I bet you an 8 team playoff gets higher ratings and more sponsors than this year’s Pac12 Championship Game.
Read the article in the OP:
“Instead, we get this bastardized version of the sport because the commissioners created it to make money. OK, fine. Conference title games, like basketball conference tournaments, make some money. No one is against making money.
You know what would make even more money? That first round of an eight-team playoff, which would generate massive (and far greater) television contracts, not to mention more ticket sales (bigger stadiums) at higher prices (more demand). And a lot of that money would stay in the places that care about college football – not far-off NFL towns.
For two seats on the aisle for an Ohio State at Notre Dame playoff game, ticket brokers could demand a kidney and a half and then watch a bidding war drive up the price.
The atmosphere for on-campus playoff games would be unreal. No one has ever attended an NFL playoff game in Lambeau or Heinz Field or Mile High or anywhere in America, surveyed the pre-kick frenzy, and thought, “Boy, I wish we got to spend $1,500 on travel so this could take place at some far-away dome or whatever-they-are-calling-that-place-now in Miami.”
Clemson playing 7-5 Pitt is not going to generate as much money as Clemson playing a top 8 team in a playoff. Sorry, but there is no way in hell 7-5 Pitt generated much money. I have a wide variety of diehard college football friends from around the country. No one watched the ACC Championship Game. Every one of them would watch every playoff game.
Last edited: Dec 19, 2018