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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
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.
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The one thing that College BB and March Madness has over College football is that March Madness attracts a ton of casual fans. College football may have more fans overall but come bowl time there is not nearly the interest in the casual fan that March Madness creates. I am not sure whether a play-off would do more to attract fans, but having a clear winner at the end of the season sure would be more interesting to people than the clusterf@$% they have now.
Also the "games are more important without a play-off" argument is crap. I don't want to get into too much because we have argued it before and this is a College BB thread, but it didn't appear as though the OSU-Illinois game ended up being important. The two LSU losses weren't important. All the wins that Hawaii, Kansas, USC and Georgia had weren't important. The games would still be as important if not more under a play-off.