I agree that playoffs are the way to fix it, but nobody will ever go for it. It’s something the fans like and everyone else hates. The bowl promoters don’t want to be relegated even further into obscurity, and that’s what a plan like this would do.
Of course, if you weren’t married to the specific dates, you could make the bowls into the playoff games, and then the bowls become more meaningful, not less so.
I’d hate to see the MPC Computers Bowl lose some of its lustre. The fact of the matter is that this solution offers no direct competition to the bowls and removes only four teams from participation in the traditional bowls. Furthermore, as you note, it creates 18 postseason games that could be hosted by many of the same cities and stadiums that might somehow suffer if the Peach Bowl loses some of its meaning.
November 6th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
I agree that playoffs are the way to fix it, but nobody will ever go for it. It’s something the fans like and everyone else hates. The bowl promoters don’t want to be relegated even further into obscurity, and that’s what a plan like this would do.
Of course, if you weren’t married to the specific dates, you could make the bowls into the playoff games, and then the bowls become more meaningful, not less so.
November 6th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
I’d hate to see the MPC Computers Bowl lose some of its lustre. The fact of the matter is that this solution offers no direct competition to the bowls and removes only four teams from participation in the traditional bowls. Furthermore, as you note, it creates 18 postseason games that could be hosted by many of the same cities and stadiums that might somehow suffer if the Peach Bowl loses some of its meaning.
November 6th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Fire Phil Fulmer
November 7th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
Especially after Vanderbilt and Memphis beat them.
November 7th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Blake dude – we need to Fire Phil Fulmer so that Vanderbilt and Mephmis DONT BEAT THEM.