The Blue Board

You really don't think that northern fans wouldn't want to attend A SEMIFINAL game if it was cold? Come on now...

I do. Some of the most memorable college football games I've attended were in the snow.

Agreed. There is absolutely no reason why Lucas Oil Stadium and Ford Field couldn't host one of these neutral site games. The Final Four and Super Bowl has been held in both locations recently during the winter, and both drew big crowds.

Rotating the neutral site games is the only way to do it, just like the FF and the SB.

You know that word isn't supposed to be used.

But but but... :*(

Why couldnt you have an outdoor game up north at say Soldier Field or Lambeau Field? Teams in the NFL from down south come up north to play games there in December and January. And believe it or not the games sell out. It would be great to have games out there, dont see a negative

No one is getting paid, I dont understand your point there

Joe Schad:
@schadjoe: Hancock confirms campus sites still alive as semifinal possibility

@schadjoe: Hancock confirms the Rose Bowl protected three semifinal scenario is dead

@schadjoe: Hancock says he is confident presidents will collaboratively agree on how to proceed w/o a conference holdout

b/c all things being equal people prefer warmer weather to colder weather. (I'm assuming your question was sincere, but may not be since my answer seems so obvious.)

Exactly. There is a reason that the P12 went with home field advantage for their conference championship game ... because it was a guaranteed sellout. And it worked perfectly last year. Their were no logistics problems or empty seats and Autzen was rocking. I hope the B10 watches the P12 model and at some point revisits its decision to hold our conference championship game at a neutral site. The great stadiums in the B10 is one of the big things that make CFB special. Moving the games to sterile NFL stadiums which all pretty much look alike is a waste of money and a mistake.

I get the warm weather argument, especially if we were talking about Northern fans and one trip/game. Getting out of the North for a week during the winter and heading someplace warm is fantastic. And it's relatively easy to do even with families over Christmas/New Years. Most people take time off work over the holidays anyway and kids are on break from school.

But it's entirely different asking fans from the North to do it twice in a month. And families with kids are not going to pull their kids out of school for a semifinal game. Also, I would think that "going someplace warm" would hardly be a big deal for fans from the South who live in warm weather year round. All of the major bowl games are already in the South and West. Even under the Delany Plan, one or both of the semifinal games and the championship game probably would be in the South or West. What we are basically talking about is maybe one semifinal game a year in a cold weather locale. And fans from the South consider that unthinkable.