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What is your solution?


If that is tl;dr, the answer is there is no answer. I think the sport is in deep trouble and is going to fail eventually.
 
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If that is tl;dr, the answer is there is no answer. I think the sport is in deep trouble and is going to fail eventually.

Personally I like the current "no rules" system. The old system was extremely corrupt and tilted toward certain power players, now the landscape has been flattened.
 

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If that is tl;dr, the answer is there is no answer. I think the sport is in deep trouble and is going to fail eventually.
That was far from being too long to read but there are flaws in your logic:
  • Congressional interference isn't feasible. Beyond the point that our elected officials should have more important things to spend their time on, they haven't been effective in implimenting anything for longer than most can remember.
  • Your contention of what "most fans" would be "interested in" would require fan investment throughout FBS football to be far more balanced than it currently is. The cartel of schools who are (and have been) receiving most of the spots that allow a chance to play for the title exceed home attendance numbers by mid-September that exceeds what more than half of FBS can claim for an entire season. brand names (Southern Cal, Notre Dame, etc.) land larger television audiences in down seasons than most non-P2 schools could ever land.
Your complaint currently is that most of these games are blowouts. I've been following this sport since Jim Plunkett and Archie Manning were playing for Stanford and Ole Miss respectively and in those five and a half decades there have been very few championships that were won with games like Miami-Nebraska in the 1/01/1984 Orange Bowl.

There are going t o be blowouts, it's part of the nature of sports. Hell, in the past two men's NCAA tournaments the eventual champion blew out every team they faced. Should congress have stepped in to make that more fair?
 

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Did you really just post that college football is not about entertaining its viewers? You are aware that the players are not curing disease or inventing a new AI application, they are playing football. The reason there are billions of dollars to split among them is because people are entertained. If it stops being entertaining, a lot of people in the college football industry are going to make a lot less money.
You highly underestimate the appetite for crappy football of the general public.

If you disagree, please elaborate on the ratings success of Thursday Night Football compared to other televised/streamed entertainment in the same time period. TNF is well-known
 
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Whoever invented the sky cast so I don’t have to listen to tessitore deserves a nobel.
 
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Another lackluster game right now. Arizona St just being absolutely dominated. I wish we just went back to a 4 team CFP; felt like the games were usually more competitive/interesting overall.

Edit: I come on here to complain and then suddenly Arizona St decides to make things interesting.
 
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Another lackluster game right now. Arizona St just being absolutely dominated. I wish we just went back to a 4 team CFP; felt like the games were usually more competitive/interesting overall.

Edit: I come on here to complain and then suddenly Arizona St decides to make things interesting.
Two blatant PI on Texas and ASU can tie
 

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Another lackluster game right now. Arizona St just being absolutely dominated. I wish we just went back to a 4 team CFP; felt like the games were usually more competitive/interesting overall.

Edit: I come on here to complain and then suddenly Arizona St decides to make things interesting.
That was one hell of a post. It turned the game completely around.
 
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Skattebo with that crazy TD pass was easily one of the best plays of the CFP so far.
 

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That was far from being too long to read but there are flaws in your logic:
  • Congressional interference isn't feasible. Beyond the point that our elected officials should have more important things to spend their time on, they haven't been effective in implimenting anything for longer than most can remember.
  • Your contention of what "most fans" would be "interested in" would require fan investment throughout FBS football to be far more balanced than it currently is. The cartel of schools who are (and have been) receiving most of the spots that allow a chance to play for the title exceed home attendance numbers by mid-September that exceeds what more than half of FBS can claim for an entire season. brand names (Southern Cal, Notre Dame, etc.) land larger television audiences in down seasons than most non-P2 schools could ever land.
Your complaint currently is that most of these games are blowouts. I've been following this sport since Jim Plunkett and Archie Manning were playing for Stanford and Ole Miss respectively and in those five and a half decades there have been very few championships that were won with games like Miami-Nebraska in the 1/01/1984 Orange Bowl.

There are going t o be blowouts, it's part of the nature of sports. Hell, in the past two men's NCAA tournaments the eventual champion blew out every team they faced. Should congress have stepped in to make that more fair?

All the major sports leagues operate under a legal umbrella protecting them from antitrust claims. College sports needs something similar.

I do not have a rebuttal for the argument by you and @storrsroars that college football can have an unwatchably product and its current fan base will stay with it and even grow. You might be right, and we will probably find out soon.
 

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Announcers gave Auburn a helluva buildup as a clutch kicker before he pushed that wide.
 

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