With the expanded football playoffs, how do the bowl games fit in? Are more of them involved? Do some get a playoff game every year? Does it move away from the traditional bowl games altogether? Where does the Orange Bowl, with which the ACC has a lucrative contract, fit in? Has this been decided?

(05-20-2023 10:36 AM)Hallcity Wrote:  With the expanded football playoffs, how do the bowl games fit in? Are more of them involved? Do some get a playoff game every year? Does it move away from the traditional bowl games altogether? Where does the Orange Bowl, with which the ACC has a lucrative contract, fit in? Has this been decided?

https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/...-2425.aspx

As I read the above the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, Peach, and Fiesta are gone and will be replaced with a payment to the school/conference.

That means the B10, SEC, B12, and P12 are sacrificing 40 M a year. The ACC is losing $27.5.

The current distribution formula from the playoff pays $74M to the five major conference and a $100 to everyone else. I would think going forward that the formula base remains nearly the same but that the extra money $500,000,000 or so is weighted toward bids. Let's say half the future increase goes to bids. That's $250 M over 12 bids. $20 M a bid.

Let's see:

ACC - $74 hold harmless, 20% of the 50% increase of which 80% goes to the major conference $250 x 16% = $40 M

That makes a base for the ACC, SEC, B10 of about $115 M from the playoff, now anything else is bids with $20 M a bid.

Let's say the ACC averages 1.5 bids a year. The SEC averages 4 and the B10 averages 3.

On top of the ACC $115 they will get $30 M for $145 M = $10.3 M per school
SEC $80 M on top for a total of $195 M = $12.1 M per school
B10 $ 60M on top of %115 for $175 M - 10.94 M per school
The B12 and P10 ought to average a school a year and they remain in the P-5 so to speak they would get $11.2 and 13.5 M per school.

That's the rub - unless the formula is changed to massively reward performance, the small N conferences can make more money per school that the large on the playoff, but on a per team basis, there is little advantage.

(05-20-2023 10:36 AM)Hallcity Wrote:  With the expanded football playoffs, how do the bowl games fit in? Are more of them involved? Do some get a playoff game every year? Does it move away from the traditional bowl games altogether? Where does the Orange Bowl, with which the ACC has a lucrative contract, fit in? Has this been decided?

https://www.wptv.com/sports/college-spor...?_amp=true

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