Wally Llama

September 24th, 2020 at 8:07 PM ^

Will each school's athletic department still be required to buy 20,000 tickets if attendance is limited to 10,000? If not, how are the guys in yellow blazers gonna get PAID?!?

LSAClassOf2000

September 24th, 2020 at 8:29 PM ^

...and you thought the games were comically bad before. I envision some random once-in-a-generation matchups that will set football back decades potentially, but yet, some of us will watch anyway. I know I probably would. 

Maize in Cincy

September 24th, 2020 at 8:36 PM ^

Will the small bowls even happen?  Can’t imagine the TV money is enough to offset the loss of ticket revenue that the sponsors have to buy.  Maybe that money doesn’t have to be refunded.

Roy G. Biv

September 24th, 2020 at 8:37 PM ^

Perhaps this way they can dispense with the pretenses and openly select teams by the most important criteria:  TV ratings and ticket sales (well, maybe not ticket sales so much this year).

Blue Vet

September 24th, 2020 at 8:39 PM ^

Wow. No imperial pomp, or vetting by 5 heralded sportswriters, 4 conference heads, 3 bowl game poobahs, 2 politicians weighing in, and Chris Partridge in a pear tree.

Just football teams playing each other. For fun. What a concept!

WolverineHistorian

September 25th, 2020 at 8:00 AM ^

I did the raised eyebrow in 2002 when they changed the rules to let 6-6 teams be bowl eligible. 

Then it was pure WTF when a 5-7 Nebraska team went bowling in 2015. 

But this?  Part of me is laughing and a little intrigued but....seriously?  I'd love to hear from Bo's early 70's teams, in particular the Dennis Franklin years, where they went 30-2-1 over three seasons and never played in a bowl game while other teams ranked lower than them did.  Their reactions to teams now needing no more than a pulse to make a bowl would be kind of epic. 

crg

September 25th, 2020 at 11:23 AM ^

I am old enough to remember when most teams with winning records did not make a bowl game.  I also think it doesn't matter - bowls began as simply exhibition games to attract tourists to the local traps (the Rose Bowl being the first).  More college football is better than less IMO... but I also view the CFP as simply a four team invitational exhibition mini-tournament and not a legitimate CFB playoff.