Or starting next year (which ever comes first), which becomes more of a priority: Conference Championship or Playoff spot?
Which shows the best for team success?
Which shows the best for team success?
When the B1G gets to 20 teams
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Nebraska needs to have a breakout year and try to get into the SEC.. the old timers still hold our name in high regards.
To answer your question - Playoff spot is all that will matter. Conference titles will be awesome, but a team will need to win enough games to get to a conference title to ensure a spot in the playoff.
Winning king of the pedophiles doesn’t move the needle.. get in the playoffs and hope the ball bounces our way
Based on the importation of kids, it seems the B10 folks are just the ones that got caught…so far
If you win a conference championship you will most likely be guaranteed a playoff spot.
But you don't need to win a conference championship to be in the playoff. So again, what is more important.
It will be just like college hoops. Winning the league regular season or conference tourney title is great, but getting into the NCAA tournament is the goal
IF they go to 20 with east/west that'll be interesting. With 9 division opponents will they even play anyone from the other side? Will mean a lot more travel and games at not the best time. That is if they add 4 more pac teams
I don't think you are going to see divisions in college football again until they break away from the NCAA. Leagues want their best teams playing in the football tournament. They also want to maintain elements of history and the lure of days past. Michigan and Ohio St will play ever year. if they are the top 2 teams in the league, they don't want a 3rd team from a weaker division to muck it up and take away a playoff spot.
IF the league goes to 20, go to 4 pods of 5. 4 games against the same every year. Rotate the other five games H/A then move to the next pod. Won’t see everyone in a four year period but if you go 20, like this the best
In this scenario, assuming 6 pac schools added that could really stink for 1 of them. Or worse yet, what if they go geographic and NU is the next farthest west having to go to the coast for pod. I guess atleast half games at home in pod
this would not be all bad.. you would have a new recruiting base, likely stronger than the west coast has ever been.. in fact, that might be just the ticket for us.
The more it expands geographically, the better for us in many ways.
I don't think there will be Championship Games in about 3 years when expansion stops with all the conferences. They will serve zero purposes unless they are tied into the playoff format. I think there will be four Major conferences with 20 teams each. That will mean that 8 of the 12 playoff spots are spoken for, leaving 4 at large bids. This will last for one or two years, then the number of teams will be enlarged to 16.
My curiosity is what happens after the next rounds of media coverage of the games expire. If ESPN falls apart and no one steps up to take their place, who will televise the games, and how much money will be available to the conferences? Right now everything is fine, but if ESPN continues to flounder and cannot find a way to pay the outrageous rental fees for the games, where will it come from? The PAC 12 is facing death because networks or streaming services are not willing to pony up the money for a floundering conference. If ESPN cannot figure out how to make up for the losses in cable subscriptions, they will not be able to pay the outrageous rental fees needed and the other companies will not need to pay the higher fees because fewer companies are bidding. How long can these conferences and teams afford to have twenty teams with all the traveling costs for the minor sports if their income is cut? These Mega Conferences may not last long.
My curiosity is what happens after the next rounds of media coverage of the games expire. If ESPN falls apart and no one steps up to take their place, who will televise the games, and how much money will be available to the conferences? Right now everything is fine, but if ESPN continues to flounder and cannot find a way to pay the outrageous rental fees for the games, where will it come from? The PAC 12 is facing death because networks or streaming services are not willing to pony up the money for a floundering conference. If ESPN cannot figure out how to make up for the losses in cable subscriptions, they will not be able to pay the outrageous rental fees needed and the other companies will not need to pay the higher fees because fewer companies are bidding. How long can these conferences and teams afford to have twenty teams with all the traveling costs for the minor sports if their income is cut? These Mega Conferences may not last long.
I think this is all nonsense from conference realignment, NIL, possibly moving away from the ncaa - it all smells like the NFL model which is what I don't want.
CFB > NFL by 10 country miles for me.
CFB > NFL by 10 country miles for me.
