2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Hongbit]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Touchdown Jesus is entering the portal. 

 

All of Notre Dame’s problems have the same cause.   They insist on being independent in a system where you need alignment.    Join the Big Ten and get everything gets better. 

It’s got to be an ego thing at this point because the money doesn’t even make sense.  They get $50M from NBC yet the Big Ten is expected to give out $75M.  

[CMRivdogs]

Maybe if Notre Dame would actually fully align themselves with the ACC along with playing tougher teams on non conference days.....

 

 

Never Happen. For the ACC reason alone they should be shut out of the playoff picture. 

[Deleterious]

17 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

All of Notre Dame’s problems have the same cause.   They insist on being independent in a system where you need alignment.    Join the Big Ten and get everything gets better. 

It’s got to be an ego thing at this point because the money doesn’t even make sense.  They get $50M from NBC yet the Big Ten is expected to give out $75M.  

You're not really comparing similar numbers there.  The $75 million represents the total payout from the conference.  Majority of it is probably TV/Media money, but it also includes ticket revenue sharing, bowl revenue sharing, etc.  The $50 million is straight TV/Media money for ND.  

[Hongbit]

9 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

You're not really comparing similar numbers there.  The $75 million represents the total payout from the conference.  Majority of it is probably TV/Media money, but it also includes ticket revenue sharing, bowl revenue sharing, etc.  The $50 million is straight TV/Media money for ND.  

The Big Ten doesn’t share any ticket revenue.    Schools keep all their gameday money.  The same is true with individual licensing for clothing and other logo merchandise.   The $75M is from media rights, bowl payouts and NCAA tournament payouts.  That’s mainly it.  

Even if they ND are keeping bowl and tournament money for themselves, they are still many millions short of a current B10 share

[Deleterious]

In Big Ten Conference, they split the gate

Bit old, but I don't see anything saying they changed this.

 

[4hzglory]

51 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Maybe if Notre Dame would actually fully align themselves with the ACC along with playing tougher teams on non conference days.....

 

 

Never Happen. For the ACC reason alone they should be shut out of the playoff picture. 

If they were aligned with the ACC, their strength of schedule would have been significantly worse as they would have played 8 ACC games instead of 6 and the ACC teams were the weakest teams on their schedule (except Miami)

They played 2 SEC teams, lost to A&M by 1 on a botched XP and beat Arkansas worse than any other SEC team.  If they were fully in the ACC it's doubtful they play either.  

 

I honestly have no issue with Miami being ahead of them in the end (even if i don't agree).  It's the fact that 5 weeks ago they and Miami both were 6-2 and ND was ranked 8 spots ahead of MIami with the game one on the record.  Since then they played 4 games.  ND won by an average of 38 pts, Miami by 27.5.  2 were common opponents and ND had greater margin of victory.  What in those 5 weeks caused MIami to gain 9 spots on ND?

 

My biggest issue is with Alabama not dropping at all after getting destroyed by Georgia.  IMO ND & Miami should have been in and Alabama out as every other team that lost a championship game dropped at least 2 spots if the game wasn't close.

Edited 39 minutes ago by 4hzglory

[gehringer_2]

33 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

In Big Ten Conference, they split the gate

Bit old, but I don't see anything saying they changed this.

 

yeah, I looked this up recently too. It's not quite like it was back in the 10 team days - then it was a pure 50/50 on the gate, but today there are some caps and the other good question I didn't find the answer to is whether seat licensing fees are part of the 'gate'. I sort of doubt it even though they are a major source of overall ticket revenue. It still a better payday for any of the cupcakes than they could get at home.

Edited 33 minutes ago by gehringer_2

[CMRivdogs]

17 minutes ago, 4hzglory said:

If they were aligned with the ACC, their strength of schedule would have been significantly worse as they would have played 8 ACC games instead of 6 and the ACC teams were the weakest teams on their schedule (except Miami)

 

Notre Dame's strength of schule was about the same as Miami's. (42 vs 44). Miami's margin of victory was better against 3 of the 4 common opponents against Miami. Their margin against Syracuse was significantly better.

After all that I'm tickled that JMU got in...