re: Should we do away with rent-a-win cupcake games?

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Blowing out the rent-a-win teams are (in most cases) the only way to get a lot of young players some meaningful game reps. It would be really dumb to get rid of that opportunity.
Not to mention those games are what keep the lights on at these small schools’ athletic departments.
The only negative is the risk to injury for starters. All the more reason to play the freshmen.

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All of this, and the opportunity to get cheap tickets for the family and take little kids to, to keep the tradition going. Got some UGA-Kent State tickets for Saturday for the little one and me, and cheap enough for me to give one to an old friend to join us. Nice relaxed family-friendly football atmosphere. Having one or two of these a season is great.

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Nope, bc they need to fund their athletic programs with that money.

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Just give them the money and schedule a real team. Either that or make admission to those games free.

I think we should limit teams to one.

Ideally (if the P5 doesn't leave the NCAA to form their own league for football), each team should be allowed only one "non-P5" opponent each year. It can be G5 or AA. Since it looks like many (if not most) P5 conferences will have 9 conference games soon, that would mean 2 of their 3 conference games would have to be P5 opponents.

It may become P4 after reallignment is finished.

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Those games are mostly uninteresting. However, to eliminate those games would most certainly doom many FCS teams. Their football budgets depend on that payout.

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Regardless of all the talk that might come out of an AD or coach, the decision makers at the vast majority of Power 5 programs don't give a shite about helping those FCS or Group of 5 programs so that whole line of thought is really irrelevant. It is always going to be about getting those extra home games as the only thing that really matters. Programs want that gate revenue and the local businesses pressure the schools to get those visitors into the city an extra 2 or 3 saturdays a year. If they found a way to make sure that Tuscaloosa, Athens or Baton Rouge can maintain that cash coming into the city, when the next scheduling decisions come out, you will hear them say "FCWho?". Rent a wins don't matter as much any longer when it comes to being bowl eligible because the bowls will adjust. You can also play more P5 teams now and it won't screw your playoff hopes.

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Maybe that's the best argument for it that I have heard and you have me thinking. But does 1 FCS team really mean a major shift in program dynamics?

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Well it gives fans of even bad teams the chance to see their team look good.

Without that people stop buying tickets.

Look at the standings from last year



Mizzouri, USCe, and Florida were 3-5, 3-5, and 2-6 in conference games. But with cupcakes they were able to go to bowl games and their fans got to see at least twice as many wins.

Imagine that going on season after season with just 2-3 wins for the bottom teams. Eventually you end up with total apathy and collapse of the program. Looking at that chart there were only 4 teams that were over .500. Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia, and Kentucky.

The rest of the SEC needs to nut up and start playing at least 2 P5 OOC.

do away with spring games and allow fbs teams to pay fcs teams to come play a spring game, maybe even two, fcs would still get paid, and fans would actually be thirsty enough to crave a fbs fcs matchup in the spring, cuts down on injuries too

It’s not welfare when you help fund a bunch of kids college scholarships and they give up their body’s for 1/100th of what our athletes get bc they like football

If A$M wants to give any of them $5 million a year to kick our arse so be it, that’s the whole team’s tuition for a few years, your school can be greedy

In fairness, SEC games gives those schools money for their athletic programs.