Adding an edit: I read your sports economic link a few posts above. No kidding. Its saying exactly what I wrote. Conferences pool revenue. We make more from Clemson going to the CFP than we do for our annual crap bowl.
Ok, back to my original response: I posted more than one article. But you only mention the 2010 one and pretending the other one didn't exist, huh? If you are trying to litigate this by trying to out-lawyer me, I promise you, that's a bad tactic. But I get it, as your argument is collapsing.
The article from 2010 was because it was about a prominent bowl and a major revenue program so I thought it added additional color.
Anyway, here is a 2020 article to make you happy:
Each season, there are 40 NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision bowl games, most of which serve no real purpose.Although there is a College Football Playoff national championship game, most bowl games have nothing to do with that process. A committee picks four teams that play in two bowl...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
According to USA Today, in 2017, schools ate a combined $25 million in unsold ticket costs to play in bowl games. The University of Connecticut’s 2011 Fiesta Bowl appearance is among the most well-documented instances. According to the Connecticut Post, UConn, a public college, lost nearly $1.8 million on the game. Largely because the 25th ranked Huskies were expected to lose to #9 Oklahoma and because the game was across the country near Phoenix, UConn sold just 2,771 tickets out of the 17,500 the NCAA demanded.
The Indiana Hoosiers lost money in back-to-back years on bowl games, after thousands of their tickets to the Pinstripe Bowl and the Foster Farms Bowl went unsold in 2015 and 2016. It has even gotten to the point where some teams refuse to play in particular bowl games because they don't see enough upside in competing. This was one reason Missouri decided against playing in a bowl in 2015 when they went 5-7. In 2012, the 9-3 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs were invited to the Independence Bowl but held out for a more prominent game with a higher payout and ended up going to no bowl at all. There are, on average, 10 to 20 teams per season that lose money on bowl games each year.
The CFP is a different animal. This conversation, that you started, is about kids playing or opting out of second tier bowls. You're playing a straw game. And again, the CFP money goes to the participating team's conference, to be split 12 or 14 (or however many teams there are) ways. Stay on topic. But, anyway:
How much do teams make for the College Football Playoff? We've got the 2021-22 revenue distribution plan plus payouts from past years.
businessofcollegesports.com
Again,
please show the board where teams get more money for actually wining a bowl game vs. just appearing. Because that's the cornerstone, floor, roof, and walls of your entire argument and more than one of us believe that its not correct. Thank you.
Go Canes!
