TV contracts will be getting smaller and the super conferences will be cutting dead weight if they haven't already. No future generation will be as invested as Gen X in watching football moving forward. Kids don't participate at the level they used to. And only diehards are going to be willing to carry television service for the purpose of watching sports. We might eventually see a move toward regional conferences with most games not being televised outside of school or conference-run streaming services.
Take away the big black line that isn't actually on the field and just look at the football. He's still offsides by a toe, but that's not that easy to see and not really all that blatant.
Yeah, but if the Big 12 didn't take UCF, UH, and Cincy, they wouldn't have been able to renegotiate their tv contract early and the Pac might have been able to stay together.
Yeah, you and Alabama really don't belong in this CFP, but you both would (and in Alabama's case, do) have a really good chance to win it. Also, you have looked sort of pedestrian all year against a mostly soft schedule and I doubt you would be favored over Alabama after they just beat you on a neutral field.
Texas over Alabama and Washington over Oregon are great wins. Michigan over Ohio State is also a great win. Alabama over Georgia is a great win. How is any of that controversial?
Any win over a top 10 team is a great win in my book. I'm not trying to say they beat a greatest of all time contender or something. Washington's schedule is full of ranked teams and non-ranked teams with winning records. The only teams Michigan played in their first 9 games that finished over .500 are UNLV and Bowling Green. So as shitty as their non-conference was, it would have been stronger than their conference schedule if not for Ohio State and Penn State.
Washington's schedule was solid. Lots of good to great teams on it. The only thing remotely surprising about Michigan's schedule is that UNLV finished with a winning record. So it's a little bit better than it looked going into the season, but it's still UNLV.
Yeah, it's kind of like one of those good seasons Boise State put together, where they would go on the road and beat Oregon week 1 and then destroy a bunch of hapless Mountain West schools, with the occasional showdown against Utah or TCU.
It's kind of splitting hairs. Not sure Iowa and Penn State are 10 win teams in other conferences. I think Ohio State probably beats FSU. No way any other team on that schedule does. It's also ridiculous that Michigan didn't schedule a single P5 opponent out of conference. At least FSU tried to make up for their shitty conference schedule.
East Carolina (2-10)
UNLV (9-4)
Bowling Green (7-5)
Rutgers (6-6)
Nebraska (5-7)
Minnesota (5-7)
Indiana (3-9)
Michigan State (4-8)
Purdue (4-8)
Penn State (10-2)
Maryland (7-5)
Ohio State (11-1)
Yeah, I'd say that schedule is god awful by any standard.