Analysis Of Expansion College Football Playoffs

To start it off, most of the viewers minds have changed on how viewers watch the sport. One way the college football has influenced our society is when it brought attention when it went viral in the 1890 (Gridiron Football). Everybody was looking forward to what they were doing with football. It spread rapidly throughout the whole nations. (Gridiron Football). Where nowadays every college has football or has sports sorta similar to the game of football. They were spreading news by putting it in the newspaper and telling all of their friends. (Gridiron Football). Now days with the invention of the smart phone you can get on your phone and within seconds you know what is

The NCAA has stuck with the current format for the bracket since 2011. There are 68 teams that compete in the NCAA basketball tournament from March to April. 32 of the 68 teams automatically qualify if they win their conference championship. The Ivy does not have a tournament championship so whoever is the regular season champion in the Ivy League has an automatic bid as well. The rest of the 36 slots are filled by at-large-bids and are selected by a committee based on their record and how difficult teams schedules were. This selection is televised on ESPN and is called, “Selection Sunday.” After the committee picks who belong in the tournament, they then need to make the seeding’s for each team. If you are a #1 seed you are considered the best team in that region. If you’re a #16 you are the worst team. There are four separate regions in the tournament and in each region there is a #1 seed through #16. The committee sets up the bracket so the #1 seed has

The NCAA has five major football conferences, the Big XII, Big 10, Pac 10, the ACC, and the SEC (College Football Conferences). The College Football Playoff, including only four teams, will always leave a conference champion out of the playoff picture. In the very first CFP in 2014, the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs (TCU) were ranked #3 going into the final playoff selection. The Horned Frogs plummeted to #6 after winning their final game and crushed all hope of playing for a national championship. The Baylor Bears were sitting at a #6 spot going into the final

against other schools to give your schools good looks. You draw in fans, ticket sales, and

College football rules many regions of the United States of America, especially in the southern regions. Alumni of the certain colleges and other supporters pack respective stadiums every Saturday and passionately cheer for their teams in an attempt to ensure victory. Undoubtedly, there are few traditions in the United States that compare to College Football. The sport ensures that family members have something to relate to, brings communities much closer, and creates great moments shared around the country. Perhaps most importantly, there is one more thing that college football does quite well. The sport regularly and consistently creates the interest and demand required in order to make a considerable profit. However, the student athletes most responsible for the increased revenue enjoyed by the respective Universities around this country do not receive any of the money, despite the fact that they are the ones most important to the financial inflow. Many people believe that it is unjust to not financially reward the people most responsible for making the team money, and that college football players should be adequately compensated for their performances on the gridiron.

With most college football players in the 20th century being indigent athletes, coaches had to find a way to get the best of the best players for their team. Even if they had to pull a

The turmoil at Florida after Urban Myer left, the chaos that has been Tennessee, which has only recently been calmed by the inception of Butch Jones or the consistent underperformance of Mark Richt coached Georgia teams. However, although coaching is a factor, perhaps the true reason lies with recruiting. It stands to reason that the better players on the field will win. Yes, we all know of the team that overperforms. They play above their ability. In most cases though, when lined up across from each other on the line of scrimmage, the best player will win. This year, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida are all boasting top 10 recruiting classes, although Tennessee might be just outside. However, they have had two top 10 classes in recent years. Better players, an upgrade in coaches and a desire to regain dominance or at least relevance in their own conference is why this might be the SEC east’s

The Bowl Championship Series has worked for years. The overall effectiveness of the Bowl Championship Series shows when you look at its track record. The Bowl Championship Series consistently puts the top two college football teams from the regular season against each other. With a playoffs, it is a shot in the dark. A playoff rewards teams that do well in the post season rather than the regular season. So in essence, it is taking away from the importance of the regular season. The excitement of the college football regular season is unparalleled. Because every professional sport and every other collegiate sport uses a playoff system to determine it’s champion, the

College Football is one of the most popular sports in America. Every week and weekend during the fall millions of people, from all different parts of the country take time out of their days to catch a game. Whether it be the hundreds of thousands that flock to a stadium to see their favorite team play, or the large amount that watch on television from their home.While there are a ton of different schools across multiple divisions, there’s no team that compares to The Ohio State University’s football team. Ohio State has arguably one of the best football programs of all time.

The whole conference realignments were mainly about business. Schools joining the most popular conferences to enhance their brand, so they could recruit better players. Yet, they win more games, and receive better T.V deals. The T.V exposure brings a lot more exposure to their Universities that will also benefit through student enrollment. If college sports were not a business, Louisville would have stayed right in the Big East and the ACC would have been content with their top football teams in their conference leaving and finding another

Statistics from the Gallup poll stated that, “85% of college football fans supported a change to a playoff system of some kind. 69% of fans surveyed preferred the idea of a playoff tournament involving the top four, eight, or 16 teams to replace bowl games while 16% preferred a one-game playoff between the top teams emerging from the post-season bowl games.” The way that the sport runs is from the money the teams make from their fans. If the fans get what they want, more people will come to the games, and more money will be

According to Smith (2000), in its early years, the NCAA did not venture outside of its role as a rules committee except creating national champions in various sports. Much like today, college

This is one area that is frequently disputed. Occasionally, when a small conference school has a remarkable season, but lose in their conference tournament, that school will bump a major or mid-major school from consideration.

The champions of the 2015 NCAA March Madness Tournament were Duke University Blue Devils but they were not the real winners: the NCAA truly won. The NCAA is a “non-profit” organization which is “...dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of student-athletes and equipping them with the skills to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom and throughout life.” (NCAA.org). The NCAA regulates college sports, enforce rules and organize college sporting events. The NCAA more or less performs as a professional league’s governing body would do except one major thing, paying its moneymakers. Now is the time to pay college athletes because most live under the poverty line, the NCAA has enough money to, and the athletes are being taken advantage of.

"Surely, the NCAA and Division I-A football can join the other 23 intercollegiate sports and devise a system that determines a true champion, preserves the integrity of the game and levels the playing field, LaVell Edwards, Former Brigham Young University Coach.” This statement was made to the Senate last summer by the only coach to win a national championship at Brigham Young. In every other collegiate sport in the United States the champion is decided by a playoff system. Even the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL the champion is decided by a playoff. The excuse that most of BCS executives is that you cannot have one hundred twenty teams playing in a playoff. Nevertheless, the FCS formerly Division 1-AA who has one hundred forty teams plays under a very effective 16 team playoff format. The BCS has infringed themselves among college football due to the root of all sins, money. In January 10, 2010