Running CFB playoff thread

Make ‘em play all four in Dayton next year. All four games were duds at home sites, even the 8-9 game.

 

To face a team that won its semifinal 66-0.

 

That's the thing. It's going to take a while for the upsets to happen.

But year one was a success in terms of the crowds, I'm going to guess the ratings were solid. Plus you got a Texas-Clemson game for the first time ever. An SEC school playing at the Horseshoe for the first time in 35 years. Friday night lights at South Bend made for an electric atmosphere. Plus college football can go seasons without too many goes in the elements, but this weekend we had cold and almost some snow.

Personally. I would rather the bowls get the 1st round games and the teams with the byes get the home games. But this time is going to 16 in short time, so whatever

 

Wondering if a lot of the traditional events of the bowls will continue. I know the parade will go on in Pasadena (as well as sunsets), but things like the Beef Bowl.

 

Beef? It’s what’s for dinner.

 

Plus if you are a semifinal bowl, the holidays are long over, classes are under way (at least remotely) and the teams already did the tourism bit the previous round.

 

I do like how this expanded playoff is settling the possibly unnecessary debate about which conferences are the strongest, or stronger than the others.

 

Looked to me like OSU's twenty million dollar NIL investment came through in that first quarter.

 

Not really playoff-related, but ...