at Bama at Texas at Ole Miss vs Tenn vs Auburn with a Clemson opener, good chance of 2 losses from that. (guess Florida in Jacksonville deserves a mention)
I didn’t look at their schedule, but it just seems appropriate they take a step back for their program history just because it always usually works this way. And also losing their defensive staff.
The #4 is going to be overseeded fairly often thanks to the requirement of needing to win your conference to get the bye. The #5 seed will be a pretty cushy draw most years I think. edit - using last year's CFP rankings but assuming the new/current conference affiliations, the #4 seed would have been Arizona. So the #5 team's first two playoff games would have been Liberty and Arizona.
14 team proposal Gives B1G/SEC champions a just reward Gives the other conferences no real reason to have a championship game besides getting a home game Until they give the SEC both byes
I continue to love how much the sport focuses on “fixing” the postseason while not fixing the actual sport itself None of this shit matters with how broken the Transfer Portal is
How do you accomplish that with so many moving parts. Academic schedules, when players enroll, can’t exactly set fixed dates with college sports Kinda absurd to think any athletic department is currently capable of every football player having a contract, let alone dealing with all the other sports It’s a mess but it’s still fun, people bitch too much and think there’s a fix when there isn’t
You think it would be harder to manage out in the open contracts, with non competes, buyouts, etc (like everything else) than what is currently the debacle of NIL?
I'm with the NCAA here. The old rules were really not fair for cash-strapped programs that can't afford extra perks like uhhhhh.... cameras and paper streamers.
It’s the cookie cakes that are the issue and not the ladies of the night waiting for them. You got it, NCAA.
Walter Byers was the NCAA Director from 1951-1988, ultimately forced out after the 1984 US Supreme Court decision which prohibited the NCAA from exclusive rights to TV negotiations. He wrote a scathing book in the 90’s, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, where he skewered amateurism among other issues. He has a great passage in the book about the NCAA issuing rules on the length of drapes at regional offices at the same time college football unraveled as teams tried to negotiated their own TV deals and every independent except ND had to join a conference.
People really missed the point of the photo shoot thing. It took a significant amount of time and staff when a lot of it is recruits teammates and other kids that all needed to get their pictures taken because they were on the visit. It was a joke that everyone around the country is thankful is gone.
Summer and early December signing periods plus 1 spring portal makes way more sense than current setup Make December about the playoff and not 1000 kids(most who aren’t any good) in the portal
I appreciate you looping Clemson in with those other decent teams, but we are a trainwreck who will lose 5 games
The NFLification of College Football continues The unfortunate thing is the more it gets like the NFL, the less it’s a standalone unique product and it simply becomes a minor league. There’s a reason minor leagues aren’t all that profitable long term. Nobody wants to watch the B league if it’s not differentiated in any other way than the A league other than lower caliber players. It’s almost as if college football will eat itself long term for short term instant gratification, all because they listen to media people. Either way, the big picture winners here are the NFL.
People will always love live sports and CFB doesn't have any competition in it's day/time slots. There's going to be unanticipated effects but the sport isn't going to die
I think the ratings will, at some point, not reflect the premiums that are being paid for them. And at that point, things are going to get even weirder than they are now.
Once Disney/Fox just make their own league and do away with conference afflictions it will absolutely be more copycat than ever before. I just wonder what the Ole Miss, South Carolina and Indiana of the world will do when their head finds themselves on the chopping block