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I think people pay a lot more attention to overall record than conference record and don’t bother digging into SOS for every team for these things. CFB media is largely still stuck in a surface-level number world with some non-quantitative “well the SEC and Big 10 are hard” fudging.

Add me to the surprised list. Optimistic that this is a surprise pick coming from strength, though.

The 2005 one for me. The 2007 ND win is soured by the rest of the season. 2005 didn’t have more wins, but it had funner wins (Miami!) and while heartbreaking in the end, one of the only intensely competitive UGA home games in the past couple decades. Felt like a team getting better from 2004...

I don’t know if I’d read anything more than ageism and penny pinching into ESPN firings of behind the scenes veterans, or even personalities. They definitely have a “we need to cut costs” perception as it relates to Disney shareholders, but that can happen well in advance of true financial...

I think we’re talking across each other so much due to a difference in if we’re prioritizing GT fans or other fans. GT fans want to get excited about the games on the schedule; other fans are gonna be more or less interested in GT based on shallow things like “are they ranked” “how many wins...

Nobody’s doing fancy strength of schedule stuff for marginal top 25 teams but three years in a row of 8-9 wins is gonna get you a lot more positive attention and exposure than 6-7 with “better losses.” You don’t make a name for yourself with even more moral victories. It’s not like an excellent...

Beating UGA or Clemson and some mix of whoever is good out of FSU/VT/Miami/Pitt/ND/whoever on the schedule would be more than enough for GT to finish with a positive national impression. A loss to Ole Miss instead of a win over Samford isn’t helping that season’s reputation. Or losing to UGA...

If you’re in a major conference your brand doesn’t benefit from tough out of conference games until you’re gonna be able to get into the top 25 from in-conference-games alone. Then they can help put you over the top. Otherwise for brand building you’re better off being 8-4 than 6-6. A cupcake...

The Gulf Coast has been doing it for years for Tallahassee!

The fact that they ever launched the cable-TV-but-online packages at like $40/45 bucks and included ESPN and such is crazy in retrospect. Like, who was running the numbers on the expectations of "we need to attract users to get good press by lighting money on fire" vs "people are gonna be pissed...

Yeah I use the same distinction that RonJohn is using: "YouTubeTV" = "linear tv" = "cable" colloquially. The online versions of those are growing some, but WAY less than the traditional ones are declining. What's really important from college sports and ESPN/Fox's perspective though is the "sign...

My disagreement with the idea that “markets don’t matter for streaming” is that you gotta get new customers from somewhere. You’ve always got new students, but if you have these hundred-million-a-year TV money ambitions, you’re gonna need a lot of fans out there ready to buy subscriptions...

https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2023-08-16/southern-section-reaches-six-year-media-deal-with-nfhs-network Los Angeles, but this struck me as tangentially interesting for a couple reasons: * there’s a SoCal HSFB package on Bally but ALSO a streaming package for high school with...

Where were they months/years ago on the phone with the SEC or Big 10? 🙄

Living on the west coast now, it’s already amazing how little UGA matters to me for days GT isn’t playing them. I turned on 5 minutes against TCU out of curiosity and then walked right out that door. Nobody is gonna ask me about it the next day. Nobody is gonna bark out their car with a UGA...

If I was the SEC and Big 10 my concern would be “if the reckless spending of the streaming wars is coming to a close and cable is fading fast, will people still be willing to spend that much on us if the sport’s national footprint continues to shrink.” Even the smaller conferences were getting...

For me it’s the reverse. Now, I’m on the west coast, so CFB is less ingrained in the culture, but folks I know who didn’t go to places with D1 football simply don’t care. They’re happy with their NFL and fantasy leagues and have no interest in another league. My belief is that a fair portion of...

I agree with this but I’m not sure it helps the Big10/SEC enough to keep them in their current money long-term. If we are sitting here following GT in the “second division” and GT is doing great at that… does that make us more or less likely to watch a Michigan vs USC game with two teams we...

I don't have to like it, I'm just gonna be smug about it in 20 years. ;) Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs in the name of short-term profit is the American way.

You’re talking about “all” fanbases but not considering that “all” is becoming a smaller and smaller set. I know people who got into big-time college football twenty years ago by going to Wazzu. What happens to the next generation Wazzu student who has no connection to it? They stick to solely...