Now, we have 4 games on each day, and 2 of those games today are going to be over by mid afternoon. I hate this bowl structure.
End of rant.
End of rant.
New Years and NYE used to be great bowl game days
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I hate NYE games. Maybe when I'm not as interested in going out I'll appreciate them more, but as is I've missed the last two years of semis because of the timing.
ESPN has ruined New Years day football. 11:30 am and no football yet.
I almost started a thread on this just now. Some of my comments/gripes...
-NYD being on an NFL Sunday this year would have been messy any year
-I'll never understand how/why ESPN now puts the top game on ESPN and the #2 simultaneous game they own on ABC. If my cable or dish go down I have HD rabbit ears for ABC. I just don't get it. It's not making me any more or less likely to get cable/dish/online subscriptions...it's just making college football less main stream. A coworker of mine who is a casual college fan said the other day he checked ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC for a big game and it wasn't on so he thought he had the wrong time. It was a big game on ESPN instead of network. They literally lost a viewer in this case because it didn't even occur to him they'd put the best game on cable and put second tier games on network broadcast...and he has cable.
- I honestly don't mind the bigger playoff games on NYE as long as they keep them on NYE. I don't want any of these BCS or playoff level games on random days of the week though, keep them at least on holidays when 90% of people don't have to work. I do feel for east coast people that NYE plans intersect with CFP. On the west coast it's awesome, watch both games then go out with wife/girlfriend/families afterwards with plenty of time.
-NYD being on an NFL Sunday this year would have been messy any year
-I'll never understand how/why ESPN now puts the top game on ESPN and the #2 simultaneous game they own on ABC. If my cable or dish go down I have HD rabbit ears for ABC. I just don't get it. It's not making me any more or less likely to get cable/dish/online subscriptions...it's just making college football less main stream. A coworker of mine who is a casual college fan said the other day he checked ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC for a big game and it wasn't on so he thought he had the wrong time. It was a big game on ESPN instead of network. They literally lost a viewer in this case because it didn't even occur to him they'd put the best game on cable and put second tier games on network broadcast...and he has cable.
- I honestly don't mind the bigger playoff games on NYE as long as they keep them on NYE. I don't want any of these BCS or playoff level games on random days of the week though, keep them at least on holidays when 90% of people don't have to work. I do feel for east coast people that NYE plans intersect with CFP. On the west coast it's awesome, watch both games then go out with wife/girlfriend/families afterwards with plenty of time.
College football has officially buried itself. The NFL's product is so much better at this point and the NCAA has widened the gap with this limited playoff so much that there is no going back. The NCAA needs to focus on regional rivalries again and give people the games they want. Unfortunately, they believe that the money will always be there and that people actually care about an Alabama/Clemson championship game, they don't.
The Eastern Michigan/Wisconsin game won't be on at our house this year, because nobody gives a ****. We will catch every NFL playoff game though.
The Eastern Michigan/Wisconsin game won't be on at our house this year, because nobody gives a ****. We will catch every NFL playoff game though.
I find it interesting how when the playoff was purposed it was sold as taking back New Years Day as the prime showcase for College Football. What they really meant is that New Years Day will be the showcase once every 3 years when it aligns with the Rose Bowl's interest. Inexplicably, somehow the Sugar Bowl has been allowed to stake a claim with the Rose too even though they lack the historical president the Rose has on NYD.
The Rose Bowl continues to stand in the way of progress for college football. The sooner it is marginalized, the better.
The Rose Bowl continues to stand in the way of progress for college football. The sooner it is marginalized, the better.
I love the playoff games on NYE. I can only think of one thing better to do on NYE and that would be a Cyclone Basketball game.
Not sure why but I lived in Chicago for 14 years and the NFL still never appealed to me. Maybe it was irrational Bears fans thinking they were Superbowl favorites every year because I was and still am a fan of other local pro teams.
Politics is the only thing I like less about college football than NFL, politics got a lot worse switching from broad somewhat objective BCS formula to a small subjective committee with no fixed criteria. For basketball I prefer the NBA game outside of my passion for ISU so it's not like i just like college sports.
In college, I was able to watch more games durpe to having access to cable. When I went home for Christmas, where we did not have cable, there were plenty of games on ABC or Fox to watch. Now that I don't have cable, I haven't watched any of he games on ESPN. I have watched the one or two on Fox. But by having these games on ESPN, they have lost me as a casual viewer.
This is what I suspect is happening to many. My anecdote about a coworker is nearly identical to this post. College football TV strategy is taking what they perceive as the biggest profit today at the expense of future growth.
I miss the smorgasbord of football that used to be NYD bowl games. Now it's just like...a buffet that you can only go through once.
That's changing. I think now the playoff games will be the Saturday before New Years. So if NYD is on a Friday the playoff would be Dec 26.
While I think the playoff has had some impact on New Year's day bowls, I think a big part of it this year is the fact that Jan 1 was on a Sunday this year - a day that belongs to the NFL. So what you had was the semifinal games on NYE (which I actually like because most Dec 31 games tended to be garbage anyway), a full slate of NFL games on Jan 1, and then all of the "New Years Day" bowl games today, on a day where nobody cares.
It wasn't nearly this bad last year and it will return to some form of normal next year.
It wasn't nearly this bad last year and it will return to some form of normal next year.
When is the last time the Rose Bowl has been anything more than a made-for-TV parade? They hype the game as Pac-12 vs Big 10 yet the best Rose Bowl ever didn't have a Big 10 team.
In my opinion, the game died when Keith Jackson retired.
In my opinion, the game died when Keith Jackson retired.
Precedent?
Sugar and Orange were the 2nd and 3rd bowl games ever, both starting in 1935. The Sugar has been a NYD bowl 78 times out of 83.
