the current playoff format under contract is played at neutral sites. This new format with home games would have to be negotiated amongst all parties, unless there's a provision in the current contract that covers home playoff games.
Notre Dame and pending playoff alignment
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When the new format comes about, there will definitely be negotiations, but ESPN has first right to negotiate, and that includes games at home sites if they are playoff games. They are paying to broadcast the playoffs, not conference or indy team home games.
Where they are played does not matter for the CFP. If ESPN and the CFP committe strike a deal for the new playoff format before it hits the market, NBC has absolutely no say.
I think I counted 7. But you may have to double check.
There were 11 total, but 4 were conference champs.
Actually....since you asked....this is Notre Dame, the main team we are talking about right??
A 3 loss ND team went to the Cotton Bowl both 1978 and 1987 (when Cotton Bowl was one of the biggies) and a 6-4-1 ND team went to the Fiesta Bowl in 1994. So....please don't think a 3 loss ND will not get selected. This is just more of the same...rating.
And let's remember since that 1994 Fiesta Bowl, ND went 22 years between Bowl wins and are 6-14 in bowl games since.
The only way these games will be on NBC is if NBC wins the contract for the playoff. And the contract for the playoff runs another four seasons. So if they do this before then, there is one and only one choice as to where the games will be shown, and that's on ESPN. Why would ESPN give up the rights to the college football playoffs, something that makes them money by the truckload, two years early? The only way that happens is if the NCAA buys them out, which might not even be possible based on their contract. And why would the NCAA want to buy them out, rather than just get ESPN to pay them more money?
Maybe this changes in the future, but with NBC shutting down NBCSN, they are more likely to be getting out of the sports business (other than the NFL) than getting more into it. But who knows what happens five years from now?
Just one point here. The NCAA doesn't have any television contracts for FBS. The TV contracts in FBS are entirely between the schools/conferences and the networks. The CFP itself is just an entity created by the schools, and the NCAA has no part of it.
Yeah, I used "the NCAA" to refer to what the schools have done, but that is certainly technically not correct. The NCAA works for the schools, just like the committee that is proposing these changes and the current playoff committee does. But they are not the same thing.
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