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Posted on 12/29/13 at 8:28 am to GenesChin
It should be 7 IMO
Posted on 12/29/13 at 9:25 am to GenesChin
Attendance is direct correlation between matchup and date. Put the games back on 12/31 and 1/1 and quit having matchups like an OU vs Bowling Green.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 9:31 am to GenesChin
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People just aren't getting excited for bowl games anymore
Stopped reading here, because you're wrong. The Little Caesar's Bowl had a higher TV rating than the most recent Big East tournament championship game.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 9:32 am to GenesChin
At least 7 wins.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 9:33 am to GenesChin
On the one hand, I wish they would reduce the number of bowl games by 10 and increase the number of wins need to 7 to make a bowl appearance mean more.
On the other hand, crappy football games are better than no games.
On the other hand, crappy football games are better than no games.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 10:25 am to WDE24
It really doesn't matter. There are really top level conferences now and non top level. The matchups between those are such a joke nowdays.
The downside to the SEC really upping their game since the '92 expansion has been how much of a letdown many of the bowls are after playing teams that wind up in the BCS bowls and/or title games in regular season every year.
The downside to the SEC really upping their game since the '92 expansion has been how much of a letdown many of the bowls are after playing teams that wind up in the BCS bowls and/or title games in regular season every year.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 10:26 am to NathanL
7. it needs to be harder so the bowl games would be more meaningful
Posted on 12/29/13 at 10:26 am to NathanL
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Stopped reading here, because you're wrong. The Little Caesar's Bowl had a higher TV rating than the most recent Big East tournament championship game.
...and?
I bet a lot of regular season SEC games beat those numbers as well.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 10:27 am to WDE24
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crappy football games are better than no games.
that's about how I feel. I think many are also forgetting it's for the student athletes. Or at least that's what the big "non-profit" operators are saying.
But from the above linked article:
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Instead of establishing a selection order and letting the bowls draft teams as they've done for decades, the SEC will put its six mid-level bowls – the Outback, Music City, Gator, Liberty, Texas and Belk – into a pool and essentially assign teams to those games to maximize matchups and geography.
This is going to take some adjusting to. But it seems that's what happened this year with those level bowl games.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:02 am to BuckeyeFan87
Love the idea of top 25 teams only (with one non ranked wild card team).
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:35 am to Gradual_Stroke
That would just give more, legitimate, reasons for people to hate the voters.
I mean, 20-25 are typically all on the same level and around the same as a bunch of other unranked teams, why should an unranked Ole Miss get left out in favor of ranked Fresno State or Northern Illinois?
I mean, 20-25 are typically all on the same level and around the same as a bunch of other unranked teams, why should an unranked Ole Miss get left out in favor of ranked Fresno State or Northern Illinois?
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:41 am to GenesChin
What are you talking about? Syracuse bought a whopping 700 tickets for the Texas Bowl.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:43 am to GenesChin
Why does it bother anyone that there are "shitty" bowls, or too many bowl teams? It has no effect on you or your team. Where's the beef?
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:49 am to GenesChin
Win minimums are a stupid way of defining bowl eligibility.
Let's leave out 6 and 7-win SEC teams that are probably among the 30-40 best teams in the country and have big followings in order to get in everyone in midmajor conferences with 12 fans that play a joke schedule and win a few more games.
We'll get in Houston, MTSU, North Texas, Buffalo, Boise, Western Ky -- but leave out Ole Miss, Arizona, BYU, Michigan, Texas Tech, K State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Boston College.(not even looking at 6 win teams).
That'll fix the bowl system
Let's leave out 6 and 7-win SEC teams that are probably among the 30-40 best teams in the country and have big followings in order to get in everyone in midmajor conferences with 12 fans that play a joke schedule and win a few more games.
We'll get in Houston, MTSU, North Texas, Buffalo, Boise, Western Ky -- but leave out Ole Miss, Arizona, BYU, Michigan, Texas Tech, K State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Boston College.(not even looking at 6 win teams).
That'll fix the bowl system
This post was edited on 12/29/13 at 11:54 am
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:58 am to Gradual_Stroke
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Love the idea of top 25 teams only (with one non ranked wild card team).
Only way that works is if whatever poll you decide is the one to send them agrees to not put their initial poll out until October. There's far too much "we can't drop them X spots when they started at X spot in preseason" crap. Far too much politicking, especially among the Coaches Poll, for that to be the basis.
I'd have no problem with raising the win minimum though.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 12:03 pm to GenesChin
Nah let them do whatever they want. If they want to put to 1-9 teams in it's their bowl. I saw some bowls that looked like they had 1000 fans at them. Don't know how that doesn't lose a fortune.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 12:10 pm to GenesChin
People like to watch the games on TV, but very few like to actually go. I've had my two Club seat Sugar Bowl season tickets on sale, for under face value, for weeks now, and can't sell them.
Posted on 12/29/13 at 2:34 pm to GenesChin
yea, just what we need; more friggin' rules. if you don't like a bowl game, don't watch it. let those folks that work hard to put on the bowl do their thing and let the players going to the bowl enjoy themselves. why would you want to take that away from them?
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