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There are only so many time slots to watch college football games.
To your point, if you think about it, even the most avid college football junkie can only watch 5 live games a week during the regular season based on current time slots. These time slots are Thursday night, Saturday: noon, 3:30, 7:30, 10:30. I will leave Wednesday and Friday out of this.
So, in a way, if you are competing with other conferences for viewership and want to reduce your own number of payouts, 5 games (10 teams) weekly is the key number. Anything after that, you are basically competing with yourself.
Now competing with yourself might not be a bad situation. Because there are plenty of fans who just follow their own team, and don't watch a ton of other games. If teams of rooting interests such as these have a large following, it can still pay off. Also, if you have two games to offer in the same time slot, the alternative game might have more of a national interest due to the week's standings and rankings.
That being said, conferences are probably already too large now. But I'm not sure how the trend can be reversed. And what is important in conference realignment in 2023, might not be important in 2025.
There's a lot of moving parts and the parts are quite fluid.
Thread Replies (19)
Virginia Tech's place in the new order of college football. Aim high 🔼🦃
-- Maroon Baboon
Dec 30, 2023 at 01:13 PM ET
Maroon Baboon
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12/30/23 01:13 PM ET
I think if VT goes to the B1G that it will be with other Southern schools
-- Maroon Baboon
Dec 31, 2023 at 10:31 PM ET
Maroon Baboon
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12/31/23 10:31 PM ET
MO law provides an incentive for recruits to sign in-state; VA should do
-- daveinop
Dec 30, 2023 at 08:10 PM ET
daveinop
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12/30/23 08:10 PM ET
I Think the Past Affects the Future
-- WarHog38
Dec 30, 2023 at 03:20 PM ET
WarHog38
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12/30/23 03:20 PM ET
There are only so many time slots to watch college football games.
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-- Maroon Baboon
Dec 30, 2023 at 03:47 PM ET
Maroon Baboon
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12/30/23 03:47 PM ET
With the money grabbing, I can foresee some CFB games on Friday nights
-- Marooned
Dec 31, 2023 at 07:31 PM ET
Marooned
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12/31/23 07:31 PM ET
True. And these same losers would complain if the NFL started snagging
-- Maroon Baboon
Dec 31, 2023 at 09:11 PM ET
Maroon Baboon
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12/31/23 09:11 PM ET
It is An Ever Evolving College Football Form
-- WarHog38
Dec 30, 2023 at 06:00 PM ET
WarHog38
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12/30/23 06:00 PM ET
I think were are and have been wide open, maybe not so much
-- VTCALS72
Dec 30, 2023 at 01:40 PM ET
VTCALS72
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12/30/23 01:40 PM ET
We are in much better shape to get into P2 than what you just summarized
-- Hokie83
Dec 30, 2023 at 01:45 PM ET
Hokie83
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12/30/23 01:45 PM ET
What can you share of the background stuff you mentioned?**
-- Hokie 04
Dec 30, 2023 at 07:38 PM ET
Hokie 04
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12/30/23 07:38 PM ET
Nothing at this point I can share**
-- Hokie83
Dec 30, 2023 at 09:57 PM ET
Hokie83
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12/30/23 09:57 PM ET
Is Big12 viewed as a better option by our Admin than left over ACC?**
-- Femoyer Hokie
Dec 31, 2023 at 07:16 AM ET
Femoyer Hokie
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12/31/23 07:16 AM ET
Depends on how many teams are left over I imagine.
-- Maroon Baboon
Dec 31, 2023 at 12:16 PM ET
Maroon Baboon
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12/31/23 12:16 PM ET
Have not heard anything on how they view Big 12
-- Hokie83
Dec 31, 2023 at 07:54 AM ET
Hokie83
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12/31/23 07:54 AM ET
Just win baby! Value for VT only goes up. So does the program’s options.
-- VTizzle
Dec 30, 2023 at 10:07 PM ET
VTizzle
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12/30/23 10:07 PM ET
I prefer Big Ten. I think we can compete in that conference though the
-- proudhokie2001
Dec 30, 2023 at 01:50 PM ET
proudhokie2001
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12/30/23 01:50 PM ET
I do also but would be ecstatic in either:)**
-- Hokie83
Dec 30, 2023 at 02:37 PM ET
Hokie83
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12/30/23 02:37 PM ET