College Football--Big Ten Expansion

[Anonymous]

If the Big Ten Conference's main objective is to add Notre Dame as a member, then letting Notre Dame rival Stanford slip away to the ACC may be a mistake as it just pushes Notre Dame closer to the ACC. Adding Stanford to the Big Ten Conference now at a highly discounted price (well less than even half of a full share media payout) could help bring Notre Dame closer to Big Ten Conference membership.

[Anonymous]

SMU willing to accept zero payout from ACC, while Cal & Stanford are willing to accept as low as just a 25% share media payout from the ACC:

https://si.com/2023/08/24/acc-expansion-stanford-cal-smu

[Anonymous]

College Football Season Starts Today. Maybe we can all experience an earth shattering upset of Notre Dame by Navy. Game starts at 2:30 eastern today.

PREDICTION: Navy upsets Notre Dame.

[Anonymous]

PREDICTION: Notre Dame crushes Navy.

[Anonymous]

PREDICTION: I will request that the incorrect prediction above be removed so that I appear to know what I amtalking about with respect to predicting the outcome of college football games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College Football Season Starts Today. Maybe we can all experience an earth shattering upset of Notre Dame by Navy. Game starts at 2:30 eastern today.

PREDICTION: Navy upsets Notre Dame.

Quite the contrary based on score at the half.

[Anonymous]

Although ND won via a blow out, I think the Navy game actually hurts ND. One, Navy was clearly outmatched (and I would argue that's fine given Navy's much more important mission), and two, the game was actually boring. Navy could only manage to score a field goal, and that was in the fourth quarter with just under 4 minutes left and they only threw one pass in the first half. As plenty of people have noted, the contracts and associated money aren't about wins and losses, they're about TV audience. I suspect only die hard fans were watching the game after half time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although ND won via a blow out, I think the Navy game actually hurts ND. One, Navy was clearly outmatched (and I would argue that's fine given Navy's much more important mission), and two, the game was actually boring. Navy could only manage to score a field goal, and that was in the fourth quarter with just under 4 minutes left and they only threw one pass in the first half. As plenty of people have noted, the contracts and associated money aren't about wins and losses, they're about TV audience. I suspect only die hard fans were watching the game after half time.

And there are plenty on both sides (Navy and ND) who stayed tuned in, especially ND because we were interested in seeing how the new team would perform. There will be other blowouts this year based on what I saw today. Sam Hartmann appears to be one of the best quarterbacks they have had in a very long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PREDICTION: Notre Dame crushes Navy.

Notre Dame owes Navy:

https://irishcentral.com/roots/history/navy-notre-dame

[Anonymous]

San Francisco Chronicle reports that:

Cal & Stanford will begin talks with the Big 12 if ACC does nothing by Wednesday. Goal will be for all four Pac-4 teams (Cal, Stanford, WSU, & OSU) to join the Big 12 Conference. Makes more sense than the ACC from a geographical standpoint.

[Anonymous]

It’s good for everybody for those schools to join the big 12. It gives academic gravitas to that conference and makes 4 good balanced conferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although ND won via a blow out, I think the Navy game actually hurts ND. One, Navy was clearly outmatched (and I would argue that's fine given Navy's much more important mission), and two, the game was actually boring. Navy could only manage to score a field goal, and that was in the fourth quarter with just under 4 minutes left and they only threw one pass in the first half. As plenty of people have noted, the contracts and associated money aren't about wins and losses, they're about TV audience. I suspect only die hard fans were watching the game after half time.

And there are plenty on both sides (Navy and ND) who stayed tuned in, especially ND because we were interested in seeing how the new team would perform. There will be other blowouts this year based on what I saw today. Sam Hartmann appears to be one of the best quarterbacks they have had in a very long time.

24 year old Notre Dame QB Sam Hartman, a transfer from Wake Forest playing in his 6th year of collegiate football, looked great against inferior competition. Hartman received almost no pressure from the Navy defense. Hartman has another cupcake opponent next week against Tennessee State, then faces real opponents later in September against NC State (Sept. 9, 2023) and Ohio State University (Sept.23, 2023).

Notre Dame has 5 excellent running backs this year, but just average receivers. Notre Dame's biggest loss from last year's squad is at the tight-end position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PREDICTION: Notre Dame crushes Navy.

Notre Dame owes Navy:

https://irishcentral.com/roots/history/navy-notre-dame

Maryland is a really cool higher education community with B1G UMD , Annapolis, Georgetown and Hopkins all in a 30 mile radius. The Academy is so impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It’s good for everybody for those schools to join the big 12. It gives academic gravitas to that conference and makes 4 good balanced conferences.

Agree 100%. The Power 5 will now be the Power 4 Conferences.

In 2024, the Big 12 Conference will have 16 teams: ASU, Arizona, Baylor, BYU, UCF, U Cincinnati, U Colorado, U Houston, Iowa State, U Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, Utah, & West Virginia.

Adding Cal, Stanford, Wash State U., & Oregon State would expand the Big 12 Conference up to 20 teams and super-conference status.

[Anonymous]

It's back.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger

ACC Presidents meeting tonight and may vote to expand. I have read that ESPN will be required to up their payment to the ACC by between 55 and 73 million. SMU to take 0 payout and Cal and Stanford a 30% payout of media. But there are other sources of revenue they will get so that Payment to Sanford and Cal in year 1 will be 21-25 million and will go up from there --- less for SMU. This is will be for all sports.