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We are moving towards four super-conferences in college football. What this means to traditional regional and state rivalries is TBD. But any schools left outside these conferences will be relegated to second class status. Even today, the ACC and the Big Twelve are effectively second class. Add the NIL practices and college football will now be simply be the NFL-light. Maybe I'm naive and it always has been NFL-light, but college ball always had advantages over the NFL:

1. Your college team doesn't simply up and move for more money and a better stadium deal.

2. Your college team didn't have to deal with contract hold-outs.

3. Your college team (maybe only nominally but still...) is made up of students. If you were a student too you saw these guys on campus (I did back in the day.) And sometimes you saw them back on campus even after they had gone pro, completing their degrees.

Ah well, times are changing. Not necessarily fo the better, but changing....

1 posted on 07/05/2022 5:39:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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The ACC, the Big 12, and the Pac-12 (soon to be Pac-10), should join into one coast-to-coast, South Florida to Washington state, conference.


2 posted on 07/05/2022 5:41:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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Oh Boo freakin’ hoo! The West Coast is crying that THEY don’t get enough attention?......................


3 posted on 07/05/2022 5:44:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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You’re going to see a lot of schools starting to drop football or go to a lower division because they simply cannot keep up.


4 posted on 07/05/2022 5:46:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I disagree. Division I college football was not only the only sport that did not have a playoff, it was the only division of college football that did not have a playoff. That was an utter travesty. The media often got to pick who would be crowned national champs and they picked several teams that most fans thought were unworthy.

Also, worthy contenders would not be matched against each other - sometimes one or both would deliberately duck one another - depriving fans of great matchups that absolutely should have happened. We not only should have had a playoff, we should have had one much sooner. And 4 teams is not enough. We need to expand the playoff to 8. Bear in mind that the other divisions of college football have 16 team playoffs. 8 is hardly too much considering there are about 130 Division I teams....so its not like teams that barely have a winning record are going to be able to sneak in.

As for the conferences, we will see. The PAC could have positioned itself very nicely had they done what I was telling everybody they needed to do over a decade ago which was invite Texas and Oklahoma and allow them to bring Oklahoma State and Texas Tech along as travel partners. The PAC would have had several name brand programs, as well as the two anchors of the Texas and California markets for viewers and recruits. They could have then stood up to the Big 10 and SEC and been quite competitive. Instead they sat on their hands and did nothing. Now look at them. Its their own fault.

The SEC and Big 10 are a lot richer and stronger than anybody else. The ACC could still be viable if they could secure Notre Dame but the PAC and Big 12 are no longer major conferences. Even combined they would not be a major conference.


8 posted on 07/05/2022 5:48:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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We stopped watching sports, pro and college, a few years ago.

This won’t get us back.


10 posted on 07/05/2022 5:50:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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The BEST college football is played in Division III.

Go Scots!


15 posted on 07/05/2022 5:59:43 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is NOT a religion of any sort. It is a violent and tyrannical system of ruling others.)
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The problem with PAC football is the lack of fans. A couple of years ago, UCLA hosted the University of Oklahoma for a game at the Rose Bowl. Even with UCLA giving away free tickets, the stands were half empty. When UCLA visited OU the next year, it was a sell out. Do you see a trend?


22 posted on 07/05/2022 6:17:59 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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Maybe all of the teams can eventually be in one giant super-conference. That would make things totally different.


23 posted on 07/05/2022 6:19:04 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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The beginning of the end was Oklahoma suing the NCAA in the 80s to gain access to their own TV rights.

From that time on it slowly became all about the money.

Traditional rivalries have already gone away. Oklahoma/Nebraska, Pitt/Penn State etc. That ship sailed long ago.

Now ESPN, who own the rights to the SEC do 100% hype and happily celebrate and downgrade any successes outside of the Big 10 and SEC.

Today could likely be the end of the PAC

It’s network greed and the Haves putting it to the have-nots


27 posted on 07/05/2022 6:33:43 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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I went from supporting the NFL until they purposely went woke, to the NCAA. It is not that big a move to no football, of the CFL. The players make too much, it has ruined the games both pro and College. It is all about point spreads, FF and gambling now.

I am sad, us older fellas have been screwed once more.


46 posted on 07/05/2022 5:42:34 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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