4 Auto Bids For SEC and Big 10?
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And so it begins. Sounds like what they really want is a 2 conference invitational tournament and call it a championship playoff.
Also, those two will quit playing G5 schools because heaven forbid they lose to one of them.
The older I get the less I care. I’m a very casual pro sports fan. I watch a few NFL, very little MLB until playoffs, and absolutely no NBA.
The ride from 1985 to the ACC was a fun one. Lot of great trips and big wins!
But now we’re here and have to live with paid players and a stacked deck.
I’m afraid the next 20 years will be ho-hum, status quo, take what they give us FB, and not nearly as fun.
I hope I’m wrong.
The older I get the less I care. I’m a very casual pro sports fan. I watch a few NFL, very little MLB until playoffs, and absolutely no NBA.
The ride from 1985 to the ACC was a fun one. Lot of great trips and big wins!
But now we’re here and have to live with paid players and a stacked deck.
I’m afraid the next 20 years will be ho-hum, status quo, take what they give us FB, and not nearly as fun.
I hope I’m wrong.
You only need auto bids if you can't make it on merit AND, as we already see today, completely biased, in your pocket media.
The only way the other groups should agree to this is limit them to the 2 auto bids. The entire system is built to guarantee those conference 2-6 spots. They can manipulate their scheduling to almost guarantee 4-6 teams. Their problem is they need their brands to play each other every year. They are afraid they will eat their own especially if they go to a 9 game schedule or add a Big Ten team to their non conference. They want Ohio State to play Georgia with no real risk.
A lot of this is going to be schedule based. Indiana has a real shot at playoff. They get their 50-50 games at home. Catch a down Michigan team at home. They could finish 10-2 and not beaten anyone. Similar to Louisville last year. Ole Miss was set up beautifully with their schedule now they botched it with the loss to UK. Missouri is another one that is set up nicely.
The reality is there is no stopping it. Those conference will always have teams to fill spots in the playoff. The SEC/Big Ten has the most talent and it will continue to have the most talent.
A lot of this is going to be schedule based. Indiana has a real shot at playoff. They get their 50-50 games at home. Catch a down Michigan team at home. They could finish 10-2 and not beaten anyone. Similar to Louisville last year. Ole Miss was set up beautifully with their schedule now they botched it with the loss to UK. Missouri is another one that is set up nicely.
The reality is there is no stopping it. Those conference will always have teams to fill spots in the playoff. The SEC/Big Ten has the most talent and it will continue to have the most talent.
And the NCAA has no power to stop it, football post season is pretty much all based on what the conferences agree to do.
The SEC and Big Ten are the playoff, the ACC, Big 12, and others have 0 bargaining power. That's why I do say it's better for our league if FSU, Clemson, and Miami are all among the elite, because they would have a bargaining chip and "a rising tide lifts all ships" type effect. If fans think those great programs are being left out, then there's leverage. But when those programs sink like FSU has been for a decade & Miami for 20 years, and Clemson is now just OK, the national audience will just tune out the league.
Not saying it's fair or right, but it just is what it is.
I’m exactly the same on the casual sports deal. I follow Louisville football and hopefully now Louisville basketball as the last 4 or 5 years have been unwatchable. I watch the Ravens because of Lamar.
All the other conferences need to say **** espn and boycott playing on it. I know that sounds radical but the only way to change things sometimes takes a bold move. There are enough broadcast stations to pick them up.
NBC has Notre Dame and Big Ten
Fox has the Big Ten and Big 12
CBS has the Big Ten
Those 3 also have financial issues and aren’t looking for other places. If we boycott ESPN, no one else is going to pay us big money and it would all fall apart.
Boycotting them does nothing. We cashed their checks for years, we’re stuck with them until 2036 or the ACC falls apart.
You think so? I just have a hard time believing all these television outlets are going to let the ACC, Big 12 and all the rest of the cfb conference go unwatched. I’d like to see all those tv outlets you mentioned fill their slots with 2 conferences 😂
We have a contract with ESPN through 2036 as long as they renew in 2028.
They’d pay, but you’re acting like we have leverage. And just say we boycott and break off from the Big 2 conferences, what value would we have then? What if they “boycott” us? Then we’d lose a lot of prestige because the viewing audience would consider our games meaningless.
It sucks, but we’re under their control and at their mercy.
Besides Ohio State what other 3 teams in the over rated Big10 are worthy to be in the college playoffs. There is absolutely nothing in the world of sports that's as over rated as Big10 football.
I know the last couple years that ACC football has been down. But you could make a case that over the last 10/15 years that the ACC has been better in football than the Big10.
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First it’s not US. It would be all teams other than those 2 conferences so there is no way ESPN can boycott anybody for the reason I stated. Good luck filling your television slots with games from just 2 conferences. I’m not a lawyer so I assume you are right we are locked in so it was just wishful thinking to put it to the bastards.
You do realize if they take 8 playoff teams from those 2 conferences that it only leaves 3 spots for the ACC and Big 12 combined because of the 12 seed being an undeserving mid major. Again the ACc and Big 12 fuked again.
I don’t watch any pro sports at all and the way they are ruining the college game it won’t be long before I quit watching college sports.
Simply stated: "Hell to the NO". Earn it on the field by being a champ not an also ran. Only the two teams that earn the right to make it to the league playoffs should get automatic bids...none of this guaranteed stuff for the others.
Maybe they should not have been so greedy in their espansion grabs. The rest of the others not in the SEC/BIG should lawyer up and sue for to break up the unfair monapoly rights being acclaimed.
This BS and will ruin college FB even more than it already is. I despise it all.
Maybe they should not have been so greedy in their espansion grabs. The rest of the others not in the SEC/BIG should lawyer up and sue for to break up the unfair monapoly rights being acclaimed.
This BS and will ruin college FB even more than it already is. I despise it all.
I watch to be entertained. I don’t care how they pay them but the biggest turnoff for me is how the players act on the field.
We have to keep in mind this is a TV product. Georgia and Alabama drew 12 million. That is the end game. The entire system requires the brands to succeed. It becomes extremely challenging from a scheduling perspective for SEC and Big 10.
They are trying to protect their brands while forcing them to play each other. They are trying to leave the door open for 3 loss teams to have a spot They are looking playing games against each other. They are doing that to have Georgia play Michigan, Penn State or Ohio State. They sure aren’t doing it to have Georgia play Indiana. Then you have SEC and Big Ten schedule. Then the conference championship games.
It will be brutal. I doubt they will do the games against each other without 2 automatic bids. It is too risky.
They are trying to protect their brands while forcing them to play each other. They are trying to leave the door open for 3 loss teams to have a spot They are looking playing games against each other. They are doing that to have Georgia play Michigan, Penn State or Ohio State. They sure aren’t doing it to have Georgia play Indiana. Then you have SEC and Big Ten schedule. Then the conference championship games.
It will be brutal. I doubt they will do the games against each other without 2 automatic bids. It is too risky.
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