College Football 2024

[SonofSouthie]

A little tired this morning. Stayed up last night until the final whistle of Colorado's humiliation.

[Spartanforlife4]

Miami’s Cam Ward opted out at halftime of their shootout with Iowa State after he set the NCAA record for career TDs. That may be the most ridiculous opt out story. Miami went on to lose 42-41.

[Proud2baLaker]

So, ah,... I thought bowl games were to teams that are from different conferences in it.

But the Alamo Bowl is B12 BYU vs. B12 Colorado. What kind of bowl does that?

I believe the Alamo had agreements with the pac-12 and big 12 originally. For this year, they maintained the tie in with the pac 12 legacy teams. With the way things shook out, they had to take a legacy team, in this case Colorado. I'm sure new agreements and tie-ins will start next season but I don't know.

[MichVandal]

So, ah,... I thought bowl games were to teams that are from different conferences in it.

But the Alamo Bowl is B12 BYU vs. B12 Colorado. What kind of bowl does that?

[Russell Jaslow]

I defer to you. Who is the big out of state? Penn State?

Oooh, I didn't think of Penn State. You might be right. I do see a fair amount of Penn State. Also, Michigan and OSU, but I suspect most of those are actual alum, especially when I see them at work.

(One ironic WV note, only because it sort of involves me -- one of my sister's best friends went to WV on a track scholarship.)

[MichVandal]

Lots of close games in the bowls. Better seeding than in the playoffs.

And nice to see a service academy beat an SEC team. Can we adjust the SOS after the bowls?

[MichVandal]

Lots of close games in the bowls. Better seeding than in the playoffs.

And nice to see a service academy beat an SEC team. Can we adjust the SOS after the bowls?

[Kepler]

Okay. Fair enough. I understand your caveats. I still never see a darn WV anything in 40 years living in WNY.

I defer to you. Who is the big out of state? Penn State?

[Russell Jaslow]

Syracuse is in-state; does not count.

Okay. Fair enough. I understand your caveats. I still never see a darn WV anything in 40 years living in WNY.

[MichVandal]

Could be. I may have been stuck in these benighted semi-southern slums for too long.

It could also be that B10 alumni have jobs while the SEC's are all on the Lottery Ticket Retirement Plan. You can't sell trucks to the indigent.

One also needs to remember that the B1G evenly distributes money- making every team want to contribute as much as they can to make money. The SEC biases Bama considerably, and I'm sure they gave Texas some kind of bias payments like they had with their former conferences. There's not much reason for Vandy to help Bama make more money than they do.

So it's possible, if even likely, that Bama and Texas are doing better than Michigan, OSU, or PSU. But on a whole, comparing Northwestern to Vanderbilt- yea. On the whole, the B1G is far closer to an even professional conference than the SEC is. And I'm sure ND is still hurting over trying it on their own.

BTW, I'm not all that keen on that much money in college sports- who is making all of that money coming to Michigan? Up until this season, the athletes were not. Maybe I'll feel better now that there is revenue sharing with the players- since they are the ones doing all of the hard work making the conference money.

[mookie1995]

[Kepler]

Do it in the pooper or come on her face.
no babies then

[Kepler]

I have never seen a single WV anything in Western NY. It's all Syracuse out here, even when we're not in Syracuse (which is Central NY).

Syracuse is in-state; does not count.

Caveat: all info at time of residence. (Upstate NY circa 1981-85)

[Russell Jaslow]

NY: downstate has no trailers; southern tier is Penn State, western part of the state has WV (?!) stuff all over

I have never seen a single WV anything in Western NY. It's all Syracuse out here, even when we're not in Syracuse (which is Central NY).

[dxmnkd316]

Is there? As universities and research grants, sure. But if that mattered the Ivies, MIT, and Cal Tech would have dominant TV contracts.

It's the SEC's captive sport. The rest of us, including Notre Dame, are esoteric NC schedule fodder that gets a deep run once a decade. Think of how many people outside their states have Alabama or Tennessee gear. Does anyone outside any B10 school state have the slightest interest?

Every blue state has trailer park cesspools of SEC fans. There's just nothing comparable except for the Irish's Catholic headlock.

The big ten academic alliance, which was (maybe still is) the backbone of the actual alliance the schools had, was worth something like $750M-$2B per school before this last expansion. Football as a whole combined was in the range of $1.5-2B. So you are correct, sports is a small player in the scheme of things. But still important.