Why Super Conferences Will Ruin College Football

UCLA and USC are headed midwest to join the BIG 10. It's a move that is staggering to many, but it was bound to happen after Oklahoma and Texas went to the SEC. This ultimately sets into motion the formation of two superconferences in College Football, and Kurt explains why it is a bad idea.

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[tonz]

The Big 10 was ruined for me once Maryland and Rutgers joined.

[ken_danerdiest]

I think this whole super conference thing will drive viewers like myself away.

[FourEyedFrenchman]

Regionalism made college football great. Every conference was its own league with its own history, character, and characteristics. It gave the college game a level of flair and a dimension of entertainment the NFL lacks.

Now that geography means nothing anymore, college football is going to become generic sports slop. The novelty of big matchups will wear off quick, and fans will be groaning about how the game just isn't that interesting anymore.

[Sam_Berghammer]

Superconferences are genuinely the worst why would anyone want them

[jameswilson]

Super conferences are even worse for CFB than NIL imo

[DudeEggs]

Im already teetering at the edge of no longer watching. These super conferences may just do me in. 😢

[Uhtred-the-bold]

The expanded playoff would’ve changed college football in 2002. But now those conferences can control who is in and who is out. And we don’t have a playoff now. It’s the BCS plus one

[ClarenceGordon-zd]

Sometimes you think that you want a thing until you get it.

[garygrassler]

Bring back the big East, big 8 and SWC. Get rid of conference championship games and play every one in your league. Have a 8 team playoff that includes champions of the ACC, big ten, big east, big 8, sec, swc, and pac10 m, and one at large team

[larrysmac]

Sports media is already the new NCAA Board of Commissioners. Fans are already being forced to pay (and watch commercials) in order to watch games that should warrant network coverage. Try watching a BCS game without being forced to pay for cable or a streaming service. It's literally discriminatory, proving that the majority of fans have become nothing more than dilettantes who will gladly bend over and take it. Who's your daddy?

[JohnOdermott]

Fundamental problem with a super conference is that no matter how much you try to include only "elite" programs, every game has a winner and a loser, and there will be teams that have losing records, lopsided games and disgruntled fans, etc.

Also, the destruction of geographic rivalries takes all the fun and tradition out of it and makes for meaningless matchups. I mean, I'd much rather watch Cal against USC or Washington vs Oregon State instead of Maryland vs. UCLA or Oregon vs. Rutgers.

[robbiejorgensen]

I’ll still watch but the fact the big ten will have well over 10 teams is just weird

[Zsports]

Pac 12 network would have been good if it were actually on ever

[darkknight]

College football is at its best when there is 5 strong conferences

[Magdalenas]

I am a massive Pac-12 fan. Oregon to be specific. And it sucks whats happening. I dont blame Oregon and Washington for leaving it seems after it was announced USC and UCLA are gone. Along with Colorado. I forget his name, but the dude in charge of the Pac 12 was an idiot.

But at the same time, a part of me is exited to see Oregon in a new conference playing teams they dont normally. And the new rivalries that are sure to come.

[Hillers]

At 0:32 ...I have been watching college football since 1972..My team is the Texas Longhorns...and they used to be in the Southwest Conference...

[AldoRaine]

As an ASU alumni and season ticket holder regionalism gave my sad school reasons to play every week. Beating UCLA Oregon or USC meant something to us even in lost seasons. We’ve always considered them worthy opponents.

[ProjectBadass]

Yeah I am hoping college sports fall flat on its face. It could work but it would take some major rearranging and change how they play out their seasons. The only way a 16 team conference works is splitting the league into 4 divisions so if the big 10 absorbs Washington and Oregon then you have Big 10 West. This would include Washington Oregon USC and UCLA then every 3 years you would play the 4 teams either in Big 10 North, Big 10 South or Big 10 East. And an additional 2 games would be played against teams that finished in the same place your team finished in its division the year before. Kind of how the NFL does it. So with a total of 9 conference games played it would still give you 3 non conference games you could play. Which the rules for this should change. No playing any non division 1 teams. And anyone you play out of conference you have to play that team 1 home and 1 away in back to back years. If they did expand the the conference to 16teams I believe it would result in a multi week conference championship as the winner of each division would match up against other division winners. 1vs4 2vs3 then whoever won those games would be representing the big10 and the winner would have to be assured a spot in the playoffs. Playoffs should expand to 6 teams. Basically get it to 4 power conferences SEC Big10 ACC Big12 with each conference carrying 16 teams. SEC will be there next year with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. The Big 12 would be back to 12 so they need to find 4 new partners to join maybe Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, Utah. If Washington and Oregon did join the big 10 maybe then send Maryland and Rutgers back to the ACC. With Notre Dame being a partial member I believe they would need to become full fledge member of the ACC. And you would probably have to demote Vanderbilt of the SEC or Rutgers to a non power conference to make it all work.

This would leave California, Stanford, Oregon State, Washington St. without a conference. Around 70-71 teams wouldn’t belong to one of the power 4 conferences. So then create 4 non power conference Pac16, Conf USA, American Conf and Mid American Conf have the team with best record representing their conference in a 4team non power conference playoff and the winner wins an automatic bid into the 6 team playoff. So with each power conference winner each receiving a bid and 1 non power conference getting a bid that would leave 1 at large bid to be determined based off national ranking.

There would be about 6-7 teams left without a conference. They can choose to remain an independent or demote them down to division 2 sub div.

I understand it’s not even close to being this easy but it’s the only way this power conference stuff could be fun.

[Homedepotorange]

Im a fan of Mizzou. Everyone in the SEC rips on having a Midwest team in the Southeastern Conference. I dont think theres that much room to complain anymore cause at least we border the states of the rest of the conference

[Desert-Father]

For the schools that are content with a conference championship and a bowl win who dont want to play moneyball, they will always have the FBS. The catch is that the FBS will probably not be the highest tier league in college football for much longer. Whether its a two or four conference league a super tier league is going to be formed. Once its formed it will probably be reorganized around geography to improve the travel and reduce costs but that will only happen after a new Division 1-A super tier is created that competes in the CFP.