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Originally Posted by Skipaway
I am not buying the idea of playoff being able to generate more interest/money either. The point wasn't to say my theory is better. The point is to say the other theory is as baseless as mine. It's fine you are not buying mine.
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The Big 10 commissioner even admitted
to congress that a playoff could generate up to
4 times as much revenue as the current BCS model!
Big 12 blew it by eschewing playoff - College Football - Rivals.com
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And I think it's pretty obvious if you have a new playoff system there would be negative impacts to the other bowls. Playing for something means you have to create a good back story that people would buy in. New system upsets the old story. What's the story you are gonna sell for the old bowl games in the new playoff system? "They are exhibition games anyway" surely is true, but there are exhibition games people care more than others. Just look at how All Star games are marketed differently by different leagues and the fan interest varies a lot because of that.
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That's an assumption. Without any real status change for the non-playoff bowls or what the games mean, why would you assume their appeal would change? Really, what story is being changed? Meangingless bowl is still meaningless with or without a playoff. I just don't see any evidence that would change anything.
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You are simply wrong about the 100 teams with tons of interest thing. Look at the TV contract of each conferences, and they are no where equal. TV is now the most important revenue generation vehicle, and it's no where even among all 100 teams. More importantly, when we talk about TV revenue, it's no longer a simple issue of which team has the bigger fan base. Most of the TV viewers aren't fans of the two teams playing.
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Maybe not exclusively team fans, but still most of the viewers are probably either at least fans of the team or fans of the conference. There's multiple levels of fanhood in college, that's (partially) what I meant by building fan bases differently. Why else does ESPN do regional coverage (like when you see that map)?
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In the mean time, college sports fans quite often don't have any real links to the college they support, for those people making them support the closest super division team like they support the closest professional team isn't a problem.
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Quite often? Are you making this up? What do you even mean by real link? I don't think you can make that statement and be really all that familiar with college fandom.
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Teams currently in the FBS subdivision but not in the super league would just become more like the current FCS subdivision teams. That's actually not that huge a drop off for most of them.
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Well then pick the teams and we'll see. West Virginia going to the FCS would be a massive drop off. You're going to have plenty if it's only 40 teams.