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Two reasons:
ESPN doesn't get much value in broadcasting an SEC school beating Walnut State College 72-7. They want product that draws and keeps viewers.
This was really important for college football. All conferences need to play an equal number of conference games.
They all do this anyway with some minor exceptions
They are all adding a P4 game to their standard schedule though. It’s a significant change from what they’ve all mostly done and benefited from for years. They built the reputation of their conference off the backs of easier scheduling disguised as being tougher because “SEC”.
I think the biggest reason for the way SEC power exploded was Nick Saban. Urban Meyer also gets a lot of credit. Without those 2 guys choosing LSU & Florida, everything is different.
I agree but I’m more talking about the middle and bottom of the conference being viewed as so much better than most of the country. They were a 3-4 team conference for the most part but everyone talked about how hard it was too to bottom. The records would mostly prove that out because they all had 4 OOC games, 3 of which were relative cupcakes.
When you cherry pick an easy schedule from the B1G and compare it to hard schedules from the SEC I see what you’re saying, but not all SEC schedules are really hard like the propaganda wants everyone to believe.
Funny thing is, yeah, it’ll actually make them richer, and take up more prime TV slots. Plus, they’ll be able to argue that their 8-4 team that lost to an extra game to a 10-2 is still better than a B12 10-2 team.
I'm worried the SEC and B1G may partner up for an OOC cross-scheduling agreement for that game which would make the SOS perception for the ACC and B12 fall even further behind.
It's already at that point, IMO, but CU is actually fairly well positioned with that. Granted, who knows how the Big 12 conference schedule will be viewed by the committee a few years from now, but CU having B1G and SEC opponents on their schedule will help with their perception, assuming CU can continue to climb back to being a high level program.
Only way they're going to get ND to join a conference is by forcing their hand and closing off the playoff to them, which I doubt can be done. Also, I don't think the media companies want three conferences. The direction that this is all likely to take is collective bargaining and pooled media rights in an NFL style super league. We are potentially a decade away from that, though.
When the ACC eventually dissolves, they won’t have a home for Olympic sports and the landscape will be completely different around the conferences and playoff. I’m betting they will join whatever league/conference is created in the mid 2030s
Sure, but most SEC programs had a total of 9 P4 games on their schedule and 3 cupcakes, one of which strategically scheduled toward the end of the season. Therefore, as a general rule, SEC programs had been scheduling their way to more wins on average every season than the B1G, Big 12 and PAC 12 and also self proclaiming having the toughest schedules.
Again. The SEC primarily scheduled 3 OOC games to start the year, 2 of which were usually cupcakes, same as the B1G. The difference is that the SEC would then schedule a cupcake OOC game in November while everyone else was playing a conference game.
There just aren’t enough interconference games to allow for an accurate determination of strength of schedule for teams from different P4 conferences. The SEC tries to promote the idea that a 3-loss SEC team is better than a 2-loss Big 12 team. But there is not nearly enough data available to make that determination.
I’m down.
I think one of each helps (unless you lose). Alabama A&M to kick it off. UMass to close it out.
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No they are both idiots. Do that bullshvt on your own time, good job dad.Reading just the headline, I thought they fought some ISU fans. Nope, they fought each other.
Kansas State QB Avery Johnson's father, brother release joint statement after fight following Iowa State loss
Things turned ugly following the Wildcats' loss to Iowa State in the season opener
They really got into the spirit of what Ireland is all about.Reading just the headline, I thought they fought some ISU fans. Nope, they fought each other.
Kansas State QB Avery Johnson's father, brother release joint statement after fight following Iowa State loss
Things turned ugly following the Wildcats' loss to Iowa State in the season opener
