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Has college football basically slowly killed itself since Nebraska bolted for the Big Ten?
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:14 am
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:14 am
I don’t exactly blame them for what they did. It made sense at the time. In essence a lot of these individual decisions to move conferences or increase the teams competing for the championships have “made sense” financially as well as maybe to draw interest, but I feel like overall the piqued interest for a short time before becoming very stale.
More than a handful of big schools no longer play their primary rivals. Instead they’ve tried to force rivalries where there aren’t any. Instead of continuing literally sometimes a century of tradition. Then comes the championship format, it was exciting at first but has now become almost unwatchable in terms of its lack of competitiveness as well as its overall staleness.
It feels like college football finally went national with the BCS and maintained tons of its charm while crowning a true champion every year. Then Nebraska bolted and it’s slowly been sliding into the abyss since then. I guess technically Miami and Va Tech started this before it was cool but those were mostly new blood programs even with concentrated success like Miami.
I feel like if OU and UT come to the SEC it will be exciting for a few years and then quickly grow old because it just doesn’t have the historical roots in terms of rivalries and passion that our traditional rivalries have that it will start to smother.
Feels like to me college football has been chasing that almighty dollar the last 10 years and it’s lead it down a bad path. Although I get why those in charge have done it on an individual level and I don’t exactly blame them. I’m just disappointed with what the sport has become. It feels just not as fun anymore and very corporate.
More than a handful of big schools no longer play their primary rivals. Instead they’ve tried to force rivalries where there aren’t any. Instead of continuing literally sometimes a century of tradition. Then comes the championship format, it was exciting at first but has now become almost unwatchable in terms of its lack of competitiveness as well as its overall staleness.
It feels like college football finally went national with the BCS and maintained tons of its charm while crowning a true champion every year. Then Nebraska bolted and it’s slowly been sliding into the abyss since then. I guess technically Miami and Va Tech started this before it was cool but those were mostly new blood programs even with concentrated success like Miami.
I feel like if OU and UT come to the SEC it will be exciting for a few years and then quickly grow old because it just doesn’t have the historical roots in terms of rivalries and passion that our traditional rivalries have that it will start to smother.
Feels like to me college football has been chasing that almighty dollar the last 10 years and it’s lead it down a bad path. Although I get why those in charge have done it on an individual level and I don’t exactly blame them. I’m just disappointed with what the sport has become. It feels just not as fun anymore and very corporate.
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Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:14 am to jlovel7
Feels to me like the end game has always been 4, 16-team conference and this UT/OU news is just the next step in that direction? So I say no.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:15 am to jlovel7
Ever since then, the Big 12 has been awful.
Just an atrocious conference
Just an atrocious conference
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:20 am to jlovel7
You're not completely wrong, but
Adding UT to the SEC immediately reboots one of the most-played rivalry games in college football.
UT and TAMU have played more games against each other than any two other teams in the SEC, and that's without having played in 10 years.
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I feel like if OU and UT come to the SEC it will be exciting for a few years and then quickly grow old because it just doesn’t have the historical roots in terms of rivalries a
Adding UT to the SEC immediately reboots one of the most-played rivalry games in college football.
UT and TAMU have played more games against each other than any two other teams in the SEC, and that's without having played in 10 years.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:20 am to jlovel7
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Feels like to me college football has been chasing that almighty dollar the last 10 years and it’s lead it down a bad path. Although I get why those in charge have done it on an individual level and I don’t exactly blame them. I’m just disappointed with what the sport has become. It feels just not as fun anymore and very corporate.
Agree wholeheartedly with this. It feels more like minor league NFL than college football now and has lost a lot of its charm to me.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:21 am to truthbetold
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Feels to me like the end game has always been 4, 16-team conference and this UT/OU news is just the next step in that direction? So I say no.
