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When the list has most of the Ivy League schools and the military schools, you know it is click bait.

If I don't see a contract, I take all this with heaping grains of salt. The 10 million also could be over all 4 years, still staggering, but less eye popping than 10 million for 1 year.

All the talking heads keep saying: The Big Ten and SEC control everything – format and financials – beginning in 2026 for the CFP. Is that all "talk" or is there some contract language that makes it so? I guess they could say to the rest of college football, we are taking our ball on only going to play with the B1G and SEC, but that seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I know the NFL only has 32 teams, but having only 34 teams decide the NCAA championship isn't enough?

The Capital One standings are only about how a team finishes in the sport. It has zero to do with conference finishes. Those standings do reflect teams with many sports, but you do have to finish in the top 10 to get any points. Just because a school has 100 sports, it doesn't just give the school points in the standings. The Ducks are one of the best Universities for bang for the buck. Yes, the spring sports will change those standings and likely improve the Ducks rankings.

Copy of COC Database 2024-2025 Standings of how teams finish in sports, not just conference finishes. tOSU #1 in Men's sports. PSU #1 in Women's sports. If baseball and softball can help Oregon big time.

It is likely going to be football and men's basketball for the majority of schools. Then, however many women's sports it takes to satisfy Title IX. I can see in 10 years where Olympic sports are all but gone from college. Colleges probably don't really think about it, but without Olympic sports at colleges, USA is not going to dominate the summer Olympics in 10 years. Having 300+ colleges supporting all those Olympic sports is huge for our dominance.

I like the elimination of the championship game, but how do you convince the conferences to lose out on millions of dollars? If the games are done in November, they can get all the CFP games, except the championship game, done in December. It won't ever happen because of money, but I would have the first round and quarterfinals play at the better seed's home stadium. Only the semifinals and championship game get a CFP. There are 6 major bowl games, so they would have to rotate every other year.

I wouldn't be broken up about Dana retiring. I'm ready for a new coach. Dana has been a Power 5 coach for 25 years. He has 17 NCAA bids, with Covid year cancelled. 3 sweet 16 runs, 1 great 8 run and 1 final 4. Dana is a very good coach, but if there is an upgrade out there... I think he has run his course, and we won't win a championship with him.

It seems like 2029-2031 will be an interesting time. TV contract expiration. Mountain West expires 2025-26. B1G TEN is the 2029-30 school year. Big 12 is the 2030-31 school year. AAC is the 2031-32 school year. SEC is the 2033-34 school year. The SEC is the SEC, but being last might not be a great place to be. I also don't think 10+ year contracts are going to happen again. B1G TEN did a 6 year contract. That seems like about right. The ACC settlement sets it up, so teams can leave. It will still hurt, but not as much.

Where did this idea of pharmaceutical companies won't be able to advertise on TV? The closest article I could find was from a couple weeks ago, where a proposal of new drugs couldn't be advertised until 3 years after FDA approval. That is a far cry from no advertising at all. The law hasn't even passed yet. I don't think we have to be concerned about advertising money.

I'm not a fan of the B1G TEN announcers being so biased against, UO, UW, USC and UCLA. They aren't even trying to hide it.

The road trips are very similar to what happened during the Pac12 and your travel buddy. Oregon combined tOSU and Penn St. with one flight. Same with Michigan and MSU. The same with Iowa and Wisconsin. Teams coming west will either play UO/UW together or USC/UCLA together. There are one offs in both directions, but typically the B1G TEN did try and get two teams scheduled together when they flew long distances.

Imagine a scenario 20 years from now, where the B1G TEN and SEC have been getting more than twice the money over the ACC and B12 from the CFP. Are teams from the ACC and B12 really going to be competitive even with auto bids? I guess auto bids aren't really my point of contention, it is the unequal sharing of money. Auto bids do entail some extra money, but not enough to overcome the TV contracts and the extra money teams get with wins. Heading down a path with 2 super conferences and only 34 teams is going to cause the downfall of college football. The B1G and SEC are so greedy, they don't see what it eventually does to them. The reason why the NFL is the most watch sport in USA is because it tries to make everyone .500 by being equal.

I'm not interested in creating the have's vs the have nots more than it already is. It is silly to give auto bids. Most years the B1G TEN and SEC are going to have 4 teams anyway, so why make it permanent? By giving the B1G TEN and SEC 60-70% of the money also will eventually kill college football. Look at the NBA and MLB. You have only a handful of teams that can win the championship and that is with revenue sharing, but both leagues essentially have no salary cap. I don't really watch either sport because it is essentially the same 5-10 teams every year. With the CFP, you are not sharing revenue equally and you have no salary cap. You will have the B1G TEN and SEC separate themselves even more from the ACC and B12. When you have only 33% of the US interested in the sport, it will eventually die. Why would the ACC or B12 be interested in watching something where none of their teams have a shot of winning?

Still no new money for the league as a whole. Clemson, Miami, UNC and Miami will get a larger chunk, which comes at the expense of the other schools.