🏈 Notre Dame should be left out from now on until.......

[utstnx]

Notre Dame should be left out of the playoffs from from now on until they are forced to join a conference or until they beat a top 5 team in the regular season. They always get 1 over hyped top 10 team and then the rest of their schedule is trash. The played Michigan (7) in their first game, barley won and that was it. They didn't play anyone else the rest of the year. Michigan was also OVERRATED hot garbage as they got beat by the 4th best SEC team this year in Florida in the bowl.

They are getting rewarded for playing no one and not having to play a conference title game! Wake up playoff committee! You got it wrong again. UGA would have killed Notre Dame and Oklahoma. They got left out and an undeserving Notre Dame team loses its 4th straight post season game.

 

[LeGarrette]

UGA lost to LSU by 20 points, simple.

 

[utstnx]

UGA lost to LSU by 20 points, simple.

What does that have to do with getting the 4 best teams? UGA had a down week and LSU is better than the records show. That will be proven tomorrow when they finally shut UCF up and mud stomp them. LSU and UGA also played many more top 10 teams than Notre Dame.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

To hell with Notre Dame. Mobile Homers > Golden Domers.

 

[LeGarrette]

Good lord.

First, why in the world does an Alabama fan give a @#$# if Georgia didn't make the playoffs. Wake up, we are at war with Georgia, let them get their asses kicked by Texas tomorrow.

Second, how do you put a two loss team over an undefeated Notre Dame who played 2 non-P5 games.

Third, @###$ Georgia and their crying ass fans and Kirby.

 

[LeGarrette]

Kinda hard to judge any team these days in the bowl games with players sitting out and giving half effort so they don't get injured prior to the draft.

 

[utstnx]

Good lord.

First, why in the world does an Alabama fan give a @#$# if Georgia didn't make the playoffs. Wake up, we are at war with Georgia, let them get their asses kicked by Texas tomorrow.

Second, how do you put a two loss team over an undefeated Notre Dame who played 2 non-P5 games.

Third, @###$ Georgia and their crying ass fans and Kirby.

Its not so much I want UGA to win.......But if it was us sitting on the outside knowing we were one of the top 4 teams...and they let ND in just because they were 12-0 and half of the teams on the schedule(i don't care what conference they came from) were un-ranked little sisters of the poor.I would be pissed too. I don't see how there is any difference from ND and UCF. If you play a bunch of trash teams and in ND case you don't even have to play a conference champ game and you get it.....its garbage. Michigan was the only top 10 team they played all season. I don't care what conference your team plays in or what conferences they play...If you don't have at least 2 top 15 matchups on the schedule you don't get in!
ND played Michigan (7) first week and then played Syracuse(25). That's it! Its a joke!

 

[LeGarrette]

They absolutely should be pushed into a conference, but I believe that Notre Dame has an agreement with the committee. They get paid every year regardless of making it or not. If they get in, they get another $6 million.

Notre Dame's strength of schedule was tougher than Clemson's this year. Both were undefeated and I believe Notre Dame has recruited equally as good as Clemson (if not better the last 10 years).

UCF didn't play the level of competition that Notre Dame did, not even close when you look at the skills of the recruits, the programs investment into football, etc.

You can't control who you play in terms of where they are ranked. That's silly.

Hook'Em!

 

[XXL TideFan]

@utstnx, Making me nervous bru.......I thought that I was in the lswho forum.

 

[rick4bama]

You right ND shouldn't have been it that game, but UGA shouldn't either!

 

[UAgrad93]

Until their deal with NBC concludes, we are going to have Notre Dame remain an independent and continue to play the opponents they do and likely see the same result each year in bowl games.

 

[RollllTide!]

I will pull for any SEC team against any other conference. Can't help it I love BAMA football the most but we beat each other up more than the other conferences do. ESPN has their Gold Domers Touchdown Jesus homers, and whohio Stateless, and their PC football politics that promote teams that don't end up winning. When you look at the Facts Jack, the SEC does hold its own in the world, and all of us need to support any SEC team against the world. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

When did conferences start sharing bowl game payouts? Wondering when, and if that was a deciding factor for ND to avoid conference affiliation.

No conference = ALL their bowl money. Smart in that sense.

ND, the Capitalist society of college football when socialism abounds as it relates to conference teams that aren't even bowl eligible still get bowl money redistributed from the ones that did the work of actually playing in bowl games.

In a perfect world, ND is part of a conference and bowl participants within conferences get to keep their bowl money and not have it redistributed to the scrubs of their respective conferences.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

NDs schedule was ok.
Some of the teams were just bad this year.
Other years
Michigan, USC, StAnford, the 3-4 acc teams
Pretty decent
The conference championship game they avoided gets me.
Uga didn't deserve a shot. They lost twice
Period

 

[50+yeartidefan]

When did conferences start sharing bowl game payouts? Wondering when, and if that was a deciding factor for ND to avoid conference affiliation.

