CFP Title Game Draws 22 Million Viewers, Down 12% From Last Year

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MNfootballfan said:
Terrible night to have it.

I am not anti Monday night championship games, but Monday night after two straight nights of NFL playoffs is too late.

They need to figure out how to get the Final 4 on New Years day and have the championship game 1 week later.
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It was announced today that Vegas will host the game on MONDAY, January 25, 2027.
 


GophersInIowa said:
I’m not against it. I think they could have done it even now for the 4 teams that lose the 1st round.
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Agree

I just think neither the coaches nor most of the players would want it


Look what happened during 2020 bowl season. Look at Marshall this year.
Once your season is over in your mind, you’re done
 

stating the obvious - this was the first year of the 12-team playoff.

If they do NOT change the schedule, I think people will get used to the game on MLK day - just like people have gotten used to the Super Bowl being played later and later.

the 1st Super Bowl was played on January 15th. This year it's February 9th.

I get the argument that the College Football season traditionally ended shortly after New Year's Day. But the end of the season has been going deeper into January starting with the 4-team playoff. The Championship game has been played on Jan 11 (2016), Jan 12 (2015), and Jan 13 (2020).

with the new format, it's really only about a week longer. People will get used to it.
 


short ornery norwegian said:
stating the obvious - this was the first year of the 12-team playoff.

If they do NOT change the schedule, I think people will get used to the game on MLK day - just like people have gotten used to the Super Bowl being played later and later.

the 1st Super Bowl was played on January 15th. This year it's February 9th.

I get the argument that the College Football season traditionally ended shortly after New Year's Day. But the end of the season has been going deeper into January starting with the 4-team playoff. The Championship game has been played on Jan 11 (2016), Jan 12 (2015), and Jan 13 (2020).

with the new format, it's really only about a week longer. People will get used to it.
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The biggest loser in all of this is Regular Season College Basketball.

It's essentially a 4-5 week sprint from Super Sunday to Selection Sunday depending on the calendar.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
stating the obvious - this was the first year of the 12-team playoff.

If they do NOT change the schedule, I think people will get used to the game on MLK day - just like people have gotten used to the Super Bowl being played later and later.

the 1st Super Bowl was played on January 15th. This year it's February 9th.

I get the argument that the College Football season traditionally ended shortly after New Year's Day. But the end of the season has been going deeper into January starting with the 4-team playoff. The Championship game has been played on Jan 11 (2016), Jan 12 (2015), and Jan 13 (2020).

with the new format, it's really only about a week longer. People will get used to it.
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The bigger issue with interest to me is the small number of teams with 0 and 1 loss

And in these mega conferences with unbalanced schedules, that is going to be true more often than not.

With smaller conferences and divisional set ups, the schedules made it so there was always 2-3 teams in each conference with 0-2 losses and usually 2 teams with 0 or 1 loss.
6 power conferences.



In 2024 before the playoff there were 5 teams with 0 or 1 loss. One was army.

In 2023 before the playoff there were 7. None were G5

In 2022 before playoff there were
 

Some guy said:
Correct

Pretty easy.

Move season to start one week earlier.
Thanksgiving week is now conference title week
Conference title week is now army navy week


This year
Dec 12-14 round of 12
Dec 19-22 round of 8
Jan 1 two semifinals and other bowls
Saturday Jan 11. This is wild card weekend.
Tell the nfl you’re playing the game and don’t care.

NFL game might even beat you in ratings but it doesn’t matter. Because college cuts into theirs and they’ll eventually give up the window to make the money decision to play it as a standalone game later.


Wildcard Saturday would eventually become
Noon - NfL
330 - NFL
730 - college national title
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Bolded: and/or get rid of Conf Title week altogether! I see no point in now. You already aren't guaranteed that there won't be 3+ undefeated teams at the end of the 12 games, so it's just rules or arbitrary selections anyway.
 

As someone else pointed out, the Rose Bowl will die on the hill of always playing NYD. Tradition is a powerful factor for some.

So in this idea, the Rose would always have to be a semi-final game.


Is that really a bad thing? I think it would be a good thing. If a Big Ten team is in a semi-final with one of the remaining top two seeds, you guarantee them the "home" slot at the Rose.

Probably something similar could/would be done for the SEC at the Sugar Bowl.

Seems fine to me.

Fiesta (PHX or maybe rotating with Vegas), Cotton (Dallas), Peach (ATL), and Orange (Miami) are the quarter-finals.
 




