A new and better FBS thread

[The_Sicatoka]

Remember when the B1G said no more FCS games (and has since softened)?

Now the ACC is saying "no" to ... G5 games.

Coming off a year in which the ACC played 10 road games at non-Power 5 opponents — and lost three of them — schools received new guidance from the league office: Don’t.

While the nonconference portions of the schedules to be released Monday are often set years if not decades in advance, the ACC has asked schools to schedule most, if not all, of their future nonconference road games at either Power 5 teams or Army.

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/...#storylink=cpy

[ByeSonBusiness]

Remember when the B1G said no more FCS games (and has since softened)?

Now the ACC is saying "no" to ... G5 games.



Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/...#storylink=cpy

No G5 road games is very distinct from no G5 games.

[El_Chapo]

time to get this FBS bus moving

[taper]

No G5 road games is very distinct from no G5 games.

It's also just the commissioner asking members. Not binding in any way.

[The_Sicatoka]

No G5 road games is very distinct from no G5 games.

True, but you see the ACC view of G5: They may come and serve us but we shall not sully ourselves by visiting them.

[daddy daycare]

time to get this FBS bus moving

Should we gather and protest outside the offices.

[BigHorns]

True, but you see the ACC view of G5: They may come and serve us but we shall not sully ourselves by visiting them.

That is honestly the P5 view in general. They see themselves above G5.
ACC took some losses to the SBC last year, so now this is the reaction.

When you do see P5 play at a G5, most of the time it is at the larger stadiums that can seat 30-40k+, not a 20k one.
UNC at App St last year had about 35k attendance.

P5 would prefer to have all G5 games at home. They view G5 games about the same as FCS buy games.
There has also been talk of increasing the number of conference games in the B1G so they don't play as many G5 teams.

An ideal P5 schedule (in their mind) would be 11 P5 games, and one weak G5 buy game as a warmup.

[MWC]

I see the P5 as above G5 too. I would prefer all our OOC games at home, as well. I would be delighted to never play an FCS school again. However, nothing is fair and none of this is easy. The folks with the big money dictate policy.

[BigHorns]

I see the P5 as above G5 too. I would prefer all our OOC games at home, as well. I would be delighted to never play an FCS school again. However, nothing is fair and none of this is easy. The folks with the big money dictate policy.

True, and most of those policies are engineered to keep the big money teams entrenched. Whether that's the Portal and NIL, or scheduling, or CFP. It is all designed to favor the Georgia, Bama, and OSU's of FBS.

There's a lot more parity in FCS, and a team like Incarnate Word has legitimate hopes of being the champion some day. FIU and SHSU do not.

All of this in my mind is why it's critical to join the *right* fbs conference, not just any conference.
The teams in your conference are the only games you are guaranteed to play, and that competition will impact both how the team is perceived and the level of competition. AAC or MWC would give us some great games. Far less so anywhere else.

[MWC]

Here is a excerpt from the Athletic from a piece about new MW Commissioner, Gloria Nevarez...Though the article is mostly about where the MW is now it does have this blurb. wicker is from SDSU.

“If an opportunity comes to anyone to elevate, no one is going to say no,” Wicker said. “We’ll continue to be the best San Diego State we can be and see where that leads up. We’ll work with Gloria and the Mountain West to make sure we’re being the best partner to everyone we can be.”

What the Mountain West does in response depends on what happens. If it loses one or multiple teams, does it need replacements? There aren’t many geographic fits in the FBS outside of UTEP or New Mexico State in Conference USA. North Dakota State is one of the most successful teams at any level of football, with nine FCS national championships in the past 12 years, and it has prepared itself for an FBS move if the right fit comes. South Dakota State just beat NDSU in the FCS championship game and is amid its best football run in school history, and Montana and Montana State have winning football traditions, though their athletic budgets are far below current MWC teams.

A year ago, after pushing back a raid attempt by the AAC, the Mountain West considered expanding into Texas to add FBS schools like North Texas, UTSA or Rice from Conference USA. Some administrators in the MWC, speaking on the condition of anonymity, wanted to do it, but the league presidents decided not to expand. That was in part because individual schools would have made less television money by dividing the pie more ways, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Athletic at the time. Those Texas schools instead moved to the AAC. The MWC administrators who wanted to get into Texas still see it as a missed opportunity, especially if the MWC loses teams.