Fifth Avenue Forum

We’re taking in usc and ucla and kicking out Rutgers and Maryland.

I can’t believe this first hit the inter webs 7 hours ago and is now official. That’s an amazing job keeping it under wraps.

It also makes no sense without an eye to adding more western teams for non-revenue sports.

Tradition is dead. The almighty dollar wins again.

Yeah, guess this is the end of the Rose bowl as we know it, huh?

This was one way to kill the Rose Bowl's influence on an expanded playoff.

At the end of the day, Pitt is going to be left in the "left over" conference.

Probably and it’ll be because they do a second round of “Rutgers for the NYC TV market” nonsense. Conferences need to go away and everything runs through a single governing body like a professional league. Give the conferences money to make them shut up. Tier 1 is 4 divisions of either 12, 14, or 15 teams representing the actual best 48 to 60 college football programs based on performance. Two best performers in the division go to a division championship. Winner takes one of the four spots in a four team playoff. No more voting, ranking, or media driven Notre Dame favoritism.

The schools left out get to go down to Tier 2. Similar four division set up, but now we’re introducing the joy of promotion and relegation to American sports. Maybe it’s a direct promotion of division winners replacing the last place team from their corresponding Tier 1 division. Or maybe we’re running a four team Tier 2 playoff. Champion and runner-up get auto promotion into their respective divisions. The two first round losers have promotion battles against their corresponding division losers to see who gets the spot in Tier 1 for next year.

CFB won't be recognizable soon. It'll be an NFL Lite with a super SEC and a super B1G playing regular seasons and playoffs culminating in a CFB Super Bowl.

It just really sucks that one of my all-time favorite sports/fall pastimes has so quickly changed. Most of my weekends for the last twenty years were spent watching more college football than pro, by far. I know it sounds stodgy, but I enjoyed the CFB tradition, even if I wasn't naive enough to think it didn't have its many warts.

Boo.

CFB won't be recognizable soon. It'll be an NFL Lite with a super SEC and a super B1G playing regular seasons and playoffs culminating in a CFB Super Bowl.

It just really sucks that one of my all-time favorite sports/fall pastimes has so quickly changed. Most of my weekends for the last twenty years were spent watching more college football than pro, by far. I know it sounds stodgy, but I enjoyed the CFB tradition, even if I wasn't naive enough to think it didn't have its many warts.

Boo.

I was the exact same way. Saturdays were pretty much all CFB for me. Now, outside of Pitt, regardless of where they are at, once this big shift takes place, I'm done. Won't watch anyone outside of Pitt.

And I'm a big fan of the olympic sports too. They are going to be hurt as well.

So does the PAC-12 just merge with the Big12 now? At least then we’d be down to four major conferences which would work much better if they ever expanded the playoff.

As much as this does feel like it's coming to a head, conferences have changed for 30+ years now and each time I bet people thought CFB as they knew it was over. So, we'll see

2 conferences: North/West and Southern.

Split into divisions, B1G and Pac in the NW, SEC and ACC in South. SEC/ACC absorbs most of the Big XII with Anything north of VA or KY being absorbed into the NW.

Basically the same **** thing we have now.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/100 ... washington

Maybe Notre Dame finally goes Big Ten? Seems like several more dominoes to fall in the next few years.

Well that's a shame

Welcome to the new state of (major) college (major) sports.

Maybe NIL isn't all terrible, because we'd miss out on stuff like this

Not sure if I read it here or not but some player is sponsored by a NASCAR track.

Not sure if I read it here or not but some player is sponsored by a NASCAR track.

Yes! Grayson McCall of Coastal Carolina is sponsored by Darlington Raceway. Pretty cool as I work at CCU now and used to live near Darlington Raceway (and drove by it daily).

The South Carolina Gamecocks are selling season tickets...at Costco. That's interesting.

Dude is cashing out, apparently.

This is a good laugh to end to the 2021-2022 thread