NCAA Postseason Football Bowl Contacts and Schedule — FYI. For you football fans here is a complete listing of all the bowl games this year and which leagues will be playing against which leagues. They will start to set teams next week.While there are clearly too many bowl games, there are opportunities for interesting match ups we’d otherwise never see.
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If ever there were a year that shouts the need for a playoff, this would be it.
I still say they should make a “Toilet Bowl” that pits the 118th and 119th teams against each other. Hell, this year it might be Notre Dame and Duke in a rematch.
Big Ten teams play in 6 bowls, which seems like all but maybe 3 or 4 teams go to bowl games.
There is a playoff in Div I-AA football, 16 teams are in it. Even though my team is in it (Go Hens!) I’m not in favor of the playoffs – all but one team’s season ends in a loss. These are school kids, not pros. The bowl system in I-A allow more teams to participate (64) and more potential bragging rights. (We won the Boardwalk bowl!!)
So what if “the best team in football” is disputed, that’s what sport is. Besides, the “Best Team” seldom wins it all, it’s more a matter of luck, injuries, and emotion.
“Too many Bowl games” is not problem, that is sort of like saying we’ve got too many awards (Noble, Pulitzer, Oscars, Hugos, etc.) – just give one for the “best.”
I don’t see why we cannot have both a playoff and a bowl season. Conference championship games, like Big 12 and SEC could count as part of round 1, other regional matchups can narrow the field to 8. Then the four BCS bowls + 3 other bowls can host the 7 playoff games – quarter finals at Christmas, semi finals at new years, championship the following. The remaining bowls could still host games as usual.
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Hey, why don’t we add one Division 1-A team and have 60 bowl games? Every team gets a bowl game!
Not only does Division I-AA have a playoff, every college sport has a playoff. In fact, I would go so far as to say every college and professional sport has a playoff except Division I-A college football. It is ridiculous. If a team does not want its season to end, they need to be good enough to get into the post-season. It is a simple as that. Hell, pop warner football has a playoff.
There are a number of ways you could maintain the bowls and still have a playoff. The simplest would be to play the five major conference champions on January 1st in their respective bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange) with the Big East and ACC getting an automatic bid and having two invites. Then you would play two games after that. The toilet bowls could continue as they are now: meaningless games that reward teams after the season.
There are many other solutions. It is laughable that college football cannot get it done.