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But we already have 35 bowl games (70 teams invited). Plus we have another 12 for the CFP. So that's 82 teams that qualify for the post-season out of 136 total (60%).
I for sure would.
It'd be a hell of a lot more interesting than the Guaranteed Rate Bowl or Detroit Motor City Bowl or the Idaho Potato Bowl
absolutely - games with meaning rather than games that even some members of the teams opt out of
I’m not a “bowl game traditionalist” at all, but I totally support them continuing in their current form. I’d much rather maintain exclusivity in the CFP and then the bowls can do what they want. They’re fun exhibitions and that’s really all they’ve ever been by-and-large for the last couple decades.
Yes, damn them for giving us more things we want to watch!
The same standard would eliminate at least 2/3s of March Madness teams.
a lot of the fun is gone from bowl games due to the opt outs.
Basketball you can play a game 2 days later, and there is minimal injury risk.
This is essentially what the proposal is the way I take it. They simply folded the conference playoffs into the CFB.
Not sure what the grounds would be for a conference to sue because their champion wasn't selected for the CFB? Why couldn't they then also sue then because no one was interested in paying their conference the same for media rights as the B1G or the SEC? What would keep the P4 from simply going their own way altogether if lower rated conferences sued for an auto spot?
There has long been fear of litigation by those in power at the top of CFB (and those forming the CFP) that formalizing exclusion of certain leagues would lead to lawsuit because of monopolistic/antitrust behaviors. It’s been like this forever, Utah threatened to sue the BCS back in like 2009 for the same reason when they were left out.
It isn't stupid. It would be entertaining.
