"Right Sizing" the FBS: When does it happen?
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IMO, this should have happened during the conference realignment rounds about 10 years ago. Even though we are only 600 miles apart, when it comes to athletic revenue, the University of Texas and the University of Texas at El Paso might as well be on completely different planets.
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If it happens, it'll be a while. Playoff expansion will ensure that undefeated mid majors will have a shot to prove themselves.
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The biggest problem is and will continue to be that most of these G5 teams get shit tons of money for all of their athletic programs by playing, and losing to, P5 teams.
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I think the little guys are essential for CFB.
Is a mistake to shrink the field.
Is a mistake to shrink the field.
True. I don't see that changing unless all the breakaway schools decide to have a schedule full of only opponents in their "division" or whatever name it goes by. Then there wouldn't be any room in the schedule to pay lower level schools to come in. If not, then each school can decide which lower level teams they are willing to pay to come in for a game and how much they will pay them. Just like it is happening now.
They'd still be CFB. Just not in the same division. I don't have the figures but I'd be willing to bet our total athletic budget is a whole lot closer in size to that of Sam Houston State's than Texas A&M's.
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Kansas will join the Big 10 first, so after 2025 when the Big 12 media rights expire.
I found this interesting. 65, 30-60 and 80-100 were all mentioned as possibilities. What's the number going to be? If it is 100 that really only decreases the FBS number by 30. If that's the case, what's the point?
"65 Power Fives schools annually split 78% of the half-billion annual take from the College Football Playoff."
A list of options has been mentioned ranging from a 30-60 team "federation" to group of 80-100 teams that would operate by the same rules. It wouldn't so much be an exclusion of schools but a standard they must attain.
65, 30-60 and 80-100 were all mentioned as possibilities. What's the number going to be? If it is 100 that really only decreases the FBS number by 30. If that's the case, what's the point?
Will the standards cause some schools to "sell the farm" in order to meet the standards?
"65 Power Fives schools annually split 78% of the half-billion annual take from the College Football Playoff."
A list of options has been mentioned ranging from a 30-60 team "federation" to group of 80-100 teams that would operate by the same rules. It wouldn't so much be an exclusion of schools but a standard they must attain.
65, 30-60 and 80-100 were all mentioned as possibilities. What's the number going to be? If it is 100 that really only decreases the FBS number by 30. If that's the case, what's the point?
Will the standards cause some schools to "sell the farm" in order to meet the standards?
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You think that is really going to happen? Who do they take with them or will they have unbalanced divisions?
The only way they do this is if the academic AAU grant money makes it attractive. No other reason.
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My thinking is Colorado
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Depends on how you define break away.
I can see a P5/G5 split with some of the bigger G5 schools like Boise State staying with the P5. I think the Big12 will still stick around as a kind-of P5 conference similar to Big East in the 2004-2012 time frame. They will be 2nd-tier but they won't be G5. So if there was a split, I think the Big12 stays with the other Power 4 leagues instead of dropping down.
If you are talking about P5 leagues dumping weaker teams like ACC dumping Wake Forest, I don't see that happening at the moment. Long term, I could see ACC being poached by B1G and SEC.
I can see a P5/G5 split with some of the bigger G5 schools like Boise State staying with the P5. I think the Big12 will still stick around as a kind-of P5 conference similar to Big East in the 2004-2012 time frame. They will be 2nd-tier but they won't be G5. So if there was a split, I think the Big12 stays with the other Power 4 leagues instead of dropping down.
If you are talking about P5 leagues dumping weaker teams like ACC dumping Wake Forest, I don't see that happening at the moment. Long term, I could see ACC being poached by B1G and SEC.
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I don't know if that could happen. It would cause some serious bad blood and butt hurt with the PAC. The PAC and B1G have always been pretty close and that's a big freaking deal.
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Well, I am a fan of the Group and Power conferences splitting. Both "leagues" having a 4 team playoff. Or maybe 8, 12, whatever. Hell yeah!!! More college football.
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In case you don’t see it, the writing is on the wall. what will the future of post-secondary school, pre-NFL football look like? Will whatever league(s) forms still be tied to colleges? What size will that league be? Will the NCAA still be involved? If not the NCAA, which entity(s) will step up...
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Never because the P5 schools won’t agree on one governing body to oversee the process. As long as there are conferences they won’t agree nor would they ever agree on uniformed schedules.
UTEP and UTSA should be in the big 12
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I know this would never happen in college football because you can’t just make quick changes on the fly, but who would be a fan of a promotion and relegation system?
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In regards to promotion and relegation. The other part about it is this: you know how many say well UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, etc. won’t make it in the B1G, Big XII, SEC, etc. This way would kinda prove it.