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re: Upcoming CFB Playoff dates for the quarterfinals and semi-finals the next two years
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:50 pm to GRIZZ
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:50 pm to GRIZZ
It’s only trending down for fans of teams trending down. Listen, I like both Bama and Clemson as I like most southern teams except when playing my school. But for every game there is a winner and loser. The fans of teams who have been conditioned to win (primarily because their coaches paid players to sign) are the only ones making posts about “giving up”. We just saw a season where you had a lot of fanbases who had the their best season in years and loved it - Indiana, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, GT, Ole Miss, Duke, etc.
I totally understand Bama and Clemson fans being pretty salty these days. Both were at the mountain top for a long time, now both are looking in the mirror and not recognizing the reflection. But to say things like it’s only gambling keeping the sport up shows you aren’t paying attention outside your front yard. Indiana just took over Merceds Benz stadium in the heart of the SEC. Heck, my school a mile down the road has never done that - but we would if we were 15-0 because people will spend to root for a winner. Clemson is a perfect example. They were up under Ford, down for awhile, the back up, and now down.
We are in the baby steps of a new era which has occurred many times in college football (forward pass, integration, bagman, now NIL and portal). Teams will learn to adapt or take more losses. My team did not adapt during the changes in the 60’s and 70’s and we fell from a top 15 power to an afterthought in a span of a decade. But the sport stayed strong. College football is doing great and gaining interest with the new playoff system. And each time it expands it will do even better as more fanbases get excited.
I totally understand Bama and Clemson fans being pretty salty these days. Both were at the mountain top for a long time, now both are looking in the mirror and not recognizing the reflection. But to say things like it’s only gambling keeping the sport up shows you aren’t paying attention outside your front yard. Indiana just took over Merceds Benz stadium in the heart of the SEC. Heck, my school a mile down the road has never done that - but we would if we were 15-0 because people will spend to root for a winner. Clemson is a perfect example. They were up under Ford, down for awhile, the back up, and now down.
We are in the baby steps of a new era which has occurred many times in college football (forward pass, integration, bagman, now NIL and portal). Teams will learn to adapt or take more losses. My team did not adapt during the changes in the 60’s and 70’s and we fell from a top 15 power to an afterthought in a span of a decade. But the sport stayed strong. College football is doing great and gaining interest with the new playoff system. And each time it expands it will do even better as more fanbases get excited.
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:25 pm to RunningJacket
quote:this is more true about the nfl than ncaa
in the mirror and not recognizing the reflection. But to say things like it’s only gambling keeping the sport up
As you pointed out Indiana and a lot of up and coming programs that now have a shot are definitely all in on this current era.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 6:21 am to StansberryRules
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I saw a tweet that pointed out the midpoint on the calendar for the college football season is technically week 11 in early November, because of all the dead time in December and January artificially extending the end. One regular season game left and you're only half way to the end time wise
That’s unreal.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 8:37 am to RunningJacket
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We are in the baby steps of a new era which has occurred many times in college football (forward pass, integration, bagman, now NIL and portal). Teams will learn to adapt or take more losses.
I don't agree with this at all. Even the bagmen seemed to be much smaller scale than what we see now. NIL & the portal have been complete & fundamental shifts from an amateur (or pseudo-amateur at worst) sport to a truly professional sport.
In the larger context, it's lost what made it special & turned into yet another "professional" league...one competing at a disadvantage compared to all the other leagues with their collective bargaining & antitrust exemptions.
There are 100 year old soccer clubs going bankrupt in Italy & Spain, because they cant keep up with top-level spending & have exhausted all their options. This is coming to CFB via private equity & it won't be pretty
Posted on 2/5/26 at 9:41 am to RLDSC FAN
Ruint from start to finish…….
Posted on 2/5/26 at 10:23 am to gjackx
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Round 2 needs to be on campus as well. That way a lot of those bowls can go back to being bowl games (non playoff) that players might actually play in.
Hopefully that happens after a few years of non sellouts in those games. IU fans traveled like crazy this year for obvious reasons but I feel like people will start waiting because it's just too damn much travel.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 10:32 am to RLDSC FAN
Sankey getting bullied into adding a 9th conference game and failing to get playoff expansion will go down as an all-time blunder.
Posted on 2/5/26 at 2:48 pm to Bigdawgb
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Even the bagmen seemed to be much smaller scale than what we see now.
Yep. Can Newton was allegedly given $200K. Albert Means was $120K. Oddly enough, it being an NCAA violation helped regulate the market. Neither the school nor the player wanted too high of a price because it could draw attention and lead to probation and ineligibility. What we’re seeing now is a different level altogether and not sustainable for most schools.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 10:48 am to RLDSC FAN
Cut the playoff down to 8, invite the P4 champs and 3 of the "best of the rest" and hold those games completely outside of the rest of Bowl season. All games except the championship game are on campus.
The New Year's Six can have a selection rotation where they draft matchups from seeds 9-20 in the final playoff rankings. Let the top 1 or 2 non-P4 champs have an auto spot into the overall playoff rankings.
The rest of the bowls, they just do what they do with the remains.
Immediately conference championship games would be super important, too. Gotta win and in or pray to be in.
Idk lol
The New Year's Six can have a selection rotation where they draft matchups from seeds 9-20 in the final playoff rankings. Let the top 1 or 2 non-P4 champs have an auto spot into the overall playoff rankings.
The rest of the bowls, they just do what they do with the remains.
Immediately conference championship games would be super important, too. Gotta win and in or pray to be in.
Idk lol
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:40 pm to FairhopeTider
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Can Newton was allegedly given $200K. Albert Means was $120K. Oddly enough, it being an NCAA violation helped regulate the market. Neither the school nor the player wanted too high of a price because it could draw attention and lead to probation and ineligibility.
The NCAA didn't, doesn't and never did have the resources or manpower for proactive monitoring or investigations....
Either news organizations had to do the work with an agenda and write articles and hand the NCAA their evidence (Yahoo sports, Bush signing with agents) or be as dumb as SMU...And hand out gold Trans Am for all to see...
Bag men buried the money in homes, jobs and duffel bags and you're right, the fear of being ostentatious and flamboyant in buying players regulated the market to some degree.
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