College football Week 1 thread

Maybe so, but if they create four 16-team conferences, they can't all get Texas and Oklahoma. Someone will have to take K-State and Iowa State.

 

I used to make fun of a friend who went to Arizona State. Then I saw his Facebook feed those four years and realized I chose poorly in life.

 

I also figure state legislators - if not federal legislators - will be getting involved in the next realignment. College sports are getting close to anti-trust territory locking some universities out of conference membership.

And the CFP has only made matters worse.

Don’t Expect College Football’s Elite Programs To Stop Hogging All The Playoff Spots

 

There has been some buzz about Netflix or Amazon getting involved in the bidding for the next round of TV contracts. I've also heard speculation about their making an attempt to skim the cream off of the current conferences to create an All-Star Super Conference. Bidding to get the contract for the content sounds feasible. The conference would be a big lift, even if they do say a 48 team upper division, dumping the Vanderbilts and Iowa States.

Interesting times, and that contract date is only five years out now. I know that my team is busting its hump to be positioned to move up to the AAC during the next round of realignment.

 

College Football’s Growing Problem: Empty Seats

 

Watched it. Not sure Minnesota's better than Wyoming.

 

Neither am I. I am more concerned about NMSU having anything left in the tank after the Pokes ran through them.

 

Good point. Their HC is some kind of fuckin’ genius, scheduling a road game on a short week in August just to get on ESPN2

 

I have no idea what it's like at other schools, but mine has been slowly trying to strangle tailgating despite being in a pro stadium with plenty of parking. Initially it was "no overnight parking of motorhomes" which eventually transitioned into "no motorhomes." No tents or canopies. They're shortened the amount of time that the lots are open before and after games. Add in the fact that the product is mediocre and the view on television is better and in-home is becoming far superior to the at stadium experience.

 

The TBA kickoff times though do make the secondary market a buyer's market. Tickets as low as $3? And these games have had their times locked in for at least a couple of months. Bama-Louisville has tickets avb. for as low as $38.

 

At mine, a top-tier SEC school, the non-conference games are reasonable. Ranges from $10 in the upper deck to $70 in the lower bowl. For a couple of A-list conference games, the range is $125 to $250. Other SEC games are somewhere in the middle.
It's the biggest reason why I haven't been to a game there as a fan since 2006. I could take a nice weekend trip somewhere for the price of tickets alone.