You would be surprised at how profitable bowl games are. It's one of the largest money makers for ESPN. They won't be going away ... each game, while not all that exciting, makes a lot of money for ESPN, and the teams love them for the practices they get and the experience for the players and families.
Nope. It’ll be just as difficult for my guys to make the playoffs as it has ever been. Our road to making the playoffs won’t be any easier.
To make the 4 team playoff a P5 team had to (for the most part) lose no more than 1 game. To make the 12 team playoff, 3 loss teams will regularly be in.
Been saying that for years
It really only increases the games if those teams that lose the first round can then be slotted into a bowl game if they loose otherwise they are just replacing bowls.
I would be shocked if slating a bunch of 5-7 teams in the lowest tier of bowls will make money.
Right. And some ppl think the balance is at a different pivot point than what you think it should be. QED
Prepare to be shocked. You know better ... doesn't matter who is going to sponser it ... that's the local bowl committees money. ESPN owns something like 37 of the 40 bowls. They make their money because millions of people watch each one. Look at those numbers ... pretty impressive that only 2 have less than a million viewers. 8 of the non-CFP bowls were 4 million+ games, all but 13 had more than 2 million viewers. Maybe you don't like bowl games - goodness knows you don't appear to even want to watch good CFP games - but CFB fans do.
