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RE: Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?
NY6 quarterfinals get played on New Years Day and/or last Sat on Dec

Semifinals are played on a Monday and a Tuesday night somewhere around the 7th-14th of Jan (Much like the current title game)

National Championship is played the Saturday of Pro Bowl weekend or even the Saturday of Super Bowl Weekend

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12-20-2019 04:25 PM
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RE: Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?
I like the Rose Bowl to be a permanent Quarterfinal matchup on New Year's Day and always have a PAC 12 or B1G representative. I would even favor to always have a PAC-B1G matchup, unless both are in the top-4. Have the SEC champ play in the Sugar Bowl or Peach Bowl on New Year's Day as well.

The other two CFP quarterfinal bowls could be on the Saturday before New Year's.

It would be interesting to consider a *single location* for both semifinal games, similar to the March Madness Final Four. The CFP Final Four would become an event that transcends the teams involved and attract college football fans...not just the fan bases of the teams involved. Day-night double header or back-to-back dates?

I like the idea to stage the CFP national championship game on the Saturday in between the NFL championship games and the Super Bowl. But, not sure the powers-that-be want the season to finish that late.
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RE: Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?
(12-20-2019 04:47 PM)YNot Wrote:  I like the Rose Bowl to be a permanent Quarterfinal matchup on New Year's Day and always have a PAC 12 or B1G representative. I would even favor to always have a PAC-B1G matchup, unless both are in the top-4. Have the SEC champ play in the Sugar Bowl or Peach Bowl on New Year's Day as well.

The other two CFP quarterfinal bowls could be on the Saturday before New Year's.

It would be interesting to consider a *single location* for both semifinal games, similar to the March Madness Final Four. The CFP Final Four would become an event that transcends the teams involved and attract college football fans...not just the fan bases of the teams involved. Day-night double header or back-to-back dates?

I like the idea to stage the CFP national championship game on the Saturday in between the NFL championship games and the Super Bowl. But, not sure the powers-that-be want the season to finish that late.

The problems would be clearing out the crowds and having enough hotel space. You wouldn't want to limit yourself to 1 ticket for two games (ie a doubleheader) so you need to spread them on different days. You would want to try to fill it twice.
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RE: Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?
(12-20-2019 04:11 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(12-20-2019 03:46 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  
(12-20-2019 03:39 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(12-20-2019 01:35 AM)goofus Wrote:  Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?

If the question is where should they be played, the correct answer is that neutral sites or bowls should be used in no more than one round of an 8-team playoff. It's unrealistic to expect 90,000 seat stadiums hundreds or thousands of miles away from each other to be filled for 3 rounds in a row. This isn't March Madness, where there are fewer than 20,000 seats in each building and fans who buy tickets and travel to the site have the prospect of seeing 2 games at the same location within 48 hours. Probably best to use home fields for the first two rounds. But...

Filling these stadiums shouldn't be too difficult if they schedule the playoffs for NYD and 2 Saturday's.

But if they schedule the semi's and championship on weeknights, that'll severely impact the fan bases' ability to take off work and travel to these sites.

A network paying hundreds of millions for a CFB playoff is not going to schedule those games on the same day as NFL playoff games. The only way to play on Saturdays in January is to play semifinals the day before the AFC/NFC title games and the final on the Saturday between the AFC/NFC title games and the Super Bowl. This season, if you started with quarterfinals on Jan. 1, that would put semifinals on Jan. 18 and the final on Jan. 25. I'm skeptical about whether either the TV guys or the CFB powers would want that.

No matter what day of the week it is, you are far more optimistic than I am about the number of fans of a team who will spend their money on 3 "bowl game" mini-vacations in the space of 3 or 4 weeks.

That’s why I think it’s key that the NFL is looking to extend its season. If the proposal that’s on the table (adding a regular season game and a bye week, which would extend the regular season length by 2 weeks), all of the NFL playoff conflicts go away. That would open up virtually all weekends in January for an 8-team college football playoff.

December games are sort of a fan-based wish since it eliminates the lengthy gap that we see now between Championship Saturday and the New Year’s Six games. However, there are just so many more real life obstacles and conflicts involved there: more difficult to travel during the holidays on short notice for the 4 quarterfinal winners, more difficult to schedule around final exams, less attractive for the TV networks, and less attractive for the bowls (as they’d be eliminating the 4 quarterfinal losers from the bowl pool that would have otherwise been extremely motivated to travel and spend money if that quarterfinal was in a holiday bowl game).

Basically, every major interest involved would heavily favor January playoff games (with the New Year’s Six bowls acting as the quarterfinals and going from there). That would especially the case if the NFL playoffs move to February. That completely opens up a “January Madness” month for the college football playoff with few real life conflicts.
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RE: Where would semi-finals be played in an 8-team playoff?
(12-20-2019 07:19 PM)bullet Wrote:  
(12-20-2019 04:47 PM)YNot Wrote:  I like the Rose Bowl to be a permanent Quarterfinal matchup on New Year's Day and always have a PAC 12 or B1G representative. I would even favor to always have a PAC-B1G matchup, unless both are in the top-4. Have the SEC champ play in the Sugar Bowl or Peach Bowl on New Year's Day as well.

The other two CFP quarterfinal bowls could be on the Saturday before New Year's.

It would be interesting to consider a *single location* for both semifinal games, similar to the March Madness Final Four. The CFP Final Four would become an event that transcends the teams involved and attract college football fans...not just the fan bases of the teams involved. Day-night double header or back-to-back dates?

I like the idea to stage the CFP national championship game on the Saturday in between the NFL championship games and the Super Bowl. But, not sure the powers-that-be want the season to finish that late.

The problems would be clearing out the crowds and having enough hotel space. You wouldn't want to limit yourself to 1 ticket for two games (ie a doubleheader) so you need to spread them on different days. You would want to try to fill it twice.

There are 2 places that have the hotel space that could handle it: Las Vegas and Orlando. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind making those the 2 permanent semifinal locations. They’re places that people would travel to regularly for many different reasons and both the casino and theme park companies can sell a ton of ticket and travel packages in advance regardless of the teams that are involved. You essentially need those types of locations (where demand for tickets is going to be high regardless of the teams involved) if there are neutral sites for the semifinals.
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