College football season is too long
- Thread starter gamecockcat
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College football is a side note to the NFL. It would be better if they started in mid July until late Nov.
If college football season is too long, why do I miss it already when there's still a game left?
15 games is too much? You'd better relay your concerns to most of the state high school associations, because teams reaching the state title game will have a 15 game season, along with 2-3 scrimmages and you can throw in that more than a handful of those players are playing both sides of the football and special teams.
After a CFB-less Saturday I def say the season is too damn short!!!! I'm already going through withdrawal!!!
I agree. (And NFL is ridiculously long.) NCAA greed and they don't care about athletes health or students getting degrees.
Disagree. Too many injuries result from prolonged seasons. At some point you have games played with scout team players.
*High schools reaching their state title game play 15 games, along with 2-3 scrimmages and more than a few kids playing both ways and on special teams.
* FCS schools reaching the championship game play 15 games.
* Division II schools reaching the championship game play 15 games.
* Division III schools reaching the championship game play 15 games.
In other words, only a miniscule number of teams are playing 15 games.
Also, who from the scout team played for UK this year? Destin Wade really doesn't count since Levis opted out and the staff wanted to give him a shot.
4 teams is plenty for the playoffs. I am opposed to taking a game from the entire country in the interest of a select few.
Everyone should make the playoffs and then the Playoffs should be a round Robin double elimination loser leave town match
Agreed.
But, they don't have to take anything away from anyone with an 8 or 12 team playoff. They could actually give us more weeks of football with about the same number of games for most conferences.
Of the P5; the SEC to this point perennially plays the toughest in conference schedule. Next would be the Big10, and the next tier includes the big 12, acc, and pac10. There's no good way to reward the tougher SEC or B1g schedule in a playoff unless you give their conf champs byes to the semifinals. That makes a mess of a playoff. Stretching it out an extra week at least
This is one way I was thinking of doing it-
12 teams total
Select champs from the G5 conferences and/or at large teams would help seed the first week (round) of the playoffs, which would also be bowl games. .
5 P5 champs and the 7 best among the 5 G5 champs and P5 ATLG teams, absolute minimum of 2 G5 champs.
7-10 CF1 2-5 ATLG
8 lowest ranked play in. 4 highest rcv bye
4 highest vs 4 play in winners (reseeded)
4 semi
2 final
4 weeks total, but still adds at least another game to the ALREADY grueling schedule for upper tier P5 teams, unless conf title games are eliminated or made part of the playoff.
Or
10 Team
8 lowest team PLAY IN round
4 PLAY IN elim.
4 semi. 2 best P5 BYE (SEC1 B1g1) vs Elim winners
2 championship game
This would preserve current max game totals for 2 best P5 teams, but potentially add 2 more to 2 other P5 teams
Maybe its time for the football powers to grap that as well . They are gonna dominate college basketball now as well . Kansas , U Conn , Gonzaga are on borrowed time before the football schools grap their coaches and players with money to burn.
Meh. Part of the attraction of March Madness, what gives it value that television is willing to pay big money for is the inclusion of the Cinderella teams, the David vs Goliath aspect of the tournament. An all P5 tournament doesn’t have the same appeal and wouldn’t have near the value. It would also devastate many of those smaller conferences. Want to drive a death-nail into college basketball, that’s a good way to start.
