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Originally Posted by Sowa
So your basically saying that football is watched more by people because of the BCS vs. March Madness? It also might be that the regular season is 3 times longer so the games are more meaningful. Would your proposal be that bball shorten it's season to 12 games and put a BCS style system in? Should the NHL do the same to it's season since the NFL is way more popular?
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No, what I'm saying is that NCAA FB is watched more than NCAA BB ... by miles. That is undisputable. The start of the thead points out how much interest there is in college bb by having the square root of zero posts on here (not unlike many places I read posts) Yet people hold march madness up like a standard football should aspire to. My point is that it takes a few months of mediocre games that clearly have much less interest associated with them just to get there.
Everyone I suppose would have their own opinion about why that is, but to me football can attribute its popularity to a few things, with the number one reason is because of how important the games are. And a playoff erodes how important the games are.
Your post also highlights why a playoff is bad for NCAA football. There are only 12 games, it's a short season and the current structure allows for the lack of games to be made up by the sheer importance of them.