Why Super Conferences Will Ruin College Football

[@tonz928]

The Big 10 was ruined for me once Maryland and Rutgers joined.

[@dougadkins7006]

No, it was ruined when ESPN created the collapse of the Big East to aid the ACC. That started the merry-go-round conference BS. ESPN made it about money and control of the TV viewership.

[@davidkruse4030]

Eh they didn’t change it much

[@ken_danerdiest1]

I think this whole super conference thing will drive viewers like myself away.

[@josephinetracy1485]

I don't think I'm going to be on board.

[@PRESIDENTRUMP47GOAT]

Soft

[@Desert-Father]

Not if you what one of the schools in the super conferences.

[@kiroolioneaver8532]

And yet you see games like Georgia Tech beating #10 Florida State and you just keep coming back lol

[@Desert-Father]

@@kiroolioneaver8532 Both Florida State and Georgia Tech would likely be former ACC additions to any future superleague. So I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove.

[@FourEyedFrenchman]

Regionalism made college football great. Every conference was its own league with its own history, character, and characteristics. It gave the college game a level of flair and a dimension of entertainment the NFL lacks. Now that geography means nothing anymore, college football is going to become generic sports slop. The novelty of big matchups will wear off quick, and fans will be groaning about how the game just isn't that interesting anymore.

[@JiggerjoggernoHGer]

Well said

[@Sam_Berghammer]

Superconferences are genuinely the worst why would anyone want them

[@josephinetracy1485]

Teams in the same conference don't even play each other as it is... such as the Big Ten

[@ryguye7709]

Better games

[@Zrich98]

Money

[@ZeroG]

@@Zrich98Why does it make more money though? I don't get it

[@Zrich98]

@@ZeroG it is now. Okc as a brand has expanded rather quickly worldwide. The brand since moving to Okc has made more money. (Albeit the Thunder were very good) when they weren’t good for 2 years yeah it sank but it’s on the way back up rather quickly.

[@jameswilson2108]

Super conferences are even worse for CFB than NIL imo

[@ryguye7709]

No better games

[@garygrassler09]

@@ryguye7709 no

[@garygrassler09]

@@ryguye7709 ruined so many great rivalries

[@noahpassmore6452]

You don’t want your son to be paid for his image? Wierd

[@PCSPounder]

The media out here keeps hyping improved ratings for Oregon, including the game last Friday. There’s not enough of you to change the minds of networks. And I suspect their collective goal was to reduce the number of mouths they feed.

[@DudeEggs]

Im already teetering at the edge of no longer watching. These super conferences may just do me in. 😢

[@kurtzottl7918]

Super conferences SUCK

[@josephinetracy1485]

I'm pretty sure that I won't be on board anymore..

[@HampETX903]

2 years later your right

[@Uhtred-the-bold]

The expanded playoff would’ve changed college football in 2002. But now those conferences can control who is in and who is out. And we don’t have a playoff now. It’s the BCS plus one

[@garygrassler09]

Bring back the big East, big 8 and SWC. Get rid of conference championship games and play every one in your league. Have a 8 team playoff that includes champions of the ACC, big ten, big east, big 8, sec, swc, and pac10 m, and one at large team

[@Christopher-s2r]

WV fan here I would love the Big East would make a come back. It was a very good conference and ESPN shows us all the time unlike the Big 12.

[@garygrassler09]

@@Christopher-s2r love to see West Virginia play actual rivals again

[@alexcuevas5633]

Why should we get rid of conference championships?

[@garygrassler09]

@@alexcuevas5633 just play everyone in your league not a hard concept

[@DeadAir21]

That concept doesn’t make since. Not all conferences are created equal. I’m not ok will a 3 loss team with a weak schedule making the playoffs is over a 1 loss team with a tough one.

[@JohnOdermott]

Fundamental problem with a super conference is that no matter how much you try to include only "elite" programs, every game has a winner and a loser, and there will be teams that have losing records, lopsided games and disgruntled fans, etc. Also, the destruction of geographic rivalries takes all the fun and tradition out of it and makes for meaningless matchups. I mean, I'd much rather watch Cal against USC or Washington vs Oregon State instead of Maryland vs. UCLA or Oregon vs. Rutgers.

[@Hillers62]

At 0:32 ...I have been watching college football since 1972..My team is the Texas Longhorns...and they used to be in the Southwest Conference...

