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2021 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

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I don’t really buy the concept that any Iowa State season is made better by smacking around a Texas team with a big brand.

Why not? Texas has gotten ranked because they're Texas plenty in the past and college resumes are built on ranked wins.

The sport has always lacked parity but I'm afraid the upcoming shift will leave a lot of programs and schools behind in a more real way to the point where the things that made it unique & fun to follow are simply gone. But hopefully I'm just being doom & gloom and the field adapts better than expected.
 
I'm concerned about the direction the sport is going as well. The regular season has always been the crown jewel of College Football, the best in sports by far (IMO). With the expanded playoff, it's going to be just another regular season now. You lose a game? Big deal, you end up an 8 seed instead of the 4th seed. Before it was life and death. The spectacle of upsets just isn't going to matter nearly as much anymore. Additionally, the expanded playoff will be the death of bowl games. You will have the CFP and that will be it. Which is a shame, bowl games used to mean something and were a ton of fun to watch. Many of my favorite OSU games ever were bowl games that weren't Championship Games.

And having 2-3 super conferences (seems like that's where this is heading) just destroys a lot of tradition and history. More importantly, I don't want OSU traveling to California every other week for a "Big Noon" kickoff at 9am local time, for example. Fuck that.
 
Big Ten needs to be making some moves here. Can't stand pat in this day and age.

Think it might be worth trying to get Kentucky out of the SEC. Better chance to compete in football AND you offer them true marquee matchups in basketball where they can develop a natural in conference rival that they've largely lacked in the SEC.
 
Good call:


For those that want to look: https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Iowa State is a member and would certainly want to join us, but they don't offer a new market and don't bring much to the table other than currently having Matt Campbell.

Kansas makes sense to me because they are a basketball blue blood in a state the B1G isn't presently in. But they are the opposite of a school that can move the needle in terms of football. Notre Dame is the only big move available that isn't already in a secure conference, and I don't think they're interested.
 
Had it been Oklahoma winning all of those national titles and not Alabama, then this all probably goes the other direction and it's the SEC about to crumble as the Big 12 is getting everyone to join.

But the Big 12 simply doesn't get the same level of recruits these days because all of the elite kids wanna go to the SEC schools.
 
Not 100% true. Nebraska isn't an AAU member. Kansas, Iowa State, UNC, Virginia, Duke, and Pittsburgh are though...
Actually, it's completely true. @NorthCoastBias said they're not going to take on a sub-par academic institution. When the B1G took on Nebraska they were an AAU member. They lost their AAU status when the AAU changed the way they calculate their ratings. They stopped using USDA-funded agricultural research in their rating algorithm and they no longer gave Nebraska credit for their medical research since it wasn't being conducted on the main campus in Lincoln but rather at their campus in Omaha. In fact, former Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman said that had Nebraska not been part of the AAU, the Big Ten Conference would likely not have invited it to become the athletic conference's 12th member. Here's the proof: Link
 
Had it been Oklahoma winning all of those national titles and not Alabama, then this all probably goes the other direction and it's the SEC about to crumble as the Big 12 is getting everyone to join.
It would take A LOT more than that to kill the SEC.
 
It would take A LOT more than that to kill the SEC.

Absolutely. They have 6 titles in the last 20 years without counting Bama. The B1G has 2 total and their both Ohio State.

Now, hypothetically, if Oklahoma were Bama and Bama were Oklahoma, there likely is a shift in power that keeps more talent in the Big 12, but despite Bama's dominance you can't credit them entirely for the strength of the SEC. Clemson has knocked them off a couple times but the ACC isn't challenging them in any meaningful way.
 
I'm concerned about the direction the sport is going as well. The regular season has always been the crown jewel of College Football, the best in sports by far (IMO). With the expanded playoff, it's going to be just another regular season now. You lose a game? Big deal, you end up an 8 seed instead of the 4th seed. Before it was life and death. The spectacle of upsets just isn't going to matter nearly as much anymore. Additionally, the expanded playoff will be the death of bowl games. You will have the CFP and that will be it. Which is a shame, bowl games used to mean something and were a ton of fun to watch. Many of my favorite OSU games ever were bowl games that weren't Championship Games.

And having 2-3 super conferences (seems like that's where this is heading) just destroys a lot of tradition and history. More importantly, I don't want OSU traveling to California every other week for a "Big Noon" kickoff at 9am local time, for example. Fuck that.

I agree with this, though I think it's probably just a matter of taste. Those who viewed college football as the minor league/developmental league for the NFL probably will be really happy with it because they'll get to see the best players/teams playing each other more often. I think those who liked the "college" aspect of it are more likely not to like it. For me, part of the interest of college football was some degree of commonality among all the schools. Even though my school isn't a Power 5 school, we still played games against some Power 5 schools, so it all felt connected.

But when you couple this with big-time players openly getting paid, it now seems the the big boys within the Power 5 are going to be more or less separate from the rest of CFB. I'll probably have less interest than I did before.
 
But when you couple this with big-time players openly getting paid, it now seems the the big boys within the Power 5 are going to be more or less separate from the rest of CFB. I'll probably have less interest than I did before.
Lol

The players that it will matter for aren't going to UAB or Akron.

If anything, this helps smaller football programs and players look out for their players with some local endorsements.

If you wanted to believe in the facade of amateurism then that's on you. It hasn't been amateur since the invention of the TV.
 
The players that it will matter for aren't going to UAB or Akron.

Schools with the strongest boosters will essentially be able to buy talent to a much greater degree than they could before. That will be true at pretty much every level. It'll become very pronounced when you get to the top level programs with very wealthy boosters.

Of course, there was always some of that before. But nothing like what it will become when it can be done openly.

Lol's aside, how much that matters to each fan is a matter of personal preference.
 

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