How Baylor Fares in College Football Playoff Expansion
A new era of parity is brewing in college football, even if the same two or three teams will win it all each year.
The likes of Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and Clemson will now have to vie with Utah, Baylor, Notre Dame and Texas A&M consistently in the postseason, and revenue will only increase.
Bowl attendance is lacking, a four-team playoff is stagnant and revenue from the eight new playoff games will go through the roof. The Rose Bowl, notably declining in ticket sales, will now be packed annually.
With a national title on the line, fans are going to show up in droves.
As for Baylor and teams like it, the door to the playoff is now wide open. The new Big 12 will have an automatic qualifier, and a seat in the playoff is an objective good.
Moreover, Big 12 schools will have a mulligan. Teams could reasonably drop a game in the nonconference and still feel safe to make the postseason, driving teams toward more exotic matchups out of conference.
Fans will also be able to enjoy the season longer. For a team like Baylor, losing to BYU would effectively nullify the Bears' CFP odds. With a 12-team format, losing to BYU would not tank the year.
Baylor fans would still have national title aspirations, and attendance would not drop. With a national championship still to play for, regular season games would mean more for longer.
In all, this is big for Baylor and all small to mid-sized schools like it. The opportunity to win a title just got exponentially better.
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