Big $$ in 4-5 superconferences, an 8/4/2 Natl playoff system co-opts bowl games

[HouWarrior]

Tommy Tuberville, new Tx tech coach gets the credit (on ESPN interview) for noting a huge money gem waiting to be split up among the super conferences forming up now, that had not occured to me---as Jim Mora would exclaim....PLAYOFFS!

Forget the bowls forget the NCAA, ...each 16 team conf places 1-2 teams in a BCS colluded/controlled national  playoff  in an 8-4-2 game bracket series crowning a natl champ...
NCAA only controls BB, and the bowls would go extinct...easily a natl billion $ contract, that only the (BCS auto) super conferences would split-- that is about $12 mill per each superconf member school(exclusive of league network and other revenue streams).

[Dawson Rental]

Never in my life did I ever dream that I would say this: Yuck, I hate money.

[GGGG]

You won't lose the bowl games.  As long as they make money, they will still be around.

[Dawson Rental]

You won't lose the bowl games.  As long as they make money, they will still be around.

I thought of saying this, but then I thought with the 64 best teams in those four super conferences, it would be a struggle for the bowls to stay afloat with games featuring the 40 "left behind" schools.  But when I saw your post I realized that the bowls could easily become the football version of the NIT filled with super conference teams who just missed qualifying for the national playoff along with the champs from the Mountain West, CUSA, any other still relevant conference.

[HouWarrior]

You won't lose the bowl games.  As long as they make money, they will still be around.

Its not $.
Most bowl games require significant sponsorship, and corporate underwriting to put on a game, and few bowls break even , with such, convincing the sponsors the game was good for tourism, the city's profile, etc. .

Schools go, laying out big $$, as a program/fan reward, an assist in recruiting, and coaches will tell you, the best is the extra 4 weeks of NCAA allowed practice time.

Even the BCS'ers share revenue with their conferences.

Beyond the top 7 bowls, (which will be supplanted by this 7 game playoff: 4games, 2games, one game) bowls are not usually money makers, often, not even for the teams that go, to wit:

..."Financial filings with the NCAA show nearly half the schools that participated in bowls last season lost money just by showing up to play. Eighteen of 38 schools that provided copies of those reports to USA TODAY showed losses, their balance sheets sagging beneath the costs of travel, lodging, meals and tickets. Twelve schools had deficits of more than $100,000. For three, the shortfall exceeded $300,000...'