How long do these Super Conferences last once teams start struggling?

People will choose money over success.

It is only a matter of time before conferences start pushing teams out.

People have been saying it for a decade now and it seems to be coming to fruition.

We are heading towards basically having 2 conferences in college football like the pros (think NFC and AFC). They’ll only play teams in those conferences, then they’ll be a playoff based on how they finish, just like the pros.

The teams that aren’t in those conferences will be on the outside looking in, maybe they can create their own system, or maybe they’ll just play in whatever bowl games still exist.


What sucks about this is it’s going to murder other college sports. Football will be different but it will be fine, I don’t see how smaller sports that don’t create revenue are going to survive this with all the travel and craziness of schedules now.

What’s the appeal of being a D1 water polo player or cross country runner with no shot at the pros or Olympics now? You basically have a professional athletes schedule with none of the money or benefits while trying to do well in school to get a job once you graduate, plus sacrificing any social life you may have had.

Why would you do it?

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Once Oklahoma or Texas routinely go 8-4/7-5/6-6 for several seasons?

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You’re thinking of the old paradigm with FCS games and rent a wins… if teams are going 8-4 playing just other teams who are also getting big TV money and having half their games at home and half on the road (unlike an 8/4 split), that’s pretty impressive

We have these conferences because no one other than their fans wanted to watch the games that are heavily tilted in favor of such powerhouses

One thing to remember is the way SEC will be viewed once 2024 rolls around. With a 12 team playoff more teams will make it in from the best conference. What was once a 1 or sometimes 2 loss playoff SEC team will now be a 2 or 3 loss SEC team in playoffs. Due to strength of conf there will be more losses allowed by teams from SEC to make playoffs. So the way we all view records will change.

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Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Mississippi State
Kansas State
Iowa State
Rutgers
Washington State

Clock is ticking

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I think the clock exploded last night for the bolder above

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Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Mississippi State
Kansas State
Iowa State
Rutgers
Washington State

Clock is ticking

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I just don't understand. Having a small private school like Vanderbilt, or having a road trip to Starkville Mississippi, is what makes college football unique and exciting. It's the tradition, of those schools having been in the SEC (for instance) since almost the very beginning and continuing to play alongside Alabama, Georgia, LSU, etc. year after year.

Or USC going to Pulman and playing in the snow. Texas going to Ames, Iowa. Ohio State going to play Northwestern at their tiny stadium. It's just what makes college football special.

In 20 years, people are going to look back at THIS week as a tipping point and wonder what the hell that we were doing.

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What sucks about this is it’s going to murder other college sports. Football will be different but it will be fine, I don’t see how smaller sports that don’t create revenue are going to survive this with all the travel and craziness of schedules now.

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I think College Football splitting from the NCAA is rapidly approaching. Once football separates, I think the regional based conferences will make a return. It will have to in order to keep travel costs down. How non-football NCAA teams will be funded without college football revenue? No clue.

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The 2 Super-conferences will leave the NCAA in a year or two.

And have their own playoffs and championships in each sport.

The College World Series, March Madness, and this new football playoff will all die, as they will be meaningless.

The ACC will die as well when these 2 abandon the NCAA and the desirable schools will be split between the 2 Super-conferences.

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My guess is the SEC, Big 10, and Big 12 do a partial breakaway for football and basketball. March madness is a cash cow that the NCAA runs and profits from (unlike the current football model). Those 3 conferences will, at some point, push the NCAA out of March Madness to get that profit.

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Texas going to Ames, Iowa.

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Oklahoma State going to Ames changed the national title in 2011. That 1 game knocked them out and gave Alabama a title.


College football is unique in that any given Saturday, a good team might get got by that underperforming conference mate and a bad loss can change the season.

I hate the idea of shifting to a NFL style landscape where the losses don't matter. A team might go 8-4 but hey they're angling for that wild card slot in the playoff. Yuck.

It's hard to say.

I was initially excited about all the realignment chaos but I'm starting to second guess it. It's going too far too fast (same as NIL). I think it's going to hurt the essence of college football.

I think the pendulum will swing back eventually or D1 will simply condense to 40 or so teams, with the rest creating another division. It'll truly be NFL lite.