re: A coworker (stanford grad) told me something interesting today

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see I don't even like that idea. It takes away the importance of the regular season.

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I don't disagree with you, but the writing's on the wall and the value of the major bowls is dropping every year we get further into a playoff era. Sooner or later ESPN will force the sport into an eight team playoff just to get more "meaningful" games that generate big ratings for a bigger ROI.

The problem with your suggestion is by the time the decision is made the "brands" if-you-will of the big bowls will be worth far less than they were 20 years ago or even what they are worth today. The feeling will be that they need an official playoff label to get back consumer interest in the big bowls, and we won't have recent evidence to dispute that theory.

At a personal level I am rooting for an eight team playoff because it would stabilize the Big 12 forever which is something as an Aggie I would love to see. But I agree it will make the sport less special, if multimillion position coaches and stadiums that feel like NFL stadiums with all the ads and screens didn't already do it.