College football Week 1 thread

Kansas would lose to 3/4 of the JUCO teams in Kansas.

 

KU is going to have more talent across the board, but will almost certainly be outcoached. Nicholls has some pass rushers and KU is going with the QB who is about as mobile as the Jayhawk statue outside Strong Hall.

The only story worth following with that team is how soon Jeff Long fires Beaty.

 

Nicholls

 

Right, sorry, I know that. Dumb typo.

 

Hell of an article.

Inside the NCAA’s years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football

 

Very curious if Minnesota actually comes out with killer instinct against NMSU. They often win these games by a boring 27-10 style.

 

Maybe I should pull up the conference realignment thread but the discussion of the Kansas football team got me to thinking about this. In 2023 the Big 12 can dissolve.

If the conferences dissolves how many schools could get into one of the Power Five conferences. I think Texas could into any conference they want and could take one other Texas school with them. The Texas television market is to attractive. I don't know if the Oaklahoma schools could get into the SEC or the BIg 10 but I think they could find a home in the ACC or PA 12. I think the other schools in the Big 12 are SOL. Kansas would not be saved by their excellent basketball program because the television money is mostly tied to football and due to the small population of the state (see UConn).

 

That’s also why the urgency to get Kansas football to a better place. The opportunity will be there. Both Iowa State and Kansas State will lose their coaches within a few years.

If Long makes the right hire, Kansas can bounce back to a decent spot.

 

The next round of realignment is going to be a different animal because media deals are changing. Market size doesn't matter when people cut out cable. The Big Ten didn't care if anybody actually watched a Rutgers game, as long as Rutgers got them into the cable packages in the Tri-State area.

Getting people to pay for a streaming service means you got to have something people will actually make an effort to watch. Texas has to figure out what to do with the Longhorn Network because the SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 don't work as long as Texas has its own network.

Oklahoma has been making an effort to get into the AAU, which is supposed to be a requirement for the Big Ten.

 

I still think the next time there's realignment, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State wind up in the SEC.

 

Media deals will change. I do agree that in the future media landscape schools will actually have to draw in television viewers rather than serving as a replacement for an info commercial on a cable network. But I think that schools in more populated areas will generate more media revenue than in less populated.

 

Where would Texas go?