Brand recognition is more important than making sense. It’s the same reason KFC doesn’t stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore. It’s just KFC cause that’s what everyone calls it. Big Ten was the Bit Ten for almost 100 years. Not gonna change now
No. The ACC changed its name to the All Coasts Conference. Cal and Stanford on the Pacific. SMU and I guess Florida State on the Gulf Coast. Louisville on a tributary of the Mississippi River. Don’t forget about Notre Dame being near a Great Lake
TBF, Cal and Stanford didn't join the ACC out of greed. They joined out of desperation to stay in a power conference after the other teams(outside of Wazzu and Oregon St.) received invitations to join either the B1G or B12
@@RockSmithStudio Sure but the fundamental landscape of college football (i.e. why they had to leave) was due to greed (by others if not themselves) lol
The issue is that while football can travel and it makes sense to go with the bigger conferences every other sport suffers from not have regional conferences. West Coast teams having to travel in the middle of the week to the east coast for games doesn't make sense.
As an Englishman, the thing that attracted me to this sport in the first place was all the regional conferences, rivalries, identity etc. I cant even watch it anymore because its becoming silly now.
As an American - it's weird to me you'd even be interested in the first place. I'm even uncomfortable with people who didn't attend the university rooting for its football team. It'd be like me being a fan of some random high school I didn't attend. Very creepy. Please continue to leave us alone and watch soccer.
@kcottone Hmmm, American arrogance. What an interesting and rare occurrence *cough cough*. FYI, I have family who attended Penn State and Michigan and attended a graduation ceremony at the former. So, does this qualify me to watch and comment on your precious sport, dear American? When our money has literally been spent on American soil at these same institutions you speak of? Please? Pretty please? I don't know what I'd do without your permission, Sir. I'd surely fall to pieces. I mean, it's never a good thing to export things to the world audience, is it? It's terrible for the sport that people outside of America are interested in CFB isn't it? Every sport hates having international fans, don't they? It makes people so "uncomfortable". Can't think of anything worse! Oh, and as an aside, it's called FOOTBALL, i.e., you use your FOOT to kick the BALL. Do you copy that, Yankee? FOOTBALL. By your logic, our game should be called handball. It's also the world most popular sport. And that's a FACT. A sport you will never ever win at, because you're not only playing against yourselves and Canada. Oh, but let me guess, because you're no good at it, you dont care about it, do you? Nor would you be waving starts and stripes and screaming "Uuuuuuueeeeessssaaaaa" if you actually won The World Cup, would you? Course not! So, who's the daddy now, eh Yankee? Class dismissed.
I feel bad for the smaller sports who are now greatly affected because college football has such a huge financial pull for colleges & universities. Whilst the football & basketball programs get most of the flashy NIL deals the gymnast or the wrestler or the swimmer barely gets any deals to accompany the additional travel time and still maintaining a decent grade average
This is never going to last otherwise it'll be the end of college sports relevance. Football may be able to handle it but basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball, soccer will all crumble. Students can't travel cross country for a midweek game and then still succeed in school
Don’t forget that those athletes also want big games against big schools. Their best chance to make good money is through NIL. And the only way to get it is to play in front of big crowds.
Players in sports that have multiple games a week are now taking their course online to get around the issues with travel. Football will just do this now too. I think 10-12 teams is the max a league should be looking at, but the Big Ten may be moving to as large as 20 teams in the future if they raid the ACC.
In my opinion, the worst part is the athletes in the less popular sports. You think these *student* athletes wanna travel coast to coast for rugby or lacrosse while trying to balance their studies cause God knows them reaching the high paying pros is a long shot
Now, a lot of these schools might be thinking about cutting off those sports because they don't produce enough money in the near future or maybe even kicking out some other schools. I don't like where college football is going or college sports for that matter.
In the Big Ten, only Oregon plays lacrosse from the new schools. Baseball is a bigger issue, because Cal and Stanford will have to be on the East coast over half of the season. But to be fair, most spring and winter sports take their courses online now because they are constantly on the road even when they play most of their games in a general area. Football players will probably be doing that as well, if they haven't already moved that way.
@@M_11_m41n Yep. I'm playing College Football 25 and all my conferences in my dynasty are geographical. It's crazy how many schools are literally within bus driving distance from one another that don't play each other and aren't in the same conference in the current NCAA format.
Notre Dame was independent at the start because Michigan's athletic director was anti-Catholic and refused to let them join the Big Ten. He also kept Michigan State out because he didn't want to share money with them. The Southern Conference still exists, but it is a FCS football league now.
