FBA 2018 Media Guide FLIP (2)

The regular season wins …
It’s been said many times before, but it should be repeated here:
The college football regular season is the most important regular season of any
sport, whether played on the collegiate or professional level.
Period.
As such, college postseasons bowl games are an enhancement, a reward, for
the teams that produce successful regular season campaigns. No other sport
puts as much of an emphasis on the regular season as college football does. No
other regular season carries the weight or importance toward determining a
champion like the college football regular season.
Please allow another reminder:
College football has a regular season unmatched by any other sport.
That being the case, college football also has a postseason that pays respect to
the traditions and importance of its regular season – bowl games.
That is as true today as it will be in the future. The College Football Playoff has
matched four teams for the national championship, and, in so doing, has not
changed the importance of the regular season.
Instead it enhanced its importance even more. That was one of the main goals
those charged with devising a playoff system for the Football Bowl Subdivision
level wanted to achieve. They did not want to hinder the importance or the
integrity of the regular season. The past three seasons have proven that they
reached their goal.
The regular season in the future, as is the case today, will determine what teams
earn the right to play for the national championship. The team that hoists the
national title trophy as confetti rains down in celebration of its national title
victory will be a team that not only won the title game. It will be a team that
with its play during the regular season proved it deserved the opportunity to
be in college football’s newly created “final four” and eventually play for the
national title.
North Carolina State players hoist the 2016 Independence Bowl championship
trophy after their victory over Vanderbilt.
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