I know this has been thrown out there as discussion among the execs of college football, but I didn't figure it may actually happen. Good article in yahoo sports today and this is just part of it...
Here's all you need to know about the playoff discussions at this week's BCS meeting - Yahoo! Sports
What about the move to outlaw 6-6 teams from bowl games: That will definitely spur some discussion and debate. In that scenario, several bowls likely would be put out of business.
On one level – the Vanderbilt/Washington State/Syracuse/Duke/Indiana/Iowa State level – getting to 6-6 and going to a bowl is an accomplishment. Commissioners are cognizant of that and don't want to keep their lower-echelon programs from hitting a high point on occasion.
That's also a concern for conferences such as the Mid-American and Sun Belt, which need some 6-6 teams from larger leagues to offer up opponents for their teams in bowls such as the Motor City and New Orleans. If the number of bowls decreases, the loss of bids will directly affect some of the better teams in those lower-tier leagues.
But on a macro level, most people agree that 35 bowls is too many and 6-6 teams are too lousy to justify the expense and effort of going to play on a Tuesday night in December for ESPN's programming pleasure.
"We've reduced the value of bowls by having so many of them. "You don't want them to be meaningless wallpaper," Scott said.
"It has put so much strain on the entire system," one athletic director said. "Teams, conferences, sponsors all feel it. Typically these bowls have been hanging by a thread, and somebody's having to bear the cost of keeping them going."
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By the way, I'm surprised Larry Scott of the PAC is for this. They already play 9 conference games, now the Big10 game will act as a 10th conference game, and many schools in the PAC already schedule another high profile non-conf game like ND. 11 BCS teams out of 12 and you have to win at least 7? Not many PAC teams would go bowling.
Here's all you need to know about the playoff discussions at this week's BCS meeting - Yahoo! Sports
What about the move to outlaw 6-6 teams from bowl games: That will definitely spur some discussion and debate. In that scenario, several bowls likely would be put out of business.
On one level – the Vanderbilt/Washington State/Syracuse/Duke/Indiana/Iowa State level – getting to 6-6 and going to a bowl is an accomplishment. Commissioners are cognizant of that and don't want to keep their lower-echelon programs from hitting a high point on occasion.
That's also a concern for conferences such as the Mid-American and Sun Belt, which need some 6-6 teams from larger leagues to offer up opponents for their teams in bowls such as the Motor City and New Orleans. If the number of bowls decreases, the loss of bids will directly affect some of the better teams in those lower-tier leagues.
But on a macro level, most people agree that 35 bowls is too many and 6-6 teams are too lousy to justify the expense and effort of going to play on a Tuesday night in December for ESPN's programming pleasure.
"We've reduced the value of bowls by having so many of them. "You don't want them to be meaningless wallpaper," Scott said.
"It has put so much strain on the entire system," one athletic director said. "Teams, conferences, sponsors all feel it. Typically these bowls have been hanging by a thread, and somebody's having to bear the cost of keeping them going."
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By the way, I'm surprised Larry Scott of the PAC is for this. They already play 9 conference games, now the Big10 game will act as a 10th conference game, and many schools in the PAC already schedule another high profile non-conf game like ND. 11 BCS teams out of 12 and you have to win at least 7? Not many PAC teams would go bowling.
