2016 Playoffs

[HSCTiger74]

One last thought about the 2016 CFB bowl games.

Is a 5-7 team getting a bid to a CFB bowl game the equivalent of the "Participation Trophy"?

  I would say that it's actually the definitive example.

[smedindy]

One last thought about the 2016 CFB bowl games.

Is a 5-7 team getting a bid to a CFB bowl game the equivalent of the "Participation Trophy"?

It was when they let 6-6 teams into them, and that's 6-6 with one D-1AA win.

The crowds are abysmal, schools lose money, BUT the cable networks own many of them and they get better ratings and ad buys than what they'd show regularly.

Someone had commented about ECAC-type bowls for the entire country in another year, and I think it's kind of a bitter pill. "Hey, you went 8-2 and had a middling SOS. Here's a game you can play while 32 other teams play for the trophy."

Sort of like going to the NIT, CIT, or the CBI in hoops.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

More than 60% of FBS teams are playing in a bowl game... we'd need around 60 ECAC bowl games plus the tournament in D3 to have that kind of ratio. They didn't reach 20 bowl games until 1997 and they've doubled that in less than 2 decades. Yet they still can't spring for a couple extra flights for the D3 islands.

Among my fixes for the FBS would be
- 8 team tournament (Power 5 champs, 1 non power 5 team, 2 at large). That would mean this year would be Alabama. Clemson, Washington, Penn St, Oklahoma, W Michigan, Ohio St, Michigan would be in)
- Add a 13th game to the season to even the playing field (conferences with a championship game would have that count as their 13th game [and should not only have 1st vs 1st but 2nd vs 2nd etc] while conferences without a championship [and if they play a full round robin] would get an additional nonconference game)
- Limit the FCS opponents to 1 a season and it must be within the first 2 games of the season (looking at you SEC and your late October games)

[AO]

More than 60% of FBS teams are playing in a bowl game... we'd need around 60 ECAC bowl games plus the tournament in D3 to have that kind of ratio. They didn't reach 20 bowl games until 1997 and they've doubled that in less than 2 decades. Yet they still can't spring for a couple extra flights for the D3 islands.

Among my fixes for the FBS would be
- 8 team tournament (Power 5 champs, 1 non power 5 team, 2 at large). That would mean this year would be Alabama. Clemson, Washington, Penn St, Oklahoma, W Michigan, Ohio St, Michigan would be in)
- Add a 13th game to the season to even the playing field (conferences with a championship game would have that count as their 13th game [and should not only have 1st vs 1st but 2nd vs 2nd etc] while conferences without a championship [and if they play a full round robin] would get an additional nonconference game)
- Limit the FCS opponents to 1 a season and it must be within the first 2 games of the season (looking at you SEC and your late October games)

The NCAA isn't paying for or earning money from bowl games.  Bowl games are just an extra game put on by ESPN, I don't get why people get so worked up about it.   Very unique way to end the season and it's great for the players. 

[Ralph Turner]

With the rumbling that Ohio State might be picked for the "Playoff 4", don't you like D-3 even more?

http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/2016/bracket

I tried to find an equivalent game in the D3 Bracket to the Clemson Ohio State game and the closest that I could find was Tommies 43 Northwestern MN (not IL) 0, with apologies to Northwestern IL. After all, they WON their conference title!

The CFB Selection Committee got what they deserved.

[jknezek]

I agree. Should be conference champions only. Especially if the conference champ also owns the H2H. That was ridiculous this year. Not that I think Penn State would have done much better. Clemson just looked that much better.