[Farm93]

Another problem with a playoff is that to make it at all inclusive expands the season by an inordinate amount. A 16-team playoff would be a 33 percent increase in the length of the season for teams who go all the way. (That's on top of a 20 percent increase, from 10 games to 12, over the last 30 years or so.)

And a lot of those games -- if the format being talked about here, playing on the home field of the higher seed -- will take place in miserable conditions for players and spectators alike. Nebraska or Penn State or Michigan or Ohio State or Syracuse or Boise State or the University of South Bend in late December? With the kids gone from campus? The whole point of the bowls was to play the games in pleasant winter visiting spots. Admittedly a few of the bowl games push the envelope. But a playoff system tears it open.

Garvin the FCS plays home games in Montana and North Dakota OUTDOORS in December now.  Weather is not going to be a problem.  Those fine people in Michigan and Nebraska will DEFINITELY attend a playoff game at the Big House.  Definitely, definitely, definitely.  My guess is that tickets would run $1000 per seat easily.  Michigan ticket revenue alone would be $100 million.  The students would leave their parents in a heartbeat.  Why, in most states the parents would try to buy the kids tickets and tell them to watch the younger kids.

Ever notice that the Packers play their playoff games in January outdoors.  It will not be an issue.  If anything it will bring the sport back to its true roots and away from the current post-season regional bias towards warm states.

[Farm93]

Another problem with a playoff is that to make it at all inclusive expands the season by an inordinate amount. A 16-team playoff would be a 33 percent increase in the length of the season for teams who go all the way. (That's on top of a 20 percent increase, from 10 games to 12, over the last 30 years or so.)

And a lot of those games -- if the format being talked about here, playing on the home field of the higher seed -- will take place in miserable conditions for players and spectators alike. Nebraska or Penn State or Michigan or Ohio State or Syracuse or Boise State or the University of South Bend in late December? With the kids gone from campus? The whole point of the bowls was to play the games in pleasant winter visiting spots. Admittedly a few of the bowl games push the envelope. But a playoff system tears it open.

Garvin the FCS plays home games in Montana and North Dakota OUTDOORS in December now.  Weather is not going to be a problem.  Those fine people in Michigan and Nebraska will DEFINITELY attend a playoff game at the Big House.  Definitely, definitely, definitely.  My guess is that tickets would run $1000 per seat easily.  Michigan ticket revenue alone would be $100 million.  The students would leave their parents in a heartbeat.  Why, in most states the parents would try to buy the kids tickets and tell them to watch the younger kids.

Ever notice that the Packers play their playoff games in January outdoors.  It will not be an issue.  If anything it will bring the sport back to its true roots and away from the current post-season regional bias towards warm states.