It's official...4-team playoff approved

[2ndNnine]

Big 12 champ should be out due to most putrid and regarded conference

[Foppa]

maybe they'll have to let a 12-0 Boise in now. It will depend on who is on the super committee and how they got there.

 

I'll take a 9-3 Boise State over an 11-1 Notre Dame ANY day of the week. Notre Dame...embarrassing FBS football since 2000.

 

I hate Notre Dame, but that is ridiculous. The Irish actually play a difficult schedule almost every year, and you're saying Boise, who plays maybe one decent non-con a year, and then coasts through their pathetic conference, should be allowed to get in with 3 losses over a one-loss ND team? No way, no how.

[knapplc]

Looks like the playoffs are already going to be a cash cow.

 

 

ESPN will pay $80M a year for Rose Bowl

 

The financial windfall from the new college football playoff system is evident already.

 

ESPN has agreed to pay an average of $80 million a year for the Rose Bowl, industry experts say, which could push the price tag for the playoffs media rights as high as $600 million for an all-in package that includes a championship game, two semifinals and four major bowls each season.

 

ESPN’s deal with the Rose Bowl runs from 2015 through 2026, making it concurrent with the new playoff structure. The Rose Bowl’s new $80 million annual rights fee represents a 167 percent jump from the $30 million the network currently pays.

 

The Rose Bowl’s partners, the Pac-12 and Big Ten, keep all of that media revenue, except in years when the Rose Bowl is a semifinal game in the playoffs. When the bowl is part of the playoffs, that media revenue would flow through the playoff system and be distributed to all of the FBS conferences. That method of distribution has not been determined yet.

 

ESPN, the current BCS partner, will get first crack at the championship game and semifinals this fall during a 30-day negotiating window. If a deal can’t be struck, the package would then go to the open market where Fox Sports and other networks will be waiting.

 

ESPN currently pays $125 million annually for media rights to the BCS championship, in addition to the $30 million it pays for the Rose Bowl.

[huskerfan333157]

There is NO PERFECT formula for this. Whats amazing is that NO one is going to be happy and NO system will work that will please everyone. Even people that "think" their system is great still has plenty of flaws. This is a lose-lose situatiion, people are going to complain and say the system needs tweaking no matter what.

[Moiraine]

This is a lose-lose situatiion

 

No, it isn't. Or at the very least, you have no way of knowing that. Logically, it should be better than our current system of picking two teams. Having four teams highly increases the chances that there are two teams involved that deserve to be there.

[knapplc]

There is NO PERFECT formula for this. Whats amazing is that NO one is going to be happy and NO system will work that will please everyone. Even people that "think" their system is great still has plenty of flaws. This is a lose-lose situatiion, people are going to complain and say the system needs tweaking no matter what.

 

Sheesh. We've covered this hundreds of times now.

 

No, there is no "perfect" system. There isn't even a definition of what "perfect" would be. What we need is the least-flawed solution, and that's what we're working toward. Of all possibilities, the BCS/Bowl System is the most flawed. Replacing it with anything at all that resembles a playoff is a step in the right direction.