r/CFB • u/Thomallister1291 Oregon Ducks • Alabama Crimson Tide • 21h 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
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u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 18h 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.

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u/AdamGreenthumb Nebraska Cornhuskers • Orange Bowl 15h 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”