| FTBL What do you think about having bowl games as week zero?

[TerryP]

IE: Ole Miss and Penn State this season. The whole ranking system would change right off the tee.

 

[UAgrad93]

Douchebag Danny Kanell mentioned this after the ass kicking his team got against UGA. It would have no opt outs and no transfer portal to worry about. Would you use the old conference tie ins to determine opponents?

 

[Justneedme81]

No issue with that.

 

[rick4bama]

Douchebag Danny Kanell mentioned this after the ass kicking his team got against UGA. It would have no opt outs and no transfer portal to worry about. Would you use the old conference tie ins to determine opponents?

This is Danny!

 

[UAgrad93]

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This is Danny!

Agreed! The idea of “pre-season bowls” actually isn’t a bad idea to be honest. No portal to be worried about, no kids opting out, players, you would think, would be focused and locked in as well.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Change the Portal, not the Bowl games, I like the Bowl season. Need to take out some of these Summer Eve free flow bowls and keep it in the say top 25 ish or so.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I don't like moving the bowl games... We basically have some bowls at the start of the year now (like the Chick-fil-A games), and those couple of games are ok, but I don't care to see the full slate of them at the start of the season. It would be a step to solve the opt out issues, but it would also create other issues that IMO would be worse.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

ESPN owns almost all of the bowls, and they need them to fill December programming. I don't think they'll move.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Next year gonna have 4 cfp games for dec
Before semis

 

[OldPlayer]

ESPN owns almost all of the bowls, and they need them to fill December programming. I don't think they'll move.

They don't own the bowls, they own the broadcast rights. Having preseason bowls IMO is stupid. Who do you put in? Based on preseason polls (which are never accurate)? Nobody wants to travel to Florida, Arizona or New Orleans in August weather.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

They don't own the bowls, they own the broadcast rights. Having preseason bowls IMO is stupid. Who do you put in? Based on preseason polls (which are never accurate)? Nobody wants to travel to Florida, Arizona or New Orleans in August weather.

It's been a good while while since I read much on this, but I'm pretty sure ESPN or an operating sub owns at least half of the bowls themselves, not just the broadcast rights.

Here's a dated article and a relevant quote:

How College Football Playoff and bowl game system mix socialism, capitalism

Even Notre Dame got $2.9 million from the College Football Playoff after going 4-8, a byproduct of the system that shares the Playoff and bowl wealth.

www.usatoday.com

The big investor: The Walt Disney Co., owns ESPN and ABC, which are paying to televise 35 of the 40 postseason games, including those huge investments in the Playoff and Rose Bowl.

But ESPN doesn’t just televise these games. It also owns 13 major-college bowl games, mostly lower-tier games such as the Las Vegas, New Mexico and Camellia bowls, all of which will be played Saturday.

 

[musso]

I’ve always liked the idea, if the only remaining postseason games would be the playoff. Maybe all teams could be forced to play one out-of-conference P4 opponent in Week 0, and then all remaining games would either be intra-conference games, no more out-of-conference until the play off.