USC/ND rivalry may be done after this year..........

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Just read an article where this is the last year of the USC/ND contract. Obviously ND wants to extend the contract, as they need as many big games as they can get. USC isn't willing to sign a deal, as they now have the travel schedule with the B1G and all the B1G games to play and adding another cross country trip every other year against a big program doesn't make much sense.

I hate to say it, but I think you will see a ton of teams going this route. Those big OOC games mean little to nothing to teams in the B1G or SEC. It can only hurt them. I love getting to watch them, but completely understand why schools will move away from them, especially after how the CFP committee handled the teams put into the 12 team field.
 
Who needs Notre Dame when you have Maryland and Rutgers
 
NinerSpartan said:
Who needs Notre Dame when you have Maryland and Rutgers
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In the B1G and the SEC -- they have so many big matchups, scheduling more in OOC makes no sense at all, especially after the CFP let not one, but two teams into the CFP who had zero wins against ranked teams.

Plus with USC and ND being 2000+ miles and multiple time zones away from each other -- it really doesn't make sense. ND needs that game. USC does not.
 
Mega conferences will be the death of college football. Shit got too big, too quick. The devastation that used to come with a regular season loss doesn’t exist anymore. Pretty well get two free passes, and you’re not out of it with 3 if the resume is good enough and you get some help.

It sucks. I’ll forever be a UGA diehard, but I find myself watching less and less regular season games UGA isn’t playing in every year(other than midweee Fun Belt and MACtion of course)
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Just read an article where this is the last year of the USC/ND contract. Obviously ND wants to extend the contract, as they need as many big games as they can get. USC isn't willing to sign a deal, as they now have the travel schedule with the B1G and all the B1G games to play and adding another cross country trip every other year against a big program doesn't make much sense.

I hate to say it, but I think you will see a ton of teams going this route. Those big OOC games mean little to nothing to teams in the B1G or SEC. It can only hurt them. I love getting to watch them, but completely understand why schools will move away from them, especially after how the CFP committee handled the teams put into the 12 team field.
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They'd also want to keep the rivalry going because L.A's been valuable recruiting grounds to Notre Dame for decades.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
In the B1G and the SEC -- they have so many big matchups, scheduling more in OOC makes no sense at all, especially after the CFP let not one, but two teams into the CFP who had zero wins against ranked teams.

Plus with USC and ND being 2000+ miles and multiple time zones away from each other -- it really doesn't make sense. ND needs that game. USC does not.
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Amen. USC's schedule this past season was a real murderer's row.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
In the B1G and the SEC -- they have so many big matchups, scheduling more in OOC makes no sense at all, especially after the CFP let not one, but two teams into the CFP who had zero wins against ranked teams.

Plus with USC and ND being 2000+ miles and multiple time zones away from each other -- it really doesn't make sense. ND needs that game. USC does not.
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Which begs the question.....

Did NBC take that into account on the new Notre Dame contract?

The new ND deal runs through 2029, so no USC/ND for 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029.

That's a pretty big viewership hit.
 
Red_Alert said:
Which begs the question.....

Did NBC take that into account on the new Notre Dame contract?

The new ND deal runs through 2029, so no USC/ND for 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029.

That's a pretty big viewership hit.
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That’s only for ND home games. It would be this year, 2027 and 2029.

Unless it’s part of the Big 10 deal.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
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jjc2009 said:
That’s only for ND home games. It would be this year, 2027 and 2029.

Unless it’s part of the Big 10 deal.
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Good question too.

Those 2 years would certainly be top 5 revenue for the week. Which leads to another point.

Why is NBC so shy about releasing the USC/ND tv ratings?
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Just read an article where this is the last year of the USC/ND contract. Obviously ND wants to extend the contract, as they need as many big games as they can get. USC isn't willing to sign a deal, as they now have the travel schedule with the B1G and all the B1G games to play and adding another cross country trip every other year against a big program doesn't make much sense.

I hate to say it, but I think you will see a ton of teams going this route. Those big OOC games mean little to nothing to teams in the B1G or SEC. It can only hurt them. I love getting to watch them, but completely understand why schools will move away from them, especially after how the CFP committee handled the teams put into the 12 team field.
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- AQs would make teams want to play the big OOC games. I am a fan who has traveled extensively with the Dawgs. I'd hate it if they stopped those games.

- This is a B1G/USC problem. WTF did they think when they added teams on the West Coast. The answer for the B1G, in general, is to have a B1G West and East coast campus. Buy some small colleges going out of business and set it up so that teams go to the other coast for 2 weeks at a time. Take classes remotely. Have a dorm to stay in. Then the local travel would be easier.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Mega conferences will be the death of college football. Shit got too big, too quick. The devastation that used to come with a regular season loss doesn’t exist anymore. Pretty well get two free passes, and you’re not out of it with 3 if the resume is good enough and you get some help.

It sucks. I’ll forever be a UGA diehard, but I find myself watching less and less regular season games UGA isn’t playing in every year(other than midweee Fun Belt and MACtion of course)
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My biggest beef with mega conferences is the wildly unbalanced scheduling it causes.

This is how you get teams like Indiana and SMU in the playoff.

We will probably get at least 1 "wtf" team every year that limps in because the scheduling landed them on the easiest conference path possible.
 
The Big OOC games won't stop completely because the money brought in with them is still big enough to keep teams scheduling them. You can argue that they aren't needed, but as long as financial incentive is there they will keep getting scheduled.
 
Red_Alert said:
Good question too.

Those 2 years would certainly be top 5 revenue for the week. Which leads to another point.

Why is NBC so shy about releasing the USC/ND tv ratings?
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They aren't.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
ND is a much stronger national brand than USC

people overestimate how much people care about USC, people in California don't even care unless they are doing really well.
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Outside of the stretch with Pete Carroll, they've been irreverent going on 35 years now.
 
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