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College Football Realignment

Nah you're kinda making my point. In the streaming world, it's the reach of any team - whether the fans are in the team's hometown or a thousand miles away - that matters. Does CU have that reach? At the moment, maybe not, but Prime has helped a ton in the last couple of years.
One of the factors that CU has in it's favor is that it has always outperformed it's home market size and alumni base in national TV ratings. When CU is any good people across the country watch CU, both regular season and in bowl games. Even when CU stunk the few times we were on national TV we outperformed in ratings.

TV money is what is driving the whole thing and CU brings eyeballs. With Prime recently we have done even better being one of the most watched teams in the nation the last couple of years.
 
Pac-10 only added Utah because they needed a travel partner for CU. So there's about a 10-year run in there where Utah became a more respected national brand. But it's a smaller school in a smaller state which splits its home market, has much less total prestige (awards, national championship, etc), pulls lower national broadcast ratings, and has less value for the B1G member universities as a research partner (B1G actually has agreements for that), fewer B1G alums in its locale, and fewer prospective students the universities would attract.

Football success by CU these next 5 years makes this a slam dunk. Same thing if we're talking about Kansas and other AAU members from the Big 12. The only thing CH loses on is MBB prestige and ratings, which could be a factor if that part of the brand were to be more heavily weighted than it has been.

College athletics outweighs pro in Utah. It’s the exact opposite in Colorado.
 
College athletics outweighs pro in Utah. It’s the exact opposite in Colorado.
True, Colorado is a pro sports market and Utah is a college sports market, especially since Denver has an NFL team and Utah doesn't.

That is balanced though by Colorado having a much larger population, 6 million vs. 3.6 million. That college sports market in Utah is also divided with BYU actually having a bigger fanbase than Utah, but BYU isn't getting in to a P2 conference.

If you are in SLC you will see much more University of Utah stuff than CU stuff in Denver but again attendance (stadiium revenue) and TV ratings would give CU a solid edge.
 
I know most people here angle for a BIG invite, but I’d love it if CU got into the SEC with the other four corner schools. They would pair well with TX, A&M,OU, Missouri, LSU, Ark in a western division.
I’d love it if CU get to beat the ever loving crap out of Mizzou, OU and Arkansas every year. That would be so much fun.
 
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I think it’ll be more than 2 teams but assuming it’s some combination of UNC, Miami, Virginia, Utah, Kansas, and Colorado since McMurphy says AAU is going to be important. FSU gets included for them if they get AAU status. Of course, Stanford/Cal should probably be mentioned as possibilities but if ND is truly never joining a conference, not sure if Stanford really matters.

The SEC would then probably need to also add to get to 20 so that would mean at least a total of 6 from that group, plus Clemson, GT, TTU, TCU, and VT. I actually think when it’s all said and done, it’ll be closer to 24 per conference.

Feels like as long as CU maintains the institutional commitment to football we’ll have a good shot at being included in that kind of format
I can't wait until the super conferences have eight team divisions and we come full circle back to original PAC 8 and Big 8 groupings.
 
I know most people here angle for a BIG invite, but I’d love it if CU got into the SEC with the other four corner schools. They would pair well with TX, A&M,OU, Missouri, LSU, Ark in a western division.
Yeah but I’d throw up in my mouth being an SEC Stan after all the years of beating the “SEC bias is way too over the top” drum
 
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