[@elvangulley3210]

It died because it wasn't making money you want texas in a dead conference making no money playing rice smu and Houston every year

[@ClarenceGordon-z6d]

Sometimes you think that you want a thing until you get it.

[@robbiejorgensen4142]

I’ll still watch but the fact the big ten will have well over 10 teams is just weird

[@Z64sports]

Pac 12 network would have been good if it were actually on ever

[@larrysmac]

Sports media is already the new NCAA Board of Commissioners. Fans are already being forced to pay (and watch commercials) in order to watch games that should warrant network coverage. Try watching a BCS game without being forced to pay for cable or a streaming service. It's literally discriminatory, proving that the majority of fans have become nothing more than dilettantes who will gladly bend over and take it. Who's your daddy?

[@darkknight901]

College football is at its best when there is 5 strong conferences

[@SnowLord-dn6tl]

I miss the big East

[@darkknight901]

@@SnowLord-dn6tl the big East was so legit in the 90s

[@metrofilmer8894]

Agree. Having 5 or 6 strong conferences each in a separate region of the country where, if pretty much any of the 60+ teams that is in those conferences had good season, they would have a chance at a major bowl game or even a National championship was the peak setup of college football. You’d always be looking at your local matches within your schools conference but would also be looking at the local matchups across the country which would effect the polls, creating a great system of regional matchups that would essentially be on a national stage if important enough

[@ryguye7709]

Sec is the only best conferences

[@haroldflashman4687]

And that’s because?

[@Magdalena8008s]

I am a massive Pac-12 fan. Oregon to be specific. And it sucks whats happening. I dont blame Oregon and Washington for leaving it seems after it was announced USC and UCLA are gone. Along with Colorado. I forget his name, but the dude in charge of the Pac 12 was an idiot. But at the same time, a part of me is exited to see Oregon in a new conference playing teams they dont normally. And the new rivalries that are sure to come.

[@AldoRaine1234]

As an ASU alumni and season ticket holder regionalism gave my sad school reasons to play every week. Beating UCLA Oregon or USC meant something to us even in lost seasons. We’ve always considered them worthy opponents.

[@JiggerjoggernoHGer]

Now y’all will be playing Kansas state KU, TcU ( your biggest competition really) and then Texas Tech and a mediocre Baylor along with this team called WVU (trash) y’all’s biggest competitors will be Utah Colorado and your instate rival.

[@haroldflashman4687]

There are multiple you?

[@Homedepotorange]

Im a fan of Mizzou. Everyone in the SEC rips on having a Midwest team in the Southeastern Conference. I dont think theres that much room to complain anymore cause at least we border the states of the rest of the conference

[@demond2134]

🤜🤛 M I Z 🐯 Z O U

[@alexcuevas5633]

Yes but geography says that you should play in the big 10 or at least go back to the big 12

[@Homedepotorange]

@@alexcuevas5633 I kind of like our position as the unpredictable wild card from the north

[@DeadAir21]

@@alexcuevas5633 being geographical only works when everyone is on a equal playing field and unfortunately the PAC 12 was never going to see big 10 or SEC money no matter how good they were. I’m from Missouri and I remember that people were sad to lose the Mizzou-KU rivalry, but in the end the new students entering Mizzou knows that they play jn the best Confrence in college sports and wouldn’t trade that for anything.

[@alexcuevas5633]

@@DeadAir21 that’s one thing. But the fact is that Missouri will never be a powerhouse in any sports since they are not a legacy member like Alabama. You’re willing to trade your dominance in your former conference for a little extra money. That’s why Nebraska, Arkansas, and countless others are horrible teams.

[@Desert-Father]

For the schools that are content with a conference championship and a bowl win who dont want to play moneyball, they will always have the FBS. The catch is that the FBS will probably not be the highest tier league in college football for much longer. Whether its a two or four conference league a super tier league is going to be formed. Once its formed it will probably be reorganized around geography to improve the travel and reduce costs but that will only happen after a new Division 1-A super tier is created that competes in the CFP.

[@wa1w511]

The Pac-12 went away, because it was convenient for broadcasting. That's all that happened. The ACC needs a new or revised television contract.

[@actsfive30]

They acting tomorrow is not coming..almost like a scramble,wait it is a scramble😅..

