SHR: If College Football Followed Soccer

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

Recently, the major soccer clubs/teams decided to branch off their leagues and form their own European Super League.

If you read into it, it had a familiar feeling of what the major elite P5 programs in college football would do. A big reason was sharing revenue and elite teams not wanting to share revenue with the lower tier of their leagues.

So, someone drew up a hypothetical for college football:

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The European Super League was pretty much universally opposed by, well, everyone from fans to managers, to players, etc.
Protests, riots, and cancelled games abound, the entire Euro Super League is currently suspended.

Do you think the reality of a college football "Superconference" would still be a reality, or would it be shot down before it even started?

Even supporters of the soccer teams selected, were opposing it from the start. Not just the ones left out.
Thoughts?

 

[The Real SamC]

Only one entity wants a "super conference". The focus of evil in the sports world. ESPN.

Who doesn't want it? Coaches and college presidents. Why? For as much yap-yap they do about the whole deal, the big teams like having 9-3 being the bad year, because they fattened up on the cupcakes in their league and non-conference. Ohio State, for example, like knowing the 19 years out of 20, it is going to beat Indiana and Purdue and the like. That keeps coaches employed, and gives lots of fund raising and lobbying opportunities from the prez.

 

[caliherd]

Only one entity wants a "super conference". The focus of evil in the sports world. ESPN.

Who doesn't want it? Coaches and college presidents. Why? For as much yap-yap they do about the whole deal, the big teams like having 9-3 being the bad year, because they fattened up on the cupcakes in their league and non-conference. Ohio State, for example, like knowing the 19 years out of 20, it is going to beat Indiana and Purdue and the like. That keeps coaches employed, and gives lots of fund raising and lobbying opportunities from the prez.

Sam I don’t agree with you very much but in my opinion this is an excellent post and is spot on.

Everybody that thinks the P5s are going to break off and have their own league are not using their heads. Even the Alabama’s, Ohio State, Clemsons of the world are not going to give up their cup cake home games. They like going 12-0 and 11-1 every year. All of them play the majority of their OOC games at home and with the exception of a few conference games they play all of their games at home.

Now imagine if every year OSU had to play 6 away games against P5 opponents, and of those 6 they wouldn’t all be Kansas or Wake Forest etc. many of them could have the opportunity to beat them. No way their fan base would accept that.

if any of the top schools started going 8-4 or 9-3 regularly their fan base would lose their stuff.

Then you take the low and mid level P5s who count on their G5 and FCS games to pad their records to go to bowl games etc. If they started going 4-8 or 5-7 etc. every year they would be changing coaches all the time. Think about it UK only has to win 2 SEC games to go to a bowl if they go 4-0 in OOC.

The only meaningful change that I could see happening in the future is they will make the playoffs 8 games and will put language in it to make sure there is no chance a G5 will make the playoffs.