ESPN Should Apply Mid-Major B-Ball Approach to Football

Spurred by increased media coverage, some talent dilution at top programs from players leaving school, and a run of NCAA tournament upsets mid-major hype hit new levels in college basketball the past decade. It led to an increased national platform, more money, improved recruiting, and overall, a more level playing field with the big boys. [...]

Versus Needs Big Football Splash

If any doubts remained, football’s booming start on television leaves no doubt that it is arguably the most dominant television franchise. The NFL was up across the board during its first week, even more telling it’s meaningless preseason games ranked near the top of the weekly primetime ratings. The buck doesn’t stop with the NFL [...]

Create the College Football MLB Stadium Tour

The NHL crafted a regular season event with the Winter Classic, MLB and the NBA have All-Star games, the NFL and MLB have taken the show on the road to play overseas, college football has an opportunity to ratchet things up in the regular season that has started to take form.
Grant it college football has [...]

Essence of SEC New Media Policy What Content Owners Need

The SEC partnered with XOS Technologies last month to form the SEC Digital Network, and the conference didn’t execute the deal for charity purposes – they intend to generate revenue, potentially lots of it. Put aside the mega 15-year television rights packages with ESPN and CBS Sports, the SEC, as many major college conferences do, [...]

Business of Yankee Stadium: College Football Good, Open-Air Bad

The new ballpark in the Bronx will rekindle one lost tradition from the old Stadium, when it hosts a college football game in 2010, the first at Yankee Stadium in what will be 23 years. Army-Notre Dame will carry the flag, not exactly a 1 vs. 2 match-up, but two teams steeped in tradition with [...]

College Football Kickoff: An Old Idea Rekindled

Atlanta is the unofficial home to this weekend’s College Football Kickoff between Clemson and Alabama. It’s the first year of an idea the CMO of the Chick-Fil-A Bowl hopes to turn into an annual weekend long event in the coming years. So far, so good. Many experts say it’s the toughest ticket in Atlanta sports [...]

CBS Makes Fantasy Breakthrough Amid Controversy

CBS Sports will unveil the first College Football fantasy game this season using actual player names. The NCAA they oppose CBS’ decision in no uncertain terms, which makes for interesting bedfellows since CBS holds a lucrative college basketball television contract with the NCAA, plus broadcast with multiple college football conferences.
Opponents argue using the names violates [...]

No Playoff, More Bowl Games – Where’s the Logic?

Last week’s meeting of the minds between the 11 NCAA Division 1-A football commissioners, and Notre Dame’s AD Kevin White, ended with no changes to the flawed system for determining college football’s national champion. The consensus is, well, there is no consensus on how to do it. The sport continues to thrive, two distinct television [...]

BCS Unlikely to Change

Despite rumblings earlier this season of a Plus-One, or even playoff format proposal to determine college football’s champion, all indications are the current BCS system will remain in tact for at least another season.
Multiple roadblocks continue to stall any proposed changes, notably the separate Rose Bowl contract with the Pac 10 and Big 10 [...]

Rutgers-UConn: Who Wins in Notre Dame Football Debate?

Earlier this week UConn reached an agreement with Connecticut state legislators that allows the Huskies to enter a six-game football series against Notre Dame from 2011-2017 with the three Connecticut “home games” staged at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, or Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. The agreement scales down the original 10-game package where [...]