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The six lessons we learned from the New Year's Six bowls
espn ^ | 1/2/16 | Adam Rittenberg

Posted on 01/02/2016 8:36:44 AM PST by doldrumsforgop

Remember the excitement on Dec. 6? Not only did the College Football Playoff selection committee spit out two appetizing semifinal matchups, it delivered a New Year's Six slate seemingly packed with steak and sizzle.

The games turned out to be empty calories. New Year's Six? Try the New Year's Snooze, a series of blowouts that left us bloated and unsatisfied. All six contests were decided by 14 points or more. Average margin of victory: 24.2 points.

Alabama fans and Clemson fans are thrilled. The same holds for those who support Stanford, Ohio State, Houston and Ole Miss. They watched their teams win without having their blood pressure spike. Oh, and the S-E-C chant is back. You know you missed it.

The New Year's Six had less tension than a vat of Jell-O (or a Big 12 defense). But the games, as always, provided some takeaways.

Here are six from the New Year's Six:

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KEYWORDS: ncaa
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To: MuttTheHoople

Ooooohhhh!


61 posted on 01/02/2016 6:28:22 PM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Steven Scharf
I suspect the playoff games won’t be on NYE ever again.

They will be for 5 of the next 7 years. Idiots are in charge.

62 posted on 01/02/2016 6:52:30 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: BenLurkin

I could use a step ladder!


63 posted on 01/02/2016 7:02:56 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Most bowls mean nothing beyond the main 5-7.
Everybody has one nowdays.


64 posted on 01/03/2016 5:02:59 AM PST by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Take a look at the payouts for the bowls - http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-bowl-game-payouts/

Only the newest and very minor bowls are less than $1 Million. The Championship Game last year paid out $22 Million - PER TEAM.


65 posted on 01/05/2016 6:05:53 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

yes, I know the big bowls, and of course the play off games, are HUGE. Also remember that bowl pay outs are against a guaranteed allottment of tickets that the schools promise that their fans will buy. There are times where bowl appeareances have COST teams on net - smaller bowls of course, but still.

But you know, someone has to pay for the lacrosse team, the swimming teams, the baseball team, the soccer team, the gymanstics team, and ALL women’s sports.

I mean the big programs bring in zillions of dollars. But that pays for everything else. Many schools, smaller schools with smaller fan bases, lose money on athletics. For example, Duke and Miami and Wake Forest almost always lose money on football.


66 posted on 01/05/2016 7:30:08 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright
I mean the big programs bring in zillions of dollars. But that pays for everything else.

That is correct and the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. TV Revenue accounts for a lot. It was reported that each of the 14 schools in the SEC received $26 Million in 2014 as their share from the SEC Network.

67 posted on 01/05/2016 12:00:11 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Which is why the ACC will continue to lose ground every year to the SEC.....SEC with one small private school, Vanderbilt. The ACC has Duke, Wake, Miami and Boston College....meanwhile Pitt and Syracuse are kind of hybrid public schools.

The public universities simply have many many times the alumni and also often that very valuable “University of” mantra. The SEC is full of massive “university of” schools. So is the Big Ten.


68 posted on 01/05/2016 2:35:33 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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