@@michaelwalker7400 so your GPA was to low to get into Michigan is what you are saying mr Jelly,,Michigan is the best school in the history of the world,, We invented EVERYTHING !! i would always rather be in Ann Arbor..GO BLUE !! Michigan grads don't end up working at 7-11 like ohio grads do..
@@herchelleonwood7463 Not sure what GPA had to do with religious bigotry, but whatever. Besides, how do you get a Michigan grad off your porch? You pay for the pizza.
At this point, it's going to come to a point where the whole progression of this realignment has to stop and the colleges have to take into account the other sports. This is getting to a point where I just want this all to stop. Why can't everything just be simpler and organized?
Perhaps there should be one set of conference alignments for football, and another for everything else? That's kind of what they do here in Oregon with small-school high school sports, where the football teams are in "special districts" instead of their school's regular league that the volleyball and basketball teams compete in.
"30 years ago college football had seven major conferences" 35 years ago there were only six (and nine FBS conferences total, including the MAC, WAC, and Big West), and 24 FBS independents. Only one of those 24 is still independent today.
The issue is these aren’t just football conferences. The collapse of the Pac 12 really hurts the smaller sports. It doesn’t make since to have softball in Cal and Florida state. When they could go to USC instead.
I am a native Angeleno and a lifelong UCLA fan. Now that the Bruins and Trojans are BIG 10 schools I have no interest in them. Sad colleges are supposed to be higher learning institutions, but they don't get their geography right.
Making this video without mentioning ESPN, FOX, and Disney’s greed is absurd. You also didn’t explain what made these deals profitable and why colleges invest so much in their football programs - as advertising and morale for enrollment and donations. I love Tifo but this is such a bad video
they didn't want to get the video pulled,, any remotely negative word about any of those 3 would most likely get a complaint from one of those 3 evil corporate giants,, especially with the sec/espn deal and disney's overall greediness and quickness to sue any one..
@@herchelleonwood7463 I get that fear, but without slander and libel they can still report the facts of the deals and how television money has changed the landscape. It’s an incomplete picture without
@@bigfrostishere Which part, the networks or the motive? You can't make a "Why?" video and not describe the motivations of the actors. That just makes it a "What happened?" video. If you mean networks, that's absolutely the topic of the video, Tifo was just too scared to name them for some reason. 0:09 "it's a story of cash" 1:55 "for decades, the NCAA controlled all television rights" 3:44 "all in the name of television money" 5:06 "who needs geography when you can land a $1 billion tv deal"
I wish the NCAA would appoint a commissioner to fix this mess. There could be 4 to 6 conferences of 16 teams that are geographically centered and fairly balanced. Then 4-6 secondary conferences, kind of on the level of what they refer to as the group of five. Playoffs could still work the same and rivalries would have been preserved.
What I think eventually will happen in college football is all of the big schools will break away from the NCAA and form their own league. I would favor it because then you wouldn’t have abysmal matchups like Ohio State vs. Western Michigan Community College.
Pretty much only the SEC lives up to its name now. Big 10 has 18 members. Big 12 has 16 members. ACC has Pacific teams. SEC is almost entirely the Southeast (you could argue against Missouri and Oklahoma but they’re still relatively close to the rest of the SEC)
all of college football has learned nothing from watching UM leaving for the ACC, its almost completely killed the program.... the CFB era really has ruined college football in ways that werent realized until now
The biggest thing that's going to happen in the ACC blowup is that The U is going to join the Big Ten- because it's Florida, a major media market, and AAU- while Florida St will be denied by both the Big Ten and the SEC. In the medium to long term, The U is going to be the big bro and the Noles will be the little bro. They'll land in the Big 12, though, and I do believe that's going to be a fun conference.
That's the goal, and the entire division system promotes that (pun intended). The real hiccup before came from the fact that it's a little weird to make students travel that much that often for something that isn't academic, which of course put the entire idea of an essentially developmental league made up exclusively of students into question. Then there's the problem of people who need football scholarships to attend college, which is itself a symptom of a larger issue. To me, just go with the flow, the whole thing is a mess
no college football & the ncaa are to corrupt for that..the ncaa has outlived its purpose and the NIL court decision has them running for their lives as they can no longer take as much advantage of student athletes.
I may be all wrong, but the main reason this all started was when UCLA left the PAC12 for the BIG10. Apparently, the school lost a LOT of money when COVID hit (more than a lot of other schools). According to the Los Angeles Times, the athletic department had been bleeding millions of dollars for years. There were a lot of non-revenue teams that were going to be cut. It also didn't help that the PAC12 had a really crummy TV deal (if they had one at all). The conference tried to get with ESPN (along with other networks), but that didn't happen. Basically, the BIG10 threw UCLA a lifeline. Why USC left is probably because they needed to be with UCLA. Again, I may be all wrong.