It will be 24 eventually. Probably soon er than later. It needs to be.
4- 6 team divisions
Win the division and play alternating division foes to get to the championship. Then the champion plays in a playoff nationally. 2 or 4 other conferences doing the same.
No polls, people or computers deciding. Finally.
Or just keep it how it is and see all the games for free...or go back to where fans could actually drive and afford attending football games in person. Yeah, let me just fly our to Cali and then Florida to watch this regular season football game. So dumb
As long as money is to be made they will still happen. May just help dictate seeding for the playoffs???
Not a chance. The university presidents are not going to give up easy guaranteed money.
I just hope dish uses their btn alternative channels. Show more games if adding schools and sports
At least we don’t have to worry about saving up for tickets and travel LOL. Let’s try and be crack the top 5 in the BIG. Then we cal talk about the rest. It’s not happening anytime soon.
No, the NFL is a far superior product. Any of the 32 teams can make it to the Super Bowl with good management and player development, that is not true of the NCAA. As it is, fewer than 10 teams, have a realistic chance at the national championship.
With the introduction of the amount of NIL money in the game we’ve seen it would hard to see CFB as ending anything else than an NFL like experience in the long run.
One of the major differences between college and pros was you had the idea of a dude playing for the love of a school and for some a chance to get into the pros, whereas pros were just collecting a paycheck.
Nowadays you’d be hard pressed to look a our roster and definitively say who is here because they love NU or who is here because the NIL money is pretty damn good. Outside of a handful of homegrown farm kids you know will probably never leave, you can’t. We are only one bid away from losing any key players.
I'm longing for the good old days. This is all cyclical.
Everything is condensing together. Eventually, conferences will reevaluate their deals and boot the "leaches" out.
It's just the same thing over and over again. It just takes decades to see it through
Everything is condensing together. Eventually, conferences will reevaluate their deals and boot the "leaches" out.
It's just the same thing over and over again. It just takes decades to see it through
Sounds ludicrous I suppose. Could you imagine being in a western subdivision with OU, Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri, and Arkansas? That would be fun. Unworkable? Yes. But everything is headed to a giant cluster anyway.
and here you are a member since 04' with 9,400 posts
the NFL is now 7on7 football. yeah so fun
And that should be the only way you can get into the playoffs. If a conference wants 24 teams, fine. One team gets in. Independent teams must win 11 games and achieve a high enough strength of schedule rating. Each conference gets one team in. Eight team playoff. Conference champs with the worst strength of schedule get nosed out.
I agree and that's why I don't like it. Conference tournaments in basketball are a big deal for the smaller conferences, but kinda "meh" for the P5 schools. It's like the wildcard was for Nebraska HS basketball. When teams know that they are "in", there's a letdown.
If a team figures that it won't matter much to their playoff match up, we'll see in college football is teams resting key players when they know that they are in. And the coaching staff keeps the game plan basic.
Since all fans everywhere are supposed to care about tv money even though we don't see one dime of it and the cost of everything keeps going up, what's the financial gain to adding six teams?
A new $7 billion over the next seven years. Would you rather divide that by 14 or 20?
Agreed. No point in dividing existing revenue with more schools. The new commish has deep ties in the tv sports industry. I'm sure that wasn't a coincidence. If they are adding more teams I would assume they have a clause to amend the deal in place. If they are adding another 2 or 4 teams in the near future you can bet they have been in discussions with the networks.
The tv deal isn’t done
This reeks of desperation
Washington and oregon? Yawn city
Games are a month away. I can't find anything recent about the deal other then the commish stating that being on network tv is what the Big 10 wants and that 27 out of the top 30 viewed CFB games last year were on network tv.
I can't imagine the networks are going to air games without a deal. The first 2 or 3 Saturdays are already announced for tv times and networks. I doubt NBC would pull West Virginia vs. Penn State in primetime this late in the game. Most or all of the deal must be in place.