Bowl System vs. Playoff System for College Football

By: Ben Smith

Information to be covered

• Information on the Bowl system • Scandals in bowl games • Playoff system information and how could it

help college football • Pros and cons of Bowl and Playoff systems

Information of the Bowl System

• There are about 30 bowl games , where 5 are the main bowl games

• one is the ultimate bowl, the National Championship

• 20 of the bowl games are not very well known

Scandals in the Bowl Games

Cons of Bowl System

• Cons of having a bowl system still doesn’t determine a real winner

• The last championship game was against two SEC teams now this is seemed like a regular SEC game to me

• That there have been multiple scandals in the bowl games

Cons of Playoff System

Cons of the Playoff System

Pros about Playoff System

Pro of Playoffs System

• There should be a tournament of 32 teams • The teams should be separated into

conferences or regions of the country like The Big Ten would play the Pac 12

• This leads to a better championship rather than the Bowl System currently in place

Pros of Playoff system

• A rank system would help increase games but at the same time help with determining a better winner

• Smaller team have a better chance of make it in to the playoff then the bowl system

Pros of playoff system

Cons of the Bowl System

• There a bunch of bad thing that happened to the team like money laureling

• Other thing like scandal and such • People use money to get into the major bowl

games • Espn and abc having the right to the broadcast

of these games are a other bad thing too

Pros of the Bowl System

Pros of the Bowl System

• People like the bowl cause the current use of way of the post-season of college football

• Bowl are rank by the ranks of the teams that are playing in them if there not ranks team playing in the bowl game , these are the lesser know bowls

• The lesser bowl are like the Chick-Fil-A bowl , the liberty bowl and Music city bowl

Sample Playoff if the 2009 Bowl Games had a Playoff System