Playoff Committee Considering Move from NYE
most people simply would prefer it not be one of the CFB Semifinals.
NYE is a rather perfect slot for a Peach/Gator/Alamo/Holiday type Bowl game. A bowl that generally faces off a couple good but not great teams that are in the Top 25, but not in the Top 10. A good game to watch for those who stay at home, and good background (but not MUST watch) entertainment for the partiers.
I always manage to catch a quarter of the Peach bowl. And that's it. I have obligations beyond that. That's just fine for the Peach bowl. It does not work so well for the CFP.
because Michigan will be in the playoffs this year.
They won't fix it until 2018.
Of course, we'll be in the playoffs then too.
is far more idiotic than the typical Village Idiot
What a concept, moving to a time/date so more might see it! Wonder how much they paid their consultants for that gem!
Consultants - 1, Committee - 0
What a concept, moving to a time/date so more might see it! Wonder how much they paid their consultants for that gem!
Consultants - 1, Committee - 0
You can always count on the people who run college football to do the right thing.
After all the other options have been eliminated.
I'd rather watch them in prime time any day of the week as the featured game.
Completely agree. I'd gladly take one per night for a week and do something else NYD
There's no reason why they can't make them 12, 3:30 and 8p.
Instead it's like 12, 12, and 4. It's so stupid.
that is just idiotic/ Delaney-esque
put a team in your example that isn't undefeated against Michigan though.
I liked having the games on NYE but I always take the day off and have a young kid so I'm not staying out late at parties anyway. I do think, over time, NYE parties would turn into CFP parties similar to Super Bowl parties. I would think most college football fans would enjoy that better than a typical NYE party, but I'm moving into middle age and have no idea what anyone really wants anymore.
I think you would get some hardcore fans that would have CFP parties, but for the average sports fan, I don't think this would ever catch on. NYE parties are a huge tradition, and college football was never going to break that.
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went to the Wizard of Oz and finally got a brain?
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I like watching college football on NYE (Peach Bowl on NYE was a nice tradition), but the playoff should be on NYD or later. The BCS had it perfect, where the top bowl games were spread out after the Rose Bowl. I'm also not a fan of hosting both playoff games on the same day.
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The real wrench in this plan is the Rose Bowl, which won't give up the 4:30 PM slot on New Years Day (and to a lesser extent the Sugar, which claims it has a right to the 8 PM slot, but that's a much more recent thing).
Given that, the best solution would be for the Rose and Sugar to always host the semis, giving up a right to host the championship game, which would rotate among the other 4. The second best solution, in the years when the Rose is not hosting, would be a NYD with a 1 PM semi-final, Rose Bowl, 8 PM semi-final.
NY's Day is far and away the best date for the semi-finals. They found out NYE isn't that great of a date. If they want to have both games on the same day and don't do NYs Day, they are stuck with the early game starting during normal working hours for a large portion of the country. Other than that they could look at having the semi-finals on back to back evenings so they are both in prime time.
The Rose Bowl won't give up the 2 pm PST time slot, and the Sugar Bowl won't give up the 7 pm CST time slot. The NFL isn't going to give up the Saturday & Sunday of the first weekend in January. So that leaves 2 options for the CoFoPo folks:
(1) Get the Big Ten, Pac 12, SEC and Big 12 to all agree to give up their automatic slots in the Rose & Sugar Bowls, and make those bowls permanent semifinals (while simultaneously getting the Orange, Peach, Cotton and Fiesta Bowls to give up their national semifinal slots) or
(2) Just deal with the fact that you have written yourselves into a terrible contract and try to re-negotiate everything when the current contract expires after the January 2026 bowl season.
Really, I think #2 is the only possible outcome. There is too much turf to protect that I don't see the network, the conferences, and the bowls all agreeing on a single solution.
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making michigan gear?
You know, I have gotten the eve and day of both Christmas and New Year's off for so long it was something of a wake-up call for me when the ratings for the NYE games were low and people were complaining - and rightly so. It really would behoove them, find a way to tweak the bowl schedule to mesh better with holidays and projected viewership, so hopefully they do.
As a sidenote, I was just out of the hospital when the MSU-Alabama game happened, but I was well enough that I had an exchange with a friend who is an MSU alum, someone who, for five glorious minutes, was convinced that they had a shot in that game.