I don't know if it counts, but I watched on the Skyview channel so I didn't have to listen to Chris Folwer. Best decision I've ever made.
 

I must say that after several rounds of playoffs that no longer felt like an EVENT to me. I will freely admit that part of that is me getting older and not being entirely okay the current landscape. I'm guessing I'm far from the only one though.
 

Frink said:
I must say that after several rounds of playoffs that no longer felt like an EVENT to me. I will freely admit that part of that is me getting older and not being entirely okay the current landscape. I'm guessing I'm far from the only one though.
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Agree

I think part of that is how far removed we are from the end.
For the most part. Teams are done with the season at thankiging

The national title game is 50 days from the end of most teams seasons.
For context, the season starts Labor Day weekend.
The end of the regular season is the same distance from the national championship as the start of the season is from July 4.
No wonder people feel disconnected
 



Frink said:
I must say that after several rounds of playoffs that no longer felt like an EVENT to me. I will freely admit that part of that is me getting older and not being entirely okay the current landscape. I'm guessing I'm far from the only one though.
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It had an opposite effect on me. I watched all of the Playoff games just knowing that each one (1) had a "win and advance" finality to them.

It's far from perfect but I paid a lot closer attention to college football this year nationally, especially the games leading up to the Playoff team selections. The seeding process is a disaster, though.
 

Slim Tubby said:
It had an opposite effect on me. I watched all of the Playoff games just knowing that each one (1) had a "win and advance" finality to them.

It's far from perfect but I paid a lot closer attention to college football this year nationally, especially the games leading up to the Playoff team selections. The seeding process is a disaster, though.
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Opposite for me, I'm with the poster you replied to. For example, I didn't care at all to watch Texas/Michigan because I knew the loss wouldn't really matter. It basically devalued the regular season for me to the point of "who cares, just let me see who made the playoffs and I'll see if I'm interested". Which I wasn't.

A die-hard college fan on the verge of just giving up and not watching anymore (me).
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Opposite for me, I'm with the poster you replied to. For example, I didn't care at all to watch Texas/Michigan because I knew the loss wouldn't really matter. It basically devalued the regular season for me to the point of "who cares, just let me see who made the playoffs and I'll see if I'm interested". Which I wasn't.

A die-hard college fan on the verge of just giving up and not watching anymore (me).
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I understand your viewpoint. As soon as they expanded the Playoffs, it's inevitable that some value can be lost in regular season games. However, if done correctly, crucial seeding would still be impacted by results throughout the year.

The Conference Championship games are what were really devalued by the current format IMO.
 

Watch a ton of CFB and multiple games every weekend (when I can). Have to agree with some here that many of the regular season matchups lost a ton of juice for the reason of it really didn't impact teams, especially now in the era of super conferences and not playing each other while still being able to get in as a 3rd-4th seeded team in your conference. Add that to that the playoff takes forever to get through (with so many teams seasons over and in the rearview mirror) and now the NFL playoffs starting/being played on the same weekends while being added to that there were 2 one score games in the entirety of the playoff and it's not surprising to see ratings dip.

We all know ratings drive everything because it means money, so will be interesting to see if this leads to any reshuffling
 

Slim Tubby said:
The Conference Championship games are what were really devalued by the current format IMO.
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Getting rid of this would be a start. I think the SEC abused the rule to get their best team one extra game for their resume for the National Championship game. Well, it clearly isn't needed for that purpose anymore, so remove it and start the playoffs a week earlier.

Also, get rid of the early season p4 non-conf games. Why should I be hyped by Texas/Michigan in September, when what really matters is who wins between those teams in the playoffs. Let the non-conf be 1 or 2 cupcakes and a G5 team looking to make a statement.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
Getting rid of this would be a start. I think the SEC abused the rule to get their best team one extra game for their resume for the National Championship game. Well, it clearly isn't needed for that purpose anymore, so remove it and start the playoffs a week earlier.

Also, get rid of the early season p4 non-conf games. Why should I be hyped by Texas/Michigan in September, when what really matters is who wins between those teams in the playoffs. Let the non-conf be 1 or 2 cupcakes and a G5 team looking to make a statement.
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Again, I don't disagree with your opinion but I didn't have the same reaction to the expanded Playoffs. I watched it all and really enjoyed the additional "win or go home" games. To each their own, I guess.
 

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