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The TV ratings (zero.zero) , sparce attendance, and soon to be non existent/bankrupt UFL shows you that casual fans of american football don't care about the quality of the games- the UFL is a higher quality of player than 99% of college teams and it draws no interest. Casuals care about 1. betting and 2. rooting for the team their brothers wifes cousin went to- the big name. The name on the front of the jersey, not the back- 100%. I live in PHX. Last year very good seats to the fiesta bowl were 10-12 dollars or free from a number of car dealerships, etc, etc. Liberty played in the game. No interest. This year with the cult of penn state fans who show up for Drew Allar or Saquan Barkley or Joe Paterno or Franco Harris or Lavar Harrington or insert any fucking PSU player from the 757... tickets were uber expensive right up until kickoff. It will take 100 years for that to change.

Yeah, the NCAA already shat the sheets on this years ago. This is the CFP deciding what will make the CFP the most money.

I don't buy this - suppose the committee seats 8 teams from the B1G and SEC in the playoff and no other conferences get in. But the placement is based on nonsense arguments like "strength of schedule" and "resume" and "good losses" and the like. There is nothing that says the committee is compelled to place conference champions in the playoff - so....what argument would there be for anti-trust?

Wiles is a better coach, recruiter and developer than Price, so we would be upgrading there. Price is a great hokie, but Wiles is a better coach in every aspect.

Conference champion invitations are the fig-leaf that keep them out of anti-trust hearings. That will remain until the P2 split off and form their own league. So instead we will get to watch the SEC runner-up vaporize the Mount West champion, or the ACC champion, etc.

Not as DC, but with the coaching changes at NC State, is Charlie Wiles looking for a job?

Might be worth a look for recruiting purposes alone.

2." Teams are chosen by a Computer. No human bias....no Warde Manual to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Certainly, we can create an algorithm to weight the relative value of wins/losses based on S.O.S and Opponent metrics at this point. No useless committee and no $1200 Conference rooms to rent. No Greg Sankey attempting to put his thumb on the scale." - This issue with this was that teams will game the computers like they did in hoops when it was heavily RPI rated. Football teams will figure out how to schedule "tough" games on paper but not reality. Bama will schedule an OOC game with a P4 team that also plays tough teams to boost their computer rankings- whether or not said team is actually "good". This is how the A 10 would get 6 teams in the NCAA tourney. When it is perceived that playing at Rhode Island in front of 2K people is a "tough" game, you get credit for a tough game. That's the issues with the computers.

People love upsets in the hoops tourney - EARLY... that's it. They don't like sister jean beating kansas in the elite 8- those games get the worst viewership of the tourney. If it's early- first round- you never hear Seth Greenberg say UMBC didn't belong like they do in football. That's fun, that's romantic about the tourney, but the further you go, the more people hate the little guy - like they do in college football. Everyone hates Boise, ASU, etc. this year. Everyone hated Indiana- killed them in every way... That's the difference from hoops.

basketball still has the tourney, and it delivers

Does it? I watch the first weekend, and that's about it now. BUT that might be a mean thing, not a tournament or everyone else thing.

I do know that the college basketball regular season is getting less and less viewership every year. I too rarely watch college basketball. Part of it is because I'd rather watch other sports like college football and tennis, but for the last decade, it feels like college basketball just doesn't matter until March.

Everyone who played in the first round has beaten everyone who had a bye. So far

I haven't watched a minute of the playoffs either. Honestly, it's not that I even have to try and resist as I just find myself completely disinterested because of what the sport has become.

I'm turning into an NFL fan that's a casual CFB viewer. although really, that just means an NFL fan who's a casual VT viewer.