College Football Playoff finalizes new 12 team format… for now
The College Football Playoff announced a new format for its first 12 team postseason tournament after the dissolution of the Pac-12.
The College Football Playoff announced a new format for its first 12 team postseason tournament after the dissolution of the Pac-12.
The SEC increased its revenue once again last year, crossing $50 million dished out to schools.
Despite going undefeated and winning the ACC Championship, the Florida State Seminoles were left out of the College...
Florida State is calling an emergency meeting which is believed to be the first step towards challenging their ACC membership.
Yormark played quite the role in what happened to the Pac-12.
After lots of public musings on realignment, Florida State now has a new FAST channel that they hope to use "to elevate the distribution" of their original content.
Don't take it personally, SMU, Cal, and Stanford.
"Any way you cut it, Fox destroyed the Pac-12."
"... was only as a potential starting point in negotiations to help get us to the estimated true value.”
"Is this a real tweet??? You must have been hacked Ryan."
Hopefully the consolidation of college football and the superconference era brings no more Saturdays like this one.
"Oregon State and Washington State must be able to chart a path forward for the Pac 12--not the members that have chosen to leave it."
SMU and their move to the ACC was another twist in the conference realignment saga. Ross Dellenger detailed the fascinating path to get there.
Probably to the Mountain West, tbh.
"How can you be in the Pac-12, which stands for Pacific, and then end up in the Atlantic?"
SMU is reportedly coming in with no shared TV revenue for nine years, while Stanford and Cal are expected to get 30 percent shares.
ACC presidents are expected to take action on expanding its conference to add the likes of Cal, Stanford and SMU on Tuesday.
"We tried at every stage to negotiate an agreement of some kind, to limit what would happen. But we learned the ‘NCAA’ stood for ‘Never Compromise Anything at Anytime,’ and they wouldn’t even talk to us."
"College football as a regional game of rivalries is fading from memory."
"I think the decision-making has lost its way in terms of the focus on the student-athlete and what's primarily best for them. But we are where we are, and we have to try to make it work."
Per a new report, Cal, Stanford, and SMU are finalizing deals to join the ACC in football and men’s and women’s basketball.
The end of college realignment can be seen on the horizon - an elite group of schools making up a College Football Premier League.
"I believe that the next go-around ... will be far more disruptive."