I don't know if it will be ignored. I will agree that it won't have more stand alone viewers, but I would assume majority of America will be like me and flip back between channels depending on what game is better.
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ESPN has Duke vs Texas Tech H2H with NFL and CFP tomorrow night at 7pmI said largely ignored, but not completely. Look at last year for example:
CFP Ratings Top 10M Average, But NFL Easily Wins Head-to-Head
ESPN’s primetime first-round College Football Playoff matchups easily drew more viewers than two Saturday afternoon games on TNT Sports.
I think ESPN saw the writing on the wall with having to go head-to-head with the NFL and took cash from TNT-TBS and farmed them out. Also punted on Saturday Prime Time this year.
That's just my speculation.
Last year NFL outdrew CFP 2 to 1 in the same time window. Maybe 4 to 1 tomorrow with the Bears-Packers on FOX?
This horseshoes/ handgrenades argument for Boise may have been compelling if Penn State had won the championship. But (predictably) they didn’t. They were right there on the bubble of 8/9th best.
One of the games is crap. The other helps the calendar. Does anyone want to see NW state/Gophers? Or tOSU vs Grambling? Or Alabama vs ULM.
The whole point of the NCAA’s basketball torment is to create Cinderella stories in sport where there is very little interest outside of the postseason.
You think the buy game is the one going away? lol
They aren’t remotely decent at it
1. The Texas/tOSU game at the start of the season had significantly less meaning than it would have had 10-15 years ago. The loser of that game would have needed to run the table and get some luck in order to compete for the national championship. Now it's more like a mulligan for the loser.
It depends on perspective. I don't like the fact that those two teams are even allowed to compete for the national championship.
...but when you know they are gonna get curb-stomped in the playoffs- Nevermind, just different perspectives. You'll never see it my way, I'll never see it your way.
They happen all the time IN BASKETBALL. They happen almost never in football when the dominant team has time off to prepare.
I don’t think most people are upset with the 12 team format, they are upset that the CFP committee was influenced to keep Alabama in, which led to the higher ranked Notre Dame being left out.
I literally laughed outloud at this... I agree... there is no right or wrong in this debate. I love the idea of a 12 team playoff. I am not crazy about it getting bigger.
It would if you play 10 games.
If they play 10 games they aren’t losing a buy game
College conferences are roughly equivalent to NFL divisions. So indeed, winning the division is important because it gets you an automatic top 4 seed on that side of the bracket.
Agree, 10 is the limit for a 12 game cap because 10 is 5 home games per year and then you do two guaranteed games.
I could get behind that more if the conferences were smaller so everyone played equivalent schedules. But with 18 team conference there is too much disparity to crown a champion without a championship game.
I think the most you could see is 11 conference games + 1 buy game
In such leagues, you're talking about that the best three schools from the league get into the playoff already anyway ... and with a 16 team playoff, probably top 4 will make it.