There will be three then two then one Now that conference championships mean more than ever, conferences are so big that determining one is more unfair than ever
Then why isn't North Dakota State University in FBS? They have won 9 out of the last 12 national FCS titles. Although one problem is the NDSU AD is an idiot. Obviously they would be G5, but still.
Why leave to be mediocre when you can stay dominant in your current league? They are also in a smaller market, which is not of interest with the bigger conferences.
Its so dumb that there’s no reasoning behind play off selection. FSU literally won every game last season and didn’t make the playoffs because they weren’t in a major conference
@samcrabtree32 SEC & espn money is what screwed FSU out of the playoff spot,, FSU has every right to be upset,,, the NIL deal has taken some power from the NCAA, and Michigan & Harbaugh were big supporters of the NIL,, , they are obviously going after Michigan for petty violations equivalent to J walking because of the NIL deal and ohio and the SEC are terrified that Coach Harbaugh had a dynasty on his hands,, thats exactly why 2 cheeseburgers cost Harbaugh his college career..
@VulcanLogic Last season & this season have been like night & and day, but the point still stands we should have had a playoff place last season end of story.
I imagine with the B1G Network having markets in every region in America they're making really good money. Pretty much every sports fan in the Midwest and South watches college football, and at the price cable providers charge for sports packages it doesn't take much to offset the costs. The problem other conferences ran into is that they didn't have that widespread market, which is probably why the ACC and SEC networks are both owned and operated by ESPN now.
Yes. That's why the Big 10 went after schools that have a large fanbase (Nebraska) or schools that would open up big media markets (Rutgers and Maryland). They got the best of both world by adding the four Pac-12 schools. I'm sure expansion further south is next of the Big 10's agenda. Don't be surprised if Miami and Georgia Tech end up in the conference.
I like just how you skipped over the additions of Cincinnati, Central Florida, BYU and Houston to the Big 12. Cover all your bases, man. Former SWC school, former Big East school, the 1984 National Champion and the only school that's played in every division of football are in that pool. Disappointed.
The irony is that the NCAA chose the most disjointed period of conference realignment to implement a 12 team playoff that heavily features “conference champions” in an effort to keep more fans interested in the post season. Slow clap for college football. 😂
Yep very off brand for a tifo/atheltic production. doesn't help when trying to grow a new(ish) channel. they should've kept 1 narrator, namley the British guy.
It seems like EVERYTHING in American society today is as dumbed down as it can possibly be. College sports conferences are no exception. When you have sub-conferences within conferences, you clearly have WAY too many teams. Should be 8-10 teams, max. But the mind numbingly stupid conference realignment takes the cake. Having Boston College, Syracuse, and Pittsburgh in the ACC is bad enough, as the ACC had always been a traditionally southern conferences just as the Big East was a traditionally northeastern conference. But California and Stanford in the ACC??? Too, Southern Cal and Oregon in the Big 10 is almost as stupid. It ruins natural regional rivalries, severs emotional/geographical connections between schools, ignorantly assumes (in the ACC's case) that fans (for example) in Charlotte will eagerly tune in for a "conference" game between Boston College and Stanford (schools 3,000 miles apart), etc. The list goes on. I have stopped giving any credence whatsoever to conferences at all. The reasons given about media contract money mean nothing to me as a fan. But in nearly anything in the nation today that has to do with the consumer, we matter not. I still love the games, but conferences and their now-ridiculous "championships" have no meaning at all.
What a way to over complicate the system. Just simply do a league system like there is in soccer and other sports. This makes it incredibly hard to follow for new fans. If sport leaders actually focused on the sport and not financial gain, it would be much better.
They need to separate football from the rest of the sports. All the other sports get dragged along with football and now have to play softball games on the other side of the country. It doesn’t make sense. Conferences should be based on geography for all the sports except football, which can do their own thing. They ought to just do away with conferences for football at this point.
Lol, this was inevitable and pretty foreseeable. Don't blame the SEC/Texas/OU for this either. This is on the other conferences for either drastically overreacting to those school's initial move or complete and total mismanagement and misalignment of the sport and identity between schools at the conference level. Sometimes both...*cough* Pac-12. It won't change much either. While I too love the traditions and history of my favorite sport, I am thankful my alma mater in Florida was fortunate to be in the best historical conference with the most cohesive mentality led by steady and focused leadership. Some traditions will be lost, sure, but get with the times. Many were becoming watered down and milquetoast prior to this thanks to NIL (also a great thing) and player mobility. Don't forget the expanded playoff where there are automatic qualifiers. You will all be lapping up games and off-field gossip by the end of the Week 0.
