00:00are we just conceding that then basically all the bowl games would go away
00:04at that point?
00:05That, that was one of my questions. Okay.
00:07So what happens to the rest of the teams?
00:10I would think that the interest level in a pop tarts bowl or a,
00:15um, you know, cheese at bowl, the ones that were actually,
00:19there was that section of bowl games. They were highly entertaining.
00:22The cheese at bowl. I think last year was Texas, Michigan.
00:25Arch Manning has a huge game. Uh, Illinois, Tennessee bowl game was fun.
00:29They have great matchups.
00:31The interest level for the players probably goes down because your total focus is
00:35going to be in the, getting in the 24. Uh,
00:38we had a couple of teams opt out of bowl games. It wasn't just, uh, Notre Dame.
00:43It was Iowa state. I think those I'm wondering, and,
00:47and you either agree or disagree.
00:49I'm wondering if those become the G six games, basically,
00:53that's where those teams go that they've slot into the bowl games that don't make
00:57college football playoff, because I think there would be much less interest
01:00from the, uh, power four schools.
01:03So you took me right where I wanted to go with that G six conversation, Bill.
01:07You mentioned the G six having their own playoff.
01:09Have you heard any conversations about that?
01:12Has there been any rumblings potentially about that occurring?
01:15I think that it would come down to interest level. I mean, obviously the G six gets a ton
01:22of money from those games that, you know, the paychecks games, right? When Ohio state plays
01:27max school, those are very important to those max schools. Would I like to see a, a G six playoff?
01:33Sure. But I think most group of six schools would rather be James Madison or Tulane last year.
01:41You have a dream season. People may be complaining about those first round games.
01:45They weren't complaining at temp or a Tulane or James Madison because they got in the college
01:49football playoff. And in a 2014 format, if you look over the last 12 years on several occasions,
01:55there would be multiple G six teams in the playoffs. And I think they would prefer that.
02:00Whereas fans like me would kind of be like, man, it'd be cool to see an 18 playoff with
02:05Ohio university. And of course I'm going to use them and Boise state and, and Troy,
02:11and app state. And they go, they play three rounds. Like, but I think for some fans that
02:15might feel like a little bit too much, like the FCS, the formal, former division one double
02:21a and, and not enough, like they're playing with the big boys.
02:24I guess my point is, was, is it rather, is it, would it be more entertaining?
02:30I guess there's a couple of fronts on this. Is it, would it be better for your players,
02:34better for your alumni, your staff to feel like you're actually playing for something.
02:39And then is the, are those games more entertaining? Would it be better to see,
02:43like you said, an 18 bracket, three rounds, banging those things out, play a midweek,
02:48you know, and, and offset them with some of the other stuff that's going on.
02:52Would that be better than opposed to maybe having, I don't know, 12 or 14 bowl games where a lot
02:58of
02:58the G6 teams, and maybe a couple of the power, you know, the power four schools that don't get in
03:05that 24 team that they're playing in that. And like, if you're a G6 school, you could actually
03:10win the playoff where in this situation, like winning one game is almost Herculean now, just
03:16with the way the asymmetries and the talent and how NIL and transfer portals change everything.
03:22To me, it would almost seem more fulfilling to have them play for that of something of consequence
03:28that I think people would want to watch. Like, I mean, Bill, you write, you do all this stuff.
03:32Like you and I are, we're going to probably watch those regardless if they did it.
03:35I try to look at this, like, is it good for the overall health of the sport?
03:39Would people that are casual fans, or you're a fan of one of those group of six schools,
03:43or maybe you have like a team in the conference, like, oh, I know, you know, I'm a fan of
03:49the Mac.
03:49I know Miami, Ohio. I know, you know, Northern Illinois. I know Ohio University,
03:54you know, one of these schools that could potentially win it. And so I'm going to watch
03:57that on a, on a Wednesday night or a Tuesday night, just as some casual viewing the same
04:03way that those bowl games are. Yeah. And here's the hitch though, if they could do it, but I think
04:09in order to do that, you would almost have to give up your playoff spot in the real playoff,
04:14not the real playoff, the FBS playoff, because if you do that tournament, say let's use Toledo
04:22gets in the FB or the college football playoff, the 2014 playoff, and the other eight teams do
04:27their own playoff, you would, wouldn't there still be that feeling of, well, we're the second
04:32best FCS or the second best G6 team. And I think if you had them all go do their own
04:39playoff,
04:39it'd be a little bit different. Now for me, if you're an Ohio University grad or a Troy grad,
04:45or, you know, by the way, North Dakota state now in the FBS, and that's going to be really
04:50interesting to development to see if they can take that success that they've had in the FCS and
04:54come over and have some success there. I'm taking the, the college football playoff as a 23 seed and
05:02in playing what, 10, 23 game, whatever, or in the 12 team playoff, I'm definitely taking it. Like I
05:10said, I, if I'm a James Madison grad or Tulane grad, I didn't care that they got blown out. They
05:16got in
05:16the playoff and the season probably meant just as much for them to go on that run, to make the
05:21playoff, particularly at JMU, where they haven't missed a beat from Kurt Signetti to Bob Chesney,
05:26and they'll go to their next coach. And it's been hyper successful. And that's a reward.
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