I’m on vacation this week, so there may be a little Weller involved here but I have a thought - what if FBS had TWO postseason tournaments? Expand the CFP to 8 or 12 or 16 or whatever and then have a secondary tournament for the teams that didn’t make the CFP (sort of like an NIT). Incorporate the bowls into both tournaments. Even if you only did an eight teamer for the secondary tournament you’ve involved seven bowl games - and presumably created at least SOMETHING resembling actual stakes for those games.
This would certainly not be a cure all - the networks and bowl sponsors (but mainly ESPN) are likely going to have to get creative with some financial incentives to get the players to actually care about playing in these games, but it would at least be something. If nothing else you could make it a tournament for the non P5 conferences.
Thoughts?
This would certainly not be a cure all - the networks and bowl sponsors (but mainly ESPN) are likely going to have to get creative with some financial incentives to get the players to actually care about playing in these games, but it would at least be something. If nothing else you could make it a tournament for the non P5 conferences.
Thoughts?
