New College Football Playoff Name Revealed! (It's not Leaders Legends)
Sources have revealed the new name of the college playoff starting in 2014. See here: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9204021/college-football-playoff-expected-new-name-four-team-playoff-sources
EDIT: Apparently the tongue-in-cheek title was not getting through to some people. The new playoff name is, get ready for it...College Football Playoff. Yes, really.
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I love Jim Delaney's take:
B1G commish Jim delany on new Playoff name: "I'll be happy w whatever. Obviously I'm not great with names."
— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) April 23, 2013
"It will be simple," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said earlier this week. "It will not be cutesy. And it will be descriptive. I've seen too many people make mistakes by trying to be cutesy."
Thinly veiled jab is thinly veiled.
after the L&L debacle. Finally we can leave that crud-encrusted hulk behind us.
What was it revealed to be?
"College Football Playoff"
I must have read that 10 times and didn't see it until I knew what it was. I guess I just need to slow down next time.
I'm an idiot, didn't refresh before I replied
Edit: oops, I don't read good.
Livin on the edge
I don't like cutsey either but that has absolutely NO imagination whatsoever. Can't they get a cool sounding sponsor or something that has some sort of ring to it? That's just...well, I guess I can't complain too much. After Leaders and Legends, I guess we can't be too picky.
Boo for making us click on the link in the OP when you could have just told us.
How did that bowl get in the rotation?
...and on a side note, I wonder how much they paid some think tank to think up this brain child?
The Peach Bowl is the second oldest bowl game not already in the mix outside of Florida or Texas. The oldest is the Liberty Bowl and like you said, Atlanta has more cache than Memphis (although I do like Memphis).
What I kind of don't get is how Dallas has so much cache for hosting everything and is even trying to put together an Olympic bid. I know they've got JerryWorld, a ton of money and have hosted a few college football games. But considering the largest event they ever hosted was Super Bowl XLV, and by most accounts their hosting was a disaster, I feel like they shouldn't be penciled in as an automatic host for any major event.
April 24th, 2013 at 10:54 AM ^
it's cachet. Yeah, that guy.
Anyway, as I was born and raised in ATL, I can attest to the rabid college football culture there. As long as I had lived there (and it's been a few years), UGA was always bigger than the Falcons and GT. The Peach Bowl was a HUGE event (and I'm so bummed Chick-Fil-A killed the name; couldn't have called it the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl?) and is one of the premier non-Alliance/BCS bowl games. Honestly, I think it's the corporate sponsored name that makes it seem not as impressive as it is. Also, the #3/4 ACC/SEC matchup was usually a really good game.
Dallas is kind of like Indianapolis in that respect. No real college football tradition, but a lotta space, good infrastructure, new development, $$$$, etc.
i would've preferred playofff with three Fs.
I call BS. Right now it's the 'College Football Playoff' but when 2014 rolls around it will be:
'Beef O' Mac Depot College Football Playoff brought to you by CitiCardBankChaseCreditUnion'
Or Football Bowl Subdivison Playoffs?
They call the other divisons the FCS Playoffs, DII Football Playoffs and DIII Football Playoffs. Why does everyone think FBS football is this magical entity that can't possibly exist under the same rules or ideas as every other NCAA sport?
I suppose a bland name isn't too bad.
The name is very cleverly chosen to say, in bright neon lights:
"SEE ITS A PLAYOFF NOW SO NO MORE BITCHING"
how much the marketing/consulting firm was paid to come up with it. I hope it was in the millions.
Because the consultants came up with good names...and the clients (NCAA) picked this one.
If they even engaged professionals...usually a bad name comes from the entity, not from its agency.
should have called it ...
wait for it....
THE FOOTBALL FOUR.
I like it being generic.
Agreed. Simple is best for an epochal naming change like adding a playoff to CFB.
Fun fact: Rumor has it that when Rutgers & Maryland joined, Delaney was personally pushing for a name change from "Big Ten" to "The Athletic Conference of Collegiate Schools Currently Including, But Not Limited To: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers and Wisconsin", but it was shot down because the new name was considered to be too 'wordy', plus their entire logo budget was already spent creating this:
I actually really like this logo, now that they have gotten rid of the redundant "TEN" that used to be part of it. Now if they can get rid of the Carolina blue, they'll have a keeper.
Fans can vote on the logo for the new college football playoff. The site is also up at collegefootballplayoff.com
I voted for the golden football.
How could any red-blooded American not vote for logo #1? I'm sure Les Miles agrees.
Ricki Stanzi and J Leman approve.
April 24th, 2013 at 10:58 AM ^
None of them are great, but #2 is the least lame.
EDIT: Wow, compass star football thingy is WAY in the lead...
April 24th, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
With the color scheme, I figured they were already getting ready for Michigan to play Ohio State in it.
#2 is a little too Notre Dame for me.
your insight is insightfully insightful. i like it.
This is what happens when you let a group of grumpy old dudes make novel decisions.
I keep looking at the name - "College Football Playoff" - and can only think that the marketing possibilities of this name are, well, shockingly finite somehow.
There are some interesting quotes in the ABC News story (HERE):
If you are going to call it exactly what it is, you don't get more on point than this name. To quote "Muppets Take Manhattan": "Just say what the product does? No one has ever tried that!"