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re: What college football looked like 36 years ago...
Posted on 2/12/26 at 10:27 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 2/12/26 at 10:27 am to RollTide1987
Too bad you couldn’t have an enforceable rule where no league could expand past 12 members.
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Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:36 pm to rpg37
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Crazy thinking that at one time the Big Ten and Pac Ten conferences actually had ten teams. It's like it was logical.
But the Pac10 played the only Round-Robin in the. country to get a true Conference Champion.
It didn't take ESPN, a Conference Championship game or more season games to find out who was the true Champion... The SEASON decided it.
Wild, huh? The only Conference that was doing it right for so long, is the one that went defunct,,feeling left out by the dollars of the others doing it wrong.
This post was edited on 2/12/26 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:41 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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The demise of the PAC 10 /12 is a national tragedy. Still shocking that happened. One of the great institutions in American sports with a legacy more than a century old just collapsed almost overnight.
I grew up in OR when it was the Pac 8. Later became the Pac 10 when they added the two AZ colleges. The travel was convenient when it was the Pac 8. There were 2 schools in WA (Wash State and UW), two in OR (OSU and Univ of OR), 2 in northern CA (Berkley and Stanford) and 2 in southern CA (UCLA and USC).
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:49 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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The only Conference that was doing it right for so long, is the one that went defunct
Guess they weren’t doing it right then
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:52 pm to RollTide1987
BRING IT BACK
Posted on 2/12/26 at 2:41 pm to RollTide1987
If the Independents would have gotten together they could have rivaled any conference
Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, Florida State, Miami, Louisville, Va Tech, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Syracuse.
Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, Florida State, Miami, Louisville, Va Tech, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Syracuse.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 4:16 pm to TigerintheNO
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Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, Florida State, Miami, Louisville, Va Tech, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Syracuse.
That would have been awesome
Posted on 2/12/26 at 4:26 pm to ImJustaBoy
Lsu wanted Rice in the SEC when Arkansas joined as a western academic to balance
Posted on 2/12/26 at 4:38 pm to RollTide1987
Pretty cool, this was the year I was born.
What was it like seeing games won on things like CLEARLY incomplete passes called catches?
What was it like seeing games won on things like CLEARLY incomplete passes called catches?
Posted on 2/12/26 at 5:47 pm to RollTide1987
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I truly think that the discovery of social media as a marketing platform for college football was what lead to the true downfall of the sport.
Social media is a gold mine for college football in terms of advertising. When platforms like Instagram and Twitter grew substantially in the amount of users in the mid to late 2010s, hundreds of millions of people who never even heard of college football had finally heard about it. More team fan pages were popping up and ESPN had their own page as well.
As a result, college football slowly became a form of mass media entertainment which brought in even more revenue compared to when there was no social media at all. This would inevitably lead to the slippery slope of paying players. People thought, “well, if these schools are bringing in absurd amounts of money from TV and streaming, why can’t the players get a piece of the pie?”
Social media is a gold mine for college football in terms of advertising. When platforms like Instagram and Twitter grew substantially in the amount of users in the mid to late 2010s, hundreds of millions of people who never even heard of college football had finally heard about it. More team fan pages were popping up and ESPN had their own page as well.
As a result, college football slowly became a form of mass media entertainment which brought in even more revenue compared to when there was no social media at all. This would inevitably lead to the slippery slope of paying players. People thought, “well, if these schools are bringing in absurd amounts of money from TV and streaming, why can’t the players get a piece of the pie?”
Posted on 2/12/26 at 7:12 pm to RollTide1987
Seeing the SWC made me do this:
1990 NCAA Sanctions at a Glance
School Primary Penalty in 1990 Reason
Florida Postseason ban & SEC title ineligibility Improper payments to staff/players
Clemson 1-year probation Recruiting inducements
SMU Probation extension Legacy of "Death Penalty" violations
Oklahoma Ongoing probation Recruiting violations
Other programs, such as Texas Tech and Texas, were also noted as being under investigation or facing scholarship losses during the late 1980s and early 1990s as the NCAA tightened control over the Southwest Conference.
From Google's AI
EDT: I moved to Dallas in 1984. I had no idea how much eight schools from Texas could hate each other, and Arkansas so much. The reason they had so many teams on probation was because of their hatred for each other. Other conference's teams think they hate each other, but the SWC was like Bama vs. Auburn with all of their teams, and they all hated when Arkansas won anything. The coaches and AD's would rat each other out.The conference had no control over the athletic departments. If they fined them, they didn't care. They happily would have paid a fine. College Football was making so little money, compared to now, that money would not matter over team pride!
