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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 5037240, member: 860"]
I love the idea of regional divisions and the restoration of regional rivalries within an overarching "Super League".  Basically taking college football back to what it once was.  But I don't think that will ever happen.

The whole idea is predicated on the top echelon of college football agreeing to expanded access and a level playing field, and they don't want that.  Their goal isn't just more money for themselves...it's more money for themselves [I]at the expense of everyone else.[/I] They're going to cannibalize the sport and consume all of the resources that the mid-level teams now receive.  So they won't ever sign on to any plan that maintains or expands the number of teams with a seat at the table, because in their view fewer mouths to feed means more food for them.

As far as having reached "peak media value" for college football, I tend to agree.  I don't agree, though, that flat or reduced TV revenue will drive the landscape toward the "Super League".  Instead, I think the next step will be that media contracts plateau and, in their desire for more money at the expense of others, the SEC/B1G will start to jettison the bottom tier teams.  Pushing out teams like Rutgers and Vandy will give the top tier teams more revenue even if the TV contracts stagnate.  I don't think that means kicking teams out of the existing conferences.  I think it means the top teams leaving the B1G/SEC to start their own league/conference.

Eventually it will be a 20-24 team league that only plays itself, and it will be NFL Lite.  We will not be a part of that.  The other 100-110 D1A teams will constitute what has always been "College Football".  That's where we end up.

I don't like it, and maybe I'm too pessimistic, but that's what I see.
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