2 tiers of FBS certainly make sense and there's enough teams, especially if some FCS teams move up as a few do every year
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Battling My (College Football) Addiction
- Thread starter Uncle Ken
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2 tiers of FBS certainly make sense and there's enough teams, especially if some FCS teams move up as a few do every year
Following the European soccer model of relegation/promotion actually makes a lot of sense for college football.
Agreed. But we're going to have to separate the bull**** SEC/Big10/Playoff narrative with a crowbar before that becomes palatable.
I think my plan for next year will be to attend all the games in Folsom, but not watch any of the away games or any other college football on TV for that matter.
Everything I know about that I learned from Ted Lasso, which is to say that I don't know anything. What would this look like?
For example, in the premier league the bottom 3 teams in a season get sent down to a lower division and the top 3 teams in the lower division get promoted.
So something like:
Top 64 D1 schools compete in tier 1. Next 64 compete in tier 2. Bottom 12 get sent down, top 12 get sent up.
Tier 2 teams still compete for a championship, just a lower level one.
It would require standardized scheduling and a central governing body but it could work.
It would also be a mess on budgets and scheduling as well as a risk to networks that it could lose broadcasts for one it's biggest draws (like UT getting relegated).
I don't like relegation, but it's moot since it would never happen.
AllBuffs relegation, on the other hand, has possibilities.
I proposed this on the board over 10 years ago and the nicest comment I got back was something about being a soccer loving socialist.
I think it’s the best way to give all teams a reasonable shot at a winning season and a bowl game that was meaningful. I had the system all worked out including out of “conference” games to maintain key rivalries.
oh well.
Uh, bruh- CU’s about to get relegated within the next 10 years when the B1G and SEC go to 24 each and don’t invite CU
Yep. Better hope things get fixed.
Soccer loving socialist!
How do you make that work when literally every other sport's revenue is dependent on football?
"Ms Payne, sorry to inform you, but persuant to clause 19c of your contact, as the Buffs football team has been relegated, your salary has just been cut by 75%"
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Relegation is a threat to the Vanderbilt and Indianas to Not suck.
Why?
Because this
could happen
College Football.
For. The. Win.
For. The. Win.
Jimbo can beat the GOAT with a sucko backup but can’t get it done in a body bag game… yikes.
aggie gon aggie
So figured this was the thread to put this in.
I watched most of the TCU game, I was at the in-laws, they go to bed early (have a two year old) so had nothing better to do. It went about like I expected it to - which means I got very drunk on BIL's whiskey.
I haven't bothered to renew my sling subscription, and have no other cable tv, so if I'm going to watch anything I'm limited to whatever OTA games are on, and my plan this fall was to only watch games if I literally had nothing else to do, like happened the night of the TCU game.
Now, my wife was really looking forward to not planning around football this fall. I mean, *really* looking forward to it. Always mentions how much she can't stand watching football and doesn't understand why I schedule around it, and thrilled that this fall was wide open.
So... back to being at the inlaws for week one of college football.
SIL somehow manages to recruit me and, very impressively, mrs. skibum to join her fantasy league. As we're doing a live draft, mrs skibum's questions are very centered on "ok, this guy has the most projected points, but it's not much more than this other guy - do either of them beat their wives/girlfriends - are they anti-vax idiots?"
Somehow, we get through the draft, but here's the thing: Mrs. skbum is insanely competitive. Not "I'll have a wife-beating asshole on my fantasy team if he's good at football" competitive, but still almost absurdly competitive (note to anyone who plays board or card games with us: you really have to be a good sport about taking some serious trash talking at the table).
Anyway, what this means is that when we walk into a restaurant/bar when we were in Seattle on Sunday, she's instantly watching the TVs and asking "do I have anyone on this team? Wait, did my opponent have that guy?" etc, etc. Then, once the early games are ending "ok, I can see why you say that fantasy football makes all the NFL games so much more interesting."
I'm a lot more annoyed at this development than one would think.
I've been developing a deep disdain for the no fun league for several years, so of course that's going to be the gateway drug for Mrs skibum.
I watched most of the TCU game, I was at the in-laws, they go to bed early (have a two year old) so had nothing better to do. It went about like I expected it to - which means I got very drunk on BIL's whiskey.
I haven't bothered to renew my sling subscription, and have no other cable tv, so if I'm going to watch anything I'm limited to whatever OTA games are on, and my plan this fall was to only watch games if I literally had nothing else to do, like happened the night of the TCU game.
Now, my wife was really looking forward to not planning around football this fall. I mean, *really* looking forward to it. Always mentions how much she can't stand watching football and doesn't understand why I schedule around it, and thrilled that this fall was wide open.
So... back to being at the inlaws for week one of college football.
SIL somehow manages to recruit me and, very impressively, mrs. skibum to join her fantasy league. As we're doing a live draft, mrs skibum's questions are very centered on "ok, this guy has the most projected points, but it's not much more than this other guy - do either of them beat their wives/girlfriends - are they anti-vax idiots?"
Somehow, we get through the draft, but here's the thing: Mrs. skbum is insanely competitive. Not "I'll have a wife-beating asshole on my fantasy team if he's good at football" competitive, but still almost absurdly competitive (note to anyone who plays board or card games with us: you really have to be a good sport about taking some serious trash talking at the table).
Anyway, what this means is that when we walk into a restaurant/bar when we were in Seattle on Sunday, she's instantly watching the TVs and asking "do I have anyone on this team? Wait, did my opponent have that guy?" etc, etc. Then, once the early games are ending "ok, I can see why you say that fantasy football makes all the NFL games so much more interesting."
I'm a lot more annoyed at this development than one would think.
I've been developing a deep disdain for the no fun league for several years, so of course that's going to be the gateway drug for Mrs skibum.
This weekend is my first big test. I watched the TCU game out of morbid curiosity. I attended the AFA game because I made those plans long ago, and the curiosity almost killed me. For this week’s game, in the words of Daniel Kaffee, “we’re gonna lose. And we’re gonna lose huge.” I have no interest. I tell myself I have no interest. That’s true, right? I tell myself that I’m going to do something else on Sat afternoon, and I probably will. But I just set the DVR to record the game. Baby steps, I guess.
I feel like I need to come clean and accept some accountability. I’m struggling with this. I meant it when I said I knew this game was a no-hoper. But I happened to be home at 2:30 when the game started. So I flipped it on. Minny goes like a hot knife through butter and scores in a handful of plays. I think, well, I should at least see who starts at QB for us. Shrout? Color me intrigued. First play, sack/fumble and the Gophers score in like 1 or 2 plays. Well, that had to be bad luck (again, since Shrout fumbled the first play at AFA), right. Maybe one more series. Hey look, it’s Lewis. KD has no idea what he’s doing, does he? I’m out.
I run errands, and confess to checking the score a few times. Wow. It’s not going well. I get home, check my phone and apparently we have the ball on the Min 25 yard line. Well, I have to see how this turns out. I turn on the game and get to watch a very athletic catch and stretch for a TD by Austin Smith. I immediately turn off the tv.
I think this is going to get easier because I don’t have the Pac-12 Network and almost all of our games from here on out will be on that channel. But this “not caring” thing is harder than I thought it would be.
I checked on the score a couple of times throughout the game. Didn't watch a second of it (nor did I have the means to). The loss didn't hurt at all. I'm still wearing my CU gear proudly today, with no ****s given about yesterday's football game.
In contrast, 20 years ago (and less), a loss would destroy an entire week for me.
In contrast, 20 years ago (and less), a loss would destroy an entire week for me.