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Trent Dilfer: CFB "super league" within 18-24 months?

ShreveFrog

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This looks like what Dilfer was talking about. Doesn't look like this is going anywhere soon. But some college presidents are trying for a 70-team super league. TCU and the Big 12 would be safe. And SMU gets special inclusion. (Why? They're already in ACC, which is also included, as long as it sticks together.)
www.sportspromedia.com

College football ‘Super League’ proposed to replace NCAA and CFP - SportsPro

The competition has gained little support from conferences and schools so far to protect relationships with broadcasters.
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gohornedfrogs

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Wexahu said:
From a TV revenue standpoint, the DFW market is already covered with UT, OU and A&M. I don't think TV ratings here for college football would materially change if TCU were left out of the mix.

And people might say, well, the Big 10 went after Rutgers because of the New York TV market. Yes, they did to a degree, but Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey and has 50,000 undergrads, so there's that too.
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Rutgers brought value based on an outdated revenue model, so there's that, too.
 
Limey Frog

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ShreveFrog said:
This looks like what Dilfer was talking about. Doesn't look like this is going anywhere soon. But some college presidents are trying for a 70-team super league. TCU and the Big 12 would be safe. And SMU gets special inclusion. (Why? They're already in ACC, which is also included, as long as it sticks together.)
www.sportspromedia.com

College football ‘Super League’ proposed to replace NCAA and CFP - SportsPro

The competition has gained little support from conferences and schools so far to protect relationships with broadcasters.
www.sportspromedia.com www.sportspromedia.com
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Looks like it. Unclear where this proposal might go. In this form almost certainly nowhere from what I've heard commenters say. Obviously CFB needs a new governing subdivision. The big question is whether the Big Ten and SEC will let everyone else play or just take another dozen programs from the ACC and Big 12 and become that subdivision by themselves. Proposals like this suggest that won't happen. And I think there would be too many headaches for the Big Ten and SEC to pull the trigger on that, honestly. Recent indications from the playoff discussions are that they intend to keep everyone together but maintain the financial caste system that exists now.

For anyone interested, here's Andrew Marchand (the main author of The Athletic's piece breaking this story) talking about it with our friends in Waco:

 
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gohornedfrogs

gohornedfrogs

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From the Athletic:

theathletic.com

Inside the CFB 'Super League' pitch some execs see as a way to save the sport

A group of influential sports leaders and college presidents are pitching a drastic change to the current CFB model as the best way forward.
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The current CST outline (this is the group of investors/leaders) would create a system that would have the top 70 programs — all members of the five former major conferences, plus Notre Dame and new ACC member SMU — as permanent members and encompass all 130-plus FBS universities.

The perpetual members would be in seven 10-team divisions, joined by an eighth division of teams that would be promoted from the second tier.

The 50-plus second-division teams would have the opportunity to compete their way into the upper division, creating a promotion system similar to the structure in European football leagues. The 70 permanent teams would never be in danger of moving down, while the second division would have the incentive of promotion and relegation.

If they aligned each of these 10-team divisions into regional groups that keep rivalries alive, I like this. It may also save us from another breakaway that might be only 48 or less teams.
 
Limey Frog

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They should absolutely do it. Pretending they're still at the Big Ten/SEC level is a fool's errand. At this rate the Big 12 might be joining them.
 

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