Has your interest/viewership of B10 and SEC games decreased?
For me, I haven't tuned into a single game where I would typically watch several. The dynamic that secured my eyeballs were conference battles, as it was always larger than "the teams".
I could care less if USC or Michigan win anymore - as it's all the same "Big10 entity".
I don't care about any of the Texas vs SEC games. Auburn and Oklahoma - could care less where I would have had a rooting interest previously.
Even the OOC matchup of UCLA and LSU doesn't matter much, as I see the Big10 and SEC just 1 big super-league.
** Edited by jesuisvtguy at 9/30/2024, 3:05:33 PM
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TDVick
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when the conferences were smaller. But now, winning the conference DOES get you a bye into the top 4, which is good.
It is starting to look more like to old 1-AA playoff model, which I thought was excellent.
Minuses - regular season doesn't matter.
Pluses - the playoff is much better. We don't have to watch an undeserving ND team get slaughtered.
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"Living in Knoxville it's tough to stomach seeing SEC everywhere I turn.
My interest in football overall has been declining for a few years. The way the landscape has changed my interest is at an all time low.
I would really enjoy watching games of regional/Big East/ACC interest over the years but I don't know if anything can save that now."
I didn't watch any of the game Saturday night. I'll also add with the stoppages during game play/broadcast along with injustices with replay its taken away some of the watchability for me.
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plenty of other things to do to occupy my time. If I'm somewhere and a game is on (like at a bar), sure, I'll give the game(s) that are on some attention. But if it doesn't involve VT, I just don't have an interest anymore. Never thought I'd say that, but the way NCAA sports has eaten its own and become a professional league, I just don't care about it. I'd rather spend my time watching NFL
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daveinop
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and an occasional big game like Bama/UGA Watch pretty much zero B1G
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I85Hokie
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The most that is mathematically possible. And I’m kind of rooting for it to happen, just to emphasize what a joke college football has become.
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Stech
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I rarely watch a game from start to finish. I don’t really care about the Conference so much as I do if it’s a good rivalry, the SEC has expanded that, the B1G has reduced that, so I watch them less recently.
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Increasingly I'd rather just merge 7-8 ACC programs into the Big 12.
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Just a perennial wannabe. Its Bama, Georgia and now Texas's league... sorry but that will the day this changes.
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what they are doing is working. Think I saw the ESPN Gameday ratings are higher than they have been in a few years
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Fun of watching. NFL just bores the s**t out of me.
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Then again, I'm not the target audience as I didn't attend or a fan of any teams of either league.
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I doubt I’ve watched a single ACC game.
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FSU/SMU blowout.
I couldn’t care less about B1G football but I still follow the SEC.
When I was growing up in Scott County most of the football fans from Wythe County westward were Tennessee fans. Frankly I was disappointed when VT joined the ACC thus dashing my hopes the Hokies would join the SEC.
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ren_hoek
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I hate Bama and UGA, so why watch a game in which I'm guaranteed to be unhappy with the outcome?
These exclusionary tactics of the SEC, B1G, and TV networks are repulsive and unethical. A pox on their house for what they've done to college athletics.
I'd be ok with the ACC and B12 separating and playing with STUDENT athletes and having meaningful regional rivalries without the orgy of greed.
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schools in the ACC and B12 are going to find quality players willing to play for free.
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and don't really care what conference it comes from. I ignore the noise and love the game.
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EDGEMAN
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I'll tune in occasionally to see what's going on like the Bama vs UGA game this weekend.
I generally only watch VT games, and occasionally other ACC games if a future opponent is playing, but I don't put much effort into watching everything. (But I will constantly flip through the channels to see how games are progressing...)
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almost as much of a fan of college ball as I am. Otherwise, unless they are playing a team from another conference (not the SEC), I'll watch the score, but will not turn the game on.
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I might tune in if a game has a really close ending. But otherwise I just don’t care anymore.
And part of that is the fault of VT. If we were still relevant then I might care about how other competitors do each week. But P2 + bad VT = me not caring or watching other games.
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Vippie1
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watch more NFL and less college football. And no reason to believe that trend will ever reverse.
college football used to have a soul, but now it is the most compromised and phoniest competition of any significant team sport.
** Edited by Vippie1 at 9/30/2024, 3:14:09 PM
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definitely more into the NFL over the past few years. Doesn't hurt that the Commies seem to have the Kwisatz Haderach at QB
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NFL-Lite but with lower quality.
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HouClone
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is because I will watch a Big 10 or SEC team late in the year as it relates to playoff possibilities for other conferences.
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