SMU_Alumni11 wrote:This cant be good news no matter how they spin it. It looks like the gap between P5 and non-P5 is getting wider and wider. I know we all knew it but I figure this will help cememnt the reality of it. From the article, it looks like only P5s will play P5s, except for a few bowl games that I imagine will be discontinued in a couple of years. What do y'all think? Is my imagination getting the better of me?
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9785566/bowl-games-being-created-miami-bahamas-boca-raton
attendance would be greatly increased, and fan appreciation / travel increased if 6-6 BCS teams stayed home in favor of better (10-2) non-BCS teams taking their spot in the better bowls. As it is, they do everything they can to secure that big school for the bowl (allowing 6-6 teams with a win over a 1aa, and ASU petitioned to allow them as a 6-6 team what last year with 2 of their wins over 1aa's).
This means these teams' fans have to decide whether or not to travel to that minor bowl (and they don't much)...they'd be more excited to travel to a bowl one year later with a better team. Absence make the heart grow fonder, but when you are in a bowl each and every year, even when you dip to 6-6, that's not helping attendance.
I recall 11-1 (or 10-2?) ranked NIU didn't get a bowl because the only one available was for the MAC champ, and they happened to lose one conf. game that year.
Easy solution: no 6-6 teams allowed. 7-5 min. then the small conferences won't be fabricating a bowl, because they will be allowed into more of the bigger (minor) bowls. (their good teams will).
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:48 pm