[@Jamesrpw]

Never understood why they have college athletes travel across the country or how they get time in to do their homework. Championship game is one thing, regular season is different. Being from Maryland, I didn't like the move to the big ten either

[@kurtzottl7918]

Just show this video to your crush and they’ll fall in love with you

[@ProjectBadass360]

Yeah I am hoping college sports fall flat on its face. It could work but it would take some major rearranging and change how they play out their seasons. The only way a 16 team conference works is splitting the league into 4 divisions so if the big 10 absorbs Washington and Oregon then you have Big 10 West. This would include Washington Oregon USC and UCLA then every 3 years you would play the 4 teams either in Big 10 North, Big 10 South or Big 10 East. And an additional 2 games would be played against teams that finished in the same place your team finished in its division the year before. Kind of how the NFL does it. So with a total of 9 conference games played it would still give you 3 non conference games you could play. Which the rules for this should change. No playing any non division 1 teams. And anyone you play out of conference you have to play that team 1 home and 1 away in back to back years. If they did expand the the conference to 16teams I believe it would result in a multi week conference championship as the winner of each division would match up against other division winners. 1vs4 2vs3 then whoever won those games would be representing the big10 and the winner would have to be assured a spot in the playoffs. Playoffs should expand to 6 teams. Basically get it to 4 power conferences SEC Big10 ACC Big12 with each conference carrying 16 teams. SEC will be there next year with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. The Big 12 would be back to 12 so they need to find 4 new partners to join maybe Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, Utah. If Washington and Oregon did join the big 10 maybe then send Maryland and Rutgers back to the ACC. With Notre Dame being a partial member I believe they would need to become full fledge member of the ACC. And you would probably have to demote Vanderbilt of the SEC or Rutgers to a non power conference to make it all work. This would leave California, Stanford, Oregon State, Washington St. without a conference. Around 70-71 teams wouldn’t belong to one of the power 4 conferences. So then create 4 non power conference Pac16, Conf USA, American Conf and Mid American Conf have the team with best record representing their conference in a 4team non power conference playoff and the winner wins an automatic bid into the 6 team playoff. So with each power conference winner each receiving a bid and 1 non power conference getting a bid that would leave 1 at large bid to be determined based off national ranking. There would be about 6-7 teams left without a conference. They can choose to remain an independent or demote them down to division 2 sub div. I understand it’s not even close to being this easy but it’s the only way this power conference stuff could be fun.

[@brady7]

just checking in for a few seconds so i don’t endure 1 trillion years of bad luck

[@andrewingram2520]

We aren’t power five by the way but ROLL NEERS

[@demond2134]

It’s gonna be like the NFL in the next decade..BIG and SEC are gonna leave the NCAA start their own league together..Have 32 teams combined..break both conferences into 4 divisions of 4 teams and 8 teams make the playoffs from each conference

[@alexcuevas5633]

Well if they both leave the NCAA, they can no longer play in march madness nor the college World Series or any other NCAA competition. They only care about football

[@greg2502]

Semi-pro minor league football. Hard passs

[@jarimechaco9887]

I totally agree with everything you said.

[@dominicdaquila3081]

Nebraska doesn’t play on Tuesdays, chief.

[@lorenzohaynes3886]

As long as ESPN is involved in college sports, college sports will erode. The only changes are things will get worse.

[@derekmorris2084]

You that teams fly to their away games unless its within a couple hour drive. There is no team in Division I driving 15 hours for a game.

[@KNR6292]

Waste of money....ludicrous for two schools to be flying all over all year long

[@gijakob]

Boone Pickens Stadium shout-out 🤠

[@choncha23]

It’s all going to be great will super conferences. But then, teams will start thinking. They can go to a lesser conference and make all the money. And will be back to multiple conferences. With the playoffs, more teams will get a chance at a spot.

[@ryanr9299]

Well it's definitely different now it's good and bad

[@theclamhammer4447]

A super conference in college sound like the Junior NFL. Not appealing.

[@getbig2501]

BOISE STATE IS COLLEGE FOOTBALL !!!

[@DeRocco21]

men's college football just makes that much money

[@fighterck6241]

I absolutely hate this...

