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Pastimes : College Football: Nits, Gators, Bruins, Vols - Whoever! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MythMan who wrote (1569)	1/2/2000 6:57:00 PM
From: Wildstar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

I think that fans don't approach college football like they do other sports like college basketball. For them, the bowl game is simply not a game, but a game, vacation, and holiday (New Years) all rolled into one. They plan months in advance, take off extra time from work, and dish out 1-2K depending on where they live. Suppose PSU were ranked #5 at the end of a season which featured an 8-team playoff. Would you go to the quarterfinal matchup against the #4 team which might be held around Dec 17-18 or earlier and travel down to say Florida? If PSU were to advance, would you then go to the semifinal matchup against the winner of the #1 vs #8 team, if it were held in Arizona? Or would you wait and see if the team won and then only go to the championship game in New Orleans? Or if PSU was a longshot, say ranked #8 at the end of the season, would you go to the quarterfinal game or would you wait and see if they advanced to the final? Going to a quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship game would require almost 3-weeks off of work, not to mention perhaps spending Christmas on the road. It would also require, in the words of the immortal George Harrison, "a whole lot of spending money." I think that TV viewership would increase in a playoff system, but that game attendance would decrease.