All Things 2025 Playoffs and Bowl Thread

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Bob_Loblaw said:
Do you think Nike makes massive ROI on their investment into Oregon? If yes, it would seem strange why they wouldn't do this with 8-10 more teams.
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As UU said, Nike pays for the exclusive rights to be the uniform provider at a considerable number of schools.

That's of course not the same thing as funding the NIL at Oregon ... but Oregon is the home school, and they "test out" many uniforms, equipment, and branding ideas.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Miami is so up and down. Their offense isn't great and Indiana doesn't shoot themselves in the foot. Oregon is Indiana's toughest matchup IMO.
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And a rematch where Oregon has advantage, at least in a statistical sense, of losing the first game. Just statistically I believe, rematches tend to be won more often by losers of the first game.
 


Slim Tubby said:
I would listen to arguments against your take, but in the end, earning the #1 seed based on the body of work of an entire season should be rewarded.

I would also completely skip the neutral bowl sites for every game leading up to the Semifinals, too. A few of these games had just terrible fan atmospheres unless it was just poor TV production and sound buffering.
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Miami is a really long way away from everyone not in Florida. Only a hub for American Airlines.

I know it has the tradition of the Orange Bowl, but it's just a bad spot to travel to.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
I get that but we're sort of conflating two things.

Nike has the "brand" deals with schools. Phil Knight also gives a ton of money to help fund Oregon's NIL - specifically. One poster argued that Phil Knight has a tremendous ROI into that NIL fund

I understand the return on brand deals. I'm asking about Phil Knight's contributions to Oregon's NIL funds. I'm not pretending to know the answer to that question, I'm asking why the previous poster is confident in his claim they are making money from that decision. I'm not even saying that poster is wrong, I'm just curious why they believe what they do.

My thought was that he was conflating these two things as well, but I could be wrong.
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Doesn't Phil Knight own tons of Nike stock? There is a closed feedback loop, in this specific case.
 



GophersInIowa said:
How I would do it based on this year's dates.

Round 1: Friday, Dec 5 and Saturday Dec 6 at higher seed
Quarterfinals: Friday Dec 12 and Saturday Dec 13 at higher seed
Semifinals: Saturday Dec 20 at rotating bowl games
Championship: New Year's Day at the Rose Bowl (always at the Rose Bowl)

That means no conference championship. It gives teams with a bye some time off but not as much. There's some quick turnarounds if you play that first Friday but so be it. Not much different than the regular season.
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As much as I personally agree with it, we all know southerners will never allow it to be the Rose Bowl. Maybe if it rotated every other year with the Sugar Bowl.

Not sure why semifinals shouldn't also just be at highest seed home site?
 











Hell of a game going on if you are missing it. Illinois St. drove down for the potential game winning field goal. The field goal got blocked and returned past mid field with under a minute to go. Montana st. got in field goal range in one play and proceeded to take a sack and then snap it past the QB. Game is going to overtime.
 


Went to the Illinois State vs SDSU game in Nov. Redbirds stormed to a 35-0 lead in first 20 min but got nothing after that. They're streaky
 




They apparently play better music at FCS games than FBS. Is what I've learned here.
 




On the blocked extra point, facemasking on the return, ref said by rule the penalty is declined. So is there any reason not to facemask in that situation?
 

LeftofThaDial said:
On the blocked extra point, facemasking on the return, ref said by rule the penalty is declined. So is there any reason not to facemask in that situation?
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I thought that was interesting as well. So can you get away with all penalties in that situation?
 

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