good Auerbach article on first year of the playoff
by Jay 
, San Diego, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 08:22 (14 days ago)
https://www.nbcsports.com/college-football/news/what-we-learned-from-the-first-year-of-...
Would love to see the elimination of conference champion games, move the entire schedule up a week, make the first two rounds on campus, and redo the seeding arrangement.
The championship game should really be played on January 1st
I saw that ratings for the CFP Championship game were lower than last year. Having it on MLK day right after 4 big NFL games is not great for television.
Can't we move the season opener up to mid-to-late August, the regular season ends on Thanksgiving and then have December to do the playoffs? This would require eliminating the conference championship which I think everyone believes is useless but will probably never happen because it is a nice money maker for the fat cat conferences.
This would solve a lot of stuff:
- People are ready for football in mid-to-late August
- Kids could transfer before the spring semester start
- No need to compete against the NFL in January/February
Seems too obvious.
My Rx following yours
by JD in Portland , Portland OR, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 12:19 (14 days ago) @ Rob (Rakes of Mallow)
Move season start up a week as you say.
11 game season. All conf play 9 conf games, and independents have to play 9 conf teams (SEC, ACC, BIG, B12, we can haggle about Mtn West and whatever PAC12 becomes). No games vs FCS teams.
Eliminate Conf Champ games.
12 teams seeded by BCS Comm ranking. BCS comm has 1 rep from each conf and ND.
No byes. No automatic spots.
Transition to home games for higher seeded teams in first 2 rounds.
Preferably play final game in Rose Bowl every yr but that’s probably a pipedream.
Fatal flaws? Tweaks?
Play ball!
Can’t do no byes with 12 teams. Otherwise, looks good!
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Duh. I meant 16.
by JD in Portland , Portland OR, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 22:11 (14 days ago) @ bk
Actually 8 would be better but it’s impossible to reduce now
conference champ games probably not going anywhere
by HumanRobot , Cybertron, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 11:01 (14 days ago) @ Jay
I think the SECCG is contract through 2030
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probably a nonstarter
by Jay , San Diego, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 09:07 (14 days ago) @ Jay
but reducing the field to 8 would tighten up a lot of these issues.
I think eliminating auto-seeding will make a big difference
by Jeff (BGS) , A starter home in suburban Tempe, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 09:55 (14 days ago) @ Jay
They can still allow automatic bids for the top five conference champions, but if they just seeded them 1-12, a lot of the mismatch problems would be solved. I don't know what it would take politically to do that, since the ACC, Big XII, and G5 might all oppose it.
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is it possible to have 2 on-campus rounds?
by HumanRobot , Cybertron, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 08:48 (14 days ago) @ Jay
I wonder what the language with the NY6 bowls is.
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She always does a good job. Esp given that she went to UM
by JD in Portland , Portland OR, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 08:47 (14 days ago) @ Jay
Kidding. Not kidding.
The person NBC needs to hire is Jessica Smetana. She’s smart, funny and charismatic. We need one ND person somewhere in the mix and she’d be great.
Game Day and the Fox college pregame shows would also be improved if they broke up the boys clubs. McAfee brings so much testosterone and meathead energy, it gets unbearable. Saban and Herbstreit with say Auerbach would be better and make the show a bit more accessible. My wife can’t take more than 10 minutes of it and I guarantee she’s hardly alone.
Smetana's got the best job in sports
I can't imagine leaving LeBatard's crew to work for ESPN or some stuffy network.
Does it pay well?
by JD in Portland , Portland OR, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 09:04 (14 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)
Is it auto racing? I don’t watch it. I know her from Rakes Report.
Those network dudes get real coin. They pay even better than Chris!
He and his crew are funded by Draft Kings
They all (with the exception of Smetana and perhaps one or two others) used to work for ESPN, so I'm sure she's heard all the horror stories about working for a big network.
But she gets to live in Miami, has tons of vacation time, gets to travel to tons of cool sporting events, and work with a very laid-back crew. I can't imagine it getting much better.
Here’s a weird one.
by JD in Portland , Portland OR, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 10:23 (14 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)
edited by JD in Portland, Thursday, January 23, 2025, 10:28
I’ve never listened to or barely even known of that Dan B show. Got in my car this morning just a bit ago, was channel surfing on XM. and voila, it popped up on Ch 85, NBC radio sports or something.
They were in a long discussion about the Wienermobile. She knew someone who drove it for a yr.
I’m not sure I’ll be a regular or anything…lol.