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re: CFP Expansion, Conference Realignment, NCAA Changes
Posted on 8/31/22 at 8:25 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 8/31/22 at 8:25 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 9/1/22 at 8:41 pm to TidalSurge1
Phillips: ACC on right path, but hot start will help (espn)
CFP meeting could speed expansion, sources say (espn)
NCAA looks to ease infractions process, transfers (espn)
CFP meeting could speed expansion, sources say (espn)
NCAA looks to ease infractions process, transfers (espn)
This post was edited on 9/1/22 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 9/2/22 at 6:10 pm to TidalSurge1
CFP board decides on 12-team playoff format (espn)
The CFP's board of managers voted Friday to expand the CFP to 12 teams in 2026, but it is encouraging the sport's commissioners to try to implement it as soon as 2024.
The CFP's board of managers voted Friday to expand the CFP to 12 teams in 2026, but it is encouraging the sport's commissioners to try to implement it as soon as 2024.
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Posted on 9/2/22 at 9:59 pm to TidalSurge1
unless Texas and OU (and to a lesser degree USC and UCLA) back out of their new conference moves, the damage has been done. The CFP is the SEC invitational and is showing no sign of stopping. No amount of including Pitt and Baylor will change that. Good business move I suppose. More product to squeeze money out of TV partners.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 8:57 am to TidalSurge1
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:06 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 9/19/22 at 11:18 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 9/20/22 at 5:32 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 9/20/22 at 8:24 pm to Alabama_Fan
Posted on 11/17/22 at 1:17 pm to TidalSurge1
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Breaking: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey says the league is looking at going to to a single division, and is leaning heavily in that direction.
Moving away from two divisions and no four team pod system.
11:46 AM · Nov 17, 2022
Posted on 11/17/22 at 3:16 pm to Alabama_Fan
A more extensive write up
SEC football schedules by divisions will be eliminated when Texas, Oklahoma join in 2025
Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday that SEC football plans to eliminate its two-division structure for scheduling once Texas and Oklahoma join the conference on July 1, 2025.
The SEC currently consists of two seven-team divisions, East and West. Oklahoma and Texas, which will become two of the westernmost schools in the conference, make continuing that system a challenge for schedules.
Sankey said the SEC is waiting on other factors, like potential College Football Playoff expansion and the Big Ten media agreement, to make final scheduling decisions. The Big Ten has also expanded west, adding current Pac-12 members Southern California and UCLA for 2024.
Sankey did not elaborate on whether that also means that divisions would stop being used for conference standings. The East and West division champions currently meet in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. This year's matchup is between Georgia and LSU on Saturday, Dec. 4.
Sankey said the 2025 schedule and beyond will likely be conference-wide, allowing for programs that have never met to play. He noted that during the 2022 football season, Missouri traveled to Auburn for the first time since joining the conference in 2012.
“We right now are not thinking about maintaining a two-division format for football scheduling in the SEC,” Sankey said. "It would potentially be one single division with the idea that we want to rotate our teams through our campuses more frequently. We have big brands with big interest and large following ... that want to go to places like Fayetteville, Arkansas or have their fans come to Columbia, South Carolina."
Sankey said the move to do away with divisions is encouraged by the conference's success during the 2020 season, during which SEC teams played all 10 games against conference foes due to COVID-19 restrictions. Each team plays eight conference matchups per season under the current system, but Sankey that could increase to nine after expansion.
"During the pandemic we played 10 conference games and had on our SEC Network the highest viewership we had ever experienced," Sankey said. "We drew people in by playing each other with greater frequency."
Texas and Oklahoma, which currently compete in the Big 12, announced in 2021 they would leave to join the SEC. The move will not happen until 2025 after the Big 12's media rights deal expires.
SEC football schedules by divisions will be eliminated when Texas, Oklahoma join in 2025
Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday that SEC football plans to eliminate its two-division structure for scheduling once Texas and Oklahoma join the conference on July 1, 2025.
The SEC currently consists of two seven-team divisions, East and West. Oklahoma and Texas, which will become two of the westernmost schools in the conference, make continuing that system a challenge for schedules.
Sankey said the SEC is waiting on other factors, like potential College Football Playoff expansion and the Big Ten media agreement, to make final scheduling decisions. The Big Ten has also expanded west, adding current Pac-12 members Southern California and UCLA for 2024.
Sankey did not elaborate on whether that also means that divisions would stop being used for conference standings. The East and West division champions currently meet in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. This year's matchup is between Georgia and LSU on Saturday, Dec. 4.
Sankey said the 2025 schedule and beyond will likely be conference-wide, allowing for programs that have never met to play. He noted that during the 2022 football season, Missouri traveled to Auburn for the first time since joining the conference in 2012.
