Dude. You won. You're one of two teams still standing. You're playing (and losing) on January 20. Relax.
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ND fans seem to be very fragile. Don’t mention the fact they lost to N Illinois, it really sends them off the deep end.
Hey Dude, if you're just going to come here and spout truths and such, just save it!
Lost to NIU and only played 3 games at an opponent’ stadium. No one get a beneficial schedule like ND.
True, however beating IU, Georgia, and Penn St was no cakewalk, so you can’t say they weren’t worthy of a CFP bid.
I watch it often enough to know that mfer is a cry baby. I'm sure they'll need a pump to suck his tears up with next Monday.
To paraphrase Jim mora "academics are you kidding me "
Only solid win was Penn St. IU at home ; UGA back up QB.
Absolutely true! I think they lose the final by a TD but they are a worthy opponent for OSU.
They don’t have officials ‘assigned to them’. Those are the Side judge and the Head linesman who are on either side of the line of scrimmage
I can play that game too:
"The 2024 Duke's Mayo Bowl had an announced attendance of 31,027. This was the lowest attendance in the bowl game's 23-year history, aside from 2020 when the crowd was limited to 1,500 due to COVID-19 restrictions."
If you watched those first round CFP games, I think they were almost all sellouts and great environments with good viewership. Now, imagine spreading that to 16 games, and the interest of the NCAA Bball tournament turbocharged with college football juice. I read there are 47 current D1 bowl games. A 32 team playoff would mean 31 games, but I'll bet attendance would be close and TV ratings would be higher. I think it's doable, IF folks really wanted to come to the table and figure it out. Bear in mind that a ton of the seats sold to the current bowl games go to sponsors and team and corporate blocks. Tix to a 32 team playoff I think would also yield much higher tix prices and TV ratings and ad revenue.
You’re never getting a 32-team tournament in football. Especially in an era where the athletes hold more power than ever.
And you’re putting way too much value on attendance for a bowl game. Bowl game success is based on ESPN having inventory, not on butts in seats.
Yeah, I am feeling ND more myself. They don’t spew the arrogance that I see in OSU and Marcus Freeman has been really impressive imo. Although I was pulling for osu over Texas simply because I wanted to see the sec blocked from a chance at claiming another title I will be rooting for nd to win it all. Whoever won the game between PSU and ND I was always planning to root for. It’s a tall task to beat OSU if they play well, but I am rooting for the underdogs on this one. Hopefully if ND wins OSu doesn’t fire Day and steal Freeman from ND. lol.
I lived in "Michiana" for 50 years. Believe me, the arrogance is strong with the "subway alum". As much as I despise OSU, I'll take the B1G revenue sharing over Notre Dame. FND.
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I'm not rooting for tOSU; but, as someone who has lived within 20 miles of ND the past 30 years, I can assure you I'm rooting against the sanctimonious, hypocritical pricks from ND.
Maybe not, but it makes sense, not that that's ever mattered to the NCAA. Get rid of the conference championships and go to a 32 playoff makes great sense. You think folks didn't go to the Dukes Mayo Bowl so they could stay home and watch? No, I'll wager it was one of the worst viewed in it's history too. And I think the CFP games are getting great TV ratings too.
The NCAA has nothing to do with bowl games or the CFP.
https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-...s-college-football-playoff-and-new-years-six/
Do you know how much money the B1G and SEC make from conference championship games?
ND is about to get boat raced. Whatever happened to OSU after that Michigan game, they aren’t playing around now. Texas was much better than ND.
So, what I'm saying is pretty much borne out in the first paragraph you linked: "average" bowl game viewership: 4.6 million, average CFP viewership: 15.1 million. So that's the justification for expanding the CFP, and would make sense to get rid of non playoff bowl games. Immediately I think they should jump to 16 teams (why does the NCAA have such a hard time understanding using divisible #s like 16 or 64 for playoffs?). My idea of jumping to 32 and eliminating the conference championships is a much bigger hurdle, but I think ultimately it will make sense when the losing teams of those games get eliminated or knocked down in the CFP. I think the CFP this year already hurt interest in conference championships, and I think that's likely to continue.
Again, the NCAA has no role in the CFP.
16 is way more feasible than 32 and I'd say 16 is likely starting in 2026.
I think so too, but I'm just trying to think bigger picture. I think the playoff is going to be uber popular and especially once it's expanded to 16, it's going to make the conference championships even more meaningless and possibly detrimental. It will happen that at some point, someone losing their conference championship will knock them out of contention (would have this year with Clemson, and maybe with ASU), even though they claim it won't. It will also happen that someone who is a worthy NC contender is going to lose a key player (imagine if ASU or Boise lost their RB), and I'd imagine UGA fans already think that with losing Carson Beck.
FCS is at 24 teams with the top 8 getting byes. I bet that is where it eventually ends up at. It probably goes to 16 in 2026.
Until the money from expanding the playoff exceeds the money the big conferences earn from their championship games, I don't think those go away, but I may be wrong. And right now, I don't think the numbers are close. I'd say we're more likely to start the season earlier than we are to eliminate the champ games.
As several others have mentioned why the conference champions won’t likely go away soon ($$$), I do agree they seem a bit more irrelevant now and really just get in the way of the CFP.
Could see maybe breaking down the conferences into divisions (sound familiar: NFL) and having division champions, and possibly have the conference championships being a part of the playoffs (although I don’t particularly care for that if it limits cross conference games).
Edit: although I suppose the schedules could start to incorporate a couple cross conference games during the season? This seems a little farther down the road possibly.
Could see maybe breaking down the conferences into divisions (sound familiar: NFL) and having division champions, and possibly have the conference championships being a part of the playoffs (although I don’t particularly care for that if it limits cross conference games).
Edit: although I suppose the schedules could start to incorporate a couple cross conference games during the season? This seems a little farther down the road possibly.
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Maybe the move to more parity continues, but im skeptical that 32 would ever be doable. The gulf between the top teams and the bottom would be wide IMO. Heck, 16 might be too much in reality.
I think they will figure out some way to make the conference championship games part of the CFP. The winner gets an automatic bye or something and the loser goes home just like the other first round losers. If the game is viewed as part of the CFP with its payouts then they might be able to make it work.
Just go back to a regular season and then bids for bowl matchups. It was as good or better. "We don't have an official national champion then...! " Oh no, the horror...
I like the CFP except it's exclusion of the student fans. So #$%& it...
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I like the CFP except it's exclusion of the student fans. So #$%& it...
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Ain't no way that is happening! You could be looking at a top 5 team losing to another top 5 team in the first round.
Agree. The Big 10 and SEC would both be hard nos. You can’t exclude the second best team from the top 2 conferences. Would never happen.