No conference = ALL their bowl money. Smart in that sense.

ND, the Capitalist society of college football when socialism abounds as it relates to conference teams that aren't even bowl eligible still get bowl money redistributed from the ones that did the work of actually playing in bowl games.

In a perfect world, ND is part of a conference and bowl participants within conferences get to keep their bowl money and not have it redistributed to the scrubs of their respective conferences.

Sgt. i bet most teams lose $$$$ on bowls.
Don't know for sure. But would be my bet

 

[rick4bama]

@Sgt. Lincoln Osiris SEC has always share this money! Every to the ones sitting home!

 

[RollllTide!]

When did conferences start sharing bowl game payouts? Wondering when, and if that was a deciding factor for ND to avoid conference affiliation.

No conference = ALL their bowl money. Smart in that sense.

ND, the Capitalist society of college football when socialism abounds as it relates to conference teams that aren't even bowl eligible still get bowl money redistributed from the ones that did the work of actually playing in bowl games.

In a perfect world, ND is part of a conference and bowl participants within conferences get to keep their bowl money and not have it redistributed to the scrubs of their respective conferences.

Sgt. i bet most teams lose $$$$ on bowls.
Don't know for sure. But would be my bet

I think you would loose that bet.
From $300,000 to $18million per team for one game. They also get local sponsorships from hometown companies to help with expenses. Some schools fund their whole year with bowl revenue.
From realclearsports.com

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@RollllTide! .....
Might.....but you load up team...band/cheerleading ...buy all tickets you cant sell...administrators......doctors...equipment...
Stay 3-5 days in high rent....pay coaches bonuses...feed, house, etc....
You better be in high paying bowl.... granted...probably do ok with playoffs payout... but Birmingham bowl, music city, independence, alamo, etc...?..
Money goes fast these days...
But might be wrong...

 

[RollllTide!]

@50+yeartidefan This is an old article but you are right about the small schools. The profits are what counts. If a small school makes a bowl game it is like a business making a giant one time sale. The schools use that money to add to the pot. Even $300,000 will go a long way for a small school. Their salaries are less and their cost are less. I believe UAB was a school that didn't make money but the supporters stepped up to save the program. The bowl games have to be a big hit for their money pot. The TV exposure is great advertising for their school. I bet they get free ads during the game. There is usually a couple of ad spots in every game. No way the schools pay that rate for an ad without the bowl game.

On to the top 20 most profitable football teams in the country. (From year 2015)

1. Texas $92 million

2. Tennessee $70 million

3. LSU $58 million

4. Michigan $56 million

5. Notre Dame $54 million

6. Georgia $50 million

6. Ohio State $50 million

8. Oklahoma $48 million

9. Auburn $47 million

10. Alabama $46 million

11. Oregon $40 million

12. Florida State $39 million

13. Arkansas $38 million

13. Washington $38 million

15. Florida $37 million

15. Texas A&M $37 million

17. Penn State $36 million

18. Michigan State $32 million

19. Southern Cal $29 million

20. South Carolina $28 million

If you want to see the revenue numbers, check out Forbes. But, needless to say, these profit margins are staggering. Tennessee made $70 million in football profit off of revenue of $94 million. That’s insane. (it is about $6.5 million a game for them)

By conference there are 9 SEC schools, 4 Big Ten, 3 Pac 12, 2 Big 12, 1 ACC school and 1 independent school in the top 20.

Or another way of looking at it — all of college football combined has 11 of the most profitable teams in the country and the SEC by itself has nine.

 

[planomateo]

I think you would loose that bet.
From $300,000 to $18million per team for one game. They also get local sponsorships from hometown companies to help with expenses. Some schools fund their whole year with bowl revenue.
From realclearsports.com

See below for CFP numbers and details. The money goes to the conference to be distributed by them.

How College Football Playoff's Payouts Compare With BCS's: A Conference-By-Conference Breakdown

College Football Playoff Payouts By Conference For 2017-18

SEC

$54 million base payout (which includes $300,000 for each team which meets the NCAA's APR for participation in a post-season football game)

$6 million for Alabama's berth in seminfinals

$6 million for Georgia's berth in the semifinals

$4 million for Auburn's berth in the Peach Bowl

Total: $70 million

Note on the SEC's revenue distribution model: For bowl games with receipts of $4,000,000 – $5,999,999, the participating team retains $1.5 million, plus a travel allowance determined by SEC. For bowl games with receipts of $6 million or more (including all College Football Playoff games), the participating team receives $2.025 million, plus a travel allowance determined by the SEC. If an SEC team makes it to the championship game, it receives another $2.125 million, plus travel allowance.