re: The entire CFP should be played on campus

Wrong.

The "lesser" bowls in early-mid December featuring 6-6 or 7-5 Group of 5 powerhouses should be swapped out as playoff games.

agree except for championship game

And how does that idea look if and when Ole Miss or Arkansas get deep in the run? Might be great college towns, but they are not convenient to get to.

SEC veterans may be fine making that trip, but big media and visitors from the west coast or northeast trying to get there in the thousands (in winter)? It would be a cluster.

Totally disagree. Every playoff game should take place on a neutral field.

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Nothing like a big game in front of a home crowd.

Penn State would put on a show.

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Sorry, but playing in State College, PA in December or January in a high stakes game in the elements.... I don't want it.

I do like the first round games being on campus because it could force southern teams to play in freezing could weather for once...

but once you get past that round... I'd rather see teams be able to play without being hindered by weather.

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How will attendance be when Columbus, OH gets socked in with snow and ice and the windchill is 16 degrees at kickoff?

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NFL deals with it just fine.

The championship game should be the only neutral site game

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And render all bowls meaningless? Good luck with that.
We have stripped away a lot of things to change this sport most of us love into something most of us dont recognize anymore. That would take away from the prestige of the few remaining post season games with have left.

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Have you been in a coma?

Essentially every bowl stadium and non-campus historic venue has been replaced for many years now. The only non-campus stadiums in use that matter are: 1) Rose bowl and 2) Cotton bowl. UCLA wants out of the Rose bowl. The Cotton bowl bowl game has been played at Jerryworld for many years now.

Play the 2nd round games on campus for the top 4 seeds. It makes even more sense if we go to 16 and eliminate the byes. Top 8 seeds would get a huge advantage which they should. Once you get to the final 4, then switch to neutral site bowl games. So you end up with 3 of (rose, sugar, cotton, orange, fiesta, peach) and they rotate every other year. National championship would be hosted by one of those 6 every 6 years

The way to make the other bowls matter is to create a 2nd playoff each year. The NIL Playoff. Players/schools get NIL money for each round they advance. Tie in AQ’s to the 2nd and 3rd highest G5 champ. Give all 4 P4 conferences their top team left out of CFP. Plus 2 teams picked by committee, giving you 8 teams. First round played at the best 4 non-major bowls. Round of 4 and championship played at the 3 major bowls not hosting the CFP that year

This would give meaning to 12 bowl games each year. Could still have some other bowls for fun like we do now

Absolutely… until the Championship Game. That should be neutral but the earlier rounds should for sure be on campus with a requirement that the visiting fanbase get at least 12,000 tickets and guarantee at least 5k of those in the lower bowl.

Would be insane atmospheres.

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Only way OSU stadium could see a decent opponent lol

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It would be funny if we drew the G5, Big 12, and ACC at home.

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How many NFL “snow and ice” games have you watched on TV that were actually enjoyable to watch? They are sloppy, miserable exhibitions.

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the higher seed should gain an advantage. Forcing a fanbase to travel to neutral site games 3 weeks in a row is a bit ridiculous also. I don't see Buffalo fans crying about going to cold weather games.

One of the snowiest football games I ever watched was the Independance bowl in Shreveport i remember some pretty damn sloppy fields for bowl games in florida also. Maybe we should restrict all playoff games to dome stadiums?