The PAC 12 practicing football cannibalism and missing out on the playoff for a whole decade up until the conference was already set to fall apart was pure poetry. Couldn't write a funnier ending if you tried
the espn/sec tv deal WAS A FACTER,, whether you like it or not,, the other conferences were forced to play '' keep up with the jones'', to have a chance to compete.. the sec already has access to more top players in the south,, .even with the NIL money is still every thing in college football..
It still exists in the sense that Oregon State and Washington State didn't leave, and are now controlling the conference's money (including, I believe, all the money that those other schools had to pay as a penalty for jumping ship!). We'll see what happpens.
what in the yank is this?? i never got college football. literally a multi billion-dollar business that until recently hardly paid the players anything! people really walked around saying 'well they get a free education' whilst being key stakeholders in a highly profitable business.
They are students playing for a school team, they should not be paid. Their pay is their scholarship, end of story. They can be paid when they become professionals
Part of it was so that way smaller colleges could get better players and put them on scholarship. Now its just the very top programs who have money paying all the top players. Everything was a balancing act, they are college players not professionally. They dont all have a salary.
But it's NOT PROFITABLE. Only a very small handful of football schools from lucrative conferences make money. UCLA and USC left for money since they were bleeding millions. If student-athletes were to be paid based on how much they made for schools there would only be a few football and basketball players getting paid and all other athletes would be PAYING their college. I ran track for UCLA and didn't make a cent for the school!
Nor only doesn't geography matter in college football, neither does math. The Big Ten has eightteen members and the Big 12 has sixteen members.
I remember the good old days when the big 10 had 12 members and the big 12 had 10 members
Brand recognition is more important than making sense. It’s the same reason KFC doesn’t stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore. It’s just KFC cause that’s what everyone calls it. Big Ten was the Bit Ten for almost 100 years. Not gonna change now
@@JohnDoe-jy7sv It still says Kentucky Fried Chicken on some of them
@@JohnDoe-jy7sv It's still Kentucky Fried Chicken. They just use KFC because fried foods are known to be unhealthy. It's a marketing decision.
@@JohnDoe-jy7svanother example is how world wrestling entertainment is now branded as just WWE
"How does a school bordering the Pacific Ocean play in the 'Atlantic Coast Conference?'"
"It's called 'greed,' old sport"
"long overdue opportunism" to the fans of the gaining school. "greed" to everyone else. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, eh?
No. The ACC changed its name to the All Coasts Conference. Cal and Stanford on the Pacific. SMU and I guess Florida State on the Gulf Coast. Louisville on a tributary of the Mississippi River. Don’t forget about Notre Dame being near a Great Lake
TBF, Cal and Stanford didn't join the ACC out of greed. They joined out of desperation to stay in a power conference after the other teams(outside of Wazzu and Oregon St.) received invitations to join either the B1G or B12
@@RockSmithStudio Sure but the fundamental landscape of college football (i.e. why they had to leave) was due to greed (by others if not themselves) lol
@@someperson3883 Nah bro. They're still the "Atlantic Coast Conference." Go to their official website lol
The issue is that while football can travel and it makes sense to go with the bigger conferences every other sport suffers from not have regional conferences. West Coast teams having to travel in the middle of the week to the east coast for games doesn't make sense.
....and now their families have to dish out big money to go watch their sons play football at away games. it's just sad...
@@alp18081 oh no they need to watch their kid play on ESPN…
@@daveSoupyyou clearly have no experience with this
And no one asks how these student athletes make it to class in time.
As an Englishman, the thing that attracted me to this sport in the first place was all the regional conferences, rivalries, identity etc. I cant even watch it anymore because its becoming silly now.
As an American - it's weird to me you'd even be interested in the first place. I'm even uncomfortable with people who didn't attend the university rooting for its football team. It'd be like me being a fan of some random high school I didn't attend. Very creepy. Please continue to leave us alone and watch soccer.
@kcottone Hmmm, American arrogance. What an interesting and rare occurrence *cough cough*. FYI, I have family who attended Penn State and Michigan and attended a graduation ceremony at the former. So, does this qualify me to watch and comment on your precious sport, dear American? When our money has literally been spent on American soil at these same institutions you speak of? Please? Pretty please? I don't know what I'd do without your permission, Sir. I'd surely fall to pieces. I mean, it's never a good thing to export things to the world audience, is it? It's terrible for the sport that people outside of America are interested in CFB isn't it? Every sport hates having international fans, don't they? It makes people so "uncomfortable". Can't think of anything worse!
