Armed Forces Bowl Open Thread

I believe Delany proposed "home" games to the higher seed in the new playoff format in the sense that the highest local bidder would get it. So, IIRC, if Michigan happened to be a 2 seed and played a 3 or 4 the game would be played as close to AA as possible going to the best venue/bid ratio. At one point I think he outright proposed the higher seed play at home. This is all I really want in a CFB postseason, be it a BCS/Bowl system or playoff/Bowl system. It really just comes down to fairness for me as all the majors are either in the weather of a "cold weather school" opponent or in their area and indoors, still essentially making it a home game. Sometimes both when you have a team like UCLA make the Rose Bowl. I've always argued that no playoff is even needed if you just did away with pre-season polls. Don't reward teams for past efforts and assumption. Wait until a determined week or amount of games played by all and then vote/rank. This keeps a trash team like USC from still hanging around the top 10 with 2 losses by week 6, etc. Then, keep the old bowls all you want but have the title game played in home stadium of the top team. If a Bama is #1, you play in the decent weather of the south. If a Michigan, nd, osu, etc is #1 you actually force a warm weather school to play a game of meaning in cold weather for the first time in history. It only seems fair to me but that's my rant. Just have a love/hate thing with the Rose Bowl. UCLA and usc can ride bikes to the game and any B10 school has a cross country trip and timezone issue to deal with before the ball is snapped.

But the host cities like the economic boost bowls bring, especially in the current climate.  

The Pizza Pizza bowl doesn't draw huge crowds, but it still means a lot more people in downtown Detroit the day after Christmas than there would otherwise be.