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  1. The schools don't pay for the bowl gifts/swag that are given to the teams. That comes from the bowl and their sponsors. The schools pay for the travel and they have to foot the bill for the guaranteed allotment of tickets. The travel ends up being 3-4x more than a normal game because not only are they staying longer, but they have a much, much bigger travel party, and they foot the bill for the band to go. For the lesser bowls, or bowls far away, schools can lose their shirts on the unbought tickets alone, much less that extraordinary travel costs. Add to it the conference taking its cut and yes, the non NY6 bowls can often be a deficit for the schools.
  2. It's a cash bonanza to our TV network overlords who are truly the ones in control of this.
  3. ESPN is what has ruined college football. Yes, it gives us all the games on TV, and that is a great thing. But in return, we had to sell our souls to the Mouse. ESPN, and by extension it's leading competitor Fox, have destroyed what made college football great. The conference realignments have been about one thing and one thing only...money. College athletics sold its soul (regional conferences, old rivalries and traditions, etc.) for the almighty dollar. The CFP is just an extension of that. We wanted a true championship, but what we got was an enslavement to ESPN. One television network should not own the entire CFP. But they do, and they've manipulated the conferences into a realignment that only benefits the network. We all mock the B1G for considering the PE route (and we are right to do so, because it's an insane thing to do), but at the same time we fail to realize WE'VE ALREADY SOLD OUT TO PRIVATE EQUITY. And that PE is ESPN.
  4. I think the NBC TV contract has these administrators fooled into thinking that Notre Dame is the biggest brand in all of sports, and thus, they must have them included in whatever they do. These are the same administrators who think private equity would be good for schools, who designed the CFP and comprised the current committee, and who give coaches insane contracts with insane buyouts and then fire them after 3-4 years. These aren't smart people.
  5. If you really want it to be like every other sport, you have to get rid of all polls and rankings and guaranteed byes for conferences. Otherwise, it's still a subjective list. To get a true playoff you have to restructure the conferences. Until we do that, this is going to continue to be based on voters and rankings to some extent, which is not how a true playoff field should be determined.
  6. And Yormark is fining them $500,000 each, as he should. This is bad for the conference. Reduces exposure and payouts. Plus both of these teams could benefit from playing bowls and neither had any hope of a playoff chance, so there’s no reason to not play a bowl game. Extremely short-sighted on their part. Glad the Big12 is punishing them for it.
  7. What the hell do you know about reality? You just live in an angry cocoon thinking the whole world is against UT and UT deserves to be in the playoffs no matter their record.
  8. For the most part, Vegas knows ball.
  9. You think Oregon will coast over Tech? The only team they played that has a defense better than Tech's is IU.
  10. Duke went full retard. You never go full retard.
  11. Just know you won't have much of a defense in Stillwater.
  12. 10 point game. 14 points gifted to Tulane (the no call on running into the punt returner that gave Tulane the ball inside the 10 and the absurd gifted TD on the fumble out the endzone). Fucking hate that two bad, atrocious calls are the difference in the game. AAC should be publicly shamed for this level of ineptitude.
  13. Damn...that could have been a pick six.
  14. Do you believe in the Mean Green? Maybe Mean Joe found the voodoo queen.
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