Jike Spingleton
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I understand the average fan's frustration at the lack of a college football playoff, but missing from the oft-cited reasons to stick with bowl games (travel, time constraints, student-athlete concerns) is this: bowl games do very well in TV ratings.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/01/12/bowl-game-audiences-grow-on-abc-espn-and-espn2/38602
Of course, people will say that a playoff will provide much larger numbers. And they will, for those seven games or so. There's no way the Emerald Bowl (!) draws 7.5+ million viewers in the middle of a playoff.
It all comes down to money, and right now, the bowl system is doing very well.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/01/12/bowl-game-audiences-grow-on-abc-espn-and-espn2/38602
Of course, people will say that a playoff will provide much larger numbers. And they will, for those seven games or so. There's no way the Emerald Bowl (!) draws 7.5+ million viewers in the middle of a playoff.
It all comes down to money, and right now, the bowl system is doing very well.