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Originally Posted by Danzig
so top 16.
currently, 70 teams play in a bowl. that's a big difference isn't it?
sorry, i just think if a playoff was more lucrative, they'd have done it. but right now people get cuts that perhaps would not in a different system. conferences have multiple teams in a variety of bowls. there's no way that the amount of playoff games and teams involved would match what is currently made with the 35 bowls being played.
8 first round, 4 second round, semis and the final. 15 games. a third of the games, and less than a fourth of the teams that are currently involved.
ncaa basketball is mentioned with their finals as an example. 64 teams go there. so, numbers-wise regarding teams, it's very similar in how many play in the post season.
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Most of the bowls are not money makers for the team because the money is divided among all the conference teams and may of the bowls dont pay enough to cover travel expenses alone for the teams. Only the top 7 or 8 bowls pay big money which are the ones the BCS and big conferences have locked up. The playoff would be far more lucrative overall, that can hardly be disputed. Everyone would get a bigger cut under that system including teams from lessor conferences. Not to mention instead of buying tickets to their own game the NCAA would be selling them. Giving away profits to a unnecessary third party is something that no other business on the up and up would do.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/spo...1-million.html
FYI the vast majority of bowls are now owned by ESPN who uses them as cheap program filler knowing they will draw good ratings because college football is popular.