Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
One athletic director to CBS Sports:
Only the best 16 bowl games should remain with the remaining "bowl games" held on campuses of the remaining bowl eligible teams - whether six or seven wins is required for bowl eligibility.
As always, to the argument that even the smallest bowl games benefit their communities, the counter is to simply say that they would benefit the home team's local community even more.
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its kind of a dumb idea
when you really think about it. A bowl committee is what creates a bowl game. They’re supposed to be designed to benefit the community (in theory) that they represent. Why are they gonna move it to another state? They won’t. So instead you will just have an exhibition game that was set up by the conferences. I’m all for saving the bowl system (Dey terk our bowls!!), but if we’re going to fundamentally change the bowl system, just go ahead and get rid of it. Or get rid of the smaller bowls. I like the smaller bowls personally. But not if they just become extra regular season games.
by Mark Mandingo on Jan 31, 2012 8:53 AM EST via mobile reply actions
How are they picking who actually hosts?
One of the best things about bowl season is that the teams are basically evenly matched. How do you decide who should get the economic boost? Should it be Northern Illinois or Ark State? Marshall or FIU? Ohio or Utah St? I just don’t see how anyone can really differentiate these teams enough to justify handing over millions of dollars in economic impact and home field advantage.
Home field advantage for a playoff at least makes sense (even if it will never, ever happen). But without any seeding or even justifiable way to seed lower ranked teams I don’t see this going anywhere.
by Muldrake on Feb 1, 2012 8:12 AM EST reply actions
The most reputable name in rankings
I would conjecture that the hosting rankings would be based somewhat on how the BCS is set up. The USA Today and Harris voters might be given higher/lower choices for the individual matches and the BCS ranking algorithms could also be involved in determining which of two teams is better. These factors could then be combined an each team would be given a “hosting score” that determines where the teams will play. Maybe the schools would come up with a better system, but they probably won’t because any ranking system will be mired in controversy.
Besides the ranking problem, even crappy bowl games are commonly in pretty good locations or at least better locations than their participant schools. Take the last Hawaii Bowl (So. Miss vs Nevada) as an example and consider whether as a fan you would rather go to Hattiesburg or Hawaii.
In short, this sounds horrible
by Leprechaun Hater on Feb 8, 2012 6:38 AM EST up reply actions
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