I think I’m losing interest in college football at a rapid rate

Illustrious Potentate said:
Florida, Auburn and GT are the only rivals UGA has played pretty much every year. SCar was played more often even before they were in the SEC more than most SEC teams. Clemson too.

UGA and Tennessee went from the mid 30’s through the mid 60’s without playing at all despite both being in the SEC the entire time.

It’s why if the SEC goes to 3 permanent rivals when OU and Texas come, SCar will be one of UGA’s and not Tennessee or Alabama
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Explains why the SEC wasn't on my radar. The year-after-year games made for must watch TV. Michigan-Ohio State was circled on the calendar. Army-Navy, too.
 
Kburjr said:
Explains why the SEC wasn't on my radar. The year-after-year games made for must watch TV. Michigan-Ohio State was circled on the calendar. Army-Navy, too.
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You still had Georgia-Florida, Alabama-Auburn, Alabama-Tennessee, Georgia-Auburn etc
 
Kburjr said:
Explains why the SEC wasn't on my radar. The year-after-year games made for must watch TV. Michigan-Ohio State was circled on the calendar. Army-Navy, too.
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It's also why Wisconsin-Minnesota is the most important game of the season for me.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
It’s why if the SEC goes to 3 permanent rivals when OU and Texas come, SCar will be one of UGA’s and not Tennessee or Alabama
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And that makes total sense because South Carolina doesn't share a border with any other state that has SEC schools. Georgia is our ONLY geographical rival. We're in direct competition with you guys for those local 2 and 3 star players.
 
There could be something down the road that pulls me back in and gets me more invested.

Maybe if every one of UGA’s rivals didn’t suck
 
Kburjr said:
Even if Florida would win a natty, they would still suck.
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True, but when they finish 6-7 and they did better than your other two rivals, rivalry weekend kinda loses its luster.

The only two games this year I got excited about were Oregon and Tennessee and they were both over before halftime. And neither are really rivals
 
Kburjr said:
I get that. If you get your players from Minnesota and Wisconsin, that's how you play. Or as Grant said, "Them rebs sure can run."
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If you get your players from Wisconsin and Minnesota, your school should probably just focus on ice soccer
 
Kburjr said:
...and women's volleyball.
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And women’s lumberjacking if they’re anything like the healthy women in South Dakota. I’d wrestle a bear before I would that woman that cooked for us up there
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
This had made liking players or having a favorite player a bit harder. Kids are leaving and bouncing around so often now that you really have no idea what your team will look like next season. You get a good kid in recruiting, he sits one year and then bounces the next. Honestly, I'm starting to think the transfer portal is the new "Recruiting ranking". How long until one of these sites ranks your recruiting class AND ranks your transfer portal class (if that already doesn't exist)? The transfer kids seem even more important now than ever because you can expect major departures from kids who lost spots almost every single year.
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I agree. Unless transfers are added to incoming HS recruits, there isn't a true picture of how a team's make up is changing for the next year.
 
Hu War Yu said:
That's my take. Most of us, when we get older, we start to develop different priorities and interests. I still enjoy football but I don't get as emotionally involved as I did when I was in my teens and 20's. It's just entertainment, none of it puts bread on my table.

Besides: all my teams are crap, in every sport. There's no point in hoping for any kind of title in any given year/sport.
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Hold my beer.
 
It's really been the super conferences that have killed what made the sport so great, which is its tradition(along was with $$$). Gone were A&M/Texas, WVU/Pitt, Kansas/Mizzou, Nebraska/Colorado, Nebraska/OU, Maryland had great CBB rivalries in the ACC, and there is huge fan apathy there, having known a bunch of Maryland fans(I'm sure I'm missing some others). It's even affected a team like ND. We had great schedule back in the day, typically 3/4 B1G teams. 3/4 Big East teams. Navy, Stanford & USC. Then fill it out with a couple other teams. Just comparing ND's 2003 schedule to next year.

2003: Washington State, 3 B1G teams(Michigan, MSU, Purdue) 3 Big East schools(Pitt, BC, Syracuse), Stanford, Navy, USC, 2 Others(BYU, FSU).

2023: Central Michigan, Tennessee State, Ohio State, USC, Navy, Stanford, 6 ACC schools(Clemson, Wake Forest, Duke, NC State, Louisville and Pitt)

That's like 6 games next year where I'm already disinterested in(CMU, TSU, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, and Louisville)

I'm hoping with the 12 team model, we get more important Non conference games, where losing a game doesn't make you need to win the rest. Big games are what makes the sport so great, we've lost out on a bunch of rivalry games over the last decade, so now hopefully they can be replaced with better marquee Non conference games.
 
Wild Turkey said:
I'm going to be interested if any of these players get nailed for tax evasion because we all know there are going to be plenty that try not to claim the NIL money and when the 1099s come it is going to be a shocker and the money will be spent.
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:nod:

:pop2::martini::pop2:
 
wait is it super conferences y'all hate or is it because bigger schools decide to go elsewhere?

Because people liked the SWC, I did too.. but I wouldn't want to be a part of it still.. Stadiums weren't full.. people weren't tuning into Raycom to watch Rice vs UH. The old Big12 was good, at least the South division, but I think there are better games to be had in the SEC move for UT and ou.
 
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