College Football Playoff Announces Changes to Future Game Dates

[Mavric]

[Mavric]

Generally going for Saturdays and New Year's Day. Trying to stay away from New Year's Eve - except when New Year's Eve is on a Saturday.

[Kiyoat Husker]

Good plan to avoid New Year's Eve, as we saw last year. However, count me in the group that would like to see the CF Champ game on or just after Jan 1st. Sorry Rose Bowl, the championship game is more important. Besides, the layoff between Conf Champ games and playoff is just WAY too long. There is a loss of momentum, and fans start to gravitate to NFL, IMO. Especially now with lagging bowl viewership and too many bowls.

 

Follow up the Conference Championship games with a bye week to watch some crappy bowl games and get healthy, and there are still enough weekends to have a 3-round, 8-team playoff. Cap it off with a championship on or near Jan 1st, and you would OWN December. You could put the bye in after the semi's to give the players a Christmas instead, if that works better.

[Mavric]

Good plan to avoid New Year's Eve, as we saw last year. However, count me in the group that would like to see the CF Champ game on or just after Jan 1st. Sorry Rose Bowl, the championship game is more important. Besides, the layoff between Conf Champ games and playoff is just WAY too long. There is a loss of momentum, and fans start to gravitate to NFL, IMO. Especially now with lagging bowl viewership and too many bowls.

 

Follow up the Conference Championship games with a bye week to watch some crappy bowl games and get healthy, and there are still enough weekends to have a 3-round, 8-team playoff. Cap it off with a championship on or near Jan 1st, and you would OWN December. You could put the bye in after the semi's to give the players a Christmas instead, if that works better.

 

 

Been saying that for years. Just put the quarterfinals mid-December to bridge the gap and leave the semi-finals and championship how they are now. QED.

[Michiganball]

Good plan to avoid New Year's Eve, as we saw last year. However, count me in the group that would like to see the CF Champ game on or just after Jan 1st. Sorry Rose Bowl, the championship game is more important. Besides, the layoff between Conf Champ games and playoff is just WAY too long. There is a loss of momentum, and fans start to gravitate to NFL, IMO. Especially now with lagging bowl viewership and too many bowls.

 

Follow up the Conference Championship games with a bye week to watch some crappy bowl games and get healthy, and there are still enough weekends to have a 3-round, 8-team playoff. Cap it off with a championship on or near Jan 1st, and you would OWN December. You could put the bye in after the semi's to give the players a Christmas instead, if that works better.

Rose bowl has always been more important in the B1G then the "national championship" so nothing will change with that. Having said that I would like to see the bowl games go the way of the dodo. There is just a thin veneer of tradition below the big $$$ signs, though to give Rose bowl credit I believe it's still the only one that doesn't put a corporate name before it's own. Other then that, all I look forward too is a 8 team playoff and like college hoops being played in all conference zones, not just in the south or out west. I know I know, maybe in 20-30 years.

[Kiyoat Husker]

 

Good plan to avoid New Year's Eve, as we saw last year. However, count me in the group that would like to see the CF Champ game on or just after Jan 1st. Sorry Rose Bowl, the championship game is more important. Besides, the layoff between Conf Champ games and playoff is just WAY too long. There is a loss of momentum, and fans start to gravitate to NFL, IMO. Especially now with lagging bowl viewership and too many bowls.

 

Follow up the Conference Championship games with a bye week to watch some crappy bowl games and get healthy, and there are still enough weekends to have a 3-round, 8-team playoff. Cap it off with a championship on or near Jan 1st, and you would OWN December. You could put the bye in after the semi's to give the players a Christmas instead, if that works better.

Rose bowl has always been more important in the B1G then the "national championship" so nothing will change with that. Having said that I would like to see the bowl games go the way of the dodo. There is just a thin veneer of tradition below the big $$$ signs, though to give Rose bowl credit I believe it's still the only one that doesn't put a corporate name before it's own. Other then that, all I look forward too is a 8 team playoff and like college hoops being played in all conference zones, not just in the south or out west. I know I know, maybe in 20-30 years.

 

 

I agree about bowls being more about $ than tradition. I couldn't believe when they removed the "Peach" from the Peach Bowl a few years ago.

 

What do you all think about second-tier and third-tier invitational tournaments taking the place of bowl games? To me it would have more meaning and more at stake than just winning what amounts to an exhibition game. It would be kind of like the NIT or CBI. Home games for the first two rounds, neutral sites would have to bid for the championship game (usually in a warm climate like the bowls). The financial advantage to this is HUGE for the schools involved. As it is now, many schools lose money going to bowl games, and bowl commissioners make $$$$$$$$.

[Michiganball]

Yea, very true about schools loosing money, though not surprising considering the attendance to most is very low. The sad thing is, it's not about even having attendance but filling up dead air on tv, especially for espn in particular who owns 11 of those crappy bowl games. 0.9 in the ratings is better then a 0.3 to them I suppose. This kind of ownership is part why we wont have any changes until people stop watching, empty stadiums or not.

Sure an invitational would bring more structure and prestige, would be cool, but it's college football right? Changes move at the speed of a snail crawling on a turtle. However if somehow, someone sniffs out the money you mentioned the great traditional games like the Idaho potato bowl, or the Heart of Dallas bowl would quickly vanish. "Heart of Dallas bowl", can you believe it? what the hell happened to post season.

[Scratchtown]

Don't really give a rip about new years. I was ready to make the playoff my celebration each year.

 

Haven't done anything extraordinary fun on new years since I met my wife. Other than we share a bottle of wine and.....well you know the rest.

[huKSer]

Don't really give a rip about new years. I was ready to make the playoff my celebration each year.

 

Haven't done anything extraordinary fun on new years since I met my wife. Other than we share a bottle of wine and.....well you know the rest.

Search for Pokemons?

[Mavric]

Don't really give a rip about new years. I was ready to make the playoff my celebration each year.

 

Haven't done anything extraordinary fun on new years since I met my wife. Other than we share a bottle of wine and.....well you know the rest.

 

So it's not a problem to fit "the rest" into any particular commercial break?

[mrandyk]

I believe we will see that having the games on NYE's that fall on Saturdays is still going to result in crap ratings and the future schedule will be changed again. Splitting the games between 12/29 and 12/30 or even opting to compete with the Week 17 NFL viewership on 1/1 would result in better viewership, while also avoiding the other major bowls. NYE is simply a terrible day for TV ratings outside of your midnight countdown shows.