Do you feel like that’s sustainable though? It seems like college football interest overall is on the decline as well as the competitiveness of the sport amongst more than an absolute handful of teams. It’s always been selective in terms of competitiveness but it’s basically like 2-3 teams at this point rather than a dozen or so.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:28 am to jlovel7
It's slowly morphing into a sport that will consist of 30-40 'power teams' that will only play each other. This is what happens when you're only concerned about the playoff. You start trimming the fat to maximize profits. Why should ESPN be satisfied with 3 (that's a stretch) decent Alabama games on their network in a regular season when the Tide could be playing Oklahoma and Texas instead cupcake 1 and cupcake 2?
Raise a glass to the BCS era, the true golden age.
Raise a glass to the BCS era, the true golden age.
This post was edited on 7/22/21 at 8:53 am
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:31 am to Ssubba
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This is what happens when you're only concerned about the playoff
Exactly. The "win it all or your season was a failure" attitude of today's fans is a big part of what's wrong with the sport.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:33 am to jlovel7
NIL will be the ultimate end.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:34 am to Ssubba
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Raise a glass to the BCS era, the true golden age.
Yep.
If college sports disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The whole thing has become absolutely ridiculous.
This post was edited on 7/22/21 at 8:35 am
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:35 am to Ssubba
quote:
Raise a glass to the BCS era, the true golden age.
I definitely believe this as well.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:50 am to VABuckeye
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Exactly. The "win it all or your season was a failure" attitude of today's fans is a big part of what's wrong with the sport.
Agreed. Bowl season was fun because going 11-2 or something with a major bowl Victoria constituted a great season with some momentum into next year. It was/is also a nice showcase for schools in conferences like the MAC or MWC.
The obsession with the CFP sucks.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:02 am to jlovel7
Essentially everything that has happened makes sense if you assume that the people making the decisions care only about money, and everything else they say is BS.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:04 am to jlovel7
I agree. And the blame lies solely with espn/texas.
Their longhorn network cut out every other big12 school.
I get it, they got paid, but it killed the big12.
Id take oklahoma and kick out missouri though.
Their longhorn network cut out every other big12 school.
I get it, they got paid, but it killed the big12.
Id take oklahoma and kick out missouri though.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:07 am to GetCocky11
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Yep.
If college sports disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The whole thing has become absolutely ridiculous.
QFT
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:10 am to jlovel7
Penn State announced they were joining the big ten in 1990 or so and ND rejected the Big Ten in 1998 or so. Those are the events that set things in motion.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:20 am to jlovel7
Yep, but many on this board wanted that, begged for it and when the NIL kicks in and you see a wholesale money grab and, yes agents, oozing throughout the game with 3 rd year players sitting out waiting to go pro....you'll see this board high fiving itself because some LSU players get paid....and these posters think that somehow it will be good for LSU in the long run. Like maybe these players will kick into the TAF or Endowment instead of blowing it on hookers, blow, houses and cars
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:27 am to KiwiHead
This only gets solved when the P5 teams break away from the NCAA and form their own league with a commissioner - who will act in the best interest of the sport. That will allow reshuffling of conferences/divisions to take into account geography and rivalries.
Otherwise, college football may start to become a sport only in the midwest and deep south.
Otherwise, college football may start to become a sport only in the midwest and deep south.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:30 am to I Bleed Garnet
Sad thing about the Big Ten is their commish is clueless
Didn't want a season last year
Is against playoff expansion
Every decision or anytime he speaks it only gets worse for the Big 10 to stay relevant
Pretty soon the SEC super conference will have their own football playoff and let the other conferences go it alone
Didn't want a season last year
Is against playoff expansion
Every decision or anytime he speaks it only gets worse for the Big 10 to stay relevant
Pretty soon the SEC super conference will have their own football playoff and let the other conferences go it alone
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:42 am to dlc83
It already is. When was the last time a team from the SEC or Ohio State or Clemson ( Deep South, South Carolina) has really competed since 2006? In order for this to even remotely work into the future, you need someone from west of Norman to make a serious run at a National Championship and someplace up north other than Columbus.
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