2021-22 NCAA Football Thread
- Thread starter Derwin0
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Replies 401
- Views 51K
- Status
What do they say of late ....
1 Top 10 team in the pre season poll will end up Outside the Top 20 .... which team will that be this year ?
And that is the beauty of college football. The most meaningful regular season in sports. Really the difference between 1 and 15 can be the results of one game. Which is why ESPN’s expanded playoff idiocy is so evil.
That said, Notre Dame is really over-rated. This is not their year.
Reports of a Big Ten, ACC, and Pac 12 alliance of some sort.
theathletic.com
Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC alliance expected to be formally announced soon: Sources
Schools within the three conferences believe they are like-minded, that they want to continue to prioritize broad-based sports offerings and that the academic profile of their institutions matters.
theathletic.com
They should just abandon the conferences and go regional.Reports of a Big Ten, ACC, and Pac 12 alliance of some sort.
Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC alliance expected to be formally announced soon: Sources
Schools within the three conferences believe they are like-minded, that they want to continue to prioritize broad-based sports offerings and that the academic profile of their institutions matters.
The points of this “alliance” are:
- They will not “poach” one another in terms of memberships. There had been talk of UCLA and USC looking at the Big 10, primarily because of the awful TV footprint of the P12 Network.
- They will vote as a block against any proposals that advantage the SEC, particularly relative to ESPN’s evil ideas vis a 12 team playoff. This probably means that they will want all 3 conference’s to get automatic bids, no matter the record; and that there will want a limit on how many SEC teams can make the playoffs.
- They will not expand by elevating any of the “leftover little 8” , meaning those schools will have to find shelter in the AAC, CUSA, and MWC, which is the level of play they have exhibited anyway.
- They will not “poach” one another in terms of memberships. There had been talk of UCLA and USC looking at the Big 10, primarily because of the awful TV footprint of the P12 Network.
- They will vote as a block against any proposals that advantage the SEC, particularly relative to ESPN’s evil ideas vis a 12 team playoff. This probably means that they will want all 3 conference’s to get automatic bids, no matter the record; and that there will want a limit on how many SEC teams can make the playoffs.
- They will not expand by elevating any of the “leftover little 8” , meaning those schools will have to find shelter in the AAC, CUSA, and MWC, which is the level of play they have exhibited anyway.
Once upon a time conferences were regional.
But the advent of huge tv dollars changed that.
Not really, it's made some of them stronger. But yeah, it's increased the gap between many of the conferences.
As it is, due to a Supreme Court ruling back in the 80's (NCAA v. Oklahoma & Georgia), the NCAA is powerless to interfere with the conferences and their tv deals.
Other than Australian Rules Football, I can think of no sport that does it that way.
But the question for college football, is, of course, why have playoffs at all? Play the greatest and most meaningful regular season in all of sports, have a bowl game, and pick a champion, if you must, by polls, understanding that many dozens of teams will have “good seasons” by whatever measure they have. Rather than a grinding ESPN tournament that produces 1 winner and 132 losers.
Again, money.
Those bowls make money for ESPN (who owns almost all of them) and the conferences.
The minor bowls are not “meaningless”. For almost 100 years, college football has had many measures of success, including beating a rival, winning season, winning a conference, going to a bowl, winning a bowl, level of bowl went to/won, and more. VERY meaningful. ESPN, the focus of evil in the sports world, will replace that, and with it the most meaningful regular season in sports, with a grinding tournament with one winner, and 132 losers.
But as to this oft mentioned idea that the bowls can somehow be morphed into playoffs, no. Expecting even the most well-healed fans to be-bop around the country from big pro city to big pro city for 4 or 5 weeks, most of these being regular working weeks, not the holidays, (conference championship, round of 12, round of 8, round of 4, round of 2) with each trip having 5 or 6 days’ notice is just not happening. Expecting big city fans, with pro teams, to go to some hybrid bowl/playoff early round between two non-local teams is also not happening. Remember the ESPN/committee playoff FINAL had to be papered when held in Santa Clara, because not that many Alabama and Clemson fans could afford or make arrangements on 8 days’ notice to get to NoCal, and not that many people out there really cared.
So that means playoffs = home games. Which further kills the regular season’s specialness, and which are in a little thing I like to call winter. Winter in Columbus? Lincoln? Madison? East Lancing?
So much better to have a wonderful reward for a winning season, a bowl, in a warm weather city, the best being on NYD, and that is that. Many winners, many happy fan bases, many feeling good about their teams. Better all around..
But as to this oft mentioned idea that the bowls can somehow be morphed into playoffs, no. Expecting even the most well-healed fans to be-bop around the country from big pro city to big pro city for 4 or 5 weeks, most of these being regular working weeks, not the holidays, (conference championship, round of 12, round of 8, round of 4, round of 2) with each trip having 5 or 6 days’ notice is just not happening. Expecting big city fans, with pro teams, to go to some hybrid bowl/playoff early round between two non-local teams is also not happening. Remember the ESPN/committee playoff FINAL had to be papered when held in Santa Clara, because not that many Alabama and Clemson fans could afford or make arrangements on 8 days’ notice to get to NoCal, and not that many people out there really cared.
So that means playoffs = home games. Which further kills the regular season’s specialness, and which are in a little thing I like to call winter. Winter in Columbus? Lincoln? Madison? East Lancing?
So much better to have a wonderful reward for a winning season, a bowl, in a warm weather city, the best being on NYD, and that is that. Many winners, many happy fan bases, many feeling good about their teams. Better all around..
Thats actually a GOOD thing ... I would HATE to see the NCAA with thier hands in all that stuff ... they screw up enough as it is.
Btw, Buckeyes STILL waiting for the OK for a transfer from USC to come to the Buckeyes, were 10 days away from the season.
Last time the Buckeyes got someone from the transfer portal it also took forever to get the OK ... Trey Sermon from Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the country is allowed to transfer anywhere they want, right away.
Any day now ncaa.
- Status
