Ok, let's imagine how that'd look. There'd be two play-offs. One with the majority of fans and viewers and the other with fewer, but bigger media exposure. How long would it take for the mighty to jump in to the media ring? Remember: in terms of financials the biggest media players are still on the outside looking in. IMO, not very long before Apple/Amazon/Google/Meta start ponying up more. Plus at a low buy-in. I see the B1G/SEC split as being a major bust. Of course, just my opinion.
SEC/Big10 Pushing for 16 Team Playoff
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They lost in the national semifinals last year by 3 points.
Their final ranking over the 3 seasons prior to that: 5, 13, 7
I really do think they think the remaining 3/4 of the country will just change allegiances. I seem to remember around the time of OuT getting announced some ESPN exec or big name making the comment “they’ll still watch, they’ll just become fans of one of the other teams”
At this point just rip the bandaid off and let the go. Listening/dealing with Sankey and Petitti and their respective conferences is as bad as having to put up with Texa$, and to a lesser extent OU’s ******** before they left the B12.
You would have two playoffs with the "major" schools in one, and the smaller schools from the rest of the country in the other, when looked at by success and name recognition. The B10 and SEC will be shown on the two dominate sports channels, ESPN and Fox. I looked up the numbers for MLB looking at their Friday Apple numbers compared to their Sunday night ESPN numbers, as a comparison. ESPN has the higher rated numbers. The idea that vast numbers of people will turn away and not watch, is silly, a large number of those people are not going to watch anyway. So it will come down to the people that care to watch sports, most of them are in the footprint of either the B10 and SEC, the ones not that are in cities like Dallas or Houston in the B12 or Miami in the ACC could care less about sports, or are professional sports fans.
As much as we would like to tell the B10 and SEC to shove it, and leave, by doing so, we would also sink. Both conferences could expand and add a few more teams, and sink both the B12 and ACC, if they wanted to do it, and there is not a team in either conference that would not jump at the chance to join either league.
I actually think you could possibly trick the BIG/SEC by giving them what they say they want…and then beating them at their own game. Give them a 16 team format where they each get 4, but make them play each other to get to the championship…where 8 others will have played for a chance to meet them. Let ESPN/ABC have the BIG/SEC side…I think within a short time, the money and interest will be with the other side.
KidSilverhair
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I like this idea … that will never happen.
The SEC/B1G would never take a deal for 1/2 of the playoff field if it meant only one of their teams could make the championship.
The southern MN people I am around think it is.
I thought that had a trophy, not the oaken bucket, but something like that. Muscular beaver or something.
Iowa and Wisconsin. Which for most Minnesota fans are going to be their much bigger rivalries
As far as I know, either Michigan or Minnesota (or potentially both) didn’t push for the little brown jug to be a yearly game.
Yeah it’s got the brown jug, but when a team only has 4 wins in almost 60 years it’s not a rivalry. Half the teams in the big ten have weird trophy games with each other but they aren’t actual rivalries.
I hear a lot of people stating "good riddance" to the SEC and B1G.
Ultimately, I sincerely hope that never happens.
What we (everyone associated with CFB) really need is a collective governing body that sets the rules, the tv contracts, etc.
Like the NCAA used to.
Letting each team/conference fend for themselves has created this mess
Ultimately, I sincerely hope that never happens.
What we (everyone associated with CFB) really need is a collective governing body that sets the rules, the tv contracts, etc.
Like the NCAA used to.
Letting each team/conference fend for themselves has created this mess
Agree, but it seems we'll never get back to the days of the NCAA overseeing all of the conferences and trying to rule in the best interest of everyone. And if it's going to be everyone for themselves, then I hope the SEC/Big 10 separate and become victims of their own greed.
Everyone agrees with this. Except the people with the power and the money, ie the SEC, B1G, ESPN...
While I think 5+11 looks better optically, ESPN, FOX and the Committee will rig the system even more. I could see the B12 and ACC struggling to get a second team some years. The ACC still has some media backing due to brands, but they aren't that good. SMU ran through them in their first year in the league, where as the G5s (and BYU) took their lumps when they joined the B12.
