The Future of College Football

[jacketguy]

A few weeks ago I had an entertaining conversation with a friend concerning the future of college football... after a few hours, and a few drinks, I think we agreed to disagree .. my friend has red and black blood, so needless to say, in his opinion, the SEC is king, and will always be king... I wondered about the following...

Is the SEC following the footsteps of the SWC? Considering the current NCAA violations, probations, and the animosity that seems to exist in the conference... will the SEC implode as the SWC did in the 80's

In 2006, the BCS contract ends... college presidents and coaches have disapproved of a playoff system at the 1A level... I believe this would change should it make fiscal sense to do so.. what would have to happen to cause a playoff system at the 1A level?

Bowl games can prove costly 12/2000 article

Conference Financial Reports

During the course of the next few years will we see consolidation of conferences? And, if so, which ones... what are the possibilities in the future that we end up with 4 major conferences, the East, West, South, and North for instance... with the existing conferences being the sub conferences in those major conferences....

For instance... could we possibly go in a direction where the Southern Conference is made up of the SEC, ACC, with portions of the Big East joining the ACC... the champions from the ACC and SEC would play to determine the representative to the championship quartet.... these conference championships would participate in the smaller bowl structure that exists today.... maybe the Peach would match the ACC Champs vs the SEC Champs.. with the winner going to the Orange or Sugar to meet another sectional champ... these bowls could rotate the games and sectional matchups just as we do today with the BCS...

 

[ahsoisee]

Personally, I enjoy the big bowl games more than a play-off system. The only problem at present is too many bowls that tend to weaken the prestige of attending a bowl game.

 

[bugboy]

After seeing Clemson go into a blizzard to play a team that's barely 1-A on blue astroturf, I realized that there needs to be some serious shrinkage in the number of bowl games. Outside of that, I don't really have a problem with bowls. They need fewer of them, so that they are more meaningful. If they could wrap a playoff system around the bowls, even better. Perhaps, they could set up a playoff to occur after the bowls.
Anyway, the biggest problem right now is the high number of meaningless bowls.

 

[GTTerrific]

The bowl games are something to strive for and a reward for the hard work put into a season. When you've got a team that doesn't even have a winning record playing in bowls something is wrong though.

The problem is $$$$ it takes to run a major college football program anymore. Everyone is looking for a way to put more bucks in the pot.

Seems that this is taking away the excitment of the bowls because there are just too many. "YEAHH, we came in 5th place in our conference and we are going to play in the Pollan Weedeater Potato Chip Tire Dot Com Bowl." It's just gotten out of hand. Conferences sign contracts with bowls and their $$$ people which makes it hard to change the system we've gotten ourselves into.

There has to be a way to have bowls while making them a part of a playoff system. The NCAA is going to have to step in and make major changes for that to take place. I'd hope that the money lost from people like a tire company or whoever would be gained through what would be a more exciting post season that would generate more money through network contracts like March Madness and the NFL Playoffs.

That doesn't even take into account winning the National Championship on the field instead of by polls.