Last year there was a lot of discussion about going to an 8 team playoff.
One B1G stumbling block was that the the P5 conferences wanted their conference champions to be guaranteed a playoff spot,regardless of rankings.

Unless you start the playoffs before 1/1,an 8 team format pretty much eliminates the "major" bowls having any signifigance,realative to the National Championship.

16 teams means trying to fit in 4 additional games.
Assume colleges keep the same schedules and conference championships.
The playoff teams would be named the beginning of Decemeber.
You're looking at playing well into January and trying to compete with the NFL playoffs.

Uh, D-III, D-II and FCS/D-IAA have been doing the playoff format for the last couple decades with the first round starting at I think 16 teams. Only in FBS/D-IA does the 16 team format somehow all of a sudden become a "problem". As the old saying goes "Bull$$$$ walks and money talks..."

I love the low-stakes of the bowl season. Because the games occur so far after the regular season, it's completely unpredictable. There are interim coaches, trick plays cooked up as coaches have too much time on their hands and weird time slots. Coaches get weirdly and properly aggressive during bowl season.

I love this. It's more of what I want out of college football than the regular season.

I watch the NFL for proficiency (once the Browns game is over at 4 p.m.). I watch college for how goofy and fun and weird it is. Bowl season is extra weird. I watch teams play that I would never watch otherwise just because it's a bowl and something stupid could happen.

Also, I'm 50 percent more likely to be intoxicated during the holidays, so I'm more easily amused.

"A Fun Belt team vs. MACtion AND I have Christmas Ale? Heehee!"

and all those games are played on one home field or another. Guaranteed attraction for at least one side of the stands and no travel.

I love this idea. But....NEVER. GONNA. HAPPEN. The P5 doesn't want to share the pie.

I've proposed an 8 team, where by every P5 conference winner gets an auto bid, and then every team with 10 regular season D1 wins gets thrown into a pot, with the 3 concrete evaluators being road wins, non-conference wins/SOS, wins vs winning teams. Eliminate teams based on that, and pick 3 at large teams. Any undefeated teams from other 5 conferences get an auto bid as well. Simple. Straight forward.

I'm not against the 16 team idea, and frankly, I love it. Just don't think it's likely for ages.

I'm opposed to the bowl system as it is, only because I think 7 wins should be required for bowl eligibility. Rewarding 6-6 doesn't make sense. Having a season like this one, with 40 or 41 bowl games, now gives us the joy of 5-7 teams getting in. Let's just have everyone get a bowl game.

If you like watching the competition, this is absurd. Everyone knows its all TV money driven. Does anyone honestly watch all these goofy games besides fans and alumni of the specific teams? Are you going to watch the Bahamas Bowl, or the Cure Bowl? Speaking only for myself, I will watch OU play. I will watch UC play and I'll watch the playoffs, and maybe a little of Ohio State or another New Year's Day bowl game. The rest of the games won't likely see my TV. And that's a shame, because there are good games in there. But there's just too many, too much. Get rid of 7-10 of these games. Reward teams that win with a bowl game the way it used to be.

I....NEVER......EVER.....MISS......THE ROSE BOWL!!

For me, the Rose Bowl is must-see TV! Always has been. I just love the pageantry, the setting, the importance of the game, etc. I've been a huge college football fan ever since I was a kid and the Rose Bowl always seemed like a classic, especially when it was only the PAC vs. Big 10. It didn't hurt that the game seemed like it was being played in a warm climate while I was at home in the great winter tundra known as NE Ohio. In fact the game and its parade are on my bucket list-I would have loved to have been at the parade a couple of years ago when the Marching 110 were there.

Funny thing is, I don't watch the Rose Bowl...and I don't miss it. I guess what made the New Year's bowls special for me when I was growing up is that they were mostly on different networks, so you got a real variety of announcers. NBC had Curt Gowdy doing the Rose Bowl and Jim Simpson at the Orange Bowl; Lindsey Nelson did the Cotton Bowl for CBS; Keith Jackson did the Sugar Bowl for ABC (which sometimes was on New Year's Eve). Now we get the same stale lineup of blithering ESPN announcers that we get all season long. I think lately Mussberger has done the Rose Bowl. Godawful. And the teams/games are always over-hyped. Don't need it.

Top 8 teams get a bye. All games are played at home sites until the championship game which is played on a neutral field

If they did this, they would find a way to get out of the 3 teams by doing the BCS model of only allowing two teams in per conference. I don't ever see why this is a problem. The best teams should be in, period.

I don't disagree. That Playoff Selection show was insufferable on Sunday. They didn't even talk about the other bowls until about 3 hours into it.

I favor the 16 team playoff with five or six at large teams. Conference championship games would be eliminated.

There's an article in today's The Record about reworking the bowl system.

According to the article, things that have been suggested include:

1.Requiring a record of 7-5 to be bowl elibable.
(SEC has an issue with this)

2.Not allowing any team with a losing record to play in a bowl.

Another issue is that, in one bowl,2 teams from the same conference (Mountain West) will be playing each other.

From what the article says,depending on rule changes, some bowls would have to go "dark".

Question is,city's work on Bowl Game prep. for months.
How do you tell them a couple of weeks out,sorry,no game.
Plus,who decides what bowls get cut ?

Article also says that more bowls are on the horizon.

At first, I really didn't get all the gnashing of teeth surrounding the MWC opponents in a single bowl. I mean, so what?; it's an exhibition and a vacation.

Then today I read that the likely cause of the match-up as it is was the BIG having the right of first refusal on some bowls and picking off places the MWC teams might have gone otherwise. In that sense, then, it's more of the P5 "me first" BS that drives everything and I am now firmly in the MWC court on this.