(01-12-2018 11:50 AM)8BitPirate Wrote: (01-12-2018 11:20 AM)BearcatMan Wrote: Most sense is 14 with the 10 Conference champions at with the Top four teams getting byes and no more than two teams from a single conference and a Top 10 Notre Dame/Independent stipulation. First round games at the home stadiums of the higher ranked team. No one can make a LOGICAL argument against that.
This year it would've been:
1: Clemson
2: Oklahoma
3: Georgia
4: Alabama
5: Ohio State
6: Wisconsin
7: USC
8: Miami
9: Washington
10: UCF
11: Boise State
12: FAU
13: Toledo
14: Troy State
Would've made the "play-ins":
Ohio State-Troy State (Blowout win, as it should be in every situation like this)
Wisconsin-Toledo (potentially compelling)
USC-FAU (extremely entertaining offensive explosion)
Miami-Boise State (VERY fun game)
Washington-UCF (VERY fun game)
Then the second round plays the four games in four of the NY6, with the semis being in the 2 remaining (the six rotate every year) with a true National Championship game to top it off.
You solve the too many games argument by making conference take 8 game regular season schedules OR knocking off one out of conference game since the conference season becomes much more important...or you know just telling people that EVERY OTHER DIVISION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOES THIS SO IT OBVIOUSLY ISN'T A REASONABLE ARGUMENT.
Bowlcations will still be available for all teams not in the playoff obviously, in order to appease the old people wearing oddly colored suits who like to stand on shoddily built stages in the middle of half filled stadia.
But alas...money, etc.
Think how much cash March Madness brings in. Now think how much money this would bring in. Even your casual football fan would watch a majority of these games.
Exactly...but that money would have to be evenly distributed, which would warrant a big ol' LOL by the Haves. Think about it, you could run a Unit payment structure like March Madness, but there's no way they would allow it.
The CFP+Access bowls currently has a $475M per year deal with ESPN, which if you triple the inventory, would likely double the media deal plus a little pot-sweetener to stave off the competition. So we're looking at $1B per year, across 31 games.
If the Unit Payout was in effect for this hypothetical tournament, each team paid out on a per game played basis, meaning each team would receive $32,250,000 per game played for their conference's distribution. That's about 10X as much as the Sun Belt, CUSA, and MAC get in disbursement every year just for making this tournament as mandate would dictate, which would make them happy and make the big boys VERY mad since it's effectively life-changing money for some of these athletic departments.
With that being said, say we get the same end result and Alabama and Georgia make the NC game...that would mean the SEC nets $325,000,000, which is nearly triple what they pulled from this year's CFP. I just don't see how this doesn't make sense for all involved.
Dilly Dilly!
