BCS 2.0 will be 6 bowls, with guaranteed spot for highest Big East/non-AQ

[Carl Spackler]

This structure may not even last as long as the "contract" bowls contracts are supposed to last.

THe first time that 4 or 5 deserving teams from the "group of 5" (btw - these changing terms are becoming quite comical) but the first time, that a couple of deserving teams are being forced to take only 1 spot in one of the six "High revenue" games, while a garbage team from the ACC, or any other "contract" conference is given an automatic spot, all hell is going to break loose. People are becoming educated to the college football post season.

The entire thing is about money. the entire college post season, for 120+ years - is about money. Who makes, it who keeps it. The conferences, and programs, and handful of corporate big wigs that have a century of getting fat on it, aren't going to let go of that cash flow without a fight.

The greatest hurdle has already been crossed, in the spring. It's only going to accelerate now, until we actually get a true playoff of conference champs.

 

[junglehusky]

The money is going to keep the group of five quiet. I mean, the fans will make noise, but the presidents won't complain as long as they're getting hush money. This report from CBS says 20% to the group of five. Yeah it sucks the BE has to share it with the Sun Belt and the MAC. But I bet that's only going to be motivation for UConn to join the ACC and Louisville to B12, despite what the #ClapHarder crowd imagines. The only way I can think for the group of five to actually protest would be to walk away or sue, and they're not going to do that when they can get a a bigger pile of table scraps.

 

[junglehusky]

I'm sorry, I read that again, and the idea that "all hell will break loose" when deserving teams are left out of the playoff is a joke. Does anybody care when Dukie V goes on ESPN and rants for three minutes straight about so-and-so getting snubbed by the selection committee? Nobody cares, except for fans of that school.