Too many damn Bowl games

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I'm hearing the National Championship Game may not be a sellout. Alabama and Clemson
have plenty of unsold tickets for the game. Tickets can be had for $115 which is an all time
low for this game.

A question for whoever selects the sites for this game is why Santa Clara, California, that is
an NFL favored market. Hell, Stanford and California can't sell out their games and interest
in the Bay area for a college title game isn't there for the locals. Consider both Alabama and
Clemson fans will have to travel 2400-2500 miles to get there and hotel cost in the Bay area
are expensive.

It will be embarrassing for the NCAA if empty seats are shown during the telecast.

 

[Beavers98]

I do not think so.
Kids that are NFL bound will not play 4 more games and the logistics are prohibitive for the power conference D-1 type schools. For the 4 team playoffs players will stay, think of how many NFL types would sit from Clemson, Bama, ND, Sooners if they had to play 4 games. If I was their dad or agent I would demand they sit.
The key is just eliminate 1/2 the bowls so crowds follow the teams because they are good games, of interest, no more 6-6 vs 6-6 teams.
I think an 8 team playoff is possible but 18, 24 is never, ever gonna happen, players are too banged up to go that long, NFL or not.

At current set up yes. You would need to eliminate the Alabama-Citadel type games. Reducing the regular season would allow for an expanded playoff system similar to the FCS. **I do feel for the lower level teams that need these games for money, but would be eliminated during the regular season.

 

[Knightrofins]

The National Championship game probably will sell out b/c people will pay next to nothing for tickets. People will buy from secondary market at low prices. On Christmas Day, my brother in law and I were looking on stub hub and we found Orange Bowl tix for $150 each on upper deck yard line sites. I was shocked that the prices are so low.

The problem with the CFP system is that many bama fans traveled to Miami last week and many Clemson fans traveled to Dallas. That is fine during a slow Xmas/New Years week but then how many of them are going to travel to the west coast for the championship game? Looks like the CFP made a bad choice on location this season.

I remember when FSU played Auburn in the rose bowl a few years ago, I had friends who were fans of both teams make the trek out there. It was easy as the game was announced the first sunday in december and they had a month to make travel arrangements.

I like having a final 4 over a final 2 and eventually hoping for a final 8. It is true what a poster said above how the final 8 games will probably suck (hopefully 1 or 2 games would be good) but then hopefully the semis and the championship games would be awesome. We are best off having an 8 team playoff where 1) eliminating conference championship games 2) move the Army/Navy game to the first weekend of December 3) Make the 8 team playoff the 2nd weekend of december with 1 friday nite game and 3 games on saturday starting at noon, 4, and 8. The top 4 seeds get home game. We make the semis the same weekend as we did this season and the championship game the same time as we did this season.

We could even make the 4 losers of the quarterfinals games play each other in a new years bowl game.

I think this happens when the bowl contracts are up. I also think conferences could blow up where we only have 4 power conferences. We'll see

 

[JohnnyMags]

The secondary market can produce some bargins if you hit right

 

[Albatross]

I'm hearing the National Championship Game may not be a sellout. Alabama and Clemson
have plenty of unsold tickets for the game. Tickets can be had for $115 which is an all time
low for this game.

A question for whoever selects the sites for this game is why Santa Clara, California, that is
an NFL favored market. Hell, Stanford and California can't sell out their games and interest
in the Bay area for a college title game isn't there for the locals. Consider both Alabama and
Clemson fans will have to travel 2400-2500 miles to get there and hotel cost in the Bay area
are expensive.

It will be embarrassing for the NCAA if empty seats are shown during the telecast.

Terrible location for a college football championship game. The sport is a regional desire. Most people on the west coast could care less about college football. Just look at the Pac Champ game....more people go toba texas hs game than that.

It should be the main bowl game locations and let that be it. Or designate Jerry World to host every year.

To put the game in Santa Clara is just pure stupidity.


Would bet a million it would be sold out and record tix prices if it was in the Benz at ATL.