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re: American Football Coaches Association Board recommends the following changes to CFB
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:52 pm to RunningJacket
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:52 pm to RunningJacket
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Dying? Ypu guys are funny. Having 24 fanbases buying tickets and filling up stadiums instead of 4 teams is not a dying sport.
How bout this - when your team is hosting a first round playoff game backup your words with an empty stadium. But, of course, your packed stadium will prove you guys are all wrong. Your fanbase will eat it up. I know if my team makes the playoffs I’ll be there.
Great point. And to make it even better, I think it should be a 130-team playoff, not just 24.
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Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:55 pm to TideSaint
Posted on 5/6/26 at 1:46 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Even the vast majority of posters here complaining about the state of college football will still tune in every Saturday this Fall.
Doesn't change the fact that they aren't focused on fixing the number one problem.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 3:00 am to TideSaint
Took us 10 years to get there, but since making our first appearance in 2002 in the SECCG, we've been there more than anyone in the conference. Hate to see it go.
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 3:03 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 4:00 am to OleVaught14
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I think they are pushing for 24
I can see this happening. Delete CCGs and now have 8 teams with bye week. Teams 9-16 play down to 8, then travel to waiting bye team.
Delete about 50% of goofy bowl games.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 5:14 am to Buckeye Fan 19
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Great point. And to make it even better, I think it should be a 130-team playoff, not just 24.
Yep.
Why even have a regular season?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 5:46 am to TideSaint
It means guarantee ND make it every year ??
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:11 am to dallastiger55
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can’t believe fans want to play a game in mid August when school isn’t even in and it’s 105 outside.
Incoming freshmen wouldn’t be in classes, and this not eligible?
Perhaps same for transfers?
I suppose the same would be said for returning players, if the semester hasn’t started.
Or do we then say “enrolled” (but not yet started) is enough for eligibility?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:41 am to RunningJacket
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Dying? Ypu guys are funny. Having 24 fanbases buying tickets and filling up stadiums instead of 4 teams is not a dying sport. How bout this - when your team is hosting a first round playoff game backup your words with an empty stadium. But, of course, your packed stadium will prove you guys are all wrong. Your fanbase will eat it up. I know if my team makes the playoffs I’ll be there.
This guy would turn the Masters into a LIV event because it would mean “moar people” and would “moar fun.”
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:49 am to AHM21
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College athletics - especially football - will be a shell of itself within ten years.
I stopped short of saying it’s dying but in reality, I wouldn’t be surprised
It's already a shell of itself and it is dying to the people that watched it through the years and made it as viewed of a spectacle as it was. The fact is they dont really care about those people as long as viewer ratings show well enough to sell ad space. People might in fact be watching it but i think the going to the games thing will start fizzling out also. Haven't been to a Tennessee game in several years but some friends in Nashville went and with hotel, a few dinners and drinks, decent seats to a decent game is well over a grand for 2 people for 2 days.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:59 am to Bacon84
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Incoming freshmen wouldn’t be in classes, and this not eligible?
Perhaps same for transfers?
I suppose the same would be said for returning players, if the semester hasn’t started.
Or do we then say “enrolled” (but not yet started) is enough for eligibility?
Almost every incoming Freshman who is not an EE would enroll for a school's summer session (same with transfers). Not sure there are really any Fall enrollees for Football in D1.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 8:02 am to TideSaint
The people running the sport are always a good two decades behind what they should be doing. They should have implemented a 4 or 8 team playoff instead of the bcs in the late 90s, that would have probably saved the smaller, regional based conferences we had. Instead they created a system where you basically had to join the big 10 or sec to keep up and now we're stuck with the mega conferences that have ruined the sport in a lot of ways.
Again with NIL, they should have just let players get sponsorships from the local car dealership or whatever 20 years ago and we would have never got to the point where recruits went from getting zero dollars to millions of dollars overnight.
Again with NIL, they should have just let players get sponsorships from the local car dealership or whatever 20 years ago and we would have never got to the point where recruits went from getting zero dollars to millions of dollars overnight.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 8:13 am to RunningJacket
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Dying? Ypu guys are funny. Having 24 fanbases buying tickets and filling up stadiums instead of 4 teams is not a dying sport.
How bout this - when your team is hosting a first round playoff game backup your words with an empty stadium. But, of course, your packed stadium will prove you guys are all wrong. Your fanbase will eat it up. I know if my team makes the playoffs I’ll be there.
But that's the crux of the biscuit, eh ? Your team is Georgia Tech. Right? So Tech is...maybe... on the cusp of being relevant again for the first time in 60 years or so, with the exception of a year in the 1990s.
The point is that as long as new teams, like Indiana, are getting better, the game will attract a lot of viewers. "NIL" and the transfer portal have made it so that any program that has enough wealthy boosters willing to kick in, will become a player, if only short term. Unregulated pay for play and transfer portal, though, is not good for the long term.
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