I don't believe that we would see a contraction in the number of bowl games, more likely the four additional playoff teams would be replaced by four new bowl participants within the same number of total bowls. We already have teams with losing records being granted bowl eligibility, we will simply see an expansion of that phenomenon instead of two bowl games ceasing to exist. If anything we will see more bowl games in the future regardless of playoff expansion.
Having said that, I don't think it matters; the "additional games" argument is sometimes used but we all know it is a hypocritical one. Making students play additional games was one of the principal anti-playoff arguments for thirty years, all the while the schedule was expanding from 11 games to 12 games to 12 games and a conference championship game.
Having said that, I don't think it matters; the "additional games" argument is sometimes used but we all know it is a hypocritical one. Making students play additional games was one of the principal anti-playoff arguments for thirty years, all the while the schedule was expanding from 11 games to 12 games to 12 games and a conference championship game.