Oh, and as an aside, it's called FOOTBALL, i.e., you use your FOOT to kick the BALL. Do you copy that, Yankee? FOOTBALL. By your logic, our game should be called handball. It's also the world most popular sport. And that's a FACT. A sport you will never ever win at, because you're not only playing against yourselves and Canada. Oh, but let me guess, because you're no good at it, you dont care about it, do you? Nor would you be waving starts and stripes and screaming "Uuuuuuueeeeessssaaaaa" if you actually won The World Cup, would you? Course not! So, who's the daddy now, eh Yankee?
Class dismissed.
@@kcottone relax
@@kcottonestfu and stop gatekeeping
Go watch the commanders if you are really that miserable
@@kcottoneweird
I feel bad for the smaller sports who are now greatly affected because college football has such a huge financial pull for colleges & universities.
Whilst the football & basketball programs get most of the flashy NIL deals the gymnast or the wrestler or the swimmer barely gets any deals to accompany the additional travel time and still maintaining a decent grade average
please don't forget football funds most of those less popular sports,
This is never going to last otherwise it'll be the end of college sports relevance. Football may be able to handle it but basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball, soccer will all crumble. Students can't travel cross country for a midweek game and then still succeed in school
Don’t forget that those athletes also want big games against big schools. Their best chance to make good money is through NIL. And the only way to get it is to play in front of big crowds.
Players in sports that have multiple games a week are now taking their course online to get around the issues with travel. Football will just do this now too. I think 10-12 teams is the max a league should be looking at, but the Big Ten may be moving to as large as 20 teams in the future if they raid the ACC.
These are professional athletes in a league making billions. They need to get paid. Forget about the school part.
In my opinion, the worst part is the athletes in the less popular sports. You think these *student* athletes wanna travel coast to coast for rugby or lacrosse while trying to balance their studies cause God knows them reaching the high paying pros is a long shot
Now, a lot of these schools might be thinking about cutting off those sports because they don't produce enough money in the near future or maybe even kicking out some other schools. I don't like where college football is going or college sports for that matter.
In the Big Ten, only Oregon plays lacrosse from the new schools. Baseball is a bigger issue, because Cal and Stanford will have to be on the East coast over half of the season. But to be fair, most spring and winter sports take their courses online now because they are constantly on the road even when they play most of their games in a general area. Football players will probably be doing that as well, if they haven't already moved that way.
They should do "football-only" conferences
@@kiroolioneaver8532 And even then, they should still be geographical.
@@M_11_m41n Yep. I'm playing College Football 25 and all my conferences in my dynasty are geographical. It's crazy how many schools are literally within bus driving distance from one another that don't play each other and aren't in the same conference in the current NCAA format.
Notre Dame was independent at the start because Michigan's athletic director was anti-Catholic and refused to let them join the Big Ten. He also kept Michigan State out because he didn't want to share money with them. The Southern Conference still exists, but it is a FCS football league now.
Michigan's athletic director was based.
@@ninjalectualx he was the opposite of based. Being a horse's rear end should never be celebrated as a good thing.
GO BLUE,, i love Michigan even more now !
@@michaelwalker7400 so your GPA was to low to get into Michigan is what you are saying mr Jelly,,Michigan is the best school in the history of the world,, We invented EVERYTHING !! i would always rather be in Ann Arbor..GO BLUE !! Michigan grads don't end up working at 7-11 like ohio grads do..
@@herchelleonwood7463 Not sure what GPA had to do with religious bigotry, but whatever. Besides, how do you get a Michigan grad off your porch? You pay for the pizza.
I thought this was going somewhere beyond money and a list of who moved where.
Same
I got you
1. Money
2. Money
3. Greed
college football was better when conferences were smaller and reigonal.
At this point, it's going to come to a point where the whole progression of this realignment has to stop and the colleges have to take into account the other sports. This is getting to a point where I just want this all to stop. Why can't everything just be simpler and organized?
Greed. Money is always the answer.
Perhaps there should be one set of conference alignments for football, and another for everything else? That's kind of what they do here in Oregon with small-school high school sports, where the football teams are in "special districts" instead of their school's regular league that the volleyball and basketball teams compete in.
"30 years ago college football had seven major conferences"
35 years ago there were only six (and nine FBS conferences total, including the MAC, WAC, and Big West), and 24 FBS independents. Only one of those 24 is still independent today.
The issue is these aren’t just football conferences. The collapse of the Pac 12 really hurts the smaller sports. It doesn’t make since to have softball in Cal and Florida state. When they could go to USC instead.
