re: Has College Football Become Regional Sport? (From Colin Cowherd)

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the SEC NC dominance is a relatively recent thing. It started about 20 years ago.

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Post integration perhaps but GT,Bame,UT,AU all put up NC's in the 30's,40's and 50's

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Post integration perhaps but GT,Bame,UT,AU all put up NC's in the 30's,40's and 50's

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Yeah I’m not arguing that at all, just the argument that the south has had the most dominant programs since the 60s. It’s been distributed pretty evenly until recently.

If we’re talking pre integration, it’s far more lopsided against the South.

Except the tv ratings have never been better. So his point is wrong.

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The slave owner bred his slaves to be bigger stronger and faster.

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Thanks Jimmy the Greek. Please go back out to pasture.

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I actually almost gave Jimmy credit for my post.

The thing is it is 100% true.

People won't come out and say it in that fashion anymore. Instead they use weasel words to say the same thing.

It's always been regional. The CFP attempt to turn it into the Super Bowl with a different neutral site every year was a retarded idea

That's just Cowherd chuntering on and on about the decline of his beloved PAC conference.

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It's always been a regional sport - there are basically 3 regions of the country that truly care deeply about college football : The South, the Midwest and Texas/Oklahoma. The West and the Northeast have never cared, as a whole, about college football. They didn't in 1970, then didn't in 1990 and they don't in 2019.

That's it, and I don't really think that has changed.

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I say it is all about money!

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It's always been regional. The CFP attempt to turn it into the Super Bowl with a different neutral site every year was a retarded idea

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I can't believe they having it in San Fran this year lol

I think it hurts Northeast teams that they aren't in regional conferences. Look at Pittsburgh's division for example:

Miami, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolin

How many people would you meet living in Pittsburgh that went to one of those schools?

There's a reason that old Big East basketball was so popular and a reason that the SEC is so popular. I can find someone tied to each SEC school easily.

That's what's always ignored in conference expansion talks. As a fan, it's hard to care about your opponents when you don't even interact with their fans.

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If we’re talking pre integration, it’s far more lopsided against the South.

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Not really

South has always been good since the beginning. They just were not given the early media love because the early media writers were in the northeast and midwest.

Greatest college football team of all time resided in the state of Tennessee over 100 years ago (Sewanee)

Tulane before World War II was a hotbed of college football

Alabama has been a power for at least 100 years but it took a decline of Tulane for a Rose Bowl invite to get them on the national radar in the 1920's

The first team to beat an IVY in the early days was based in central KY (Centre)

Heisman affected the history of Auburn, Clemson, and Georgia Tech from 1895 to 1919. Both Auburn and Georgia Tech would be charter members of the SEC in 1932

Kentucky was the first school in the south or midwest to play football outside of the Ivy League. It would be almost a decade before another current SEC school would take up the sport.

While the B1G claims to be the oldest FBS conference via the old Western Conference, the SIAA (mother to the ACC, SEC, and SWC) is actually a year or two older