Recent content by wma500

ND has played these conference realignment and CFP changes super well. Might argue that ND being independent is about the only thing that is still left from old school college football. Father Jenkins and Swarbrick had a cool seat at every prominent table in the process and directed things to...

FSU fans won't be too happy with this news. This will do nothing to quiet the crowd that thinks the committee and ESPN work together to select the teams. I'm hopeful that going to 12 at least spreads out those senseless arguments, vs. concentrating them just one or two teams.

Sir, I was at the UConn game at Notre Dame, in November 2009. We don't speak well of UConn, it's too soon.

Anyone have the difference in revenue distribution to the MAC vs. A10/Independent, on things like the CFP and NCAA tourney?

For that to happen, a team outside the top 4 seeds, would have to make it all the way to the championship game. Absolutely can happen, but I think the odds are low. Should that happen, that team would have had one bye week during the season, and another off week between their conference...

I'm clueless on movies and comics, but I get your point. And to that point, it's why Rutgers, Vandy, Indiana, Northwestern and South Carolina are in this ecosystem. Optically, OSU or Alabama at 10-2 is better than say 7-5. There will still be a certain, familiar pace to the college football...

I'd argue the power brokers here are giving the audience exactly what they want. Top teams, playing other top teams, with a defined playoff system to crown a champion. We are an NFL nation, and we want the Saturday version of it, and they're giving it to us. Sure, it's being wrapped in...

It's challenging to find apples to apples comparisons, but a few things to add: To clarify, the original CFP-specific TV deal signed in 2012 was for 12 years, $5.64 billion, and for *FOUR* games each year (the two semi final games, plus the championship game, plus one other bowl game to be in...

I think that was an illegal formation on Corum run...only 6 on the line. Dude on the left was notably off, so 5 in the backfield.

That holding call....damn, hate to see it. Refs have let the two teams play all night, hate to see that call there.

Think bigger....we're going to 20 or 24 teams. Let's say 20. Here's how it could go down: - Four divisions of five teams each. - 12 game season over 13 weeks, starting Saturday of Labor Day weekend, ending Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend - 9 conference games (4 in each division plus cross...

I do ultimately believe that when college football evolves into essentially just two conferences, the Big 10 will have it's championship game, on 1/1, in the Rose Bowl

Absolute monster TV numbers for the Rose Bowl, wow. Biggest since inaugural year of CFP, and up about 23% over last year's highest rated CFP game.

You want to leave out a team who scheduled 3 cupcakes, played 9 conference games and whose best wins are against #7 and #10... ....but you want to leave in a team who scheduled 3 cupcakes, played 8 conference games, has a loss, and whose best wins are against #9 and #11?

And of the top CFP teams under consideration, FSU played the weakest schedule. Their best win was over #13 LSU (and a blowout, at that). You can make a great case for Florida State to be in, but you can also make a case they should be left out. It sucks, but this is how the conferences set...