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Again…the only good thing is that we likely monopolize that time slot and can get some decent TV ratings as a result.
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Ugh. I was gonna go to that, but this makes it substantially more challenging.
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At least this is a road game. Would suck if they moved another home game to Friday.
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So we now have 3 Friday games, and 2 of them are flanking Bye week 1. The other leads into Bye week 2.
Please dont bump the TCU game to Friday.
That many Friday games gives me CUSA and AAC vibes.
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And a Thursday home game vs SFA…
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Yeah. They’re treating this like two g5 schools going at it.
That’s 4 non Saturday games, right? Ugh
the quality of our team gives me C-USA vibes.
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I think as long as we go 6-6, everyone will be happy.
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This can be how 
can once again become nationally relevant…playing and winning multiple national TV 
games each season. 
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Don’t kid yourself, this is how the TV networks will slowly make the big 12 irrevelent . The push is for the Big10 and SEC to “be” college football and the portal will help make it happen as the big12 and ACC will become farm clubs !!
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Doesn’t the Big Ten play conference games every Friday also? It’s called TV getting the most out of their money they pay these conferences.
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Yes, but the recent merry go round added more P4 schools not less.
The club became less exclusive.
Washington State and Oregon State were demoted but Houston, SMU, BYU, UCF & Cincinnati were promoted.
They have to air their P4 brands somewhere
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But you are forgetting that other schools that used to be in power conferences have dropped down prior to that.
USF, Temple, Rice, UConn, Oregon State, Wazzu, all used to be in major conferences.
No longer.
They have been replaced by UH, Cincy, BYU, UCF, and SMU.
Net loss of one in major conference teams since I was a kid.
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Those were demoted way into the BCS era and were still G# when the 4 school playoff was implemented and before the TV contract $$$ really created the conference class hierarchy
Nobody is confusing a Rice…or a Temple…or a Tulane…or a lucky USF with a P4 brand
That’s a simplistic view. Obviously you’re going back to at least 1996. Let’s go back to 1990.
FSU, Miami, WVU, Utah, and Louisville were added to major conferences.
UConn, Temple, and USF were added and removed.
TCU, SMU, and UH were removed and added.
Cincy was added, removed, and added
How do you count those with multiple moves? Is UH really a true addition since we were in a major conference like Rice?
Oh yeah, I know.
It’s just that, in the end, only two teams, maybe three: UCF, BYU, and Utah truly moved up to the power ranks that had previously never been there.
There are actually more teams (Wazzu, Oregon State, Temple, Rice) that had long been big time and now no longer are.
And some that went down, then up again (UH, Cincy, SMU, TCU).
And some that went up and then down again (UConn, USF).
Overall the total number of big time conference teams hasn’t changed much.
As for FSU, Miami, and WVU, they were all MAJOR independents.
They were always big time, just not always in a conference. So joining a conference was a wash.
Louisville arguably went down to CUSA/AAC, then up again.
That might be the only one I left out.
If so, net zero.
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I think what realignment has really done is kill off the “strong” g5 conferences.
Back when TCU, BYU, SDSU, and Utah (and Boise state for a year) were in the same conference it was a really good conference that competed with the Big East and p5 schools in general.
The same could be said for the AAC. UCF, Cincy, SMU, and Houston leaving killed the conference for all intents and purposes.
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