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2015-16 Bowl Season Was Doomed Before It Began

This is what happens when you have two people on the CFP committee hell bent on putting at least one Big 10 team in the playoff and another one in the Rose Bowl. The rest of the bowls get a trickle down of the leftovers.
 
This is all Iowa State's fault for beating Okie State in 2011 :jimlad:

In all seriousness the CFB playoff committee should be disbanded and let the computers decide. They do everything for us in our everyday life anyway. Also these superconferences aren't helping.
 
Not only Big 10, Ok State, Florida & Oklahoma got blown out.

The mid and lower tier games were the close games
 
I still think it is to big of a gap between last regular season games and the big bowl games.
 
I've long advocated the elimination of conference bowl tie-ins in favor of a bowl game draft where the various bowl committee's slots are determined by purchasing their place order through the NCAA via sealed bids, the money from which would be divided up to the schools. Each bowl would get to choose the two teams out of all teams available. It would lead to better match-ups, more variety for the teams and fans who travel, allow better managed games to move up over time, and probably help pare down a few of the 43 bowls that probably don't have a good reason to exist.

But it would not happen as it takes power away from conferences.
 
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Pretty bad when teams who shouldn't even be in bowls for barely being 500 against bad schedules was most entertaining game.

Baylor over UNC was pretty fun to watch, fun game in its own right but incredibly fun to see how a team can game plan to beat a high ranked team without a true QB.
 
This was probably the least I have watched of the bowls this year. I pretty much just watched half of the Iowa game and part of the Nebraska one and that was it. Never really even bothered to check scores much. Bowl games have just gone way down hill in the last decade. I'm not sure I will bother to watch the national title. It's too bad there wont be a Big Monday basketball game on to watch instead.
 
awd4cy said:
That's too bad. Just tells me there are a lot of people that missed out greatly on that game and wasted their time with another.
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Shows the relative value people put on both sports. Basketball is important to a much smaller segment of the sports population than football. This isn't exactly news.
 
Just do an 8 team playoff and no other bowl games. They are pointless anyways. The only benefit is extra practices (could allow without bowls anyways) and a winter travel destination for fans (could do regardless).
 
awd4cy said:
That's too bad. Just tells me there are a lot of people that missed out greatly on that game and wasted their time with another.
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I'm not sure its valid to compare a college football bowl game that was held on a Saturday during a holiday period with a college basketball game that started at 9 p.m. EST the first day back to work after the New Year's holiday. Wonder how many DVR'd the basketball game and watched it the day after or have watched it on youtube?

Like you said, a lot of people missed a great basketball game. Seems like a lot of people enjoyed watching K-state get smoked. Guess you have to look for whatever nuggets you can find when you get embarrassed on national TV like the Wildcats did.
 
buf87 said:
Almost every big game is a landslide and got boring
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Agreed...............I watched fewer bowl games this year than I have for the last 20 plus years......Most games were over at half time and there were very few compelling matchups

Bring on an 8 game playoff system....the 5 conference champs and 3 at large teams...play the first 2 rounds at home sites and the champ game at a neutral site

Go Clones beat the Bears
 
Outside of fans and alumni of schools that actually travel to see bowl games, the system is dead. They are not really events designed for TV which is why the playoff system is likely to expand someday. I don't think bowls will ever go away because there is some money to be made for local economies and it gives 6-6 teams a chance for something.
 
I watched more bowl games than ever but can remember only the TCU comeback as eventful. Oh wait did Iowa live up to my prediction? Non-evernt.
 
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