Gator Bowl Improves
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It's a good move because Big Ten teams actually have fans. Aint much point in hosting a bowl game if nobody shows up, which is why no one wants to have Big East teams in their games.
Translation- 7-5 teams with great fan support are better than 10-2 teams with no fans.
Besides, all that great fan support didn't help them in recent bowl games.
I'm not saying it did. Bowl promoters could care less about who wins their game. They just want to sell a lot of tickets. WV is the only BE team that has a big fanbase that travels. The rest of those teams are a bowl promoter's nightmare.
...and yet, the Gator Bowl got BETTER numbers from the Big East, compared to when a B12 team was selected, nearly uniformly:
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Yeah, that Texas Tech / UVA game was a real attendance winner.
You guys seriously need to look past your bias for about 2 seconds every once in a while.
i saw alot of rutgers fans during bowl time in my travels through airports last year.
it was their home airport. i guess newark but seemed somewhat sizeable not thousands but a few hundred, but lots of fans have different travel methods
...and the irony of an ACC FAN, of all people, trying to talk smack about a game in FLORIDA, is friggin hilarious...
Clemson-Nebraska was a sellout. And the ACC CG is totally different. That is one week after the regular season so fans don't have much opportunity to make travel plans. The attendance for that won't improve until the game moves to Charlotte.
Clemson was the ACC team. Nebraska was the BE replacement. The Gator Bowl has been trying avoid the BE like the plague. Why else were they selecting Big XII teams or Notre Dame? All this does is make it official.
They were contracturally obligated to be 50/50. You're stretching badly here.
Over/under on Clemson's attendance against Nebraska was something like 70/30.
Over/under on Clemson's attendance against Nebraska was something like 70/30.
fans dressed as empty seats
...and the irony of an ACC FAN, of all people, trying to talk smack about a game in FLORIDA, is friggin hilarious...
The ACC Championship game is just more proof as to why the idiot theories about using the bowls as part of the playoffs are stupid. Expecting people to travel on a few days notice to non-terminal games in far-off cities on regular workaday weekends is silly.
Pictures of snowplows in Lincoln, State College, or Boston are just more proof of why idiot theories of playing playoffs as home games are stupid.
Keep the current system. Improve it by excluding the Leastleftovers.
Pictures of snowplows in Lincoln, State College, or Boston are just more proof of why idiot theories of playing playoffs as home games are stupid.
Keep the current system. Improve it by excluding the Leastleftovers.
Other divisions sure do do it.
The top other division's championship had a claimed live gate of 17K. There were probably 10K or so actually there. Playoffs heading into that drew as few as 4K. And the regular seasons in those leagues are simply meaningless.
No thank you.
The top other division's championship had a claimed live gate of 17K. There were probably 10K or so actually there. Playoffs heading into that drew as few as 4K. And the regular seasons in those leagues are simply meaningless.
No thank you.
Notre Dame is considered a Big East team for Bowl Contractial Obligations. The Gator Bowl picks Notre Dame (when eligible for a bowl) over the Big East because it allows them to get a team that travels well. Even if Notre Dame has the bare minimum of wins, the Gator Bowl (or anyone else) loves them because they will sell out.
By dumping the Big East & Big 12 for the Big 10, the Gator Bowl is getting a team from a conference that travels well.
How do attendance numbers at a lower level prove that it would not work for 1A (or whatever it is called now). They have lower average atten. anyway for their regular games, why would playoffs at those levels be any different?
Also, how would the reg. season be any less relevant? You would still have to play well to get into the playoffs/bowls.
Do not deliver in the reg. season? Stay home.
Playoffs would not work if you tried to play all the games at neutral sites. But if you played early round games on campus it would cut down on unecessary travel, and then you could have the semifinals and NC at bowl sites. And do not think for a minute that if teams like Florida, Ohio St, Oklahoma or USC got extra home games in the playoffs that they would not sell out in a flash.
