[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by JayP

They changed the BCS bowl system a few years ago...

It used to be that one of the four major bowls was also the national championship game (the last time was the famous USC/Texas Rose Bowl). Now the four major bowl games are played, followed by the National Championship which rotates between the locations only.

They already changed the system so each bowl is seperate from the National Championship and I don't see the bowl committees wanting to go back to that situation.

Either way, it's not the same. Hosting the finals of the playoff is a hell of a lot different than hosting the National Championship was a few years ago (when the NC Game was the ___ Bowl). There would be very little travel for the quarter and semi finals as most fans cannot afford to follow their team around the country for potentially 3 games). Fans would simply hope for a finals appearance and whatever bowl that happened to be would reap the benefits. It's not as easy as rotating the bowl games around annually.



You honestly don't think making the Rose Bowl a semi or quarter final game has a huge impact on the event that it is? Major bowl games are more than just a 3 hour football game. There's a ton more going on before the game.

Here's a good article on exactly what I'm talking about:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...bag/index.html

I think that's a huge assumption on your part. The FCS teams travel extremely well to multiple locations on consecutive weekends. Generally speaking, these folks are fewer in number and less well off too.