SEC Commissioner Addresses Future Of The Bowl System

by Larry Leo

January 6, 202210 Comments

SEC Commissioner Addresses Future Of The Bowl System

During his appearance on Wednesday's “The Paul Finebaum Show,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey stood up for the current bowl system...

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“There’s still health in the bowl system, and I think the 12-team format can permit bowls to exist,” Sankey said, via SDS. “But we’re now experiencing opt outs, we’re experiencing NFL early draft decisions, which drive people to different participation routes. We’ve had the coaching coaches that have been publicized that are happening earlier attributable to Early Signing Day. So bowls are now different. They’re still competitive. Even last night, watching LSU’s team, the utmost of respect for young people that stepped up, competed right up to the tick of that very last clock with a touchdown and maybe it’s a reminder of some of the things we’ve forgotten.”

(The Spun)

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weagle99•50 months

Too many bowls featuring too many mediocre teams was bound to lead to where we are.

HubbaBubba•50 months

Bowls were just exhibition matches. No meaning. No heart. NCAA (and money) has ruined the college football experience and created uncertainty, self-promotion, team insecurity, legalized corrupt recruitment and turned it from a team sport into an individual game of whack-a-mole trying to figure out which players move to which school.

BayouTiga•50 months

Bowls now represent the 'participation trophy' mentality. In recent history I was glued to the TV during college football bowl season. This year, I didn't watch one game from start to finish and only watched the two semis to the point they were both OVER EARLY!

arcalades•50 months

hello, self preservation talk

bazeball•50 months

The goal of the playoffs is to crown a winner. In the CFP era, 12/16 semifinal games have had final winning margins of 17+ points. They aren't competitive. So why add more teams? Do they actually think Okla St or Mich St really could win the championship? Of course not. Yet they want to water down the regular season more. This sport is rapidly losing its identity.

kyrik92•50 months

If it’s really about a fair and competitive system for crowning a champion a 6 team playoff with 1 and 2 getting a 1st round bye is the way I’d go. Name any season in the past 30 where there were more than 6 teams with a legitimate claim at the title? Most years it’s 2-3 but at 6 it’s hard to claim that anyone deserving got left out (some people will, but nobody will take them seriously)

AbSnopes•50 months

Did Sankey say anything about incorporating bowl games into the 12 team playoff? Easy to include 10 bowls into it: 4 for teams 5-12, 4 for winners vs 1-4, 2 for semifinals. In the minor bowls remaining, there should not be as many opt outs because not as many teams with pro prospects. The quote above doesn't offer a solution at all.

TOSOV•50 months

CFB is going to need to do a reset to a decade ago or whenever the stopped ticketing with it. Go back to Feb recruiting day only, drop the nil, drop transfer portal. If not it will keep going down hill with all the inconsistency. Change is one thing, but not always best. Obviously all the changes are starting to hurt the brand. These kids sign contracts, so if they don't like it....they don't have to do it and can find something else. Keep it simple like it was....and keep politics out of it.

TOSOV•50 months

This was autocorrected to where even I have no clue what I was trying to say...ha..."or whenever the stopped ticketing with it".

Lynxrufus2012•50 months

So if the only games that count are the college playoffs and all the rest are exhibition games, why would players keep playing after their team lost their second game? They won't make the playoffs. Or maybe they do mean something. I know that Citrus Bowl game meant alot to Kentucky and Iowa. They were hitting out there. Laying it out on the line. Iowa center and Square both came back to play injured. Any time you lace them up and go mano a mano it means something. At least to the players and the fans.