Tennessee?
You are the only ten I see
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we will see I guess, they play UGA and if they somehow win in Athens theyāll probably play Texas after that in SEC championship*. their QB looks good from what I saw
*and then still get in the 12-team playoff with 2-3 losses, delegitimizing it further
Any sec or big ten team going 10-2 is 100% in
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Nope!
The SEC will have 6 playoff teams this year
not enough imo
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The 6-Pac
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So wait, the current conference is the Tupac?
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This makes sense and with all the other realignment I donāt think theyāll have trouble adding two more.
I donāt love the fact that the ālesserā schools in the MWC end up suffering the way that WSU and OSU did, and in that sense wish it was a merger with the whole conference, but it is what it is.
The whole thing is just sad.
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if it makes you feel better I donāt think conferences will exist in a form like now at all in 10 years or so.
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You think so? Seems like thereās a ton invested in the various conference television networks, and Iām not sure some alternative like NCAA Network or whatever lets schools charge more to carry it.
Basically I donāt see the current system as stable because there are a lot of schools that are drains on conferences. What does Northwestern add to the Big Ten? What does South Carolina add to the SEC?
As schools start to having actually pay labor costs, thereās going to be a lot of pressure to trim fat so that the powerbrokers get more of the revenue produced. The tradition that pressures conferences to keep teams that arenāt net contributors to the conference seems to be fading away.
Thereās a couple of ways this could be done. Schools could do the Longhorn network thing. They could break away from the NCAA like the premier league. They could drop teams from a conference. Think 1 or 2 is more likely than 3.
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I agree that the big conferences have to be close to where expansion ends and contraction begins.
Iād guess the valuable ACC Properties will find a way in to the SEC and Big 10 somehow. Then the inward looking begins where Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, USC are asking themselves why theyāre giving an equal revenue share to Purdue, Minnesota, Rutgers, etc.
When weāve stripped away all pretense of tradition or geography and the only value you bring is money, this feels like the next natural step.
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So what youāre saying is we arenāt anywhere near rock bottom for how stupid itās going to get?
I mean, at the end of the day being hardcore fans of a sport that destroyed its players brains and bodies while offering them a pittance of their value, this is all comeuppance. We deserve this.
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Yeah pretty much.
Although Iām not convinced the 12 team playoff is necessarily bad. The old system wasnāt good either, especially for the players.
Watching Brian Kelly rage is one of lifeās great pleasures
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