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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/pottedplant214 on 2023-08-02 05:23:43.
Personally, I think much if the appeal of college football was the regional aspect. You knew people who went to your conference schools. There was that extra motivation. Your high school class went to schools across the same conference. You’ve been playing these teams for 60-100 years. That’s what made college football so fun, the real connection to the games. NFL? Yeah you have your fav team, but you never played for them. With college most of the time you (or maybe your parents) actually attended that school (or you know a ton of people who did) and your alma mater beating your friends alma mater was a big source of pride. Schools like OU playing Florida isn’t as fun. OU students have friends who go to OSU, TCU, Baylor, Iowa State, etc. There is very little connection between the OU student body and the Florida student body.
Personally, I think the new Big 12 TV deal is going to be regretted by the networks when the UCF-OSU game gets very little viewers compared to something like OSU-OU. TCU-BYU isn’t something that’s going to really interest students.
I see this going the way of streaming, where we’re slowly going back to the cable model. I think by the next TV contracts after the offers are lower and travel costs are through the roof, school presidents will start realigning into regional conferences. What do y’all think?
EDIT: this was fun, got a lot more traction than I expected! I replied to as many comments as I could hopefully everything was taking in good fun. I won’t be responding to anymore comments and will probably be shutting down this Reddit account for a new one (don’t want to have to keep talking about this with people for the next years). Thanks everyone!