The Blue Board

UVA was listed, but much lower than I expected. Schools were grouped as Tier 1 and Tier 2. UVA was in Tier 2 with schools like Syracuse, Pitt, BC and Mizzou. Tier 1 had UNC, Duke, GT and Miami.

I don't believe the numbers at the end are random.

88 is the last year MSU played in a BCS game.

93 is probably the year you were born.

7 is what George Costanza wanted to name his kid.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.

What's happening to CFB now is the same as what happened to hockey in the early 90's. That was a beautiful sport prior to all the unnecessary tinkering done by the greed heads at the top trying to milk the sport for more money.

NHL blows these days, it's a completely watered down version of the sport now.

All the B10 is doing is complete dilution. You can add any team you want, it isn't going to improve the season in any shape or form.

Idk. I think the hand-wringing is overblown. Seriously, what's the difference between playing 8 B10 opponents plus 1 high profile OOC AQ opponent plus 3 meh baby seals (2 of which usually are just a regular rotation of the same MAC teams over and over) and playing 9 B10 opponents (1 of which is UMD, RU, UNC or GT) plus 1 high profile OOC AQ team plus 2 meh baby seals?

They're entirely different situations. And FWIW the NFL has expanded and reorganized its divisions multiple times and is doing fine. The NHL has always had issues. Hockey is a niche sport, yet the NHL acts like it's as mainstream as football, basketball and baseball. It's not. People in Florida and Texas and California and Georgia couldn't care less about it and that has nothing to do with reorganizing divisions.

There is no factual basis for that statement. New Jersey and Maryland are not materially different than the rest of the country when it comes to sports. Neither has ever had an instate powerhouse college football program to root for, but there is no reason to think they would act any differently than residents of most other states if they did. In every sport, fanbases are significantly energized by winning. Just like Oregon and BSU and Louisville, if Rutgers and UMD start winning they will have plenty of local fans. And just like Syracuse and Pitt and even Miami, if they fail to put a winning product on the field the fans will stop showing up. Football, unlike hockey, is a national sport.

Army. Syracuse. Harvard. Princeton. Where do you think college football came from? It's simply a question of having a winning program. What is the size of Autzen Stadium in Oregon? How about Stanford's stadium? Do they not play good football? Would the addition of Stanford and Oregon to the B10 be equally stupid if they were geographically contiguous? And if we are going by stadium size, you might as well dump half of the teams currently in the B10. Most are under 65,000 and they don't come close to filling them up. Show me a winning program and I will show you a full stadium and strong TV ratings. It has nothing to do with what state you are in.

Granted. But there used to be and those teams were among the most popular in the country. And today there are plenty of winning HS programs. And plenty of winning NFL franchises. People in the NE love football as much as the rest of the country. They just need winning teams to root for, like the rest of us. If Rutgers and UMD languish in the bottom half of the B10, they will be no more popular than Purdue or Minnesota or Indiana football. But if they are competitive on a regular basis, they will have plenty of fans.

It's part of Jim Delaney's plot of returning to the Big 2 little 8.

What did I get wrong? Branden? tRCMB worried he's transfering to UM and will be eligible second semester next year?

Minutes from their NBA team next year?

3___ is so good, he'll get 'em both in.