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Television networks, the ones driving these decisions, want to give themselves time to figure out which 30-40 teams will be in their super conference. Four years might give them enough time.

Thanks for the question. Easy answer. Access to the invitational tournament provides the G5 schools with a level of delusion about a future in college football in which they will not be a part. This delusionary state prevents them from taking the actions necessary to find a spot in the world where they can find better success.

I hope you are correct and I'll get to that in a minute. It won't change the MAC. It will only make it worse. I don't hate G5. I love it and fixing whatever people think their problems are will not be accomplished with an automatic bid. My wish is for anyone who thinks the MAC should get an automatic bid. I wish these people would be required to be taped to a recliner in their living rooms and forced to watch the MAC winner get destroyed by the likes of Alabama for the entire game. If you promote trash, you should be forced to watch it. G5 schools should take the next four years to figure out what they want to be. Ready.....Set.....Go!

UNC finished below. 500 last year. They will again this year. Prediction: Mack Brown gets fired. Bonus Prediction:. This off season there will be more than one fan base that thinks Mack Brown is the solution to their coaching problem making Brown the new Jim Grobe.

Fair enough. I'll be in the ever increasing group of people not watching the crap they are shoveling through the television. It won't be long until players opt out of invitational tournament games also.

If you think winning bowl game is nothing more than a trophy and t-shirts, you have never experienced a bowl game. There are thousands of people a year who travel to bowl games with nothing at risk other than the experience. They are awesome. Players, students, alumni and fans get to travel around the holidays for a game and friendship around their school. We should encourage this experience. How many fans can really afford to travel to 2-3 bowl games? Almost none. By the time the invitational tournament is over, the stadiums will be empty. Enjoy watching Alabama blow out the likes of Utah 50-0 in these "meaningful" games.

Americans get to have more trash shoveled into their living rooms during the holidays. Awesome!

This is the best description of events surrounding a game I did not attend I have ever read. Well said. How people feel while at a game, in part, is what you might consider to be the "customer satisfaction". My customer satisfaction requirements, in order, are: 1. Good football. For me, squeaking out a win against an average 1AA team is not very satisfying. 2. Good parking. There is pretty good parking around The Big Dialer. Beer provides me with plenty of entertainment so I don't really look to anyone else to provide me with any entertainment while I get loaded. 3. Good food. I'd love a report on the quality of food at the stadium. 4. More beer. Is the beer in the stadium good? 5. Clean bathrooms. I'm a stickler for a clean bathroom. Were the bathrooms clean because points 2 and 4 lead to the bathroom. 6. Was the stadium generally clean? 7. The other stuff. This is are where the scoreboard comes into play. I shouldn't go to a D1 football game and see a semi-functioning scoreboard. All the other bells and whistle such as sound effects don't do anything for me. I find most of it stupid, but people like it and I'm pretty good at ignoring it. If they got points 1-6 right, I'd be cool with missing on 7 unless it was just as horrible as described. If I was a casual fan, it wouldn't keep me from attending a future game.

Akron won a game it should be able to win and that's great. The problem is, SFU is an average IAA program and even in an off season we should be able to win with relative ease. Improvement is needed...and fast, or it could be another loooooong season for Zips fans.

Where I am, 10-10 four minutes from half. SFU is garbage. Run the score up. Recruits don't want to go to schools where the scores are close against SFU. Destroy these guys in the second half.

So the can make money via television advertising.

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This is the key.

If the Zips get a chance to beat them 100-0 they should take it. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

I cannot predict the Zips, but I can predict StFU. They stink. If the Zips come out and play hard and limit mistakes, they should destroy them unless Joe calls off the dogs.

So many great things go on at UofA. I'm glad we have a President willing to highlight those things to the public so people actually know what their tax dollars are going towards. These are a great public service.

I'll pass my Pirates memory down to another generation, not give it away in a parking lot full of drunks. Except for the flag, the Wake junk has been thrown away long ago.

Saving a bunch of crap like this is the kind of behavior that lands someone on Hoarders.

Zips win by more than 4 scores. I'd be shocked if Joe didn't have the team well prepared.

People will never again record their life memories in this manner and that's really sad. In my bonus room is a framed collection of two of my favorite spots memories. On one side is a photo of me, Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and my now deceased parents at the last Pirates game at Three Rivers Stadium along with our ticket stubs. In the same frame next to it is a photo of me and Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and our ticket stubs from the first game at PNC. Not getting real tickets stinks.

I thought of Myron Cope watching Frost blow that game while "playing not to lose". Years ago I heard him say that everytime a team plays not to lose, they always seem to lose.

I hate the soullessness of electronic tickets. I used to get a great package of goodies that came with my Wake Forest tickets. Beautiful printed tickets, parking passes, stickers, a pin signifying how many years you were a season ticket holder and one year it all came wrapped in a flag you could fly in your yard. Now, parking passes and an email about how to get your tickets. 🤮

I hear he has a wicked spin move he calls The Wheel and can really fire up a crowd.

Expanding? No. Contracting? Yes. College football should go back to a BCS style selection of two teams. It was only half as insulting as the current structure. For those of you who may be Kent graduates, 4/2=2.

There is an "Option C". Watch something else or just do something else. This is the option more people seem to be picking. Last year's semi finals, on New Years Eve, had the lowest combined ratings in history. The television networks are shoveling crap into our living rooms, people are realizing it and deciding to do something else with their time. Shoveling an even larger pile of crap into our living rooms isn't going to make the situation any better. Last New Years Eve I went to the Gator Bowl that morning at 11AM. After the game we went back to the hotel on Amelia Island, changed for the night, went to the little town there to watch the annual Shrimp Drop festivities, went to dinner and then went to the Green Turtle. We saw very little of either invitational tournament game and what we did see was pure crap. A rickety electric shrimp hanging from a crane was more exciting than either game. In fact, anywhere we went and there were televisions, nobody was really paying any attention. The logic behind expanding the college football invitational tournament can only be drummed up by people who took a few too many shots to the head while playing football. There is little evidence to suggest an expanded tournament will produce better games. There is little evidence to suggest expanding the tournament will produce better long term ratings. There is little evidence to suggest the amount of money the G5 schools will make in the tournament will have a meaningful impact in leveling the playing field against P5 school. In fact the opposite is true, the games are getting worse along with the ratings and the money imbalance is growing. It's utter insanity.