I think it would be best to set a 12 team limit on conferences
I never realized Purdue was so instrumental in the creation of the Big Ten
The death of regionalism in college football is extremely sad to me
I can only imagine how exhausting basketball is going to be in the big 10. Imagine having to fly accross the U.S. twice a week.
Anyone else watching after the pac 12 added 4 new teams?
I am a native Angeleno and a lifelong UCLA fan. Now that the Bruins and Trojans are BIG 10 schools I have no interest in them. Sad colleges are supposed to be higher learning institutions, but they don't get their geography right.
good summary, only thing you missed was the Big XII adding Houston, BYU, Cincinnati and UCF
I didn't understand any of that, but. the colours were very pretty 🤣
Geography matters to me as a football fan
Making this video without mentioning ESPN, FOX, and Disney’s greed is absurd. You also didn’t explain what made these deals profitable and why colleges invest so much in their football programs - as advertising and morale for enrollment and donations. I love Tifo but this is such a bad video
they didn't want to get the video pulled,, any remotely negative word about any of those 3 would most likely get a complaint from one of those 3 evil corporate giants,, especially with the sec/espn deal and disney's overall greediness and quickness to sue any one..
@@herchelleonwood7463 I get that fear, but without slander and libel they can still report the facts of the deals and how television money has changed the landscape. It’s an incomplete picture without
that's not the topic of the video?
@@bigfrostishere Which part, the networks or the motive? You can't make a "Why?" video and not describe the motivations of the actors. That just makes it a "What happened?" video. If you mean networks, that's absolutely the topic of the video, Tifo was just too scared to name them for some reason.
0:09 "it's a story of cash"
1:55 "for decades, the NCAA controlled all television rights"
3:44 "all in the name of television money"
5:06 "who needs geography when you can land a $1 billion tv deal"
As a football fan this is crazy but it's me curious at the same time 12 team playoffs will be interesting this year let's see where the chips fall
Now, there's only for conferences... for now
It's such a shame that it has come to this
I totally agree
“No other option” “no home at all” lmao
Eventually, it will be the B1G conference and the SEC left.
I wish the NCAA would appoint a commissioner to fix this mess. There could be 4 to 6 conferences of 16 teams that are geographically centered and fairly balanced. Then 4-6 secondary conferences, kind of on the level of what they refer to as the group of five. Playoffs could still work the same and rivalries would have been preserved.
The SEC is geographically centralized and has a commissioner already. Perhaps the other conferences would benefit under something like you suggest.
What I think eventually will happen in college football is all of the big schools will break away from the NCAA and form their own league. I would favor it because then you wouldn’t have abysmal matchups like Ohio State vs. Western Michigan Community College.
The graphic is not correct for the state of Iowa until the end of the video it ignores Iowa State being part of the Big8 and Big12
Pretty much only the SEC lives up to its name now.
Big 10 has 18 members. Big 12 has 16 members. ACC has Pacific teams.
SEC is almost entirely the Southeast (you could argue against Missouri and Oklahoma but they’re still relatively close to the rest of the SEC)
This video is already a bit outdated with 4 MWC joining the Pac 12
all of college football has learned nothing from watching UM leaving for the ACC, its almost completely killed the program.... the CFB era really has ruined college football in ways that werent realized until now
The biggest thing that's going to happen in the ACC blowup is that The U is going to join the Big Ten- because it's Florida, a major media market, and AAU- while Florida St will be denied by both the Big Ten and the SEC. In the medium to long term, The U is going to be the big bro and the Noles will be the little bro. They'll land in the Big 12, though, and I do believe that's going to be a fun conference.
FSU completely blew it by not getting into the AAU.
0:10 AI money goblins. Real world money goblins are the answer to the entitled question, however.
This never even answered the question of the video title
Can't they make like European football leagues?
Best playing the best, then the rest...?
@@bharatavarsha17000 that's what they're trying to do now. Because the top 4 leagues make 60%-70% of the money in college football.
That's the goal, and the entire division system promotes that (pun intended). The real hiccup before came from the fact that it's a little weird to make students travel that much that often for something that isn't academic, which of course put the entire idea of an essentially developmental league made up exclusively of students into question. Then there's the problem of people who need football scholarships to attend college, which is itself a symptom of a larger issue.
To me, just go with the flow, the whole thing is a mess
no college football & the ncaa are to corrupt for that..the ncaa has outlived its purpose and the NIL court decision has them running for their lives as they can no longer take as much advantage of student athletes.
Stop. Not everything has to match what europeans want or do. How are you so incredibly self-centered?
