Big Jim
WTF?
Although I was a staunch supporter of keeping the P12 together, I am wholeheartedly glad to see we will never play UW again. UW is the one team/fan base I hated in the P12. UO a distant second.
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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Although I was a staunch supporter of keeping the P12 together, I am wholeheartedly glad to see we will never play UW again. UW is the one team/fan base I hated in the P12. UO a distant second.
Ive never met a UW fan I disliked yet. But ok.
Big Jim
WTF?
Well then, I change my mind. /s
There are a lot of uninteresting matchups on that schedule
Anymore than the Big 12 CU is walking into?
UW vs UM/tOSU/SC/Oregon/PSU/Wis/MSU/UCLA all seem pretty interesting.
The content the B1G is going to put out is going to be incredible, IMO. It’s just not going to be great from an on field results standpoint for a lot of teams who have playoff aspirations.
And yet none of the incredible B1G matchups will come close to Colorado’s tv ratings.
Yeah they will. I'm guessing many of them average 6-8m viewers with multiple over 10m and then tOSU/UM gets around 15-17m every year. CU will also average 6-8m viewers, but that conference is loaded with intrigue and anyone saying otherwise is just salty.
Have you even been paying attention? Colorado’s viewer ratings are in a class of their own against all FBS. There is literally no precedent for our numbers.
When we are rolling next year, expect that tOSU/UM number to be a quaint second place to Colorado’s game.
Big Jim
WTF?
UW, PSU, UW, MSU and UCLA are still regional programs when it comes to fan following. The B1G will have four national programs starting in 2024: U of M, OSU, USC and UO.
Big Jim
WTF?
My hate still fires hot for the attitude and behavior of the UW fans/media when they hired Neuheisel.
They did us a favor.
Big Jim
WTF?
That is true yet irrelevant to their ****waddedness.
Lol no I haven't been paying attention at all
As an aggregate viewership across the entire season, I expect CU to have more than most or all of the B1G programs. From a game to game standpoint, I think CU games next year will be there with USC vs Michigan, Oregon vs Penn State, Ohio State vs Penn State, Penn State vs Michigan, etc. And no, there won't be a CU game next year that beats out tOSU vs UM.
You have to remember that some of the ratings this year is due to the polarization and intrigue about CP at the P5 level. There won't be the same build up and hype next year that there has been when playing two rivals, and three top 25 (two national top 10) programs. There are no more marquee opponents on CU's schedule going forward.
Yes, and those national programs typically rate very high and will only boost the intrigue and viewership of their matchups against the second tier brands.
Then you are aware that we aren’t just breaking records, not just shattering records, we are obliterating them by orders of magnitude.
So, gonna have to agree to disagree.
The Prime effect speaks for itself and I think Colorado not only gets more ratings than every other FBS team in 2024, it won’t even be close.
You are not comprehending what I am saying, so we can be done here.
I comprehend what you’re saying fine. I just completely disagree.
Call out all the variables you want, but my argument is simple.
If Colorado is winning and top 25 all next year, no single game any week or aggregate of games by any other team will match Colorado.
As Prime says, we will dominate.
Ooof. They'll never sniff the playoffs, but at least they got their bag.
That's the reality of what's going on with realignment.
College football has been undervalued because there are so few games that are nationally compelling on the schedule each week. the networks (where most of the money comes from) are making moves to fix the "lack of big games" problem.
Changing things so that they don't have 1/4 of Georgia's schedule against the likes of Ball State - which are un-marketable games for the best program in the nation they are paying to have the right to broadcast. That "25% worthless" is baked into the media deals while also reducing the interest in the sport overall.
There's a lot more money to be made with the 48-64 most valuable programs only playing each other with an NFL setup where only half the schedule is regional division rivals, so that's where this eventually goes.
Roger that. I wonder how long a Purdue UW, for example, will be compelling or hold any real value from a viewership standpoint.
My gut tells me that the the Big 12 contract could turn into a bargain for the networks. Especially if we can hold onto CP.
The absolute absurdity of having four west coast teams in the B1G and two west coast teams in the ACC has the chance to make the entire system crash. It’s just dumb.
Go to 60 teams. 12 groups of regional pods with five teams apiece. Go to a 14-game season. Play every team in your pod once, one designated rival, one leftover G5 team and 8 non-pod games against national teams. The team with the best record from each pod plus four at-large teams make a 16-team playoff. The networks would kill for that, and college football would be far less stupid.
Go to 60 teams. 12 groups of regional pods with five teams apiece. Go to a 14-game season. Play every team in your pod once, one designated rival, one leftover G5 team and 8 non-pod games against national teams. The team with the best record from each pod plus four at-large teams make a 16-team playoff. The networks would kill for that, and college football would be far less stupid.
Big Jim
WTF?
Details please.
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Sorry, but no one gives a rats ass about Oregon other than Phil knight and his small regional fan base And cute uniforms. Without him they are nothing. Especially in the BIG. Where they’re alumni at each and every school on a yearly basis triples oregons. They are a small school living a dream because the have a huge sugar daddy. Without him they are nothing.
Big Jim
WTF?
I thought you had information related to why the system might crash with west coast teams in B1G/ACC but it turns out to be just a hot take.
B1G sets teams up perfectly for the playoff.
They get a few games a year against other playoff contenders to grab attention and make themselves look good on high profile national TV. They play a bunch of conference games against the weak sisters that allow each of the top programs to fatten up their records.
In a typical year win 3 out of 4 or 2 of 3 tough games, hammer the rest of the lesser conference opponents, and you have a solid argument for the playoff, at least that's how it looks.
SIAP but Utah was the president and professor that came up with the $50M number and killed the ESPN deal. Think speculation at the time was ASU.
Yeah, never met one I liked.