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CBS Sports: Does autonomy make college football Cinderellas a thing of the past?
Dennis Dodd
CBSSports.com
Is Cinderella dead?
Are the lines of demarcation between the haves and have nots drawn so clearly that only the kings will rule, prosper ... conquer? Nevermind the excitement of the new playoff era, will the college football world ever be as excited again by an upset on the scale of Boise over Oklahoma or Appalachian State over Michigan?
Old news to some, especially when the only thing that matters going forward are those top four teams. This week a CBSSports.com series will explore the plight of college football's disenfranchised schools, those below the sport's Mendoza Line. There already has been a de facto separation of the Power 5 (Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Big 12, ACC) from the Group of Five (MAC, American, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt) in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The major powers have almost gerrymandered and legislated half of FBS out of the conversation. There will be one-offs (upsets) on the field but with what impact, what lasting value?
Appalachian State -- author of that 2007 stunner in Ann Arbor -- now plays in the same division as Michigan. The 60 schools in the Group of Five have more money and legally enough access to the playoff, but who are we kidding?
"College football is being defined as the Big Five and everybody else," said the Colonial Athletic Conference's Tom Yeager, the dean of Division I commissioners. ...
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/24667780/does-autonomy-make-college-football-cinderellas-a-thing-of-the-past
Dennis Dodd
CBSSports.com
Is Cinderella dead?
Are the lines of demarcation between the haves and have nots drawn so clearly that only the kings will rule, prosper ... conquer? Nevermind the excitement of the new playoff era, will the college football world ever be as excited again by an upset on the scale of Boise over Oklahoma or Appalachian State over Michigan?
Old news to some, especially when the only thing that matters going forward are those top four teams. This week a CBSSports.com series will explore the plight of college football's disenfranchised schools, those below the sport's Mendoza Line. There already has been a de facto separation of the Power 5 (Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Big 12, ACC) from the Group of Five (MAC, American, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt) in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The major powers have almost gerrymandered and legislated half of FBS out of the conversation. There will be one-offs (upsets) on the field but with what impact, what lasting value?
Appalachian State -- author of that 2007 stunner in Ann Arbor -- now plays in the same division as Michigan. The 60 schools in the Group of Five have more money and legally enough access to the playoff, but who are we kidding?
"College football is being defined as the Big Five and everybody else," said the Colonial Athletic Conference's Tom Yeager, the dean of Division I commissioners. ...
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/24667780/does-autonomy-make-college-football-cinderellas-a-thing-of-the-past
