if an 8 team college football playoff is coming,

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- 12/12/2018 at 11:49 AM #84267
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  sweetgrass
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  @sweetgrass
  
  Utah needs to go to the Rose Bowl soon (like next year)!
  
  Because you know if Utah ever qualifies for the college playoff they’ll be shipped off to the Orange Bowl to play Boise State. Meanwhile, Florida and Penn State will get the Rose Bowl, and I’ll die a broken man.
  
  I’m predicting next year in Santa Clara, Sioasi Mariners defender falls down and he waltzes into the endzone for the winning score. Karma!
- 12/12/2018 at 12:22 PM #84272
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  Nah. That won’t happen. There’s no point and no benefit of shipping teams across the country for playoff games. Out west the two playoff venues will be the Rose and Fiesta Bowls. The east will have the Sugar and Orange Bowls. Eight teams is three rounds, seven games. They’d likely add a couple of NFL venues and there you have it.
  - 12/12/2018 at 12:28 PM #84274
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    Oh, and Mariner would have to learn to catch a perfectly thrown ball that hits him in the hands before any of that other stuff happens.
  - 12/12/2018 at 12:32 PM #84277
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    CincyUte
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    That’s a good point. If the playoff ever goes to 8 or more teams, then getting fans to travel to that first-round game might become a real issue. I’m sure fans would rather travel to the second-round and/or NC games if their team gets that far.
    
    Who–besides Northwestern fans–can afford to travel to, say, Pasadena for the first-round game, Atlanta for the second-round game, and then Arlington for the championship game?
    - 12/12/2018 at 12:37 PM #84279
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      This. If the playoff expands to more than two games it would be in the best interests for the higher seeds to be hosts.
      - 12/12/2018 at 1:03 PM #84287
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        CincyUte
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        Or have a couple sites each host two first-round games on the same day. Give fans the chance to see two first-round games on a single ticket…..?
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:06 PM #84291
        
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        Two options:
        
        1) leave way too much money on the table, or
        
        2) charge $1000 and up for each ticket.
    - 12/12/2018 at 12:40 PM #84280
      
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      Why mess with the established rotation? The Rose will still be the B1G/PAC12. The Sugar will still be the SEC/BigXII. The Orange will still be the ACC/At Large. The Fiesta will take up the slack. There would be some rotation but it would be minor.
      
      Yes, I know you’re being a smartass. I just choose to answer as though you were being sincere.
      - 12/12/2018 at 12:55 PM #84283
        
        EagleMountainUte
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        That is a lot of travel and I don’t think it would generate enough local interest for teams to attend. The 8 game model also pushes things into what competition, the Super Bowl?? Not smart.
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:02 PM #84286
        
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        You could literally space two weeks between rounds and be finished by the New Year. There is absolutely no reason to wait a month before playing the first round.
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:04 PM #84289
        
        EagleMountainUte
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        @battlegroundute
        
        Yeah I was thinking that is what they do. Same time good hell start paying these kids for the abuse on their bodies.
      - 12/12/2018 at 1:00 PM #84285
        
        CincyUte
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        @cincyute
        
        The problem with that is it could pit the #1 team against the #2 team in the first round.
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:04 PM #84288
        
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        There’s no way around that. You would always run that risk.
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:05 PM #84290
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        Not if you seed the teams and placed them in the bracket accordingly. That’s what they do for the FCS playoffs.
        
        12/12/2018 at 1:09 PM #84292
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        College should just copy and paste the NFL model. It works like a charm.
  - 12/12/2018 at 12:43 PM #84281
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    Of course some s**t for brains downvotes a completely innocuous post.
    - 12/12/2018 at 12:52 PM #84282
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      ^ uppity apostasy
- 12/12/2018 at 11:05 PM #84352
  
  astUTE
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  @astute
  
  Yes! Yes! Yes! For your prediction for the next PAC-12 championshp game, for your fear of the impact on Utah of an 8 team playoff system, and for your obsession of OUR UTES in the Rose Bowl, the grand-daddy of the all.
  
  You are a Ute Fan that has my Ute Fan values!
  
  Go Utes!