And how many people watch the regular season in college basketball and baseball?
1 vs. 2 Michigan Ohio State, game of the century where it will decide....what 3 loss team they play in the playoff.
Boise has no shot, and never will. The solution to that is to remove the G5 and create a separate championship, not dilute the current one and ruin the regular season, to give Boise a spot that they still have absolutely a 0% shot at winning. What makes underdogs fun are teams like that taking out a team here or there out of absolute no where. And what makes those games fun is that they typically take a team out of the running for something. That's gone in this scenario. What hasn't happened, and what will never happen, is a team like Boise running through a 12 team playoff to win a title. It's an illusion of a chance. 2018 UCF would have lost. They couldn't have played 3-4 of the best teams back to back and won.
. Tampa Bay was #5 seed in 2021 and made Super Bowl. Should the NFL go down to a 4-team playoff?
NFL is a different animal. And a lot of it's modern interest surround fantasy football and sports betting. I bet no one gave a shit when the Bengals lost 7 games. So yeah, it is hurt. No one gives a shit? I bet we all tuned in to watch a bunch of bad teams yesterday and last Saturday. I bet not many people are casually tuning it to watch the Lions or Browns first games.Cincinnati Bengals were 10-7 and they made the Super Bowl
NFL regular season hasn't been hurt by playoffs. In fact it tends to be stronger as a result. Sure if you did like NBA or MLB and play 80+ games, that would be a problem.
It's already being ruined by the playoff....yes. The BCS was the better system because the BCS bowls still held significance. They were a measure of success, we used to argue on the *old* forums about how many BCS bowls teams had reached in X# of years. Who wanted to see a rematch of UGA vs Alabama last year? No one. I'm not even sure I watched much of the national title game last year because it was so uninteresting.
Teams will always be left out who don't make the cut. It's hard to argue that CFB wasn't more entertaining as a whole in the BCS era than it's been in the playoff era.
If you are going to end up with the SEC and the B12, what do you care where the money comes from or goes. Putting OU and TX in the SEC makes ESPN more money immediately. Why not help the process, especially since it's all been decided except for when. It's basically a math equation they can run and it makes sense or it doesn't. I think that's the reasoning.
Who cares if they "deserve" it or not ... having UM in the CFP 3 times would have made it more enjoyable for UM fans, and for general fans of college football. Would you honestly have been "ho hum, we are in the CFP again with 2 losses, this sucks?" What if one of the games you got to play was in Ann Arbor? That's not a good thing for the fans? What if being in the CFP 3 times helped you recruit better?
It's way more entertaining now, in my opinion.
Yes, we all did watch WVU and Pitt last night. Because one was a ranked team, the other a pretty significant B12 team, and a loss for either meant that pretty much their hope of a playoff spot was burst on opening night. Unless WVU runs the table now, they're probably out. But hey, in a 12 team playoff they have two more losses to give!
You make that sound like it's a bad thing. Name me one other sport, in the entire world, where losing your first game of the season means you are out of contention to be the champion. Read that again ... how utterly stupid is that? Lose one game and you are out. You write as if you think that is a good thing.
“Boise has no shot and never will.” Neither do/will Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Oregon State, etc.
