Will make no difference at all. UConn can go undefeated and there will still be some excuse not to take them.
It would be great to get an answer, but it appears the criteria keep changing.
The excuse would be that the schedule stinks.
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UMass is playing Missouri, Mississippi State and Georgia on the road in 2024. Missouri and Georgia are CFP teams. UConn is not playing any teams remotely at that level of football
We will see how they perform against the 4 P4 teams that they are playing. Although highest ranked team is Maryland at around 50ish range.
They play Mizzou, Mississippi State, Liberty, and UGA. That's pretty salty for a MAC School.
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Yes hard to see UMass having even .500 record. The games against Missouri and Georgia could look like UMass game against Penn state last year-63-0.
Combined score of 400-0?
It will not be pretty against Missouri and Georgia. Maybe they can keep it closer against Liberty. Those two games will be similar to UMass playing Penn State and when UConn played Tenn last year. My parents went to school at KU when they had a great basketball team but football was a different story. OU used to bury KU and shoot off a canon after every score.
SMU isn't in the ACC for their value. They're there because they offered to take $0 when no other school had. The ACC TV deal had a pro-rata clause, so any additive subscriber dollars for SMU in Texas, plus their pro-rata (plus the remainder of the Stanford & Cal pro-rata as they only got partial shares as well) is what the ACC is using to fund the new performance pool they created in an attempt to convince FSU & Clemson that they'll make more if they perform as well as they thought.
I would say that USF is best positioned to be the school chosen to replace FSU. New stadium on the horizon, decent TV market, AAU Membership, and it keeps a second presence in Florida for recruiting purposes.
If Memphis and Tulane are replacing FSU and Clemson (and potentially more) then I don’t even want to be in that conference. It’s basically the American with a little former Big East flair.
Are you sure about that?
Unfortunately, most of UConn's games last year were on CBSSN, SECN, and ACCN and those networks aren't rated. If you look at rated games over the past few seasons, here are the numbers:
Point taken. At the same time, a large factor for the ratings is the AAC vs the ACC. SMU vs FSU, Clemson, Miami, Duke, UNC etc is automatically going to be much higher. And if SMU is competitive in the ACC, the brand will continue to grow. UConn has a much steeper hill to climb but has the same hope.
The undeniable fact is that UConn has a MUCH higher ceiling than many of the sought-after programs or even existing members of Power conferences. Power conference status would significantly increase the probability but given the current scenario it's hard to see UConn accomplishing that among the G5's since G5's also have a geographical footprint in rich recruiting regions. The potential is there and I really don't see it as that much of a risk given some of the programs already in Power conferences.
