.usatodaysports' danwolken writes that this year's college football's postseason schedule is entirely wrong.
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This year, ESPN/ABC will broadcast 18 bowl games before the semifinals. It will broadcast 15 bowls, not including the national championship game, over the nine days following. To be clear, this is not ESPN's fault. ESPN didn’t pay $7.3 billion over 12 years for the Playoff with the idea that it would shove the two games it spends all year hyping into a random spot on the schedule – making ratings more difficult and sucking the wind out of the subsequent bowls.
So now, instead of the college football postseason building to a crescendo the way it should, the semifinals are stuck right in the middle of the bowl calendar while the Outback Bowl gets a better time slot at 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day. In the end, I don’t particularly care about the ratings or how much money ESPN makes off advertising. But it’s interesting to look at them as a reflection of what we can all sense is the truth: The biggest games of the year that have a direct role in determining a championship should be on New Year’s Day, and it does a disservice to the entire postseason to put them somewhere in the middle and not at the end.
But part of what college football needs to get over in order to build a postseason schedule that actually makes sense is this silly notion that putting too much focus on the Playoff devalues other bowl games. Newsflash: It’s already happened, and there’s no going back.
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