“We right now are not thinking about maintaining a two-division format for football scheduling in the SEC,” Sankey said. "It would potentially be one single division with the idea that we want to rotate our teams through our campuses more frequently. We have big brands with big interest and large following ... that want to go to places like Fayetteville, Arkansas or have their fans come to Columbia, South Carolina."
Sankey said the move to do away with divisions is encouraged by the conference's success during the 2020 season, during which SEC teams played all 10 games against conference foes due to COVID-19 restrictions. Each team plays eight conference matchups per season under the current system, but Sankey that could increase to nine after expansion.
"During the pandemic we played 10 conference games and had on our SEC Network the highest viewership we had ever experienced," Sankey said. "We drew people in by playing each other with greater frequency."
Texas and Oklahoma, which currently compete in the Big 12, announced in 2021 they would leave to join the SEC. The move will not happen until 2025 after the Big 12's media rights deal expires.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 6:52 pm to Alabama_Fan
Would that mean the number of Conference games on the schedule would be increased?
Interesting development for sure
Interesting development for sure
This post was edited on 11/17/22 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 11/17/22 at 7:32 pm to WeWillFly
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Would that mean the number of Conference games on the schedule would be increased?
Per the article “Each team plays eight conference matchups per season under the current system, but Sankey [said] that could increase to nine after expansion.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 7:22 pm to Alfie Solomons
UC regents approve UCLA's Big Ten move, include conditions (ESPN)
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Posted on 12/15/22 at 7:23 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 1/13/23 at 9:34 am to TidalSurge1
Good article:
College football bold predictions — on and off the field — in 2023 and beyond (247)
College football bold predictions — on and off the field — in 2023 and beyond (247)
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The 2023 college football season promises to provide drama on the field, but next fall will be a time of major transition, too.
This year is the last of the four-team College Football Playoff, and it will also be the final year without the new-look Big Ten and SEC super conferences. Meanwhile, the NCAA installs a new president to navigate NIL and antitrust waters, and the Big Ten will hire a new conference commissioner.
What else is on the horizon? News of major conference realignment dominated the last two summers. That will likely happen again, but this time with the Pac-12 adding programs.
The new year awaits us in college football, so I chatted with industry sources and decided to make a few predictions for the upcoming year. Here’s what the crystal ball reveals...
OKLAHOMA, TEXAS JUMP EARLY TO SEC
Oklahoma and Texas are looking to leave the Big 12 at the start of the 2024 academic year, one year earlier than initially targeted. The Big 12, SEC and its media partners must hammer out a deal to allow the early departure, but the feeling here is it will happen and an announcement will occur sometime in the fall.
Leadership in the Big 12 is ready and willing to allow the two schools to leave early, and a buyout of some sort – or a TV buyout that will compensate the conference for its one-year loss of media inventory – is expected to be agreed upon if one is presented. The key here is FOX and whether the network tries to slow the momentum toward an early departure to the ESPN-backed SEC. Most of those details can be finalized this spring and summer, which I refer to as the “business season” for college athletics...
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Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:07 am to TidalSurge1
I see this eventually being 2 conference, similar to the NFC and AFC. Any program not in those two divisions won't be part of the system that crowns a national champion. They can likely form together to create something similar to division II.
Posted on 1/20/23 at 4:23 pm to slammer66
Posted on 1/20/23 at 5:08 pm to TidalSurge1
So basically they’re saying all college athletes regardless of the sport are professional athletes now.
But in other words also the politicians introducing this bill want’s a piece of the pie.
NFL just needs to start their own G league. If a player coming out of HS is that talented let them bypass college and get developed in a farm system. Let the ones who value education, but isn’t as gifted as some take the scholarship as payment. Earn your 4yr degree and if they develop to be good enough to get drafted then that’s great for them.
But in order to get the scholarship you should have to commit to staying and get your degree. I think that way you’re instilling the importance of education which is what a degree represents and also the pride of accomplishing higher education which is what it should be about. The pride of achieving at an early age will payoff in so many ways down the road.
But in other words also the politicians introducing this bill want’s a piece of the pie.
NFL just needs to start their own G league. If a player coming out of HS is that talented let them bypass college and get developed in a farm system. Let the ones who value education, but isn’t as gifted as some take the scholarship as payment. Earn your 4yr degree and if they develop to be good enough to get drafted then that’s great for them.
But in order to get the scholarship you should have to commit to staying and get your degree. I think that way you’re instilling the importance of education which is what a degree represents and also the pride of accomplishing higher education which is what it should be about. The pride of achieving at an early age will payoff in so many ways down the road.
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