16-Team SEC & Conference Realignment

[carlspacklerrocks]

This article is kinda long, but a pretty interesting read. The writer says he works in media and that TV is going to demand a lot of changes as it puts more money into college football including 4 16-team major conferences and an 8-team playoff. It also predicts that some current P5 schools will end up in G5 conferences and vice versa, based mostly on the size of the television markets they play in. It's a good offseason read anyway.

http://www.thechaosindex.com/cest-l...-to-change-a-whole-lot-more-than-you-realize/

 

[Catfishboy]

Click on the link below to see the television market rankings by Nielsen as of 1/1/16:

http://www.tvb.org/media/file/2015-2016-dma-ranks.pdf

 

[Bill_D]

This article is kinda long, but a pretty interesting read. The writer says he works in media and that TV is going to demand a lot of changes as it puts more money into college football including 4 16-team major conferences and an 8-team playoff. It also predicts that some current P5 schools will end up in G5 conferences and vice versa, based mostly on the size of the television markets they play in. It's a good offseason read anyway.

http://www.thechaosindex.com/cest-l...-to-change-a-whole-lot-more-than-you-realize/

What this bunch of garbage doesn't take into account is where are the fans who watch college football on TV. Approximately 45-50% of them are in the southern states and another 15% are in TX About 60% of all TV college football fans live in the area where of the SEC plays. That is why the SEC is called the Golden Egg of college TV. The problem with toadying to the NY market area is other sports activities are far more popular, (MLB, NFL, NBA) etc than college football in that area. The same is true of the hue CA markets.

 

[candid]

What this bunch of garbage doesn't take into account is where are the fans who watch college football on TV. Approximately 45-50% of them are in the southern states and another 15% are in TX About 60% of all TV college football fans live in the area where of the SEC plays. That is why the SEC is called the Golden Egg of college TV. The problem with toadying to the NY market area is other sports activities are far more popular, (MLB, NFL, NBA) etc than college football in that area. The same is true of the hue CA markets.

Agreed.

 

[TheGhostOfMatchesMalone]

Not sure OM fans want to discuss realignment right now with an impending NCAA Hammer about to come down on Oxford.

 

[candid]

Not sure OM fans want to discuss realignment right now with an impending NCAA Hammer about to come down on Oxford.

Prob not but, lived in the south for 5 yrs, football is their primary sport, to many kids up north want to play basketball, hockey, etc. Actually, speaking about Mi only, Mi practically owns the sec but Harbaugh knows he wants to recruit nationwide to keep up w OSU. The south takes it personal, he also likes to recruit in Calif & Texas, not just Florida. See Ga, Virginia, Bama, La, Miss. Fla happens to have the attention right now.

 

[HightowerReb]

Prob not but, lived in the south for 5 yrs, football is their primary sport, to many kids up north want to play basketball, hockey, etc. Actually, speaking about Mi only, Mi practically owns the sec but Harbaugh knows he wants to recruit nationwide to keep up w OSU. The south takes it personal, he also likes to recruit in Calif & Texas, not just Florida. See Ga, Virginia, Bama, La, Miss. Fla happens to have the attention right now.

Michigan owns the SEC? Now we know where RN has been getting his synthetic from.