What’s sad is that I think you actually believe that’s a valid argument. You might want to look up who’s in charge of those bowls and how they are decided this year.
Weird though that ESPN thought that Georgia’s win over South Carolina and Florida, and Alabama’s win over Texas A&M were significant victories at the time. But I get it, “It just means more.”
Maybe I was unclear. I was trying to distinguish between types of brands since “college football” means something different to different groups and most of the money, advertising and merchandise marketing will be in the one group.
“The brand” is complicated.
Lots of uga fans do not associate football with academics. The flags they fly in their yards, the stickers on their cars, and the sweat shirts they wear in the grocery stores, are about something else. Especially if they dropped out of high school.
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I’m not sure the exact point at which souther football caught up to and surpassed the north, but I think northern fans were moving on long before that, and much of it had to do with divorcing the sport from any serious connection to academics. That is certainly why the Ivy League decided to get...
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The original models for an expanded playoff years ago had conference champions getting the byes. Make conference championships important. Additional teams added without byes would be based on won-loss records not poll rankings or subjective arguments over which conference was stronger...
Having lived and spent time as an adult in the large population centers of the north I’ve always been struck by how football fans up there either watch their local high school teams (often Saturday day games) and/or watch pro ball.
Decades before my time, and starting before my parents’ time...
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