Big Changes for College Football
As Keith Jackosn, long time college football announcer, always use to say, "Whoa, Nellie." It's only June, college football is still 3 months away and it's the hot topic in the world of sports. The world of college football as we know it, is no more. The Big 12 is no more, as Colorado, Nebraska have left and gone to the Pac-10 and Big Ten, respectively. The Big 12 is one the power conferences in college football and they have had 6 teams go to the BCS Championship game in it's 12 year existence, so why are teams leaving? Money, plain and simple.
It's a shame that money is causing the chaos in college football, but maybe it is for the best. The BCS is a absolute joke, which everyone knows and has been complaining about for years. Maybe these moves will ultimately lead to a college football playoff. Beside Colorado and Nebraska, other Big 12 schools like, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State could all be on the move in the near future. All indications point to these teams moving to the Pac-10 with Colorado, which sets up some very interesting matchups.
More than likey a USC-Texas and USC-Oklahoma game will take place every year, not to mention the annual Red River Rivarly between Texas and Oklahoma. These three schools are some of the top programs in college football and just think of the revenue that can be brought in by these schools. That's the main reason that the Big 12 is dissolving because of the amount of money that can be made elsewhere. College football is the driving force in college athletics and no one cares about the commute Texas Tech will have to make to play Oregon is baseball. Almost all of the revenue brought in by college athletics is from football and basketball and that's all that matters to these schools.
Personally, listening to Mike & Mike in the morning on ESPN Radio, I wasn't to crazy about the realignment in college football, but I think that it might finally lead to a college football playoff, about damn time. With the Big Ten and Pac-10 gaining more schools they can be considered power conferences. Now that there are two power conferences now all you need is two more and you have the possiblity of a Final Four in football. Everyone loves the Final Four and it would be an even bigger success in football. I would not be surprised to see schools from the SEC or ACC join together to form another power conference, in fact I would love to see that.
The Big East, and teams like Utah, Fresno State, TCU and Boise St. join together and now their are four conferences. Notre Dame will have to join one of these conferences eventually if they are to have an shot at staying an elite program. Probably the Big Ten since there is more money. Now these teams can battle it out between each other in conference play and the top two teams in each conference play for the conference championship. Then the four winners advance to the BCS Final Four and the rest of the teams go to regualr Bowl Games like always. The team with the best record plays the team with the worse record in the Final Four, or if they are all undefeated, then use the BCS formula to decide who plays who in the Final Four. The two winners advance to play for the National Championship and there you go, college football finally have a playoff system.
Conference plays means more, not to mention the games within these power conferences would be insane and there would be excitement every week. One week you could have Texas-Oklahoma, then next week Ohio St-Notre Dame, then Oklahoma-USC, it just keeps getting better. No more cupcake games like, Ohio St. vs Youngstown St. or USC vs. Idaho, or Florida vs. Florida Tech or whatever other crappy teams the play each year. Then in the Final Four there is still big matchups possible between Texas and Florida, for example.There are a lot of negatives with these changes, but the bigger the games, the more money the schools make and better off college football will be.
It's a shame that money is causing the chaos in college football, but maybe it is for the best. The BCS is a absolute joke, which everyone knows and has been complaining about for years. Maybe these moves will ultimately lead to a college football playoff. Beside Colorado and Nebraska, other Big 12 schools like, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State could all be on the move in the near future. All indications point to these teams moving to the Pac-10 with Colorado, which sets up some very interesting matchups.
More than likey a USC-Texas and USC-Oklahoma game will take place every year, not to mention the annual Red River Rivarly between Texas and Oklahoma. These three schools are some of the top programs in college football and just think of the revenue that can be brought in by these schools. That's the main reason that the Big 12 is dissolving because of the amount of money that can be made elsewhere. College football is the driving force in college athletics and no one cares about the commute Texas Tech will have to make to play Oregon is baseball. Almost all of the revenue brought in by college athletics is from football and basketball and that's all that matters to these schools.
Personally, listening to Mike & Mike in the morning on ESPN Radio, I wasn't to crazy about the realignment in college football, but I think that it might finally lead to a college football playoff, about damn time. With the Big Ten and Pac-10 gaining more schools they can be considered power conferences. Now that there are two power conferences now all you need is two more and you have the possiblity of a Final Four in football. Everyone loves the Final Four and it would be an even bigger success in football. I would not be surprised to see schools from the SEC or ACC join together to form another power conference, in fact I would love to see that.
The Big East, and teams like Utah, Fresno State, TCU and Boise St. join together and now their are four conferences. Notre Dame will have to join one of these conferences eventually if they are to have an shot at staying an elite program. Probably the Big Ten since there is more money. Now these teams can battle it out between each other in conference play and the top two teams in each conference play for the conference championship. Then the four winners advance to the BCS Final Four and the rest of the teams go to regualr Bowl Games like always. The team with the best record plays the team with the worse record in the Final Four, or if they are all undefeated, then use the BCS formula to decide who plays who in the Final Four. The two winners advance to play for the National Championship and there you go, college football finally have a playoff system.
Conference plays means more, not to mention the games within these power conferences would be insane and there would be excitement every week. One week you could have Texas-Oklahoma, then next week Ohio St-Notre Dame, then Oklahoma-USC, it just keeps getting better. No more cupcake games like, Ohio St. vs Youngstown St. or USC vs. Idaho, or Florida vs. Florida Tech or whatever other crappy teams the play each year. Then in the Final Four there is still big matchups possible between Texas and Florida, for example.There are a lot of negatives with these changes, but the bigger the games, the more money the schools make and better off college football will be.
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