Fwd: Re: [Husker] BCS playoff

[Mike Jaixen]

The travel issues alone are enough to kill any college
football playoff revolving around bowl games.  Note
that there were almost 20,000 unsold tickets for the
Big XII Championship game in Kansas City.  It might
not be fair to the visiting team, but a college
football playoff system just can't risk sending teams
across the country to play in a half-empty stadium. 
Even as good travelers as Nebraska fans are, it would
be nearly impossible for 30K or 40K Nebraska fans to
get to California, Arizona, Texas, or Florida to play
in a game on a week's notice.  Then if they win, head
home and repeat the same thing again.

If you eliminate the conference championship games,
you probably could squeeze an 8 team playoff into the
first 2 weeks of December, send all other winning
teams to the remaining bowls, and play a national
title game on New Years in one of the big bowl games.

Here is how I'd match them up for this past season.  I
personally think the BCS rankings are about as good as
anything that has been proposed to date, so I'll use
them.

December 4th:  A fun quadruple-header!
11 am:  #6 Utah @ #3 Auburn - Battle of 2 undefeateds,
and Urban Meyer's first look at the SEC!
2:30 pm: #7 Georgia @ #2 Oklahoma
6 pm:  #5 California @ #4 Texas - Mack Brown's
campaigning results in this game being played in
Austin instead of in the Bay Area.
9:30 pm:  #8 Virginia Tech @ #1 USC - Replay of the
season opener!

December 11th:  My guesses for the semi-finals:
3 pm:  Utah @ Oklahoma - OU gets the home field by
beating Georgia, and the Utes upset Auburn.
7 pm:  Texas @ USC - USC maintains home field
advantage .

Now, with this scenario, you might still be able to
send everyone to a bowl game, with the Utah/OU and
Texas/USC winners squaring off in one of the "BCS"
bowl games for the title.  With 3 weeks before New
Years, that still gives the bowls time to set their
lineups and allow fans to make travel plans.  And the
majority of bowl assignments were already set 2 weeks
earlier once the playoffs were set anyway.

And as I recall, each of those schools have huge
stadiums and would more than likely sell out.  USC has
a 92K capacity, OU 84K, Auburn 86K, and Texas 80K. 
Figuring ticket prices at $75 each, the ticket sales
alone would bring in over $25 million.  The second
round could probably bring in $15 million extra as
well.  And TV would probably bring even more in.

--- Russ Volberding <russvolb at earthlink.net> wrote:

> One factor that might have to be considered is game
> attendance.  Suppose a 
> team needs to win two games to reach the
> championship game.  Would the fans 
> travel to the first two games and the championship
> game?  Would they have 
> the money to attend all three, or just one?  Which
> game?  Do they go to the 
> first round and then not have the cash to go to the
> next round?  Or does 
> the NCAA not worry about the participating schools's
> fan base traveling and 
> make the championship game a corporate and celebrity
> event like the Superbowl?
> This may be one of the main arguments against a
> championship tournament.


=====
Mike Jaixen


		
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