re: Is College Football In A Death Spiral?

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I think expanding the playoffs could help a little. Give the lesser teams (that’s not Alabama or Clemson) more of a chance to make the post season.

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Doesn't that make the problem worse though?

As it stands right now, the regular season, as someone already mentioned, is like pre-season NFL. It just doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the playoff.

Ideally what you want is a P5 conference with no one else in conference remotely capable of beating you. Then you want to routinely have 4 touchdown wins all season long, and pump up the stats of your players (the media and recruits love that stuff).

Then after you've been talked up by the media all season, the playoff and the real two game season starts.

If you expand the playoff, you actually make it worse I think.

And on a related note, does the conference championship game serve much of a purpose now that no one is jockeying for media points and bowl seating?

As it stands now, it only benefits you to play in it for one reason: If you are a bubble playoff team, and actually winning it enhances your chances to be in the playoff.

Whereas most years Alabama would decline and let someone else go to Atlanta, were that possible.

I could actually see an undefeated Alabama and Georgia declining Atlanta trips (if they could), because there would literally be no upside to winning.

After all the playoff is the only thing, right?

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Over say a one loss Georgia?

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If their loss is in the sec champ game and lsu loses on the road in a close game, while running the table, yes.

The sec east is complete garbage

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To be honest I'd probably prefer only one Southern team (whether SEC champ or Clemson), with the other 3 being from the PAC, Big 12, and Big 10.

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lol ok

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Cause in the end it is about eyeballs, and I think I'd get more with say Oklahoma/Ohio State/Wazzou (Pirate baby, story writes itself)/whatever from the South.

Whereas I just don't think some combo of say LSU/Alabama/Clemson/one other would interest the rest of the country as much.

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The rest of the country as in the west and northeast dont give a shite about football these days like the south and southeast

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Once the game becomes entirely about whether or not your team is in the running for a national championship, it loses its joy factor.

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But that's what it is now.

Too many teams scared to play each other ooc because of how the playoffs shite is set up.

1 loss and you’re basically out. The only thing that’ll help is expanding the playoffs imo

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so people in the poll era did not care about who was in the running for the national title.

it was just about their team playing in a random meaningless bowl game.

lol

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You can't even make a snide comment.

You've written dreck and you know it.

My guess is you are old enough to remember the bowl system, the true one we had before the BCS system.

Remember when everyone would be glued to the screen, waiting to see how the Sugar, Cotton, Orange, even Gator Bowls turned out?

And yeah, the bowls actually meant something to the teams and fans back then. Now it's just a decent location and what's in the swag bag.

i never had any more interest in bowls back then.

I might watch a game if it was competitive.

it isn't like bowl games went away. I enjoyed Clemson's recent bowl wins outside of the BCS/ playoffs against Ohio State, LSU and Oklahoma.

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Once the game becomes entirely about whether or not your team is in the running for a national championship, it loses its joy factor.

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The joy factor is gone in many different ways.

Traditions are routinely under attack as a whole. You cant have certain mascots even.

But game day traditions are not important anymore.

Mid day kick offs in 100 degree heat. Nobody wants to do that these days because we are soft. Hell alot of kids dont even play outside because the sun can give you cancer.

But there are ways to handle it

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Need to cut out the rent a wins and neutral site games. Maybe play one non conference gimme a year.

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The NCAA should ban FBS vs FCS games and require FBS teams to play 9 regular season conference games.

Are Americans really this sensitive and pathetic these days?.. For Christ sakes who the hell cares if you call them blacks. Black people are black and white people are white.. It wouldnt bother me at all if they called us whites.

Many things have hurt CFB recently, but I’ll select a few:

PLAYOFF - this added greater emphasis to be THE champ. Gone are the days where you will argue who was best after the season. This obsession to crown 1 champion has devalued many other great things about the sport, namely bowls, regional flavor, conference pageantry, etc.

CONF EXPANSION - too many teams have watered conferences down and killed rivalries. It’s a crime LSU won’t play Georgia more often. Instead we have manufactured trophy games that nobody gives a shite about.

FACILITIES RACE - stadiums have constantly expanded. This results in more empty seats, price disparities for good seats, and a more stake environment. Smaller stadiums would keep tickets in demand and create the rowdy atmospheres of year’s past.