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ISU Bowl Projection

CascadeClone said:
IDK if you would get better matchups, but at least that would be must-see TV.

I'd let the bowls trade picks too - move up this year and down next year kind of thing.
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Theoretically, bowls would choose the better teams first, so they’re more likely to be evenly-matched. But who knows how it would go. Competitiveness of the game would also mean more first-teamers playing, which is why they should start paying the players who participate

Love the idea of bowls trading picks. I think it could be compelling TV honestly. Fan bases waiting to see their team get picked. Like the NCAA Selection Show
 
Hoggins said:
At least this is the last year of these terrible bowl tie-ins. It's been the same bowls for like 15 years. Hopefully all of CFB will go to a bowl draft but this sport is run by idiots so I doubt it.
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Thankful our commissioner loves Vegas so we’ll soon see a Big 12 bowl there. Shoot maybe 2
 
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Hoggins said:
At least this is the last year of these terrible bowl tie-ins. It's been the same bowls for like 15 years. Hopefully all of CFB will go to a bowl draft but this sport is run by idiots so I doubt it.
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Scott Dochterman said that the new bowl tie-ins could be delayed by a year till the College Football Playoff format gets figured out.. Hopefully that won't be the case.
 
SolterraCyclone said:
Bowls will never be what they used to be. But, there’s a couple ways to help the bowls that, in theory, are easy, but probably not in actuality
  1. Pay the players to entice more participation. Provide bonuses for the winning team
  2. Remove conference affiliations for bowls
  3. Have a bowl “draft”. You could televise it and have the bowls “draft” the teams to play so you can get more competitive and compelling matchups, plus bowls can get the teams they want rather than the ones they have to pick
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I LOVE that bowl draft idea :)
 
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Al_4_State said:
I think the game itself would be fine if we're playing an SEC team.

If it's our third G6 road game bowl in 8 year, hell to the no.
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People will throw a fit if we have to go to Memphis again regardless. I don't even know if an SEC doormat would do a lot but it would help with b*tching some. I'm fine if it's an SEC team but I don't see that happening. They game their bowl system way better and I'm not sure there bottom feeders will want to play us.
 
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JM4CY said:
People will throw a fit if we have to go to Memphis again regardless. I don't even know if an SEC doormat would do a lot but it would help with b*tching some. I'm fine if it's an SEC team but I don't see that happening. They game their bowl system way better and I'm not sure there bottom feeders will want to play us.
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I'm not going regardless of location, so I'm just looking at it from an opponent/time slot perspective. I'll actually be traveling during the Liberty Bowl, so for that reason alone I'd prefer to avoid it.

Phoenix or Houston, please.

And yes, the SEC is going to be terrified of having a 6-7 win team potentially lose to us.
 
I'm not going to a bowl so location doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't mind the Liberty bowl; yes we've been there plenty lately but it's still one of the few bowls that has a long history.
 
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SolterraCyclone said:
Theoretically, bowls would choose the better teams first, so they’re more likely to be evenly-matched. But who knows how it would go. Competitiveness of the game would also mean more first-teamers playing, which is why they should start paying the players who participate

Love the idea of bowls trading picks. I think it could be compelling TV honestly. Fan bases waiting to see their team get picked. Like the NCAA Selection Show
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I mean that's kind of how it used to be. While yes there were some tie ins, it used to be teams waiting around to see if they'd get picked. I remember waiting around for some of those early 2000 bowl games trying to figure out where ISU was going.
 
SolterraCyclone said:
Bowls will never be what they used to be. But, there’s a couple ways to help the bowls that, in theory, are easy, but probably not in actuality
  1. Pay the players to entice more participation. Provide bonuses for the winning team
  2. Remove conference affiliations for bowls
  3. Have a bowl “draft”. You could televise it and have the bowls “draft” the teams to play so you can get more competitive and compelling matchups, plus bowls can get the teams they want rather than the ones they have to pick
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Those are good ideas.

If they cant make 3 work. At minimum they need to rotate tie ins. Either every year or every other at least.

So the Bowls tie to different Conferences every year and rotate. It would mean so many more unique locations for teams, and many more unique matchups.
 
I like the bowl draft concept, but I wonder if it'd result in a lot of bowls selecting non-playoff teams from BiG or SEC, maybe intra-conference matchups that didn't happen during regular season or even worse, rematches of non-playoff teams (think Red River: The Postseason Version).

I'm sure you'd get some good games, but it's possible maintaining tie-in is better balance to involve ACC/XII.

Switching some of the tie-ins, though, is a good step and if you keep doing it that way, rotate it more often than every 12 years or whatever. It gets a little stale. I would expect the main non-CFP for Big 12 to stay w/ Alamo.
 
I'm not in favor of doing anything that gives bowls and their reps more power.

However, taking away the conference tie-ins would be great. You would just need someone picking the matchups that isn't the bowls. The bowls main consideration would be making money, so attendance and ratings. There also should be a couple of pairing rules:
1. No rematches from the regular season
2. Can't play a team from your own conference
3. Can't be put in a bowl city where you played a bowl in the last three years
 
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KennyPratt42 said:
I'm not in favor of doing anything that gives bowls and their reps more power.

However, taking away the conference tie-ins would be great. You would just need someone picking the matchups that isn't the bowls. The bowls main consideration would be making money, so attendance and ratings. There also should be a couple of pairing rules:
1. No rematches from the regular season
2. Can't play a team from your own conference
3. Can't be put in a bowl city where you played a bowl in the last three years
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Yeah I like these. And you could put parameters on it. Eligible teams have to be 6-6 at minimum, etc. That limits the amount of SEC/B10 teams available to jump more deserving teams.

I guess you could have the CFP committee assign the bowls. The draft concept would be more interesting to me.
 
SolterraCyclone said:
I guess you could have the CFP committee assign the bowls.
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I've said since it expanded to 4-team CFP that the ranking should extend to something like 30 teams, with non-playoff teams selected mostly in order for the next 8 or so bowls in the pecking order.

That "mostly in order" could Include similar limits listed by @KennyPratt42 above, such as no regular season rematches or intra-conference games, and limit of repeat appearances.

If the ranking is "accurate," it should create the best games, in theory.

Bowl reps might want some say in "fan travel" aspect, so I'm sure they'd push to maintain some control.
 
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