I may be all wrong, but the main reason this all started was when UCLA left the PAC12 for the BIG10. Apparently, the school lost a LOT of money when COVID hit (more than a lot of other schools). According to the Los Angeles Times, the athletic department had been bleeding millions of dollars for years. There were a lot of non-revenue teams that were going to be cut. It also didn't help that the PAC12 had a really crummy TV deal (if they had one at all). The conference tried to get with ESPN (along with other networks), but that didn't happen. Basically, the BIG10 threw UCLA a lifeline. Why USC left is probably because they needed to be with UCLA. Again, I may be all wrong.
There will be three then two then one
Now that conference championships mean more than ever, conferences are so big that determining one is more unfair than ever
Then why isn't North Dakota State University in FBS? They have won 9 out of the last 12 national FCS titles. Although one problem is the NDSU AD is an idiot. Obviously they would be G5, but still.
Why leave to be mediocre when you can stay dominant in your current league? They are also in a smaller market, which is not of interest with the bigger conferences.
Except the PAC-12 ain’t dead yet technically. They have until 2026 to get 2 more schools to join
They’ve lost their autonomy and will it no longer be a power conference but will be a part of the G-6 ranks.
Umm SEC is South Eastern and wins
Football should just be cut loose to be have its own conferences
If geography doesn’t matter, what’s the biggest rivalry in College Football? 🏈
Notre Dame vs USC in terms of a non-local rivalry. The biggest rivalry in college football is either Ohio State-Michigan or Oklahoma-Texas.
Its so dumb that there’s no reasoning behind play off selection. FSU literally won every game last season and didn’t make the playoffs because they weren’t in a major conference
@samcrabtree32 SEC & espn money is what screwed FSU out of the playoff spot,, FSU has every right to be upset,,, the NIL deal has taken some power from the NCAA, and Michigan & Harbaugh were big supporters of the NIL,, , they are obviously going after Michigan for petty violations equivalent to J walking because of the NIL deal and ohio and the SEC are terrified that Coach Harbaugh had a dynasty on his hands,, thats exactly why 2 cheeseburgers cost Harbaugh his college career..
How are they doing this year?
@VulcanLogic
Last season & this season have been like night & and day, but the point still stands we should have had a playoff place last season end of story.
Huh? FSU _is_ in a major conference.
Utah and the FBS busters deserved a mention in the video
Are there THAT many people watching that each conference would want a network?
I imagine with the B1G Network having markets in every region in America they're making really good money. Pretty much every sports fan in the Midwest and South watches college football, and at the price cable providers charge for sports packages it doesn't take much to offset the costs. The problem other conferences ran into is that they didn't have that widespread market, which is probably why the ACC and SEC networks are both owned and operated by ESPN now.
Yes. That's why the Big 10 went after schools that have a large fanbase (Nebraska) or schools that would open up big media markets (Rutgers and Maryland). They got the best of both world by adding the four Pac-12 schools. I'm sure expansion further south is next of the Big 10's agenda. Don't be surprised if Miami and Georgia Tech end up in the conference.
You could at least have mentioned some of the other conferences
I like just how you skipped over the additions of Cincinnati, Central Florida, BYU and Houston to the Big 12. Cover all your bases, man. Former SWC school, former Big East school, the 1984 National Champion and the only school that's played in every division of football are in that pool. Disappointed.
nobody cares about those no name schools
The irony is that the NCAA chose the most disjointed period of conference realignment to implement a 12 team playoff that heavily features “conference champions” in an effort to keep more fans interested in the post season. Slow clap for college football. 😂
I will never forgive the likes of Washington Oregon and USC for ruining our perfect conference
sengoku jidai - CFB edition
Maybe the European mind can understand lol
This audio sucks, get better mics or edit the audio better
Yep very off brand for a tifo/atheltic production. doesn't help when trying to grow a new(ish) channel. they should've kept 1 narrator, namley the British guy.
Grow up
It seems like EVERYTHING in American society today is as dumbed down as it can possibly be. College sports conferences are no exception. When you have sub-conferences within conferences, you clearly have WAY too many teams. Should be 8-10 teams, max. But the mind numbingly stupid conference realignment takes the cake. Having Boston College, Syracuse, and Pittsburgh in the ACC is bad enough, as the ACC had always been a traditionally southern conferences just as the Big East was a traditionally northeastern conference. But California and Stanford in the ACC??? Too, Southern Cal and Oregon in the Big 10 is almost as stupid. It ruins natural regional rivalries, severs emotional/geographical connections between schools, ignorantly assumes (in the ACC's case) that fans (for example) in Charlotte will eagerly tune in for a "conference" game between Boston College and Stanford (schools 3,000 miles apart), etc. The list goes on. I have stopped giving any credence whatsoever to conferences at all. The reasons given about media contract money mean nothing to me as a fan. But in nearly anything in the nation today that has to do with the consumer, we matter not. I still love the games, but conferences and their now-ridiculous "championships" have no meaning at all.
