[Austroturf]

Speaking as a fan of college football, one thought I had after watching two epics (SC/Penn State and UO/ OSU) was I really like realignment. 

I would much prefer watching games like those two than another week of Oregon hammering (insert the name of a downtrodden former Pac12 member here) and SC blasting another of the former P12 laggards.

In addition, this week Georgia and Texas face off. 

Yes, I know this opinion runs contrary to how most people in the former P12 footprint feel but I most enjoy watching the sport when there is a game in which the best athletes are playing.

Well, for every USC-Penn State game, you have a Wake Forest - Stanford game that no one will watch.  Next week, 6-0 Oregon is going to hammer a Big Ten laggard (Purdue), so unless you develop a system of promotions and relegations, realignment just produces different top tier matchups and different body bag matchups.

You could have gotten the very same outcome without destroying the conferences if the CFP playoffs criteria didn’t punish a loss so heavily and instead rewarded SOS.  Keeping the conferences intact, but encouraging top 25 teams to schedule one another non-conference match-ups gets you lots of cool games and reduces the number of meaningless body-bag games.

We didn’t need conference realignment to get Oregon-Ohio State.  We just needed to have that be in the non-conference schedule, instead of Ohio State - Akron (52-6), Ohio State - Western Michigan (56-0) and Ohio State - Marshall (49-14).

BC

Nailed it, BC!

[Austroturf]

Speaking as a fan of college football, one thought I had after watching two epics (SC/Penn State and UO/ OSU) was I really like realignment. 

I would much prefer watching games like those two than another week of Oregon hammering (insert the name of a downtrodden former Pac12 member here) and SC blasting another of the former P12 laggards.

In addition, this week Georgia and Texas face off. 

Yes, I know this opinion runs contrary to how most people in the former P12 footprint feel but I most enjoy watching the sport when there is a game in which the best athletes are playing.

Well, for every USC-Penn State game, you have a Wake Forest - Stanford game that no one will watch.  Next week, 6-0 Oregon is going to hammer a Big Ten laggard (Purdue), so unless you develop a system of promotions and relegations, realignment just produces different top tier matchups and different body bag matchups.

You could have gotten the very same outcome without destroying the conferences if the CFP playoffs criteria didn’t punish a loss so heavily and instead rewarded SOS.  Keeping the conferences intact, but encouraging top 25 teams to schedule one another non-conference match-ups gets you lots of cool games and reduces the number of meaningless body-bag games.

We didn’t need conference realignment to get Oregon-Ohio State.  We just needed to have that be in the non-conference schedule, instead of Ohio State - Akron (52-6), Ohio State - Western Michigan (56-0) and Ohio State - Marshall (49-14).

BC

Nailed it, BC!