The Blue Board

Is it really that hard for them to decide this? Why can't they just do it like the NFL and have the 2 high seeds play home games and then have the Championship in a warm climate city that will attract the population/$$$?

Why do home playoff games work in the NFL yet the NCAA is opposed to it?

Answer? Follow the money trail

IMO, Delaney is a dumbass.

I can't even think of many if any SEC cities that could handle the media and corporate side that the plus one would bring. Also the NFL plays home games bc there located in big cities with 5+ miilion people that have tens of thousands of hotel rooms.

I'm fine with a dome game, I just think the venues should be rotated to all parts of the country.

But I don't understand why you think 30 degree weather with snow is all that bad. I mean I hate the cold, but 3 hours in a blizzard football game can be a ton of fun. I've been to some ruthless games at Ralph Wilson Stadium, and frankly I'd rather be in somewhat cold temperatures than 100 degree weather with sun.

Bundle up, drink, and cheer you won't feel a thing.

Sure it can be fun but it's not conducive to deciding who the better team is. Weather should never decide the outcome of a game of any importance if you want to determine which team is truly the best.

4 reasons to have playoff games at neutral sites:
1. Stadium size: some stadiums are too small to host such an important event--hello TCU, Oregon, OKST, Boise St!
2. Local infrastructure: again, some college towns are just too small to host such an enormous event that will generate enormous amounts of revenue for the local businesses. In fact, most college towns are too small.
3. Stadium location: players don't want to play in an ice bowl, and fans don't want to attend a game in freezing weather--this is a platitude which has support from all of the major existing bowls.
4. Current conference championship games are played at neutral sites and no fans from the higher ranked team complain that they're losing their *competitive advantage*; as are all of the games in the NCAA basketball tourney, etc.

Agreed, give us both exposure (not that you guys need it, us either to an extent) to that Texas talent.

I am down for dome games up north, I just think these games can't always be in New Orleans, Atlanta etc. It gives some teams homefield essentially in a "neutral site" game.

Home field advantage isn't that big of a deal in neutral site games. See Alabama's raping of LSU in NOLA for exhibit A. :)

It also has a butt load of southerners. Plus travelling from Bama to ATL is easier than say Wiscy to ATL.

Rotating Neutral Sites makes the most sense.

Lol hardly. Northern cities are used to dealing with heavy snow storms, they slow traffic and that is about it. Dallas had frigging no snow for the SB, and chit was shut down.

Doesn't matter for a home semi game. Local fans will sell it out regardless.