If there was a playoff system for College Football, what would happen to all the sponsored bowls?

Question

If there was a playoff system for College Football, what would happen to all the sponsored bowls? Playoffs would have to be managed by the NCAA, so what happens to all the big bucks the bowls bring in for sponsors? The sponsors are the ones doing all the event management and planning. They pay the bill.

Just throwing this out there for discussion. Was a hot topic in a discussion we had last night.

Answer 1

I think there should be an eight team playoff for the six major conference winners and then two at large teams. Then, for everyone who doesn't qualify for the playoff, the other bowl games would still happen. For example: Auburn and Nebraska would neither be good enough for the eight team playoff, but they would still both get to play in the Cotton Bowl. Same thing for the Toledo's and Southern Miss's of the NCAA. They still get to go to the PapaJohn's.com Bowl or whatever.

Answer 2

IF there were a playoff........the sponsored bowls would go on as always and the ones with greater esteem, such as the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, etc would be used in the playoff games, while the lesser bowls would be left as they are today, just lesser bowls which really wouldn't be effected by the playoff at all, as today they aren;t effected by the higher rated bowls either. There is room for all. They would take the bowls with the most esteem and pay-off and rotate them in the playoff format. Each could be at a diff level (i.e. quarterfinal, semi and final) every year to even it out...simple. Will it happen, prob not, but it would be better for fans. The argument about putting too much educational stress on the players is pure bs as look how late the Championship game is this year Jan. 8th !! They'll stretch it out as long as they can to make more.

Answer 3

Nothing would happen to them. Use the bowl games as the playoff games leading up to championship game which could be rotated city to city and bowl name to bowl name (much the same as now). Also the sponsors are not the only ones making big bucks on the bowl games. The NCAA and the schools involved get a hefty chuck also.

Answer 4

Nothing would happen if the sponsors were allowed to advertise at ALL the playoff sites. The top paying bowls game sites could serve as playoff sites and everyone else could still go to a bowl and have that kind of relationship intact.

Answer 5

Some would still exist, they'd just be played between teams not going to the playoffs.

I'd imagine te playoffs would be small: either 4 or 8 teams. So you could have a good bowl game with top 10 teams.

They'd probably use the big bowl games (Sugar, Rose, Orange, Fiesta) as playoff games.

Answer 6

I think the BCS Bowls still happen, they just become the finals and semi finals, etc with each on rotating on a yearly basis as to which is the championship, which is the semis, etc. and I see no reason why the rest of the non BCS bowls couldnt just continue to happen. Put the top 8 in the playoffs use the BCS bowls as the play off games, give the sponsers their money, and play the rest of the bowls too

Answer 7

they could do a hybrid system with playoff games for 1 v 4 and 2 v 3. Keep the bowls (no way are we getting rid of them, too much money involved) and people would be much more satisfied. A true playoff system (what we should have) would have to replace the bowl games. A hybrid wouldn't.

Answer 8

They should make the playoff games themselves bowl games. They don't have to get rid of the bowls. Just rotate the bowls every year, getting a different playoff game every year, but we need playoffs more than bowl sponsors. The schools make enough money as it is off of tuition.

Answer 9

Take the top 12 to the tournament. The rest of the teams still get bowl bids, allowing thr revenues to still be there. Of the 12, the conference champs from the SEC, Big 12, Pac 10, and Big 10 get first round byes... 5-12 duke it out (5 v. 12, 6 v. 11, 7 v. 10, 8 v. 9) Winners advance and the lowest seeds play the highest.

Answer 10

Each game would still be called by its bowl name. For example you draw up a bracket and the first round games would be the Fiesta Bowl, the Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl, etc. leading all the way to the finals and then the championship game. Each year it would rotate so that each bowl will get a chance to recieve more media coverage.