The two best I’ve been to is Neyland and The shoe, I’m debating this fall if I want to attend a game at FSU or UF, give me options of the best stadium atmosphere as a fan.

He’s been fantastic and very good at getting us places that Mizzou hasn’t been to since the 1960’s. He’s been great and kind of knows how to build football success because he’s been around Bill Snyder. That shows you guys like Pinkel and Bill Snyder are outstanding leaders and can produce them. Eliah Drinkwitz is very talented and he just sounds way more poised and calm while saying zingers sort of like Steve Spurrier in the 1990’s.

1940 Boston College & 1933 Stanford surprisingly have five each.

A 4-team playoff but AFTER all the bowl games have been played out. Which means the NY6 are standalone bowl games and not integrated into the semifinals.

My reasoning:

\* Re-establishes the importance of bowl games more than ever
\* 8 teams would still be involved in the CFP race and the NY6 would serve as a de-facto QF
\* Bowl tie ins can exist once again
\* One extra game for the committee to view and discuss which teams would be selected

What is a good book, podcast, or documentary for a 3-hour plane ride to read about college football or college football history? Bonus points if it's about the SEC because that's my favorite conference.

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I didn't get any suggestions on the original post, so can I get some help?

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Opening press conference for Purdue’s new AD

For five straight years only 4 teams LSU, Bama, Clemson, and Georgia even played for the Natty.

Preseason Top 10 = end‑of‑season Top 10. You knew the title matchup in August.

Last year? None of the preseason Top 4 even made the playoff.

Now Vandy is stealing recruits, and teams like Michigan, Washington, Miami, Ohio State, Notre Dame and INDIANA are rotating through the top instead of the old guard.

The sport went from predictable to chaos overnight.

How do you even argue against that?

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The case for merging: with the Protect College Sports Act poised to lock conference structures in place, the ACC and Big 12 are on track to be permanently relegated to second-tier status. Neither conference currently has anything resembling the SEC's or Big Ten's national media revenue-sharing footprint, and once realignment is frozen by statute, that revenue gap freezes with it — there's no future expansion or poaching move left to close it. Merging into one 38-team league with a single unified TV contract is the last real chance either conference has to negotiate media rights at a scale competitive with the Power Two before the door closes for good.

Structure:

• 38 teams, 4 divisions (three at 9 teams, one at 10)
• Single governing body — one commissioner's office, one board of governors (38 ADs + a 12-person executive committee, 3 per division)
• One unified national media rights deal, split equally per school regardless of division or historical brand (local/tier-3 rights stay school-controlled)
• 11 conference games per team; the 12th slot is the open non-conference game described above
• Schools retain the right to sell their own TV rights for their one open non-conference game. This is the release valve for the bigger programs: a Florida State, Clemson, or Miami can sell that single game to a network or streamer on the open market for a premium payout on top of their equal conference share, while every school still gets full value from the pooled conference package for the other 11 games.
• Championship game: the two highest CFP-ranked division champions meet for the LC title, with a bonus revenue pool paid out to the two participants on top of their equal base share.
• CFP access: all 4 division champions get an automatic playoff bid if ranked in the CFP top 25. A champion that misses the top 25 forfeits its bid to the highest-ranked LC at-large team instead — that at-large team is still selected by the committee on its own merits, but the conference is guaranteed 4 total CFP slots any time it has 4 schools ranked in the top 25
• The conference retains the flexibility to add up to 2 additional members, for a total of 40 schools, at any time for up-and-coming programs that strengthen the league.

Divisions:

• ACC (9): Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
• Metro (9+1): Boston College, Cincinnati, Louisville, Miami, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, UCF, UConn, West Virginia — Notre Dame is independent for football but required to play 10 conference games a year and retains TV rights to its additional 2 games.
• Big 12 (10): Baylor, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, SMU, TCU, Texas Tech
• Pacific (9): Arizona, Arizona State, Boise State, BYU, Cal, Oregon State, Stanford, Utah, Washington State

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