Idk. If the SEC East is Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vandy, and Tennessee, that suits my interests better than yours. Cause like playing MSU, LSU, and Ole Miss every few years.
alright that’s my bad you let those conferences know I was off by 900k people and I’m sure they’ll extend an invite to us both
Everyone keeps 1 rivalry game in a pod, right? Iron Bowl is a pod game, UA/UT is the rivalry. UF/UGA is a pod game, UF/LSU is the rivalry. Pushing back on needs is more in context of the above post requiring 6 needed games. You won't preserve 5/6 traditional schedules in a pod. Put Texas/OU in same pod, rivalry game is TAMU/TX.
team consolidation is teams being afraid they'll be left out when the final form of CFB is achieved also that historical rivalries are always WILDLY overrated as components keeping certain pairings together
100,000 vs 60,000 (combined) Top 5 ratings market in the country. KC is a college sports town. Basically the SEC of Midwest markets because it means more.
I'm good with that if a division format, Auburn adds back the traditional UT and Florida games before expansion. Leaves LSU as the only Big 6 school in the West.
I’m sure the B1G and SEC will be busting down KU’s door to get into this hot market that they *checks notes* already have
Nobody gives a fuck about Mizzou unless they play KU or emaw. That's why they kept begging KU to play them again. I'm not making any bold predictions bc KU isn't allowed to have really nice things outside of a bball Natty every 20 years.Can't wait for the 2028 season lol
Believe the best way to preserve traditional rivalries is the pod system based on contiguous geography.
I hope both Kansas schools get to stay at the top level of college sports. But if it's just 1 it'll be KU.
Would love to add a clause to all coaching contracts in the East that means automatic fines escalating to termination if said coach loses to the Mississippi schools. Let's make this interesting while we're at it.
Oh god. Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss is coming to Knoxville October 16th. I haven't a clue who UT is going to play at QB. Joe Milton is apparently enormous. Kaidon Salter managed to get involved in robbing a weed dealer with players thrown off the team first week on campus. And then after a length investigation that cleared Salter, he went and got popped for holding weed in less than a week after being reinstated. Idiot. Bailey or Milton is my guess.
Spit balling here if I had my way, the hell with Baylor. Notre Dame and WVU could easily be in the ACC rather than Rutgers/Maryland. SEC TAMU, LSU, Arkansas, Mizzou Texas, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, State Auburn, Bama, Vandy, Kentucky Tennessee, Florida, SC, Georgia Big 10 Purdue, Illinois, Ohio State, Wisconsin Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas State, Kansas Notre Dame, West Virginia, Penn State, Indiana ACC Syracuse, Boston College, Rutgers, Pitt Clemson, Maryland, North Carolina, NC State FSU, Miami, Georgia Tech, Virginia Duke, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Wake Forest PAC 16 USC, UCLA, Arizona, ASU Washington, WSU, Oregon, OSU Stanford, Cal, Colorado, Utah Texas Tech, TCU, Oklahoma State, Iowa State
West Virginia isn't getting into the Big Ten any time soon. It would be nice if Notre Dame wasn't afraid of joining
No rival in each pod. Your rivals are in your own pod. Those are the only teams you play every year. The others rotate on/off schedule.
Notre Dame would join the big ten but they've exhibited some poor leadership lately And don't forget the disgusting B1G sex crimes of which the catholic church cannot afford to be associated with
If this is the thing that finally makes people stop acting like Tennessee vs. Alabama is an important game, I’m 100% in favor of it.
The NCAA sucks, but would they create new rule/oversight independent body to over see rules, etc? Would other sports break away too?
Mizzou never lusted for the B1G. They correctly recognized Texas ruined the B12 and lusted for ways to get off the Titanic. We leaped at the opportunity to go to the B1G obviously. Thankfully Nebraska scooped us and we landed in the SEC. Looking at how Nebraska is flailing in the B1G, mostly due to no connection to fertile recruiting grounds, and how the appeal of playing in the SEC has helped Mizzou recruit better than it has historically, along w some on field success - it couldn’t have worked out any better for us. We could have easily been in the same position as Nebraska (without the massive disappointment of entitled expectations). Id say 90% of Mizzou fans love being in the SEC. The other 10% are just olds that hate change and don’t understand why they moved. The influx of cash has been great for the AD. For some reason, we got all the shit from the remaining B12 schools of all the schools that left. News like this just validates the decision to move and makes those criticisms look dumb af and sour grapes, which is what it always was.
Nebraska recruiting results on signing day is not why Nebraska sucks. Player retention, development, and coaching is why Nebraska is an abomination.
The four divisions will require an even distribution of the bottom tier teams like Vandy, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Auburn.
As G5 team fan it sucks. We’ve been down for a good bit now, but used to have a pretty good history along with some other G5 schools. I get as an FBS school USM is never going to win a national championship, but flirting with the top 25 sometimes finishing in it and attempting to compete against the highest level is entertaining and keeps me interested. If CUSA, MT West, AAC and others have to create some D2 like league…. I’m honestly just not interested in watching. Hate it for schools like mine.
Since this all feels like ESPN pulling shit do they then incentivize the AAC to a higher payout to grab some of the left overs in the B12 instead of letting FOX poach the top of the AAC and make that league less valuable?
It seriously creeps me out that porn shops still exist and the parking lots always have cars in them when I drive by. It’s 2021 for fucks sake. There’s one here in Houston next to a comic book store that I used to drive by at 5:30 in the morning and the parking lot was always full.
(South) SEC: Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky LSU Mississippi State Oklahoma Ole Miss South Carolina Tennessee Texas Texas A&M Vanderbilt Pick another Texas school/Memphis (North) B1G: Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Rutgers Wisconsin (East) ACC: Boston College Clemson Duke Florida State Georgia Tech Louisville Miami North Carolina North Carolina State Notre Dame Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest West Virginia (West) PAC: Arizona Arizona State Cal Colorado Iowa State Kansas State Oklahoma State Oregon Oregon State Stanford Texas Tech UCLA USC Utah Washington Washington State