What happens first

[njvols]

Sankey got railed on first round of structure negotiations, and expect he'll flex some SEC muscle to get rid of first round byes or re-seed after first round, and qualify on SOS. Conf championship games too much revenue to give up, I'd imagine.

 

[overseasorange2]

My thing with these bowl games is getting rid of about 30..1995 there was 18 bowl games no setting a bowl game out .it was a serious reward to get a bowl .fast forward to 2023 last year there was 40 bowls games .it's not a reward anymore

I guess it depends on where the bowl is. If it was in Hawaii, I would be happy to go. On the other hand, I imagine Arkansas was just thrilled to travel 30 miles East to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

They have discussed removing the auto 1-4 seed for the top rated conference champs.

It will remain a mess until strength of schedule becomes the primary factor in rating the seeds. Having a College Athletic Director being the Chair Person for the Committee is ridiculous.

 

[easttnbuck]

Gator Bowl, Citrus Bowl, Pop Tarts Bowl and old Outback Bowl become home for the first round games on the Friday night and Saturday before Christmas, get away from frigid Big 10 locals in December and all home field advantages.

Bring 250,000 football fans to Florida before Christmas and go at it that way, coupled with a ranking of all participants in the football playoff, more of a level playing field and neutral site for fans of all teams to enjoy,

Remember, that was the entire argument from Big ten schools is they had to travel to sec/acc/pac 12 areas to play

Maybe if they can force both fanbases to travel as much as possible although that seems nightmarish also

The first time they get sec/acc in their stadium past October was this year.

 

[Illinoisvolfan2]

Seedlings should be based on rankings.

All games should be in warm weather neutral fields. One of these years there will be a huge snowstorm in one of those home fields in the north in game day and no one wants that

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

So which will happen first ? Will NCAA tweak how they seed power 4 conference champs or will all conferences do away with championship games? As we just seen 4 power 4 conference champs did get a bi .However they lost revenue that a home game generates not just per say the school but the city as well ..And all 4 lost after a Long 3 week layoff

Next year we go to a 16 team playoff, that will fix the seeding issue with no byes. The only way they could screw that up is to allow conference champions to host playoff games over higher seeded teams

 

[Batman1948]

On topic I think conference champs will get in but not have guaranteed seeding or byes anymore. Probably will seed by who they think is best.

If there's not going to be anymore byes---they either need to add 4 teams or subtract 4 teams

That's the only way it can work to get to the championship game

 

[Batman1948]

I guess it depends on where the bowl is. If it was in Hawaii, I would be happy to go. On the other hand, I imagine Arkansas was just thrilled to travel 30 miles East to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl.

If you think Arkansas traveled just 30 miles, you may need to use google maps

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Absolute certainty the egg came first.

Follow the logic:

1. There was a first chicken. (whenever, wherever, however, there was a first one).
2. That chicken came out of an egg (or it wouldn't meet the definition of chicken).
3. Whatever laid that egg was not (quite) a chicken. Otherwise, it would've been the first chicken, and we go back one generation. To the previous egg.

Therefore, the egg came first. Simple.

Go Vols!

 

[Carl Pickens]

Doug Matthews discussed this on his show this morning. I’m not sure who the guest was, but he said no changes will be made until the current contract expires. He said changing the conference champs getting the byes would require a unanimous vote by all the committee members…… and that there’s no way the Mtn West/Group of Five would vote in favor

 

[overseasorange2]

If you think Arkansas traveled just 30 miles, you may need to use google maps

It was an estimate, personally I didn't think it was worth looking up. The point was it's not very far or exciting for the razorbacks to go to Memphis, but congratulations you sure got me!

 

[volfeeva]

Based on the blow outs in the first round, IMHO there are not 12 teams that were really championship caliber teams worthy of being in the playoffs. Bump it back to 6 or 8 teams. And base those getting in on rankings, SOS, win-loss. Let the Indianas /SMU's go play for a jar of Dukes mayonnaise

 

[easttnbuck]

Based on the blow outs in the first round, IMHO there are not 12 teams that were really championship caliber teams worthy of being in the playoffs. Bump it back to 6 or 8 teams. And base those getting in on rankings, SOS, win-loss. Let the Indianas /SMU's go play for a jar of Dukes mayonnaise

They won't go backwards, only more

Our only hope is it stops at 16