Sometimes school funds are there to support a lot of non-revenue sports, just two ways of tackling Title IX. That's an interesting way of looking at it. Having a quarter to a third of the schedule against teams a tier or three below is a bigger problem in my mind, like A&M vs Abeline Christian, than if Ohio State plays Rutgers. I don't mind 64 teams too much, if, and only if, every single game on every one of those 64 teams is against each other. If there isn't a way for that to happen, then that's when the number swells. But Vandy shouldn't get a free meal over them due to luck and happenstance. So, if there is a path to promotion and relegation that they could achieve, set it up. The issue I hear often from the ISU/OSU/BYU crowd isn't that they wouldn't support their team, its that they are against silver spoons. People still watch the games.Īre you arguing that if ISU, OSU and BYU were in a lower division than the SEC and B1G 10, their fans would stop attending and tuning in? In Texas HS, there are different divisions based on student body size. People still watch their teams, even if relegated. In the UK, there is a Premiere League and lesser leagues, based on attendance, win % and revenue. I don’t get the argument that the top league heads to include 64 teams in order to not lose fan viewership. Miami becomes kind of pointless with FSU in the fold It’s an invested fanbase in a new, growing market. I think the SEC would take NC State over Miami. So to get there the following adds make sense:īest homeless: NC State, Georgia Tech, Stanford, WSU, Oregon St, Syracuse, UConn, Villanova, SD State In a typical playoff, the Big might get 4-5 teams, the SEC 4-5 teams, the Big 12 2-3 and maybe 0-1 comes from the rest. The best cast for me is to get to 3 conferences of 20 and stop there. The better conferences will get more teams in than the weak conferences, but they still matter. With 12 playoff spots it will sort itself out. With 16 teams, a conference can still feel like a conference. So we can have a future where five conferences send teams to the playoffs, but only B10 and SEC teams ever make it to the semifinals.Īs long as there are crappy teams like Northwestern and Vanderbilt in the Big 10 and SEC, then there should be at least another conference (Big 12) full of the remaining teams that are better than them. That’s the advantage the B10 and SEC have - the line play. No B12 OL and DL can be competitive two games in a row. Very few QBs can do that two games in a row against top defenses, and be effective in the second game. Duggan carried the ball 15 times against Michigan. TCU won, because it had a modern offense, and a puncher’s chance, and they made it. They might even win a first round game, as TCU did. Maybe the right end result is two conferences having a lot more money than the others, but the others are allowed into the playoffs. Yes, ESPN might like them in the SEC (maybe not- that’s a sweet deal for ESPN the ACC has). Yes, FSU and Clemson are competitive at very high levels. conference members’ desire to maximize their own team’s outlook. The problem is conferences have to weigh adding teams to strengthen the conference vs. If major college football converged on 40 teams, with those teams mostly playing each other, fans would get used to 9-3 teams making the playoffs and then winning them, I suspect. A team with six losses was considered practically ineligible. When I first became sports-conscious, the NCAA tournament was 32 teams. How enthused will fanbases continue to be that suddenly become perennial cellar dwellers that were once middle of the road with occasional good seasons? If they are relegated to a lower tier I will be disinclined to care about watching them, just like I would be unlikely to sit and watch two FCS teams play now.Īlso, as someone above pointed out, if you relegate the current bottom feeders and punching bags, someone else has to become that. Right now, depending on the games that are on, I will sit and watch ISU, OSU, and BYU because it's still beg time college football. Maybe not their fans, but fans of other teams and casual fans might be affected.
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