4 Team Playoff Likely on the Way
SIAP, but I don't see any prior postings on this
Bottom line: looks like the +1 folks will get to have a word, but the 4-team approach will win out. SEC basically got its way.
Slive has won on a playoff. He likely will win on his preferred criteria for entry into the playoff. He will win on having the title game played outside the bowl structure, bid out to a neutral-site city. He already won on semifinals sites, having led the successful opposition to playing those games on campuses. Instead, according to reports, they will rotate among existing bowls.
So there's a conference championship, then a bowl, then a neutral-site final and lots of travel for the fans. When bowl games start being half-empty, there may be a push for a change re: location, but playoffs are likely to be here for a while.
Ya don't say?
It's ok guys, he put SIAP on it.
For realzies?
The mods are being punk'd today.
True that, SEC fans for the most part have never had to travel to bowl games. This will be interesting.
Exactly. Only one of the four bowls are really in SEC country, since the Orange Bowl is pretty far from most of the SEC teams outside of UF. So even an SEC team that qualifies has 75% chance of having to travel anywhere from a decent distance to a very long distance for its semifinal game.
If Michigan has a semifinal game against an SEC team in Pasadena or even Tempe, we'd have a pretty sizeable advantage.
Taking this a step further, Slive's insistance against home-field semifinals may come back to bite him.
Let's say a team like LSU or Alabama are undefeated going into the SEC championship game, or are in some scenario where they are either really confident they'll win the game, or confident they'll be in the top-4 either way. Those fans are probably going to save their money and stay home for the SEC champ game, knowing they'll need to travel for the semifinal game, and for the final if they make it. That could have a major impact on SEC champ game attendance in a lot of years.
It will have the same effect on the Big 10 champ game, but we already knew that. I think the Big 10 should switch to the Pac-12 model where the game is hosted on campus of one of the teams competing.
Late last night, I recently emerged after being trapped for nearly two weeks in a sub-terrean dungeon. While rock climbing in the Ozarks, I slipped and fell into that dank, earthen basement, after noticing a curvy siren on the cliff opposite me. After subsisting on a diet consisting of grubs and rain water and battling the effects of hypothermia and paranoid hallucinations brought on by a lack of sleep (with the bobcats and all), I finally managed to escape my prison thanks to some passing Dutch tourists.
Now, I awaken to find some kind of playoff for college football being implemeted.
Wimp.
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Goodness! I had no idea! For you see, I have been on Mars for the past decade, in a cave with my eyes shut, and my fingers in my ears.
I looked. The meeting was today. There are no posts today on it. The 4-team playoff isn't new, but the done-dealness of it is. If it's been discussed, I'm sorry, but I see nothing referencing today's meeting, folks. Brian also seems to have found it noteworthy as of today. Sheesh.
OK, so nobody posted on it today, but last night was too far away?
...but, in my defense, there was new news as of today. I consider it a judgment call whether to add a new comment to a day-old post or start a new thread.
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If you want to be a reader - there's no need to read the blog casually if that's your preference. If that is your preference, however, don't start threads. If you want to be a thread-starter, then you should know what topics have already been posted and which ones haven't.
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