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<blockquote data-quote="year_of_the_swarm" data-source="post: 495534" data-attributes="member: 3149"><p>Not seeing any talk of league alignments... Is it just impossible to go independent unless you are a huge national brand like BYU or Notre Dame? Seems to me like you could flip off the Alabamas, Ohio States, Floridas, and Oklahomas of the world by not playing by their rules. It has long been rumored that the conference leaders favor these programs over the less important ones. Whether that is true or not is not known to me. If I were your run of the mill program, I just wouldn't play them. Vanderbilt has lost their last 2 games against Alabama 100-0. Doesn't do your fans, your school, your coaches, etc any good for that to happen. I understand they are a great team, but they don't play by the same rules Vanderbilt does. Just like Clemson doesn't play by the same rules as Wake Forest or Georgia Tech.</p><p></p><p>College football "changed" in the late 90's, really 99 or 2000... And from there the current era began. This is when the Nebraska dynasty died, the BCS was created, and everyone started implementing the spread offense, and it has continued to morph from there.</p><p></p><p>8 teams have won it in the past 18 years.</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Oklahoma</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Miami</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ohio State</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">LSU</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">USC</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Texas</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Florida</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">LSU</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Florida</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Auburn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Florida State</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ohio State</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Clemson</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama</li> </ol><p>When you look at the matchups for national championships since the BCS came around in 1998... you pretty much only see these teams. There is little to no others in there. Peyton Manning/Tennessee in 1998, Oregon played for one... but thats it.</p><p></p><p>So you have all these players.... all these programs.... all these fans... communities... money... etc. All seemingly in support of providing some sort of practice or different challenges in one way or another to these blue bloods on their way to the big game. For everyone else, they are trying to get to a bowl, hopefully win their division or something..</p><p></p><p>*Side Note* - What was Jimbo Fisher thinking leaving FSU for A&M. FSU is clearly a blue blood and A&M is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="year_of_the_swarm, post: 495534, member: 3149"] Not seeing any talk of league alignments... Is it just impossible to go independent unless you are a huge national brand like BYU or Notre Dame? Seems to me like you could flip off the Alabamas, Ohio States, Floridas, and Oklahomas of the world by not playing by their rules. It has long been rumored that the conference leaders favor these programs over the less important ones. Whether that is true or not is not known to me. If I were your run of the mill program, I just wouldn't play them. Vanderbilt has lost their last 2 games against Alabama 100-0. Doesn't do your fans, your school, your coaches, etc any good for that to happen. I understand they are a great team, but they don't play by the same rules Vanderbilt does. Just like Clemson doesn't play by the same rules as Wake Forest or Georgia Tech. College football "changed" in the late 90's, really 99 or 2000... And from there the current era began. This is when the Nebraska dynasty died, the BCS was created, and everyone started implementing the spread offense, and it has continued to morph from there. 8 teams have won it in the past 18 years. [LIST=1] [*]Oklahoma [*]Miami [*]Ohio State [*]LSU [*]USC [*]Texas [*]Florida [*]LSU [*]Florida [*]Alabama [*]Auburn [*]Alabama [*]Alabama [*]Florida State [*]Ohio State [*]Alabama [*]Clemson [*]Alabama [/LIST] When you look at the matchups for national championships since the BCS came around in 1998... you pretty much only see these teams. There is little to no others in there. Peyton Manning/Tennessee in 1998, Oregon played for one... but thats it. So you have all these players.... all these programs.... all these fans... communities... money... etc. All seemingly in support of providing some sort of practice or different challenges in one way or another to these blue bloods on their way to the big game. For everyone else, they are trying to get to a bowl, hopefully win their division or something.. *Side Note* - What was Jimbo Fisher thinking leaving FSU for A&M. FSU is clearly a blue blood and A&M is not. [/QUOTE]
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