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[QUOTE="uconndogs, post: 5053756, member: 57"]
Me for one.  But, addressing the topic more broadly - college football is likely going to be two super conferences of probably 40 programs which will dominate money and talent.  This will be a professional sports franchise model.

Of the roughly 135 programs that participate in the current BCS format, how much of the total college football fan base continues to identify with college football?  Does a BC, Syracuse, Baylor fan continue to be a broad based college football fan knowing they have no practical way of competing with two power conferences.  Or worse, those two conferences break off from the NCAA altogether.

My point is simply this.  Conference realignment may turn out to be a huge economic success for a much smaller group of programs.  But, given all the change, I think there is a big assumption that current viewership will all be restrained, let alone grow.

I used to watch all my football in Saturdays, now it’s mostly Sundays.  I can watch the best players in the world in the NFL.  I used to watch college football for something much different.
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