mikeinoki
Gone to Seed
Posts: 4,310
Joined: Nov 2016
Reputation: 571
I Root For: JDB
Location: Greenview NC or SC?
|
The problem with college football's postseason
Article from USA TODAY highlighting the deficiencies of bowl games and the CFP not matching "G5" with "P5." LINK
Quote:Meanwhile, longstanding bowl tie-ins lead to repetitive rematches between conferences. Michigan has faced South Carolina in bowl play twice in the past five years, for example. I think we can all agree that once was enough.
Therein lies the biggest weakness of the postseason: The ever-decreasing number of bowl games pitting teams from the Power Five against the Group of Five makes a sham of bowl play and highlights the growing divide separating the haves from college football’s have-nots.
One of college football’s biggest dilemmas isn’t the lack of a Cinderella but the complete redefinition of the word. For the Football Bowl Subdivision, Cinderella isn’t Central Florida getting a shot at the national championship, since UCF and its ilk will never get that shot. It’s the idea that 2015 Iowa, for example, is college football’s new version of a feel-good underdog.
Bowl season highlights this idea: Group of Five teams can’t play Cinderella simply because they don’t get the chance.
The article also has some thoughts on the G5 playoff idea.
Quote:There’s been some talk among Group of Five administrators, if always in whispers and rarely taken seriously, about branching out and creating a championship format separate from the Power Five. That’s a ridiculous idea that would only serve to hurt non-major programs and conferences, in their wallets most of all.
|
|
06-14-2018 07:43 AM |
|
C2__
Caltex2
Posts: 23,652
Joined: Feb 2008
Reputation: 561
I Root For: Houston, PVAMU
Location: Zamunda
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
In other breaking news, the sun is rising...from the east!
|
|
06-15-2018 07:37 AM |
|
Chappy
Resident Goonie
Posts: 18,901
Joined: Dec 2008
Reputation: 899
I Root For: ECU
Location: Raleigh, NC
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
I think the thing that the TV networks need to realize is that just because the power conferences have a large number of followers does not mean that there isn't a large number of people following the other division 1 conferences. They seem to think that Ohio State is the Yankees and Cincinnati is the Charleston River Dogs, but that's just not the case.
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2018 08:39 AM by Chappy.)
|
|
06-15-2018 08:38 AM |
|
rosewater
Heisman
Posts: 5,666
Joined: Feb 2008
Reputation: 158
I Root For: cincy
Location:
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
(06-15-2018 07:37 AM)_C2_ Wrote: In other breaking news, the sun is rising...from the east!
Right, but I think that part of his message is that a major newspaper is finally recognizing the problem. This is news.
|
|
06-15-2018 09:08 AM |
|
TIGERCITY
Hall of Famer
Posts: 19,980
Joined: Feb 2009
Reputation: 453
I Root For: Memphis
Location:
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
Until the Power 5 see thus as a problem nothing will change imo. And why would they change it?
|
|
06-15-2018 09:16 AM |
|
billybobby777
The REAL BillyBobby
Posts: 11,898
Joined: May 2013
Reputation: 502
I Root For: ECU, Army
Location: Houston dont sleepon
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
(06-14-2018 07:43 AM)mikeinoki Wrote: Article from USA TODAY highlighting the deficiencies of bowl games and the CFP not matching "G5" with "P5." LINK
Quote:Meanwhile, longstanding bowl tie-ins lead to repetitive rematches between conferences. Michigan has faced South Carolina in bowl play twice in the past five years, for example. I think we can all agree that once was enough.
Therein lies the biggest weakness of the postseason: The ever-decreasing number of bowl games pitting teams from the Power Five against the Group of Five makes a sham of bowl play and highlights the growing divide separating the haves from college football’s have-nots.
One of college football’s biggest dilemmas isn’t the lack of a Cinderella but the complete redefinition of the word. For the Football Bowl Subdivision, Cinderella isn’t Central Florida getting a shot at the national championship, since UCF and its ilk will never get that shot. It’s the idea that 2015 Iowa, for example, is college football’s new version of a feel-good underdog.
Bowl season highlights this idea: Group of Five teams can’t play Cinderella simply because they don’t get the chance.
The article also has some thoughts on the G5 playoff idea.
Quote:There’s been some talk among Group of Five administrators, if always in whispers and rarely taken seriously, about branching out and creating a championship format separate from the Power Five. That’s a ridiculous idea that would only serve to hurt non-major programs and conferences, in their wallets most of all.
Great article and true. A 6-6 Texas vs a 10-2 Houston won’t happen in a bowl because a 6-6 Texas will play a 6-6 Indiana instead. A 10-2 Boise won’t get to play a 7-5 Oklahoma because the bowls will match a 7-5 Oklahoma with a 7-5 Washington St. dumb, dumb dumb...
|
|
06-15-2018 09:31 AM |
|
DownOnRohs
Heisman
Posts: 5,916
Joined: Feb 2015
Reputation: 68
I Root For: Cincinnati
Location:
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
(06-15-2018 08:38 AM)Chappy Wrote: I think the thing that the TV networks need to realize is that just because the power conferences have a large number of followers does not mean that there isn't a large number of people following the other division 1 conferences. They seem to think that Ohio State is the Yankees and Cincinnati is the Charleston River Dogs, but that's just not the case.
It's maddening. Ohio is a BIG ******* state. But somehow the ACC with their 7 schools in the state of North Carolina is exponentially more valuable? FOH
|
|
06-15-2018 10:20 AM |
|
TheOrigamiJimmyChin
Special Teams
Posts: 888
Joined: May 2017
Reputation: 26
I Root For: My wife
Location: Not Pasadena
|
RE: The problem with college football's postseason
The problem with FBS postseason is so many bowl games that I've stopped watching. I'll be honest, most years I barely have interest in the Coogs bowl game.
UH-SDSU? Meh.
UH-Pitt? Meh... Until turned into one of the greatest comebacks in bowl history.
Most bowl games are throw away games to be honest. For every UH-FSU Peach Bowl there are ten UH-Kansas/Air Force/Vanderbilt/etc
|
|
06-15-2018 04:30 PM |
|