People like me lol.
1. These are not fun football games to watch. I can prove that with numbers.
2. I don’t care about the money. It doesn’t go into my pocket. I do care about the direction of the sport that is distinctly driven by said money. I would much rather do away with FCS games and sub in more power 4 matches which drive revenue than go to the nuclear option and have a full breakaway. For every App State v Michigan example of FCS game you have 100 other boring games versus Furman.
3. Fuck TV executives/advertisers but they do pay for what people want to see, which is big time games. Texas v Michigan, Oregon v Ohio State, LSU v USC, Bama v Georgia. This is the type of content I, and most on here, would prefer to see rather than NIU/ND.
Easy solution to fix this:
Ban FCS games for P4 teams.
Make 9 conference games a standard.
Require a scheduling agreement between the SEC/Big Ten for a 10th game (and Big12/ACC).
Require an 11th P4 game outside of the scheduling agreement (possibly waiver for good G5 teams like Boise State or Army/Navy)
The problem I have is with people that want to pretend that college football is great just the way it is, because it definitely is NOT.
The Longhorn’s out of conference schedule in 1999 was Rice, Stanford, Rutgers, and NCSU.
This year it was Colorado St, ULM, UTSA, and Michigan.
I see this schedule outside of Michigan as a problem, but you see these as “fun football games to watch” and that is concerning to me.