THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

It’s been a wild offseason in college football, with teams and conferences changing more than ever. Besides the PAC breakup and dispersing and Oregon, USC, UCLA, and Washington entering the B1G FBS division 1plus various other splinter big 12 offshoots and Conference USA plus. let’s say others. All of college football is going through some …

OREGON AND WASHINGTON JOIN THE B1G MEANING B1G TRAVEL

Problematic issues facing the B1G are distances teams will have to travel to face all four Pac-12 defectors and vise versa, we’ll have a lot of miles to travel as well in the coming years.New Big Ten members Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC will travel far starting in 2024 but only three times in 2024 …

PLAYOFF TEAM INCREASE NEXT YEAR

College football’s 12-team playoff: College football is entering a brave new era in terms of its national championship. No longer will champions be determined by polls, bowl coalitions or alliances or the BCS. Nor will the College Football Playoff be available to only four teams in a given season (considered a much-needed improvement no doubt) …

FINALLY AN ATTEMPT AT AN 8 GAME SCHEDULE

The Pac-12 and Big Ten are the only major conferences that play a nine-game conference schedule. The ACC, SEC and Big 12 play eight. If the Pac-12 cannot reach a deal with ESPN and FOX, it may have to wait until 2024 when its media rights deal expires to change its conference schedule. Currently, many …

Pac 12 dumps divisions in 2022

The Pac-12 announced Wednesday May 18th it was scrapping its divisional format for the upcoming football season moments after the NCAA Division I Council tossed out requirements that dictate how conferences can determine a champion so the best two face off in the ship regardless of where their division used to put them. The Pac-12 …