[@JMANE187]

I respect your view on this for someone like me though who loves NFL football and wants to get into college football but couldn’t I find this as a win but I understand that this is heartbreaking for the people who grew up with this

[@ethanpetersen810]

1. The NFL has 32 teams and the FBS has over 130. Thinking that most teams have a chance at a national title just goes against basic probability. Bowl games are full of problems but they’re better than just always losing in a tournament. If everyone only applied to Harvard, almost no one would go to college. If everyone is put into a bracket tournament for a national title, almost everyone is a loser. 2. The same goes for “super conferences.” It’s that much harder to win a conference when it has so many teams for the same reason. You can’t even play all the teams in one year anymore. Fans everywhere are going to get mad that their team never wins anything in a postseason and that every season feels meaningless. 3. NFL teams are FRANCHISES operated by the NFL. This means they’re given roughly equal money and resources when they start playing. These are SCHOOLS. Some schools are much poorer or richer than others. Some FBS schools have 10x as many students as others. Pro sports leagues try to maintain a degree of balance among their teams, but the lopsided unbalance between college teams is almost comical. It’s hard to get excited about playing unfamiliar non-rival teams thousands of miles away, especially if they won’t be so competitive. And not only that… 4. Have you noticed that it’s pretty much always the same handful of college teams that take the crown every year? How many teams have won the Super Bowl in the past twenty years? 13. 19 have at least played in it: more than half of the NFL. How many college teams have won the championship in that same time? Just 11. Only 16 have even played in it. Despite having 4x as many teams, FEWER college teams win the championship than the NFL! And that’s not even necessarily because of their records; teams are handpicked for the championship game by a COMMITTEE. It only takes 12 games for most people to agree that ‘Bama and Clemson are just that good. The point is, the unbalance between colleges and their teams cannot be overstated. Making more of the big teams play the smaller teams, whether in a super conference or a tournament bracket, is just going to result in painfully ugly blowouts. I understand this sounds exciting or more fair, but it’s not just people afraid of change. Comparing college football with a pro league like the NFL is not apples to apples at all.

[@Homedepotorange]

I think super confrences are going to lead to total SEC domination in all other sports. As Missouris coach pointed out while it works for teams that play one game a week in football it can be handles but basketball and baseball teams dont have the luxary of having STUDENTS traveling to the other side of the continent to play a team in New Jersey. I think the super confrences will inevitably collapse into smaller confrences and things will return mostly to the way they were

[@ChristopherORourke-s7g]

The Supdr Conferences will ruin & destroy college football.

[@hharda9791]

College sports are a mess. It has always been about money and not about the students. So no need for conferences. The best have to play the best and you have to pay the athletes.

[@greg2502]

If you want to see the best of the best you watch the NFL. If you want to see tradition anf geographical rivalries you watched college. Espn conference vs Fox Sports confrence is nothing more than semi pro minor league football. Real fans of college football are screwed this only appeals to more casual fans. For me after watching college football for a half a decade is over . I stopped watching last year and gave up my season tickets. I will never watch again

[@mattsullivan2176]

Super conference let’s goooo

[@FelixakaJopokakafa]

As a casual, I like the idea of a super conference

[@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804]

L

[@MrBeyondbelief]

Go away

[@josephinetracy1485]

Okaay. It will be for you, and not me. That's life I guess..

[@ryguye7709]

I agree super conference is for the best

[@zyeirsilas7044]

Jesus loves you guys so much and all he wants is a relationship with you Jesus is coming soon we are in the end times please choose God today before it’s to late and stop following satan and the things of this world

[@greg2502]

Leave it out churchie.

[@Bigchamb55]

Grow up bro! Super conferences are just the entry to the future CFB Super League to get away from the NCAA. It ruins the version that took advantage of its players. Compensation for these players is the future. If you don’t like it that’s fine the next generation will.

[@TayDays1128]

i hate you "everything new is better, get over it" types. Super conferences will destroy cfb more than it already is. Give players their compensation, but keep the money eyes out of it (this goes for players, coaches, presidents, and sports networks). Its hurting players and fans more than its helping.

[@ethanpetersen810]

No they won’t

[@owenguiney6367]

Turning CFB into minor league football will destroy the sport.

[@LeFroster]

W super conferences

[@thecarushow8777]

USC will win the title either way

[@LeFroster]

FSU will dominate the SEC

[@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804]

even tho they have a losing record in the ACC and lost to jacksonville state

[@alexcuevas5633]

Wishful thinking

[@greg2502]

Who? Fresno State? 😂😂

[@janremongalura5713]

How are you now?

[@luvbreeezy]

aged like milk

[@brody2097]

Ｐ𝐫Ｏ𝕞Ｏ𝓢ｍ 🎉

[@alexa7736]

I don’t need to watch this video to know this guy is completely dumb for saying a super league is going to ruin college football. No one cares about New Mexico State, or any of these other small schools have a chance of winning a national title realistically college football only has tops 48 Schools that realistically every year have a chance a win in a title, which should be a super league, but so many people hate change