32 team playoff. Include every fbs conference chanpion. then let the popularity contest begin.
Too large. Takes away from the mystery of the bowl games. The lower bowls are there as an added incentive to become a champion for that season. Lump them into games they will not win and it might as well be NIL part 2. Also the players who draw the money (power 5 conferences) won’t allow it as that will now bring the season to a 17 game season. Also if they allow 32 teams in it’s pretty much going to be filled with the power 5 conferences with a couple group of 5 teams. Why even play at that point?
Are all the bowls filled?
It looks as if they are all filled
Looks like they will join this list of teams that didn't get a bowl invite. They need two more bowls. 😁
I saw an article yesterday which said JMU and one other team that wouldn’t normally be eligible, as well as 5-7 Minnesota, we’re going to bowls because there weren’t enough eligible 6 win teams. Are you sure those teams were left out?
He had to mean from previous years as two of those are in bowls and two of those are not bowl eligible
Ok, is this joke data? Wyoming and Miami are going to bowls while southern miss and La-Monroe have losing records, Monroe only won 2 games.
Give me a minute to research & post dammit! 😁
They would have drawn more people but they were not eligible and Jacksonville state has 8 wins. If anything we have too many bowls lol
Neither was Jacksonville St or James Madison eligible. They haven't been eligible yet because they must have more than 2 years past moving up to D1, to become eligible. This is both of their 2nd years after moving up, I believe.
I kinda agree with you. Since both army and navy are both 5-6 going into this game they should have set one bowl bid aside for whoever wins the game such as the armed forces bowl. That would have kept Minnesota out.
SMU would have gotten hammered by Oregon too. Heck, I'm not sure Oregon is not one of the best 4 teams in the country and should be playing the in the CFP. 2 losses, both to UW by a combined total of 6 pts. I for one would have like to see Oregon at 4 and the potential for a UW/Oregon game #3 for the championship.
That's not going to happen for a while unless someone can convince the gov't powers that be that college football is 1) a for profit business and 2) worthy of an anti-trust exemption. While everyone keeps saying this is where we're headed, it's not that easy. The anti-trust lawsuit would be in the 10s of billions and would not only name the individual schools but also ESPN and FOX. Neither network wants to deal with a suit or even settle because the damages, over an infinite amount of time, could be proven. I mean for TU alone, at 10 years would be $80M or more...now multiply that by 75 schools on the wrong side of the split. And every year we have more FCS schools join FBS before the split, that number grows.
SMU will beat Boston College. BC is not a very good football team
I think they could easily get away with 16 teams, every FBS conference champ and 6 at large's
It will happen, the government is good at making legal matters disappear or appear out of thin air to get what they want. Especially if they are paid to do it.
