The BCS should be against the law.

[Spider-Dan]

There is an exclusiveness factor here. The first game is well attended because it equates to what is only a one game scenario now. You cannot argue that the prospect of three games does not alter travel perceptions. Maybe not as many people go to game number one because of the other two games. You are looking at this like there is a vacuum or something.

No, I'm not.

Any fans that you lose because this is now one out of a potential three-game trip are more than made up for by the number of fans you gain when the game changes from meaningless bowl game to national championship playoff.

Respectable football programs play in a bowl game every year, and fans still attend the bowl games.  You cannot seriously believe that fans who otherwise would have attended a meaningless bowl game would choose not to go to a playoff game.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

In tems of the NFL, yes the visiting team is usually way outnumbered. I can;t believe you would even disput that. The number of fans traveling to see the away team is significantly smaller and that is a given.

I take it you have never been to a Jets @ MIA or NE @ Buff game.  Do me a favor and week 17 go to Dolphin stadium and count the the number of urine colored towels that are waiving in the stands.

Geography is why more locals go to the home games.  As for playoff games it has as much to do with the fact that the season ticket holders have all tickets as much as it does geography.   

[Phishfan]

I take it you have never been to a Jets @ MIA or NE @ Buff game.  Do me a favor and week 17 go to Dolphin stadium and count the the number of urine colored towels that are waiving in the stands.

Geography is why more locals go to the home games.  As for playoff games it has as much to do with the fact that the season ticket holders have all tickets as much as it does geography.   

I have been to games against those teams and although those transplants are visible they do not outnumber Miami fans.

[Philly Fin Fan]

For what its worth Phish, I see your point and agree with you. It seemed like you were getting gang raped!

[Phishfan]

Thanks Philly. Part of it may be me not being clear eough. I'm not saying there will be a 50% empty stadium or anything. I'm just saying ticket sales will likely drop. I'm not sure what the organizers would see as normal as far as a drop in sales, but I would expect this would cause soemthing on their radar to go off which means there would be an attendance issue.

[Spider-Dan]

It's not an attendance issue.  It's a money issue.

If there is a playoff, then more bowls/conferences will be part of it.  The worst case doomsday scenario is that the NCAA itself would run it (like they do at every other level of every other sport), which means that a hell of a lot of money goes out of the conferences'/big bowls' pocket and gets distributed evenly among the actual competitors/bowls involved.

Which must be avoided at all costs.  I mean, just because the Big 10 or ACC sucks this year, why should they get a cut of the money that's the-same-or-smaller as some no-name conference like the WAC or MWC, just because that conference has a team that's actually good?  Clearly that is un-American and against everything we stand for.  The big conferences are entitled to their money, no matter how crappy their teams are.

I mean, imagine if we had some sort of crazy system where we simply took the top 8 conference champions.  That would mean that 8 conferences would get a cut of the money every year, instead of the 6 that do now (SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-10, Big East).  And the 8 conferences that did get picked would be picked based on fielding a good team instead of a backroom entitlement!  Such a system would be outrageous if it weren't so absurd.

[dolfan13]

was just flipping channels to see what bowl games are on and peaked a little closer at the lsu v penn state game. on my info for directv it says it's a "playoff" game. too funny...