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29 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

Grand Canyon and UC Davis aren’t playing football in the MWC, they are non-fb members. If you’re including non-fb members you’d need to add ND to ACC, Gonzaga to PAC, and Wichita State to American.

Thanks for catching that. Fixed.

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If I was commissioner of CFP & realignment for a day, I would:

Expand both SEC/ B1G to 24 members split into pods of three...

11 game in conference slate (& 1 crossover game vs SEC/ B1G)...

Expand CFP to 16 teams, keep home games & tie in top bowls...

B1G East:
Northwestern Wildcats
Notre Dame Fightin' Irish
Purdue Boilermakers
Penn State Nittany Lions
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Maryland Terripens
Duke Blue Devils
Miami Hurricanes 

B1G Central:
Iowa Hawkeyes
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Wisconsin Badgers
Illinois Fighting Illini
Indiana Hoosiers
Michigan Wolverines
Michigan State Spartans
Ohio State Buckeyes

B1G West:
Washington Huskies 
Oregon Ducks
Stanford Cardinal
UCLA Bruins
USC Trojans
Arizona Wildcats
Utah Utes
Nebraska Cornhuskers

ACC/ XII/ PAC backfill 16 members each & hold own CFP also...

Season start week of Labor Day for all teams, end in January...

NCAA March Madness stays at 68 team tournament in March...

 

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SEC East:
Virginia Cavaliers
North Carolina Tar Heels
NC State Wolfpack
South Carolina Gamecocks
Clemson Tigers
Georgia Bulldogs
Florida Gators
Florida State Seminoles

SEC Central:
Kentucky Wildcats
Tennessee Volunteers
Vanderbilt Commodores
Alabama Crimson Tide
Auburn Tigers
Ole Miss Rebels
Mississippi State Bulldogs
LSU Tigers

SEC West:
Texas Longhorns
Texas A&M Aggies
Oklahoma Sooners
Arkansas Razorbacks
Missouri Tigers
Kansas Jayhawks
Colorado Buffaloes
Arizona State Sun Devils

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FSU: We're better than everyone, we deserve more money

ACC: What if we give more money to the better programs?

FSU: <shits the bed>

ACC: What if we give you more money simply because of your name even when you bring in less revenue and field a non-competitive team?

FSU: Sounds like a fair and impartial deal. We promise we won't go anywhere. Ignore that last little bit.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36
 

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ESPN has agreed to pick up its option to continue broadcasting ACC sports through 2036, sources told ESPN on Thursday.

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Under the proposed plan, a percentage of the ACC's television revenue would be included in a "brand" fund, and that money would then be distributed to schools that annually generate the most revenue for the conference in football and men's and women's basketball -- with Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina likely at the top of the pyramid, sources told ESPN.

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The new brand distribution fund would be in addition to the ACC's "success initiatives," which the league approved in 2023.

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Success initiatives went into place this year for the ACC and provide additional revenue to schools that play in the postseason. The brand initiatives would also be accessible to any ACC school, though the biggest names would have a clear leg up. Specific metrics have not been finalized.

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As part of the settlement, Clemson and Florida State are asking the ACC to agree to reduce penalties for exiting the grant of rights after 2031, when TV contracts for the Big Ten, SEC and Big 12 are set to expire.

 

 

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On 1/29/2025 at 3:01 AM, kopp0e said:

If I was commissioner of CFP & realignment for a day, I would:

Expand both SEC/ B1G to 24 members split into pods of three...

11 game in conference slate (& 1 crossover game vs SEC/ B1G)...

Expand CFP to 16 teams, keep home games & tie in top bowls...

B1G East:
Northwestern Wildcats
Notre Dame Fightin' Irish
Purdue Boilermakers
Penn State Nittany Lions
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Maryland Terripens
Duke Blue Devils
Miami Hurricanes 

B1G Central:
Iowa Hawkeyes
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Wisconsin Badgers
Illinois Fighting Illini
Indiana Hoosiers
Michigan Wolverines
Michigan State Spartans
Ohio State Buckeyes

B1G West:
Washington Huskies 
Oregon Ducks
Stanford Cardinal
UCLA Bruins
USC Trojans
Arizona Wildcats
Utah Utes
Nebraska Cornhuskers

ACC/ XII/ PAC backfill 16 members each & hold own CFP also...

Season start week of Labor Day for all teams, end in January...

NCAA March Madness stays at 68 team tournament in March...

 

 

On 1/29/2025 at 3:03 AM, kopp0e said:

SEC East:
Virginia Cavaliers
North Carolina Tar Heels
NC State Wolfpack
South Carolina Gamecocks
Clemson Tigers
Georgia Bulldogs
Florida Gators
Florida State Seminoles

SEC Central:
Kentucky Wildcats
Tennessee Volunteers
Vanderbilt Commodores
Alabama Crimson Tide
Auburn Tigers
Ole Miss Rebels
Mississippi State Bulldogs
LSU Tigers

SEC West:
Texas Longhorns
Texas A&M Aggies
Oklahoma Sooners
Arkansas Razorbacks
Missouri Tigers
Kansas Jayhawks
Colorado Buffaloes
Arizona State Sun Devils

Those mushrooms really hit differently at 3am…

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On 1/28/2025 at 9:30 PM, gatormarc said:

Crazy that Colorado had more big games than Notre Dame.

Other than their 4 playoff games (all top 10), Notre Dame only had 2 others in the top 100.

CU was involved in 2 of the 5 games that were not all P4 matchups, vs. NDSU and Colorado St.  The others were Army-Navy, Notre Dame's loss to NIU and the MWC CCG Boise vs. UNLV.

CU also had the highest regular season game not in a "prime" slot (Saturday 12/4/8 or TG Friday 12/4/8).  That NDSU game was #60.  There were only 3 of those games that made the top 100 and one was Labor Day Monday (BC-FSU).

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4 minutes ago, bullet said:

Other than their 4 playoff games (all top 10), Notre Dame only had 2 others in the top 100.

CU was involved in 2 of the 5 games that were not all P4 matchups, vs. NDSU and Colorado St.  The others were Army-Navy, Notre Dame's loss to NIU and the MWC CCG Boise vs. UNLV.

CU also had the highest regular season game not in a "prime" slot (Saturday 12/4/8 or TG Friday 12/4/8).  That NDSU game was #60.  There were only 3 of those games that made the top 100 and one was Labor Day Monday (BC-FSU).

Apparently ACC's deal extension will force ND to play FSU, Clemson, and Miami more.

 

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TL; DW:

Guy has a source within the B1G and this what he is being told:

  • ESPN is pushing SEC to expand and is working with ACC
  • SEC would add #17 UNC, #18 NCState; possibly #19 FSU and #20 Clemson if they choose to go to 20.
  • ACC and ESPN have already approved whoever the backfill teams are and ESPN would extend the contract (they did)
  • B1G is content to wait until all legal issues are taken care of because they know SEC is getting first pick.
  • B1G will always leave open a spot for Notre Dame no matter what so they will ask them first
  • B1G will look at ratings and matchups if they expand would next consider FSU an Miami.
     
  • B1G and SEC are looking to get 4 guaranteed spots each in the playoff
  • B1G and SEC will agree to a standardized schedule; B1G will drop to 8 or SEC will increase to 9.
  • B1G wants 2 crossover games between the two conferences for each team.

 

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