So three BCS bowl games the past five years that have come close that weren't a championship game.
So three BCS bowl games the past five years that have come close that weren't a championship game.
Yep. But considering how soundly the NFL beats college football in ratings each and every week ... that's not surprising. Very few casual football fans watch random college football games.
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Just to reinforce this with numbers ... from the 2009-10 television season:Originally Posted by JeffHCross
#1 American Idol - Tuesday (Average 22.9 million viewers)
#6 Sunday Night Football (18.7)
#78 ABC Saturday Night Football (6.2)
So the NFL is American Idol to CFB's Jay Leno or Fringe ...
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Maryland is up 44-13 on ECU, 10:00 to go in the 4th quarter, and throwing the ball downfield.
mors, I expect to hear a rant about running up the score. And ... go.
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Surreal moment ... Maryland players give Ralph Friedgen a Powerade-labeled bath (not sure what actually was in there, of course) ... and it gets wiped off with a Gatorade-sponsored towel.
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The NFL is very different from college. College football is full of tradition and passion. Fan bases support a school because they are often alumni or live nearby and have a deep rooted interest and love for the school. While this makes home games special it also makes college a far more regional sport than the NFL. The NFL can market its stars like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and sell their jerseys from coast to coast. College football can't do that. It's stars don't stay long before they leave for the NFL. So the sport focuses on the teams. That's why you will always have tremendous local TV ratings for college teams but never great national ones. A playoff wouldn't change that imo.
Plus the fact that most NFL teams are in major cities vs most college towns that are small + the alumni. Penn State has a fairly large Alumni base and it's only around 500,000 which isn't even close to a small NFL city considering there's only one under 1 million people - http://forum.playactionpools.com/index.php?topic=73.0Code:(in millions) :NYJ :NYG New York 19.0 :CHI Chicago 9.6 :DAL Dallas 6.3 :PHI Philadelphia 5.8 :HOU Houston 5.7 :MIA Miami 5.4 :ATL Atlanta 5.4 :WAS Washington D.C. 5.4 :NE Boston 4.5 :DET Detroit 4.4 :ARI Phoenix 4.3 :SF :OAK San Francisco/Oakland 4.3 :SEA Seattle 3.3 :MIN Minneapolis 3.2 :SD San Diego 3.0 :STL St. Louis 2.8 :TB Tampa Bay 2.7 :BAL Baltimore 2.7 :DEN Denver 2.5 :PIT Pittsburgh 2.4 :CIN Cincinnati 2.2 :CLE Cleveland 2.1 :KC Kansas City 2.0 :IND Indianapolis 1.7 :CAR Charlotte 1.7 :TEN Nashville 1.6 :JAC Jacksonville 1.3 :NO New Orleans 1.1 :BUF Buffalo 1.1 :GB Green Bay 0.3 (112 miles north of Milwaukee 1.5 M)
One more bullet in this dead horse:
In the out-of-whack world of NCAA rules enforcement, an athlete cannot sell his championship ring without suffering severe consequences but can pocket travel money to a bowl game. The Buckeyes' 85 scholarship players each were allotted an NCAA-approved $1,225.30 for travel expenses to New Orleans. Secure a cheap plane ticket - and some players found fares for less than $300 - or drive down, and the unused money is yours to keep.
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The NCAA is so assbackwards it's ridiculous...
The part I can't figure out is that there's a charter plane for players, coaches, and families. Two charter planes, actually. So are some of them just ... not flying charter? I guess that makes sense, but I assumed the team flew together.
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I remember hearing about that a few years back, but is that rule still in effect? I thought they had tried to rectify that issue in some regard, but I am not sure on that.
cdj, not sure what you're saying. What rule?
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The travel stipend issue you mentioned in post 101.
Here's what I found:
Last year Alabama declined the travel stipend and went as a team. I'd guess that the vast majority of teams travel together as well.Most teams headed to a postseason game break for a few days, then reconvene at the bowl site for final practices and pre-game festivities. Subsequently, the NCAA offers a set dollar amount for players who travel individually, and they're allowed to pocket the difference between that number and the actual cost of the trip. This is standard procedure everywhere, including Alabama during the Tide's short trips to Louisiana for the Independence and Sugar bowls the last two seasons.
This hire is off to a great start
NewsCenter 16 has confirmed that Mike Haywood, former Notre Dame player and offensive coordinator and newly-named Pittsburgh coach, has been arrested for domestic violence in South Bend.
St. Joseph County Police say Haywood was arrested around 2:30 p.m. on Friday at a home in the 50000 block of Hawthorne Meadow Drive.
He has a child with the woman living there.
Police say there was a custody issue and the woman attempted to leave.
As she left, police say a physical altercation broke out.
The woman told police Haywood grabbed her by the arm and neck and pushed her.
According to the police report, the woman had red marks on her neck, arms and back.
Mike Haywood was offensive coordinator at Notre Dame under Charlie Weis. He was also a running back for the Irish.
In his second season as coach of Miami of Ohio, Haywood led the Redhawks to a MAC Championship this fall.
Earlier this month, Haywood was named head coach of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers.
and when Pitt takes the field, they will come out to this song:
Awesome.
So, can someone find a chart of next year's (2012) conference alignments? I need to start planning how I'm going to realign every conference (No way am I keeping TCU in the Big East! Ugh!).
Maryland has chosen UConn's Randy Edsall as head coach
per Joe Schad
Though Edsall has said that it's not a done deal, and Connecticut is saying that they don't believe he will leave. So Edsall is being targeted, but not a deal.
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I think it's asking a player or a coach before or after a game when we'll know their decision on their future is really tacky. Don't ask them when that right after a game! Let 'em celebrate for a minute. The post-game interviews after the Orange Bowl were brutal to watch. Like either Luck or Harbaugh were going to tell ESPN right after the game, "Oh, I'm leaving. Thanks for asking."
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