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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4111974, member: 1145"]
There is a huge difference between hockey as a regional sport and CFB as a regional sport. College football is worth at least100 times what college hockey is worth.

People outsdde the South also watch CFB regularly and widely. The per capita rate in the midwest is not a high as in the South, but the numbers are basically the same.

The problem for CFB nationally from a Syracuse vantage is that starting no later than the 1970s, people in the northeast began tuning out again, as they had when the Ivy League and Army became small timers. I think a key part of that was that there never had been a Major conference in the region. And by the time anybody began to fear the implications, things were too far gone to ever have a halfway decent and important conference made up of just schools in the northeast. The Big East with only northeastern schools could not have survived to now even if PSU had joined. BE football, to be worth much, required multiple schools outside the northeast: WVU, VT, Miami, Notre Dame.

Starting BE was nothing more than a stop gap to try to save BE basketball.

The fans are just not in the northeast, but that does not mean that CFB has even a slightly less profitable future coming.
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