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TKthunder2

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  1. Georgia fans travel. They may not all have tickets but lots of them here. Along with some douchbags from the Peach Bowl wearing jackets with a big peach logo.
  2. It’s fucking insane over here. So many people just around everywhere…
  3. For those interested the below our the guest pickers that have been in Austin (not counting Texas/Oklahoma games which have been either Mark Cuban or OU people) 2022-TCU Jordan Spieth 2022-Alabama Glenn Powell 2019-LSU Matthew McConaughey 2009-Tech Lance Armstrong
  4. He did it when Alabama came to town in 2022. They try not to repeat guest pickers too often.
  5. ABC’s deal with the SEC with Texas and Oklahoma has been a major hit for the network. They are routinely capturing 4+ million viewers across all three windows. Only OOC weeks 2&4 and aggy’s blowout of Mizzou failed to top 4 million. Last year ABC hitting 4 million across all windows was very rare and this year it’s more common than not. On the other side, viewership on CBS is down 33% through week 7. So far only Michigan/USC in week 4 topped the SEC game from the same week last year. CBS turned down the SEC tier one rights and ended up paying MORE money to the Big Ten for an inferior product. I find that amusing.
  6. Per the NCAA’s website the are 121 FBS/FCS matchups this year and this is twice the number as their were a decade ago. I’ll die on the hill. It’s shit football, it’s shit for ticket holders, fans, TV, players, FCS teams and basically everybody except coaches who pad their win totals and bank accounts. I don’t understand the push back. BAD football that brings in more money = Good GOOD football that brings in more money = Bad and I feel the same way about the NFL (though I don’t watch that nearly as much). Preseason NFL is dumb, limiting stupid preseason games is ideal, and making fans pay for that preseason games is a ripoff.
  7. First…never going stop, self righteous cunt for life bitch Texas doesn’t schedule FCS teams. Texas previously only scheduled 1 G5 team but moved to 2 and now 3 in the last few year which I do not enjoy. I do NOT watch these crappy FCS games (no one does, numbers validate this, NDSU/CU is the exception to this rule) and few watch G5 games. Bill Snyder and K State fucked this up. We’ve first hand with aggy bragging about their record of the last decade when they scheduled 3 easy wins to our 1. The world is not a vacuum, if K State does this then Iowa State does it, then Iowa, then Wisconsin, and then soon all the way to Ohio State. As long as people, recruits, sportswriters, and the committee put emphasis on records and bowls are easily accessible and coaches get bonuses for getting 6 wins it’s not going to organically stop. It would require new rules or regulations. The SEC saw this as a problem and passed a rule that all teams must play at least one power 5 opponent each year.
  8. How about one G5, one Big Ten, and one ACC/B12? Which is basically what we did 2012-2018…
  9. Yes! This would be far healthier for the sport. I’m not sure how this is even an argument. I find it funny that on the last page huck accused me of caring about how much money Texas and the SEC make, but then doc comes in and says we need more BAD football because these schools need more than 6 home game for…money…? It’s NOT healthy for the sport of college football to schedule like Ole Miss and Ohio State. Please explain how giving schools free wins so coaches can get bowl eligible to play in front of a half empty meaningless bowl game and get a bonus helps make this sport better. We’ve made fun of SEC cupcake week for YEARS, so why people are suddenly defending it? It bottles the mind.
  10. FBS top 25 Ranked teams versus FCS teams just this year in the 1st three weeks of the season: Oregon played Idaho Ole Miss played Furman Tennessee played Chattanooga Iowa played Illinois State Mizzou played Murray State LSU played Nicholls State Miami played Florida A&M Georgia played Tennessee Tech Nebraska played Northern Iowa This is pathetic. End of argument.
  11. Yes, again when have I ever said we shouldn’t play Rice? I said ban FCS games and limit G5 games to 2 max. That is what Texas has been doing during its worst years. I’m not sure how this is controversial. I, and every Texas fan should be embarrassed if we ever scheduled like Ohio State has this year.
  12. I posted the schedule from 1999 for Texas above. The Bill Snyder K State scheduling bullshit is bullshit. For years Texas has only had 6 home games. TV revenue is at an all time high, the argument for that 7th or 8th game is dumb. It not a financial issue, it’s coaches trying to pad their stats for bonus money. Let’s schedule pointless games at the beginning of the season so we can play in a pointless bowl game at the end of the season. This is what is wrong with college football.
  13. Funny how this used to work without body bag FCS game when less money was involved…
  14. Who said this? I said stop playing FCS and have more scheduling with other P5 schools. I didn’t even say to stop scheduling G5s but to simply limit them so they are not a Majority of their OOC slate.
