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A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football’s national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports.
Somehow, the folks running the CFP have topped that. They had playoff games go up against the NFL. The CFP ratings in the opening round were trounced by the NFL. These were regular-season NFL games, one on Amazon, rating better than CFP games.
The CFP semifinals continued the ratings tumble. The semifinals dropped 17% year over year. That’s not the height of tomfoolery.
What is worse is playing the CFP Championship Game on Jan. 20. While Ohio State and Notre Dame may be driving ticket prices through the moon, no one is talking about the game.
In fact, the story that gained the most attention this week was Ohio State kicking a player—whose claim to fame was his presence on social media—off the team.
There will be no huge lead-up to the Buckeyes and Fighting Irish in Atlanta on Monday. Not with the NFL playing divisional-round doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday.
There will be attention paid Monday and that’s if — and only if — the NFL games don’t create drama or controversy.
Paul Finebaum said this week the Army-Navy game should no longer stand alone on what is the final Saturday of the college football season. It is now being played in mid-December, pressing the start of the CFP another week deeper into the final month of the year.
The domino effect is the CFP championship game is lost. No one has been thinking about a college football game on Jan. 20—nor in the sport’s history.
The semifinals were played on Jan. 9 and 10. In a better world, the CFP final would take place on a Thursday, a night when people are accustomed to the NFL and at least some semblance of college football in the regular…
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Author : Touchdown Wire
Publish date : 2025-01-18 13:30:00
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