1990 NCAA Sanctions at a Glance
School Primary Penalty in 1990 Reason
Florida Postseason ban & SEC title ineligibility Improper payments to staff/players
Clemson 1-year probation Recruiting inducements
SMU Probation extension Legacy of "Death Penalty" violations
Oklahoma Ongoing probation Recruiting violations
Other programs, such as Texas Tech and Texas, were also noted as being under investigation or facing scholarship losses during the late 1980s and early 1990s as the NCAA tightened control over the Southwest Conference.
From Google's AI
EDT: I moved to Dallas in 1984. I had no idea how much eight schools from Texas could hate each other, and Arkansas so much. The reason they had so many teams on probation was because of their hatred for each other. Other conference's teams think they hate each other, but the SWC was like Bama vs. Auburn with all of their teams, and they all hated when Arkansas won anything. The coaches and AD's would rat each other out.The conference had no control over the athletic departments. If they fined them, they didn't care. They happily would have paid a fine. College Football was making so little money, compared to now, that money would not matter over team pride!
This post was edited on 2/12/26 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 2/12/26 at 7:17 pm to chinese58
Galen Hall was accused of paying child support for one of is players. Never proven but we could've gotten the death penalty had we fought it. It got us Spurrier but 1990 is still a sore spot for him.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 7:30 pm to RollTide1987
Don’t act like millions of retarded fans didn’t co-sign and beg for the disaster we have now because they absolutely did.
This post was edited on 2/12/26 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 2/12/26 at 7:41 pm to AbuTheMonkey
quote:I feel that way about the Southwest Conference and the Big 8. too, and they have been gone for 30 years. Back then you didn't miss USC vs. UCLA, OU vs. Nebraska, or Texas vs. A&M. Those and Michigan vs. Ohio State & Alabama vs. Auburn were that way Every major conference game wasn't on TV every week, but those big games were shown by whichever network had the NCAA contract then, were shown every year.
One of the great institutions in American sports with a legacy more than a century old just collapsed almost overnight.
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In 1990, NCAA football broadcasts were primarily divided between major networks based on conference affiliations and membership in the
College Football Association (CFA).
Major National Networks
ABC Sports: Televised regular-season games primarily for the Big Ten and Pacific-10 (Pac-10) conferences.
CBS Sports: Held the rights to televise games for the CFA (which included the SEC, Big 8, and SWC at the time), the ACC, and the University of Miami.
NBC Sports: While NBC signed a landmark exclusive deal with Notre Dame in 1990, that contract did not begin until the 1991 season. In 1990, NBC’s coverage was limited to major bowl games like the Orange Bowl and Fiesta Bowl.
ESPN: Served as the primary national cable home for a wide variety of NCAA games, often broadcasting primetime matchups on Thursday and Saturday nights.
Cable and Syndication
TBS: Televised a package of regular-season games, often focusing on the SEC.
Regional & Syndicated Networks: Many games were broadcast via syndication or regional sports networks:
Raycom Sports and Jefferson-Pilot: Heavily syndicated games from the ACC and SEC to local affiliates.
SportsChannel and Prime Ticket: Provided regional coverage for various West Coast and Midwest matchups.
BET: Televised a "Black College Football" package featuring HBCU matchups.
Google AI
Posted on 2/12/26 at 7:45 pm to OWLFAN86
What comes out of a Chinaman;s arse?
Rice! Rice!
Rice! Rice!
This post was edited on 2/12/26 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 2/12/26 at 8:21 pm to rpg37
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Crazy thinking that at one time the Big Ten and Pac Ten conferences actually had ten teams. It's like it was logical.
B20
Posted on 2/12/26 at 8:49 pm to 632627
quote:that was the real problem.
knew fsu was independent back then, but had no clue there was no big east football conference
I've said it multiple times, they should have had a Northeast conference with Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Rutgers, Boston College and fill it in to 8 or 10. That should have existed from the start. Those schools had rivalries, and it would have been totally fine. Penn State gives you the blue blood benchmark, so whoever could beat them out would be seen as legit
Posted on 2/12/26 at 9:03 pm to Scoob
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I've said it multiple times, they should have had a Northeast conference with Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Rutgers, Boston College and fill it in to 8 or 10. That should have existed from the start. Those schools had rivalries, and it would have been totally fine. Penn State gives you the blue blood benchmark, so whoever could beat them out would be seen as legit
I know there was the Metro basketball conference (the precursor to conference USA) and alot of the East Coast schools were in it at one time for basketball.
It's odd that a football league never formed until the big east in 91.
Posted on 2/13/26 at 7:23 am to RollTide1987
Notre Dame needs to join a damn conference smh
Posted on 2/13/26 at 7:34 am to RollTide1987
They could have bumped it one year and added the Big East.
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