What? It matters more than ever. Conferences need a presence in every area of geography to sell the TV rights.
What's next Washington and Miami, join the Big 10?
Washington already joined the Big 10. I'm guessing Miami will be a member within a few years.
What a way to over complicate the system. Just simply do a league system like there is in soccer and other sports. This makes it incredibly hard to follow for new fans. If sport leaders actually focused on the sport and not financial gain, it would be much better.
Washington State and Oregon State are the PAC-2.
I miss the Big 8...
ONLY money…matters.
Ultimately, it all is just about MONEY. It is not about athletics.
They need to separate football from the rest of the sports. All the other sports get dragged along with football and now have to play softball games on the other side of the country. It doesn’t make sense. Conferences should be based on geography for all the sports except football, which can do their own thing. They ought to just do away with conferences for football at this point.
Big East......Chicago.....we should have known
TLDR: schools are greedy and conferences are even greedier
💰💰💰 is why
Lol, this was inevitable and pretty foreseeable. Don't blame the SEC/Texas/OU for this either. This is on the other conferences for either drastically overreacting to those school's initial move or complete and total mismanagement and misalignment of the sport and identity between schools at the conference level. Sometimes both...*cough* Pac-12. It won't change much either. While I too love the traditions and history of my favorite sport, I am thankful my alma mater in Florida was fortunate to be in the best historical conference with the most cohesive mentality led by steady and focused leadership. Some traditions will be lost, sure, but get with the times. Many were becoming watered down and milquetoast prior to this thanks to NIL (also a great thing) and player mobility. Don't forget the expanded playoff where there are automatic qualifiers. You will all be lapping up games and off-field gossip by the end of the Week 0.
The PAC 12 practicing football cannibalism and missing out on the playoff for a whole decade up until the conference was already set to fall apart was pure poetry. Couldn't write a funnier ending if you tried
the espn/sec tv deal WAS A FACTER,, whether you like it or not,, the other conferences were forced to play '' keep up with the jones'', to have a chance to compete.. the sec already has access to more top players in the south,, .even with the NIL money is still every thing in college football..
PAC-12 disbanded??? Thought it was just 2 teams
It still exists in the sense that Oregon State and Washington State didn't leave, and are now controlling the conference's money (including, I believe, all the money that those other schools had to pay as a penalty for jumping ship!). We'll see what happpens.
The EvenBiggerTen
Bring back the British commentators
And it is the ruin of college football, the fans get hurt in all of this
Women’s football videos please! Why pivot to new sports entirely just because it’s men’s
they want to move into the the US market but i agree w/ u
.... what a bizarre way to organise a sport
Remember what the NCAA stands for. NATIONAL CASH ACQUIRE ASSOCIATION!!!!
University of Southern California (west coast) is now playing in the South Eastern conference
Big Ten
Money
Please dial down the "s"s high hertz on your recording.
Please make it stop
Why is everything all about money these days?
Capitalism on steroids is a clown economic system, bro
what in the yank is this?? i never got college football. literally a multi billion-dollar business that until recently hardly paid the players anything! people really walked around saying 'well they get a free education' whilst being key stakeholders in a highly profitable business.
Yes but the execs get tens of millions a year so they will never let it change if we don't force them to
They are students playing for a school team, they should not be paid. Their pay is their scholarship, end of story. They can be paid when they become professionals
That’s no different from rugby.
Part of it was so that way smaller colleges could get better players and put them on scholarship. Now its just the very top programs who have money paying all the top players. Everything was a balancing act, they are college players not professionally. They dont all have a salary.
But it's NOT PROFITABLE. Only a very small handful of football schools from lucrative conferences make money. UCLA and USC left for money since they were bleeding millions.
If student-athletes were to be paid based on how much they made for schools there would only be a few football and basketball players getting paid and all other athletes would be PAYING their college.
I ran track for UCLA and didn't make a cent for the school!
This video is big 10 biased.
American sports are so stupid. Just have one league.
No.
How? There’s 134 schools in FBS alone
America is huge dummy
merica is dumb aye
Keep crying
american tifo is way dumber than brit tifo
Why?
Yeah let’s kick a ball for 90 minutes and maybe it’ll go in the net once or twice. So much fun. 😴🥱
Want Cricket 🏏 Contents🙂