CFP committee could 'paralyze' bowl system with delayed Cotton Bowl bid

[Cerebus]

CFP committee could 'paralyze' bowl system with delayed Cotton Bowl bid

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Delaying the Group of 5's bid to the Cotton Bowl would affect many bowl games involving Group of 5 teams. Officials would have to delay placing teams in bowls without knowing whether a conference champion could get pulled up to the Cotton Bowl. Additionally, opponents in those bowl games wouldn't know whom they were playing in addition to the obvious logistic and financial issues involved with waiting another seven days before planning travel, buying tickets and other factors.

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Not only would a delay affect the Group of 5 teams, but it also would prohibit teams with 5-7 records that qualified with high academic progress rates from getting placed into a bowl until Dec. 10. That's because those teams are awarded bowl bids that couldn't be filled by bowl-eligible teams with a 6-6 record or better. The APR teams will be the last teams placed.

 

[EagleMBA]

This is God's way of pointing out that there are too damned many bowl games and to fit them all in they have to start playing them too damned early. Now we have forced Him to work out another way of selecting teams...and He is pissed!

[aztecskin]

2 hours ago, Cerebus said:

CFP committee could 'paralyze' bowl system with delayed Cotton Bowl bid

 

It's really lame. Even more hopeful that we get Armed Forces / HOD. Making travel plans with the shortest of notices is awful. 

[wardly]

All that has to be done is for the Cotton Bowl to partner with another Bowl . The higher ranked team between Navy and CMSU after the Midshipmen play Army gets The Cotton Bowl, the lower ranked gets the Other Bowl.

[UTSA Fan]

7 minutes ago, wardly said:

All that has to be done is for the Cotton Bowl to partner with another Bowl . The higher ranked team between Navy and CMSU after the Midshipmen play Army gets The Cotton Bowl, the lower ranked gets the Other Bowl.

How often do bowls collaborate?

[UNTexas]

16 minutes ago, UTSA Fan said:

How often do bowls collaborate?

That's actually a good question. I'd assume often. If I were say, the St. Petersburg Bowl, I'd want USF over UNT because of attendance. So, if USF was possibly destined for the HOD and UNT destined for Florida, I'd want to swap them for attendance purposes every day of the week. 

[HoustonEagle]

Aren’t most of the bowls controlled by ESPN?

 

[VideoEagle]

4 minutes ago, HoustonEagle said:

Aren’t most of the bowls controlled by ESPN?

 

Many lower ones, but not all and certainly not the Cotton. 

[forevereagle]

17 hours ago, Cerebus said:

CFP committee could 'paralyze' bowl system with delayed Cotton Bowl bid

 

I think the CFP may need to look at the situation with Navy and just make a call. If they think Navy belongs in the New Year's bowls, then select them ahead of the Army-Navy game and let the chips fall where they might. Grinding everything to a halt like that would be bad for everyone. But I guess there is little history of college football considering the greater good, so they will probably just allow chaos to reign.