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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 5088971, member: 1646"] I fully believe that having a Power 2 will mean that there will be less college football watchers than there are now. People like us and many other fans of left out schools will fade away and focus on the NFL for the 2 months between summer and NCAA basketball. But, I can't think that the Big Ten and SEC are dumb. I think they've done the calculations and have decided that taking nearly 100% of a smaller pie is better than taking whatever percentage they currently have of a larger pie. College football won't disappear if there is only a P2. Fans without a tie to a non-P2 will gravitate to the P2 and even pissed off non-P2 fans will probably go back to watching. Just like NFL fans that "boycotted" when players kneeled. Will there be a P1 without Vandy, Northwestern and some others? Maybe, but I'd look more for uneven revenue to be introduced. The one thing that can stop all of this is government intervention. I'm not a big fan of too much FTC intervention, but its supposed to stop small groups from using size/collusion to hurt a better market and product to benefit themselves. Add in that these are supposedly non-profit entities and it seems more egregious. [/QUOTE]