Checking in on Big Ten’s first coast-to-coast season: Does conference have concerns?

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Ope3 said:
Yeah, but if more folks watched Ohio St-Oregon and Georgia-Texas, than NBC as well as ABC-ESPN don't care about us.
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Maybe. Part of the value of the tv deal is the huge games. Another huge part of the value is the quantity of games.

Time will tell if the ratings for the 15th best game of the week end up getting better or worse 5 years from now

ABC, CBS, NBC might not care
The value of the tier 2 and tier 3 games might take a hit
 

Some guy said:
A lot of factors to it.
Broken schedule and no longer playing regional rivals factors for me.
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Or we are just getting older and have less time to care.

I'll still watch Football over anything else on TV.
 

Indiana, Illinois, Army, Navy, UNLV, Boise, Iowa State, Pittsburgh, BYU are a combined 58-3.

Alabama, USC, Michigan, Oklahoma are mediocre

Three top five matchups in the first half of the season.

Vanderbilt beats Alabama, Northern Illinois beats Notre Dame.

5 of the top 11 teams in the AP poll lost the same weekend...four to unranked teams.

This year has been a blast in my opinion. Love the Youtube multiview
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Or we are just getting older and have less time to care.

I'll still watch Football over anything else on TV.
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I am literally saying it factors for me.
I am not saying it factors for everyone

I am sure I am not the norm. I am also sure I’m not unique
 

Some guy said:
I am literally saying it factors for me.
I am not saying it factors for everyone

I am sure I am not the norm. I am also sure I’m not unique
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I'm taking from your tone that you are not going to be tuning into the classic Big 10 matchup tonight of Rutgers @ USC? Big time, 10pm kick (11pm local for Scarlet Knights fans) on FOX/Ch 9.

My TV will likely be on. Not because I am excited to see the game, but I anticipate nodding off during the last few innings of the World Series so it will be tuned in by default.
 


Ope3 said:
I'm taking from your tone that you are not going to be tuning into the classic Big 10 matchup tonight of Rutgers @ USC? Big time, 10pm kick (11pm local for Scarlet Knights fans) on FOX/Ch 9.

My TV will likely be on. Not because I am excited to see the game, but I anticipate nodding off during the last few innings of the World Series so it will be tuned in by default.
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I’ll probably turn it on after I get home from a high school playoff game.
I will cheer for the pac 12 to beat the Big East
 


Some guy said:
Maybe. Part of the value of the tv deal is the huge games. Another huge part of the value is the quantity of games.

Time will tell if the ratings for the 15th best game of the week end up getting better or worse 5 years from now

ABC, CBS, NBC might not care
The value of the tier 2 and tier 3 games might take a hit
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I think what is offsetting fans like us not watching as much due to whatever, (Schedule, Conference fluidity, NIL, Transfer Portal etc) is that are more that are now watching due to the proliferations of legalized gambling, Fan Duel, Draft Kings et al.

That audience does not care one iota about an eventual possible 4 way tie for 2nd without any common opponents or tiebreakers.
 

Ope3 said:
I think what is offsetting fans like us not watching as much due to whatever, (Schedule, Conference fluidity, NIL, Transfer Portal etc) is that are more that are now watching due to the proliferations of legalized gambling, Fan Duel, Draft Kings et al.
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Ticket sales are also up across the nation.

The UNLV football team will play the biggest game in program history on Friday night. Will it be played in front of the biggest crowd in program history?

It’s trending that way for UNLV’s much-anticipated matchup against No. 17 Boise State, which is set for 7:30 p.m. at Allegiant Stadium. According to a school spokesman, as of Wednesday evening,` ticket sales were trending for the Mountain West showdown to set a new UNLV home attendance record.
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Indiana Football Is Sold Out For The Rest Of The 2024 Season​

Indiana athletics announced on Sunday that tickets are no longer available for the final three games.

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StubHub released its annual College Football Season Preview today, which shows sales up 42% over the start of the 2023 season.
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Big 12 Week 8 Attendance Numbers: Five Games Eclipse 99% Capacity​

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The Fighting Illini football team recently had a sellout crowd of 60,670 against Kansas, which was the first sellout for the program since 2016.
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Week 3 of the college football season featured a handful of rivalry matchups on Saturday, including Oregon beating Oregon State 49-14 before 38,419 at Reser Stadium, a record since its remodel in 2023.
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Colorado State set a record for home game attendance with an announced crowd of 40,099 for their 28-9 loss to Colorado in the Rocky Mountain Showdown.
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Pitt defeated West Virginia 38-34 in the Backyard Brawl before more than 66,000 fans in Acrisure Stadium. The “spectacle of the event itself at times overshadowed the outcome.”
 
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Some guy said:
I am saying championships matter to fans. But in the current set up, that will diminish year after year and hurt the value of the product
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This might be on me; maybe your point is simply going over my head, but...

Unless I'm wrong, the B1G conference champion gets an automatic berth in the playoff. At least, that's what I thought I heard or read somewhere.

If that is indeed true, then the conference championship will always be very important. I don't see how it would become diminished over time.

I agree with your larger point about the potential loss of regional rivalries in an expanded conference, though.
 

If anyone thought there wouldn't be learnings from the first year, they're foolish. I think it has been great so far. Getting a chance to see USC at the Bank and then go out to the UCLA game at the Rose Bowl has been awesome.
 

MilosRevenge said:
Ticket sales are also up across the nation.

The UNLV football team will play the biggest game in program history on Friday night. Will it be played in front of the biggest crowd in program history?

It’s trending that way for UNLV’s much-anticipated matchup against No. 17 Boise State, which is set for 7:30 p.m. at Allegiant Stadium. According to a school spokesman, as of Wednesday evening,` ticket sales were trending for the Mountain West showdown to set a new UNLV home attendance record.
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Indiana Football Is Sold Out For The Rest Of The 2024 Season​

Indiana athletics announced on Sunday that tickets are no longer available for the final three games.

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StubHub released its annual College Football Season Preview today, which shows sales up 42% over the start of the 2023 season.
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Big 12 Week 8 Attendance Numbers: Five Games Eclipse 99% Capacity​

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The Fighting Illini football team recently had a sellout crowd of 60,670 against Kansas, which was the first sellout for the program since 2016.
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Week 3 of the college football season featured a handful of rivalry matchups on Saturday, including Oregon beating Oregon State 49-14 before 38,419 at Reser Stadium, a record since its remodel in 2023.
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Colorado State set a record for home game attendance with an announced crowd of 40,099 for their 28-9 loss to Colorado in the Rocky Mountain Showdown.
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Pitt defeated West Virginia 38-34 in the Backyard Brawl before more than 66,000 fans in Acrisure Stadium. The “spectacle of the event itself at times overshadowed the outcome.”
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Not in LA though in what was literally a "Big 10 Coast to Coast" contest between Rutgers & USC.

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USC Trojans' Shockingly-Empty Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Vs. Rutgers

The USC Trojans beat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Friday night 42-20. The crowd at the Los Angeles Coliseum was sparse on a late Friday night. Trojans Play Rutg
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Perhaps solid TV ratings. I made it to midway through the 2nd Quarter.
 

Ope3 said:
While it's still plausible that Indiana, Oregon & Penn St can all go unbeaten it still very difficult for me to "imagine" it will come to fruition.

The calendar is still October and there is a lot of football left, none of the 3 are even halfway through their Big 10 slate.

If they are still unbeaten by mid-November, then I could envision/imagine it.
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Nailed it. Penn St falling leaves just 2 Big 10 Unbeatens.
 



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