r/CFB • u/Thomallister1291 Oregon Ducks • Alabama Crimson Tide • 1d ago

News [Pete Thamel] Per sources, the amount Fox is expected to get back for the cancellation of the Big Ten title game, which it owns the television rights to, is estimated in the $50 million range annually.

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2111241297298387030
1.5k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

726 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/SlamDunkly Oregon Ducks 1d ago edited 1d ago

Personally I don’t give a shit about CCGs and am glad to see them gone. They’ve always felt tacked on, and I hate rematches in CFB. Not to mention, I don’t really feel like CCGs even do a good job of crowning a champion in the super conference era.

I know a lot of SEC fans feel differently though, which makes sense because they’ve been around for longer. Oregon has only even been eligible for CCGs for like, 15 years?

13

u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 1d ago

CCGs aren’t needed at all if the conferences are small enough to do a round robin.

Once you get slightly larger (~12-14 teams) it makes sense to break into two divisions and have a CCG. Those are actually sensible and align with a valuable regular season.

16-18 teams with no divisions though? CCGs are just stupid in that scenario. There’s far too much schedule luck that feeds into who goes to the CCG. If you want to do a conference championship with bloated, divisionless conferences then you need to have a four-team bracket at least. Otherwise just do away with them.

2

u/AdamGreenthumb Nebraska Cornhuskers • Orange Bowl 23h ago

The only way out is for the conferences to get so big that regional rivalries become divisional games. These feed into a conference playoff where the champions play in some sort of bowl. This bowl game will be so good, it will need a sponsor and a superlative. “The Kalshi Super Bowl”

2

u/muttonchops215 Ohio State Buckeyes • Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago

The problem always was the extra revenue from them gave an advantage. As a result, it forced the Big Ten to add another, and the Pac 10 as well. Sadly, it should have stopped there but apparently Nebraska moving to the Big 10 was causation for the SEC to add A&M and Mizzou.....and then the constant one upmanship from there.

1

u/AdamGreenthumb Nebraska Cornhuskers • Orange Bowl 23h ago

I’ve only been able to trace one through thread in college football throughout the years. Eventually Texas destroys whatever conference it is in.

1

u/thePublicCap 13h ago

For scale: if Fox getting back around $50M a year is a decent proxy for what the game was worth, split 18 ways that's roughly $2.8M per Big Ten school a year. That's about 13% of the ~$21.6M each school can pay its players under the House cap this year. Real money, but not the thing that decides who's rich.