about halfway thru this podcast, Rece and Thamel say our targets will be UNC and Virginia. Same for Big Ten. Both will obviously want Notre Dame first (but SEC has basically ensured Notre Dame's ability to remain independent so long as it gets a media deal). seems like the grant of rights issue for ACC schools is easier for the SEC as they share the same rights holder
cliffs: The uncertainty around the expanded CFP is one of two primary reasons that the league may choose this short-term, eight-game scheduling plan. The other one: additional revenue from ESPN, which isn’t expected—at least not right now. In support of 9 currently = Florida, Georgia, Texas A&M, LSU and Missouri. So need 3 more.
Which is exactly what the people who understand this have been saying. Usually while getting yelled at by FSU people
I for sure think thats what would get the required 3 teams - in addition to Florida, Georgia, Texas A&M, LSU and Missouri - across the line for 9 games in 2024. on the other hand waiting till the ink is dry on all the expanded CFP details could be a smart move. They may also lobby to remove the 6-6 threshold for bowl eligibility as well.
It would make me happy if a potential 11 or 12 seed SEC team got left out because the other team they were deciding between played a 9th conference game while the SEC played St. Mary's school for the blind.
And it would be the same weekend as the Bayou Classic. Would love to see all that culture in the city at once. Just hear me out... Thursday - UT vs Aggy Friday - Yell Boys could participate in the Greek show and the Aggy band could be in the BotB (I frankly don't know shit about UT's band) Saturday - The Classic Sunday - Everyone gets bailed out
Auburn is holding on to top 15 status by....checking notes, losing to UGA 16 out of the last 18 years (or whatever the number is)
Neither team has any reason to do it. The additional Home game is probably the only real "issue" for UGA, but it's no different than it is now. The idea Auburn will no longer play "big games" b/c we'll lose UGA is really stupid. 50% of our schedule will be OU/Texas/LSU/Bama or UGA/UF/UT/Bama. We, along with the rest of the SEC will be just fine playing big games. My biggest issue is.... This. Every time they make a change solely for money they destroy something. From Auburn's perspective SEC Expands in 92 and we stop playing Tennessee; we played them every year since the 50s SEC changes non-divisional we drop Florida, which was our 2nd longest rivalry. Played them every year since 1912. Longer consecutive streak than Bama/Auburn and I believe more overall than the Iron Bowl SEC goes to 14 teams and the gap when we play UT/UF just widens. SEC goes to 16 teams and the longest running rivalry in the south (fuck UNC/UVA, don't count) ends b/c ESPN will not pay more for a 9th game It's really fucking dumb.
What changes were made when this happened? I know we used to play every year but I was too young/wasn't paying attention to know why we stopped.
There used to be 2 cross divisional perm opponents. They dropped it to 1 around 2002 or so. We've played twice in the last 15 years after playing from 1912-2002 (outside war years)
Thanks, now I remember hearing that before. We've needed to fix scheduling ever since A&M and Mizzou joined in 2012. This will be their 14th year in the conference and UGA somehow STILL will not have played at College Station.
TBQH Aggies being in our beautiful conference for 14 years seems absolutely wild. Lucky for UGA, the SEC will do some stupid temporary schedule for 2 years, they'll probably avoid A&M, then we'll add 2 more teams, completely fuck up schedules again, and never have to each out to College Station. Must be nice to avoid those fucking weirdos
I don't have the stats in front of me, but we HAVE to have played A&M more than any other East team since they joined the conference besides South Carolina.
Pretty funny how much ink has been spilled lamenting how NIL is ruining college sports when it is and always has been administrators killing the game in search of short term monetary increases for member schools. If the NCAA actually cared about promoting athletics, they would’ve convened and empowered some kind of long term feasibility committee like 10 years ago when it became apparent that the cable/broadcast television model was fundamentally dying.
How is the cable/broadcast model dying when we're getting more and more and more jumps in money per school?
For fewer and fewer schools. It’s likely unsustainable. Generally, the way that people are decreasingly watching traditional television and streaming more, and that fewer games are appearing on premier channels in favor of ancillary locations. Then things like Pac 12 struggling to get a deal and things like Bally Sports going bankrupt indicate that the landscape of sports watching is changing - especially when these giant deals end up making the sport less appealing.
Bally and the death of the P12 are really bad comparables. You can get ESPN/ABC on non traditional cable services unlike Bally. Viewership is an issue with the west coast teams thar doesn't exist here
Easy to see a scenario in which the Pac12 and the Big12 are both relegated to lower tier networks/channels, get significantly less money, and ultimately have insurmountable hurdles to regularly contend.
Unless sports themselves are getting less popular, seems like the numbers will work themselves out. Those eyeballs are gonna go somewhere. Sports is the only live show left
Lol like we care about buyouts. We will still pay the smaller programs so they can have an operating budget. Scum behavior from Arkansas iyam
I think there’s a point at which conference expansion and ultimately a super league could push out enough schools and locations that viewership declines. I mean, are South Carolina fans going to overwhelmingly watch a 30 team college football super league if they aren’t in it?