  15. People like me lol. 1. These are not fun football games to watch. I can prove that with numbers. 2. I don’t care about the money. It doesn’t go into my pocket. I do care about the direction of the sport that is distinctly driven by said money. I would much rather do away with FCS games and sub in more power 4 matches which drive revenue than go to the nuclear option and have a full breakaway. For every App State v Michigan example of FCS game you have 100 other boring games versus Furman. 3. Fuck TV executives/advertisers but they do pay for what people want to see, which is big time games. Texas v Michigan, Oregon v Ohio State, LSU v USC, Bama v Georgia. This is the type of content I, and most on here, would prefer to see rather than NIU/ND. Easy solution to fix this: Ban FCS games for P4 teams. Make 9 conference games a standard. Require a scheduling agreement between the SEC/Big Ten for a 10th game (and Big12/ACC). Require an 11th P4 game outside of the scheduling agreement (possibly waiver for good G5 teams like Boise State or Army/Navy) The problem I have is with people that want to pretend that college football is great just the way it is, because it definitely is NOT. The Longhorn’s out of conference schedule in 1999 was Rice, Stanford, Rutgers, and NCSU. This year it was Colorado St, ULM, UTSA, and Michigan. I see this schedule outside of Michigan as a problem, but you see these as “fun football games to watch” and that is concerning to me.
  16. The only way this happens is if you can supplement the lost income. Most likely more people will tune into watch the P4 CCG than will watch the first round playoff games in the aggregate. So it just doesn’t seem likely. I think instead of getting rid of automatic seedlings, they open top 4 seeding to all CCG participants. SEC/Big Ten champs will likely always be top 4 but Big 12/ACC would have to earn it over the losers from the SEC/Big Ten. This also continues to keep out Notre Dame and gives the loser of a CCG the ability to still get an advantage over a close #3. This makes it possible for the SEC/Big Ten to take all four spots, but unlikely as the loser would have another loss compared to the winners of the Big 12/ACC. So if you’re undefeated until your CCG and lose should you really be ranked behind a 2 or 3 loss team that pulled an upset in a weaker conference? Should a two loss K State get a bye over a one loss Georgia or Ohio State?
  17. “It’s all worth it” means what? Because these games are nearly worthless and when one of these hits, they bring in no additional money, so what is it “worth”? Networks and advertisers know most people don’t watch. This is just like upsets in march madness, they are fun to talk and write about because we love misery for teams like Notre Dame, but that does NOT make these games valuable. Fun to talk about afterwards does NOT translate to more money. Texas v Colorado State was on ESPN and Ohio State v Marshall was on FOX. Clearly there are NOT enough “good” matchups to fill a TV schedule.
  18. Not sure it will be much of an increase when they get their new contract in 2026.
  19. They already did I believe. As long as you travel to Hawaii.
  20. Yep weird miscount on my part- Colorado leaving and coming back messed with my thinking on it as I was counting them twice and I guess I was including another somehow as well. 17 we hold winning all time record over-Nebraska, Mizzou, Oklahoma, aggy, UCF, Iowa St, Kansas, K State, Okie St, Houston, TCU, Baylor, Tech, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Arizona St 1 we split with - West Virginia 1 we’ve never played - Cincinnati 1 we having a losing record against- BYU
  21. We hold all time scoreboard on 19 of them. We are .500 with West Virginia (6-6) and have a losing record to BYU (2-4) thanks to playing them in the 80’s and 2010’s (Mack’s last year and Strong’s first year).
  22. I watch all college football but it has been nice to not care about them since no one in or around our state is worth watching. Going off memory here… TCU beat Stanford early but lost to Houston and SMU and it isn’t looking pretty. Baylor has lost every game of consequence so far. Tech lost to Wazzu, nearly lost to ACU, but is so far undefeated in conference play though I don’t think they’ve played anyone significant yet. Okie State beat Arkansas but hasn’t won a conference game. Their old QB looks pedestrian and Ollie Gordon lost millions by not going in the draft last year because he looks unimpressive. K State got upset by BYU (who is undefeated and ranked) but has a few solid wins. BYU has that one win but nothing else really. Undefeated/ranked Iowa State finally beat Iowa and got a validation win against WVU. Kansas, Arizona, UCF, and Utah were all expected to be above average to good this year but aren’t. Cam Rising is injured again at Utah. I can’t tell you anything about Cincy and Arizona State (other than they beat Mississippi State) and have no idea how they are doing in conference play. And Colorado is better than last year but is still an incomplete team being carried by some very talented players. You can not like the way it’s being done but it’s getting results. They lost to the two best teams they’ve played in K State and Nebraska, squeaked out victories against Baylor and NDSU, but they demolished Colorado State and UCF. They should make a bowl this year and finish with 7 wins (plus or minus one). And that’s all I can really tell you about the Big 12 which is about the same amount I could tell you about the Big Ten, less than the SEC, and more than the ACC or G5.
  23. Aligned? No. Having to play Kansas and Iowa State every fucking year? Absolutely yes. The old Big 12 limited our exposure to those teams. Then when it went to a 9 game schedule we lost the best 3 schools in the North in Nebraska, Colorado, and Mizzou and then had to play the ones we least cared about (and West Virginia) EVERY FUCKING YEAR. Add in swapping aggy for TCU and our schedule became a giant turd sandwich. If you could have had swapped Baylor and Iowa State for Arkansas and LSU the Big 12 would have been damn near perfect.
  24. I stopped using stubhub. They don’t seem to give a shit about the buyer so fuck’em. Seatgeek has been better, plus I enjoy that I can see the price with the fees included. That really helps especially when you’re buying ticket for a group of people and trying to talk about prices, having the full face value is extremely convenient.
  25. I would rather we do a thread each year versus having one gigantic never ending mega thread.
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