Game Thread: Bowl & CFP Games | Tues 12/31 | 4 games (starting at 1pm CST)

[TideEngineer08]

Agreed. But with portal and NIL, teams can drastically change year to year. You can schedule a "good team" now but in two years when you play they could be terrible
The SOS has to mean more. Also no automatic qualifiers. And while we're at it go ahead and make it 16 teams with no bye.

Oh but there must be NIL/Portal changes as well. Contracts, bye outs, unions, portal limits, etc.

The game as it is right now, cannot be sustained. It will implode.

 

[russtang]

Oh but there must be NIL/Portal changes as well. Contracts, bye outs, unions, portal limits, etc.

The game as it is right now, cannot be sustained. It will implode.

Yes to all.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I tell you right now, I enjoyed college football more during our dark decade (97-06) than I do now with us being more successful than then. In terms of the sport itself, I prefer the Mike Shula years to the past two seasons of college football. Obviously not the quality of the on field product, but I mean the game and the sport as a whole.

I know people will say it is because I was a teenager in the 1980s, but the imposition of scholarship limitations created parity that was not merely an illusion across college football. True, the independent schools had a lag up for the national championships because of the bowl, game agreements, but the SEC had 6 of their 10 teams win the conference at least once in a six-year span. A seventh team (Kentucky) had the second best overall record in the conference, one of those years.

That was competitive, and while I thought some of the rigid rules were preposterous when it came to probation, the sport itself was more enjoyable.

This garbage now is why I have been watching Premier league soccer on Saturday mornings for the past two seasons. I think I have watched a full episode of college game day only one time since John Saunders died.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

I tell you right now, I enjoyed college football more during our dark decade (97-06) than I do now with us being more successful than then. In terms of the sport itself, I prefer the Mike Shula years to the past two seasons of college football. Obviously not the quality of the on field product, but I mean the game and the sport as a whole.

I know people will say it is because I was a teenager in the 1980s, but the imposition of scholarship limitations created parity that was not merely an illusion across college football. True, the independent schools had a lag up for the national championships because of the bowl, game agreements, but the SEC had 6 of their 10 teams win the conference at least once in a six-year span. A seventh team (Kentucky) had the second best overall record in the conference, one of those years.

That was competitive, and while I thought some of the rigid rules were preposterous when it came to probation, the sport itself was more enjoyable.

This garbage now is why I have been watching Premier league soccer on Saturday mornings for the past two seasons. I think I have watched a full episode of college game day only one time since John Saunders died.

It's definitely not the sport it once was