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I believe it proved being a conference champ should have more weight. Ohio St proved they didn't belong. Penn State gave us the second best bowl game of the year and Oklahoma dominated the second best team in the SEC.
Just move the whole bowl schedule up a week or two - having a month off between the season and your bowl game is too long. Any momentum you've built during the season is gone.
Really hard to do that with finals and holidays going on for a lot of the players. These are not pro players that are getting paid.
This.
I don't buy that as a legitimate reason. They have conference championship games and bowl games all throughout December including Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. They could take a week off for Christmas, compress the video schedule and still finish the season no later than they do now.
Well it is a legitimate reason. There is a big difference between having a practice on Christmas and actually traveling and playing a game. Conference championship games are the first weekend in December, a week before finals so it really has no impact. Cramming another week of practice into the week of Christmas since they aren't going to be able to practice a ton during finals week, then having another week of practice the week of new years is way too much. Once again they aren't getting paid to be away from family and basically work during the holidays, everyone else gets 1.5x or 2x their pay for doing the same stuff.
Get rid of a week of practice. You don't need 2 weeks of practice to prepare for a bowl game - they only have that much practice now because of the long layoff. The bowl season is stretched out because of money, not families and finals. Bowls make more money if there are only a few on each day so there are less competition for eyeballs.
I don't really know what you are talking about. You have a week of practice and a game during Christmas week for the first round of the playoff, then another week of practice and a game during new years week and then potentially another week of practice the week after. This has nothing to do with other bowls. The Buffs took finals week off of practice too, that isn't the issue. The issue is adding another game during another holiday week for essentially no reason. 4 gets the job done and keeps the regular season's importance. Adding more games for these student athletes is not a good idea considering they already have huge time constraints.
Clemson beat Satin
I really hope you mean "Satan".
If you like the 4-team playoff the way it is that's fine, but let's not pretend like time constraints on players is what would prevent it from expanding to 6 or 8. That's 2-4 teams that would play 1 more game, that's no big deal.
I have a colleague in the office here who is a Clemson grad. He's on cloud 9, despite nursing what has to be one helluva hangover.
Yes but the argument was always Ohio St. or Penn St. so that worked itself out pretty well. The committee did a great job, the only complaint I would have is that they had Ohio St. in Arizona without a conference champ instead of Washington.
Can we get rid of this false narrative about there being too long of a window. There are conference championships, then a week off, then finals week, and then the team has about a week and a half of practice before the major bowl games/playoff games with a major holiday in the middle. Do you want bowl games going on the week after conference championship games? These teams need time to prepare it's not like they can just have finals and fly and play a game. And yes they do have less constraints during this time period, the Buffs didn't even practice during finals week and then they had no class after that.
