By: Dan Wetzel
I read this based on a recommendation of a friend. If you weren't a supporter of a playoff system for college football before reading this, you will be after you read it. The author goes into depth on how much money is made by the bowls and where the money ends up. It is really quite staggering how little the schools benefit from the current bowl system. I don't want to ruin the surprise by listing the author's suggestions but he makes a very convincing case playing off the sheer wasted potential for further monetary gain by the school if they were to adopt a playoff.
My gripes with the book are that he uses data from the dozen or so not for profit bowls since their records are public. He makes some assumptions and suggestions based on this limited data set and doesn't remind the reader very often of this extrapolation. I think his analysis is solid and I found it believable, but sometimes it comes off as a little hyperbolic.
I highly recommend this to all college football fans out there so you can make your own conclusions about what's best for everyone.
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