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Second Super bowl, cash cow
Topic Started: Jun 24 2012, 09:49 AM (207 Views)
humbletx


will it be all that?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/a-four-team-playoff-would-change-landscape-of-college-football/2012/06/23/gJQARL1CyV_story_1.html


But the final straw came this past season, when the national championship game rematch between LSU and Alabama produced the lowest overnight television rating of the BCS era, the exclamation point on a bowl season that saw television ratings for BCS games drop by 12 percent from the year before.

Of a similar importance - ESPN - and where they are with the BCS and how things unfold as college football moves forward. How will the content providers view conferences - from a valuation standpoint - or will the role of any conference diminish - as the play-offs begin? Looking at the 4 team play-off situation during the BCS era - and the names of schools that make the play-offs was amazingly repetitive - USC, Florida State, Florida, Miami, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Texas, Oregon, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Nebraska.

Of those - one and one school only has switched conferences - that being Nebraska. Conference expansion, to this point, hasn't done much as football heads in the transition from the BCS to the 4 team play-off.

The Big 10 - may now have 3 teams with the potential to make the 4 team play-off routinely - tOSU, Michigan and Nebraska. The names remain the same from the SEC - Alabama, LSU & Florida (Muschamp has to make a move this year - or he is gone) The Big 12 - Texas & Oklahoma, the PAC - USC & Oregon, ACC - Florida State.

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gallavol
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If they go by "best 4 teams", I think it will be 1.Ala, 2.LSU, 3. Michigan 4. USCw. Of course this is all preseason but I would wager anyone a sushi dinner that at least 2 of those schools are in the final 4. I think USCw wins it all this season.
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LonzoVol


gallavol
Jun 24 2012, 10:49 AM
If they go by "best 4 teams", I think it will be 1.Ala, 2.LSU, 3. Michigan 4. USCw. Of course this is all preseason but I would wager anyone a sushi dinner that at least 2 of those schools are in the final 4. I think USCw wins it all this season.
Daygum Galla,
Does that mean if I lost the bet to you I would actually have to eat the sushi? :hide:
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*TennesseeTuxedo
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This is the first step towards a 16 team playoff and eventually major realignment of schools and conferences.
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humbletx


gallavol
Jun 24 2012, 10:49 AM
If they go by "best 4 teams", I think it will be 1.Ala, 2.LSU, 3. Michigan 4. USCw. Of course this is all preseason but I would wager anyone a sushi dinner that at least 2 of those schools are in the final 4. I think USCw wins it all this season.
2012 - LSU & Southern California

LSU will have better QB play this year - and goodness what a fine buncha running backs.

Then 5 or 6 teams including South Carolina..
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gallavol
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Depending on the restuarant Lonzo, I could east a mile of sushi. In fact if it is from "Goten" on West End I will eat all the sushi you care to buy me.
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Wait wait wait...someone's buying free sushi and has not invited me yet?????
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