Home stadium bowl game
Playoffs may or may not happen magically overnight, when we least expect it. In the meantime, we’re looking at ways to move the ball along through regular channels.
As such, WeDemandPlayoffs.com is pursuing the possibility of starting a bowl game that is played at the home stadium of one of the two participating teams. Here are the advantages we see:
- More fans can attend the bowl game
- More tickets sold, concessions, etc means more revenue
- Less travel expense for one of the teams
- Overall higher profitability for participating conferences and institutions than lower-tier bowls where both teams travel to poorly attended games
Granted, teams that travel extremely well to any bowl game to which they are invited wouldn’t necessarily find the above to be strong advantages. However, there aren’t too many teams that completely sell out all their bowl games, so we think this model could work.
You may be wondering why we are considering trying to start a bowl game, if we are pro-playoffs and hate the bowl system. The answer to that question is that we believe this could be a stepping stone to show University Presidents how profitable home games in the post-season could be for them. And if the model is more profitable, perhaps they will be more motivated to look “outside the box” for college football, as opposed to being dogmatic about “tradition”.
What do you think of our idea?