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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 5000423, member: 1559"] I think the biggest downside to conference consolidation is there will be top schools that will have football records that look mediocre or worse and the fan bases won't like that. The more conferences you have, the more conference champs you have and the more teams with really good records. There is a very high correlation between winning and football attendance over the long run, but what happens when a school stops winning as much? FSU is a perfect example of a school that won at a high level consistently and when they became mediocre, the fans stayed away. From 2018 to 2022, FSU averaged 52.9k fans per game, but attendance rebounded in 2022 and 2023 with more wins to 67.2k and 78.7k respectively. [/QUOTE]