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Football season cometh.
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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This isn’t the end of good college football…but you can see it from here. Within five years Big Ten and the SEC will have enough brand power to form their own playoffs and dump the old bowls like Sugar, Orange, and Rose. New money will ensure those old, glorious rivalry games will be bought out to something shiny and expensive. The SEC is already talking about it and why When the Sooners and Texas officially join in 2025, the SEC could hypothetically have an eight-team playoff with the likes of the Sooners, Longhorns, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee and Florida…the eight most popular brands in all of football. It isn’t hard to imagine what networks would be willing to pay for streaming rights and that money, combined with the eventual “pay for play” for college players will, gradually erode the ability for smaller schools to get talent in their programs as everyone with skill will rush to the new semi-pro league.
College football has died as we knew it multiple times. When football stopped being quasi-soccer, when they introduced the forward pass, when the NCAA was formed, when the service academies stopped dominating, when the NCAA regulated TV contracts, when the NCAA stopped being able to regulate TV contracts and the conferences took over, when the historic independents all started joining conferences, etc. etc. etc.
Agree to disagree…this is different. This is the end of regional rivalries that have survived since the days of leather helmets.
21 days, or 504 hours, and counting until the first big week of college football.
Going to be a special year as we fly home to the Palmetto State for vacation during fall break - and get to take my 6 year old daughter to her first game at Williams-Brice.
Going to be a special year as we fly home to the Palmetto State for vacation during fall break - and get to take my 6 year old daughter to her first game at Williams-Brice.
On a quick detour to the NFL, this is the 50th anniversary of the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only perfect season in NFL history.
With Coach Don Shula, Miami paired the No-Name Defense led by middle linebacker Nick Buonicotti with the greatest running attack in NFL history featuring two 1,000 yard rushers in halfback Mercury Morris and fullback Larry Csonka, the Dolphins overcame the injury of QB Bob Griese and literally steamrolled every opponent with a relentless, mistake-proof ground game. The forward pass is so over-rated…
With Coach Don Shula, Miami paired the No-Name Defense led by middle linebacker Nick Buonicotti with the greatest running attack in NFL history featuring two 1,000 yard rushers in halfback Mercury Morris and fullback Larry Csonka, the Dolphins overcame the injury of QB Bob Griese and literally steamrolled every opponent with a relentless, mistake-proof ground game. The forward pass is so over-rated…
Fuck 2020 for ruining my plans to finally experience the Whiteout. I’m too old for it to have been a thing when I was in undergrad. Maybe 2023.
The BIG-10 just signed a deal with a number of media outlets to include CBS - which started to advertise the BIG-10 using the music now associated with the SEC. Hearing that theme and rushing to the TV expecting to see Florida-LSU or ‘Bama-Georgia only to realize it is Iowa-Rutgers…. Is nothing sacred???
theathletic.com
The SEC-Big Ten TV deal battle is about more than theme songs
College football’s obsession with conference superiority is quickly turning into strictly a two-league affair.
theathletic.com
You will get a puntfest, and you will LIKE getting a puntfest!
No, I won’t.
Question for you: one of the items on my bucket list (which also includes touring every US battleship as well as seeing HMS Victory) is to go to a game at every SEC stadium. Would like to also visit a few games at other conferences (have been to both Death Valley in Clemson and Doak Campbell in Tallahassee). Which 3 stadiums would you suggest for the BIG-10 ?
Whiteout in Happy Valley and The Game in both the Shoe and the Big House, easy.
If anyone wants photos of their stadiums, Fine Art America has a nice selection. www.fineartamerica.com
I just ordered a photo of Williams Brice for my office. Lot of excitement this year with Shane Beamer starting his 2nd year - just had two 4-star defensive linemen sign in the last 72 hours.
The college football playoff is going to 12 teams in 2026 (maybe sooner)
www.espn.com
Meanwhile, tomorrow is the first big weekend of college ‘ball. “South On Ya!”
CFP board decides on 12-team playoff format
The College Football Playoff's board of managers voted Friday to expand the CFP to 12 teams in 2026, but it is encouraging the sport's commissioners to try to implement it as soon as 2024.
Meanwhile, tomorrow is the first big weekend of college ‘ball. “South On Ya!”
Credit to Notre Dame for staying closer to Ohio State than most people thought.
Meanwhile:
Florida 29, Utah 26
Arkansas 31, Cincinnati 24
and as I surmised
Georgia 49, Oregon 3