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re: This era of college football is sadly gone forever
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:31 am to StansberryRules
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:31 am to StansberryRules
Joe Kines would chew your butt out 6 ways from Sunday, but if I recall correctly, I never heard him curse.
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Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:43 am to hookem33
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Couldn't agree more. I hate what we've lost in CFB. Last season was the first time in my life that I didn't watch several of our games. I plan to watch even less this season.
I hate the nfl and I'm losing my interest in CFB. I just want to go back to the New Years day bowl games and shitcan this playoff system.
I know I sound like a dinosaur. Maybe I am.
The new college football is for lake of a better word sterile. It's clear that business considerations have driven every single decision, most of them worse for the fans. Every single player, coach, AD, it's all so transactional. It's hard to be emotionally invested into something so clearly "business"
We've lost real conferences, tons of rivalry games, meaingnful recruiting.
There was a certain "love of the game/school/spirit" that old college football has that the new era simply doesn't.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:56 am to Rip Torner
quote:the playoff system was what killed bowls, while portal/NIL added fuel to the fire, it’s the playoff system that has killed the value of these games.
All of those things could have been accomplished without NIL and the transfer portal
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:57 am to StansberryRules
quote:Urban Meyer used to refer to that as the “pageantry of college football”.
There was a certain "love of the game/school/spirit" that old college football has that the new era simply doesn't.
That element is completely gone.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:25 pm to StansberryRules
Damn I just got nostalgic
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:43 pm to bamaoldtimer
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You will keep the same routine you have always kept I bet
My routine has already changed.
Pre covid I would arrange my schedule around Alabama football. I have not attended a game since then. I have changed from having season tickets for several years to not even watching every Alabama game on TV because it doesn’t matter as much to me. I still am a huge fan of Alabama, but I don’t feel compelled to support a bunch of 18 year old millionaires with my hard earned time and money, especially when they will just as likely be gone in a year to the next highest bidder. Most players today have zero loyalty to their school or fanbase. Why should fans feel any loyalty towards them? I am simply not a huge fan of what college football has evolved into.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:56 pm to ukraine_rebel
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It’s a trade off, you lose this, but you gain late season playoff games. Just to throw a potential example, say Ole Miss and Oklahoma are each 7-2 on Nov 14, that game becomes a lot more meaningful in 2026 as opposed to 2006. November now had a lot more nationally meaningful games.
You’re just changing which games are more meaningful. On the flip side, with the BCS, the loser of the SECCG was generally out of contention. Now that game has become a glorified exhibition. The 2013 iron bowl ended Alabama’s national title season. Now those games only matter for seeding in the playoff. I’m sorry but the trade off of caring what happens with 2 loss teams doesn’t replace what we lost or make more games overall meaningful.
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:02 pm to ukraine_rebel
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Which leads me to a question, just something I was curious about, what was the Alabama fan’s opinion of the 2017 iron bowl in February of 2018? Were y'all still mad/sad about it?
Mad? I don't recall ever being MAD about a game we lost, but frustrated? frick yes I was,
But I'm nearly 50; the rivalry games will probably always mean something to me so long as college football as a whole does. The moment I feel like college football isn't worth my time and energy anymore, I'll probably stop caring about rivalry games too.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:10 pm to bamaoldtimer
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Ahhhh, college ball. Hasn’t changed a bit.
In the future, like the NFL, it's going to take a lot of gambling to keep it anywhere near the viewership it has now.
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