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I think streaming is coming. I don't think it will come close to replacing the money ESPN and Fox can offer right now though. If you are streaming you are signing up for that specific content. If you have cable, you are forced to buy ESPN whether you watch or not.

I'm in my late 30's. As of a few years ago, I expected I'd be a Stanford college football fan for many more decades. But without SC or UCLA rivalry games, with mercenary players, etc, I don't think I'll be going to or watching many Stanford football games in the future.

Perhaps I am in the minority on this, but I don't think that the numbers of CFB fans is going to grow much by making it junior NFL. Do zoomers want that? I don't think so, my elder millennial friends who are fans of college football (many USC and UCLA fans included) all universally think this conference switching is dumb and bad, and turning them off the sport.

At present the NFL’s dominance is unquestioned, but the latter was once true about baseball. And the NBA was once seen as less watchable than the largely unwatchable television produced by the Big Three networks in the 1970s and 80s.

It’s a way of speculating on the future of college football. The bet here is that the height of its popularity is now a past-tense concept. Time will tell, but the guess is that fan interest is on the verge of a slow decline that will soon be fast. And that’s really sad.

I thought this article was good. 

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/article...40502.html

CFB decision makers should realize what makes their product unique and valuable and emphasize those traits. Else we're all just going to have to learn to like watching kids play video games, or whatever else content becomes popular in the coming years. There is no law that CFB will be popular forever.

[dabigv13]

I think streaming is coming. I don't think it will come close to replacing the money ESPN and Fox can offer right now though. If you are streaming you are signing up for that specific content. If you have cable, you are forced to buy ESPN whether you watch or not.

I'm in my late 30's. As of a few years ago, I expected I'd be a Stanford college football fan for many more decades. But without SC or UCLA rivalry games, with mercenary players, etc, I don't think I'll be going to or watching many Stanford football games in the future.

Perhaps I am in the minority on this, but I don't think that the numbers of CFB fans is going to grow much by making it junior NFL. Do zoomers want that? I don't think so, my elder millennial friends who are fans of college football (many USC and UCLA fans included) all universally think this conference switching is dumb and bad, and turning them off the sport.

At present the NFL’s dominance is unquestioned, but the latter was once true about baseball. And the NBA was once seen as less watchable than the largely unwatchable television produced by the Big Three networks in the 1970s and 80s.

It’s a way of speculating on the future of college football. The bet here is that the height of its popularity is now a past-tense concept. Time will tell, but the guess is that fan interest is on the verge of a slow decline that will soon be fast. And that’s really sad.

I thought this article was good. 

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/article...40502.html

CFB decision makers should realize what makes their product unique and valuable and emphasize those traits. Else we're all just going to have to learn to like watching kids play video games, or whatever else content becomes popular in the coming years. There is no law that CFB will be popular forever.