(12-17-2021 01:10 PM)bucfan81 Wrote:  

(12-17-2021 12:52 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  

(12-11-2021 04:54 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  82 of the 130 FBS teams will be playing in 41 bowls. Of course, there’s the real six bowls (the New Years Six) in the rotating CFP set up, the absolute real two of those six leading to the national championship, and the rest (35) of the not so real bowls. It’s likely either NDSU, JMU, or SHSU will become FCS national champs this year. Two of them are about to never play for a national football championship again after they move to FBS, but instead will play in these not so real bowls in the future. However, the new NCAA constitution will give Division I control of its destiny. There’s talk of further dividing DI football into more subdivisions. All mid-major basketball schools are hoping basketball as it is now will not change by getting swept up in this. Where will this end up - who knows? But change is coming, and the big boys will either get their way or bolt the NCAA.

This Bahamas Bowl - nobody there - is financed how? How much money will Middle Tennessee and Toledo make off this (none from the gate)? And, exactly what kind of exposure does this give these two schools? This is what “moving up” is all about?

TV money. It is all about TV money nowadays. They no longer care about the gate.

The paycheck for these two schools from ESPN will be? This isn’t exactly an inexpensive bus trip for both schools.