holiday and 4 more bowl games over the New Year's holiday. Then the final 4 will play through January at the 3 biggest bowls. Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, etc.

[Red Bird Classic]

Because you'd have 16, then 8, then 4 bowl games for the first 3 rounds (That's 28 bowls for 32 teams) the idea would eliminate many teams from appearing in bowls who otherwise make it to bowl games.

[dugoutrex]

no thanks!

[Red7]

Because you'd have 16, then 8, then 4 bowl games for the first 3 rounds (That's 28 bowls for 32 teams) the idea would eliminate many teams from appearing in bowls who otherwise make it to bowl games.

Outstanding. Improve the quality of the games while increasing revenues at the same time. Win-Win.

[3WE]

I’d think you’d need some kind of crazy and strict rule structure on how to get in…and something better than “an AI computer algorithm”. You’ll never eliminate close calls, but as you go from 12 to 16 to 32, the number of “ties” increases geometrically and you have a (bleep)-pot of excluded teams with similar records and good arguments.

The basketball playoffs solution is expansion [(bleep) emoji]

For the record [bleep] is a word that starts with cr and ends with ap. Thanks STLToday.