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Schools lose money because of fans, not because of the game. Fans that don't buy tickets cost the school money. Fans that buy tickets through secondary markets cost the school money. And no, schools don't pay more than they receive in the bowl payouts from the 5 major conferences. Maybe in the small ones, but not anybody in the big 5. It is a reward to the players. It's a last chance for seniors to showcase their talent. It's a free trip, sometimes to a fun location, where you get lots of free swag. Ask UVA if they would rather go to a bowl game and see what they say.

The problem is, that it's not a reward. It's a way for the cities to make money at the school's expense because people generally don't go to Miami for a week after New Years or during Christmas when they fly to Bum-Fuck-Nowhere to visit grandma. Schools LOSE money going to bowl games because they have to stay in certain hotels at jacked up rates, eat at certain expensive restaurants, go to certain events, and pay to fly their team, band, cheerleaders, families, etc there.

Look at the ACC and the Big 12 going to their BCS bowls. Sure they paid out millions, but they had to pay 1.5x what they got to go there. It's nothing but a scam to get money out of fans at the school's expense.
Take a look at VT

That is why I would prefer the 10 team "conference champ only" bracket above. I believe the premium on a conference championship should be as high as possible. If there is only going to be a four-team bracket, then they must be the four best conference champions. If the Bama fans want to piss and moan about being so good and left out of the playoffs, my response is simply to tackle the guy returning a missed FG next time. Win your conference first otherwise you have no right to be in the playoffs.

For now I have to agree with this. Stastically, our offense was worse than it was last year. I know that we may have accumulated stats in some blowout losses (UNC comes to mind), but in terms of results we were no different. There were also a number of puzzling play calls that would lead me to believe that Loeffler may not be the best in-game coach. With all that said, I'll wait another year before I really make my up my mind regarding him. If we haven't progressed, though, I'd imagine I wouldn't be the only person on here calling for him to go.

exactly. +1 for not drinking the kool-aid

I'm not going to say what I could say to that...mixed company

Thanks for doing this BCO! It was my first season participating (I read along in past years though), and I'm proud to have just gotten the "participation award" for playing every week. But to be honest, I'm pretty proud of 51% on the season too. I know it wouldn't win me any money in Vegas. But damn, ATS is hard! Especially when half the time your heart is trying to tell you what to do (can we exclude VT from the picks next year please?!?). Anyway, your time is greatly appreciated. This was a lot of fun.

the answer to your question is simple. If you don't want to play the Idaho's of the college football world then... WIN MORE GAMES. It's really that simple. If you didn't win enough games to go to a better bowl stop whining about it, man up and play better next season.

Haha... sorry, but you are missing huge issues that don't show up in a bracket. I didn't need to see how the brackets work. It doesn't solve the issue I raised in my response to French or in my comments above. 16 team tourney devalues both the regular season and conference championship. You don't need a conference champ, ranked #1 after regular season to play so many games against teams ranked far lower to know they are better. By having a 16 team field you have effectively made conference championships meaningless. Any team ranked 1 - 16 gets a shot in a tourney.

So if I am a (well let's say "clever") clever coach, like Saban, Meyer, Paul Johnson type and my team was ranked 1 - 8 lets say and I had some walking wounded star QB that can play but really needs extra rest. I might give them that rest in the conference championship game and/or final week of play. Why because even if we lose 1 of those games, as long as its to a quality opponent, I am not going to go down below 16th ranked.

Sorry, but the idea of a 16 team tourney does nothing but make college football suck. It clearly makes the regular season and the conference championship meaningless, it unnecessarily puts college kids in more danger of injury and if FSU does get knocked off by a UCF-type it in no way means that UCF is a better team. It's called any given Sunday for a reason, because flukes happen to anyone, and as I just illustrated it is highly susceptible to any number of gerrymandering by coaches and players because they will be guaranteed a spot in the tourney. Gamblers could have a potentially HUGE affect on the game. And all of these reasons are why basketball season is irrelevant and only March Madness matters.

Please show me brackets that solve those issues and then you have a point. Until then this is a highly flawed concept. Worse than BCS in my opinion.

Top 4 teams. Winner takes all. I may be persuaded to 6. Not 8 and definitely not 16.

Been saying it for a few years...How is playing in Idaho in late December a "reward" for a good season. I understand the extra practicing in December that is allowed for bowl teams, but honestly. They are playing football in baseball stadiums with limited room in endzones, 30* temps, the day after Christmas in the middle of the afternoon. Who wants to travel to see that? Who wants to play in that? This is not a reward for a good season.

Contract the bowls to maybe 12 at the most, and allow all teams to practice until December 20th or so. No need for the silliness that is some of these bowls.

They can be exactly what they are now. Consolation prizes for not being in the 2-Team Playoff. The whole system is archaic and out of hand. Except for the top 6 or 8 bowl games the rest are 1/4-1/2 stadium messes of an 9-3 team playing a 7-5 team. Or it's something putrid like 7-5 vs 6-6. To me these games just kind of feel empty since they don't matter except for some reason the talking heads like to think that just because a team wins the Cotton Bowl in 2013 they'll magically be good in 2014 even if they lose most of their team to graduation and hte draft.

Just play the other bowls with the teams that aren't in the playoffs at that point? Not mention with an 11 game regular season, we are going to eliminate a bunch of 6-6 teams.