CFP will remain status quo (4 teams)
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Honestly, I would prefer to go back to college football 1994.
wow, just wow. Anyone with a brain can see that college football is dying. Yet, the old boys club can’t see past their own interests to make a critical structural change.
If we’re going back then I’d go back even before that.
One of the worst things that happened to college football IMO was when bowl games got divided up into belonging to specific conferences. It’s pretty much the same bowls with the same cast of characters every few years.
Go back to when there were no affiliations and the excitement each week was in which bowl reps were in town and who was Penn State going to play? There were so many possibilities with great potential matchups.
Now you can pretty much pencil in a central Florida location vs a mid to lower level SEC type team most years.
You liked the part about the best team in the country that year being denied the chance to play for the National Championship?
It's not really dying. They are making up bowl games on the fly to accommodate every eligible team because it's so profitable.
Actually the vast majority of athletic departments are losing money on football, the bowls only stay afloat because ESPN foots the bill and both on campus attendance and TV viewership are off. A few football factors make massive money as do the power 5 conferences and ESPN. The sport is top heavy with maybe six or seven programs having a shot (PSU not being one of them). At the top the sport is rich but by 2026 it will be further hollowed out. Those getting paid are not seeing the big picture.
Personally, I liked the part where the “national championship” was clearly not a real thing and the most important thing was just winning as many games as possible each year.
Now there’s still not a real National Championship but everyone acts like there is and all the attention of the sport is on the fake mini playoff instead of the awesome regular season. Yuck. 🤮
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I think the number and sheer interest of die hards - the folks that go to games, travel to bowls, go out of their way to watch games versus cupcakes to see the third stringer who might be a starter someday play, etc - is waning. That group isn’t growing and the pricing and hassle is getting worse.
But the number of casual fans has grown and I find a much greater variety of people watch and follow college football these days. But they really only care about possible playoff teams and star players and don’t tend to care about the “pageantry” or traditions of college football. The product is morphing progressively into a lesser version of the NFL instead of being much more distinct product. And it’s all happening on the backs of the idea that “playoffs” and “crowning a champion” are intrinsically more important than having a meaningful regular season where just winning as many games as possible was the goal. 🤷
I was a big fan of the upcoming alliance with the PAC12 and ACC to create compelling ooc games early in the season. That has potential to be very interesting - Oregon, USC, Utah, Miami, FSU, etc are all intriguing types of games. Even mid tier matchups like Arizona or Duke would be interesting. I have not heard anything about it lately. Is it actually going to materialize?
It seems to still be in the works and there were hints in the past year that the Big Ten (and probably the Pac-12 I would think) will drop to 8 conference games to allow for it. I am under the impression that it will start around 2024/25 timeframe based on the lead time to have the schedule space to make it work. Which would also correspond to when the SEC adds OU/UT
Those folks who believe the SEC is evil, but the BIG has the best interests of CFB at heart, are sadly mistaken. The BIG-ACC-Pac 12 alliance is not going to happen, ever. Because the powerful within the BIG, ACC, and Pac 12 don't want it to happen. An expanded CFB playoff is likely not going to happen for a long time, either. But we must "preserve" the Rose Bowl.
This is very much like folks who are fiercely loyal to a political party, who eventually find out that neither political party has their best interests at heart. It is a big blow to one's belief system.
This is very much like folks who are fiercely loyal to a political party, who eventually find out that neither political party has their best interests at heart. It is a big blow to one's belief system.
The goal is still to win as many games as possible. If you think otherwise, you are mistaken.
College football is still more exiting then the NFL. However just like the NFL, going to a college game has gotten to expensive for your average fan to travel and attend the game. College football will not take a backseat until the NFL starts a development league. It’s going to happen just a matter of when.
I do. Unless Tostitos is one of them, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t watch them. Lol.
yeah I just saw that yesterday. It’s interesting since it conflicts with what the Iowa AD said just last month and Smith makes it sound like the Big Ten hasn’t considered an 8 game schedule for months. 🤷♂️
I can understand the Big Ten not doing a scheduling alliance - they have far less to gain than the PAC-12 and ACC - but I am disappointed if it doesn’t happen. To me I’d rather see a variety of opponents so 1 less Big Ten team a year and a variety of PAC-12 and ACC teams over time sounds like more fun. Oh well.
