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Topic: When is college football's "golden age?"

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OrangeAfroMan

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When is college football's "golden age?"
« on: January 19, 2025, 09:11:05 PM »
From a question on Josh Pate's show, what's your Golden Age of college football?
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2025, 09:17:31 PM »
I'm going with the Rise of the Independents era.
10-team conferences (and the Big 8 and ACC)
*Enough important independents to keep scheduling wide open and interesting
Non-Alabama southern teams rising up
More passing programs, still plenty of option teams, but most somewhere in-between
Expansion of TV (thanks OU and UGA)
Bowls meant something.
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*I think this is underrated and would be good for the sport overall, if it could happen again.  Having the option to fill a scheduling gap with Penn State instead of Western Kentucky is a good thing.  
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2025, 09:24:58 PM »
70s

although the 60s and 80s were GREAT!
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2025, 09:56:16 PM »
Now.
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2025, 11:30:41 PM »
Voted 70s but would Include the 60s
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2025, 12:31:44 AM »
Voted 70s but really it's "dawn of time through 1991."  B1G and SEC expansion starting in the early 90s, was the beginning of the end.
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2025, 12:39:33 AM »
I voted the BCS era.  I think the easy vote is for nostalgia, and the era you grew up in.  But I think largely the BCS era nailed it.  You had a "realish" championship game, but big bowls still mattered.  You still had plenty of schematic diversity because analytics, using that term broadly, hadnt told us there is actually the smartest way to play. 

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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2025, 12:48:31 AM »
Quote from: ELA on January 20, 2025, 12:39:33 AM
I voted the BCS era.  I think the easy vote is for nostalgia, and the era you grew up in.  But I think largely the BCS era nailed it.  You had a "realish" championship game, but big bowls still mattered.  You still had plenty of schematic diversity because analytics, using that term broadly, hadnt told us there is actually the smartest way to play.


So, you voted for the era you grew up in.
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2025, 01:16:23 AM »
I voted CCG era, but should have voted for rise of the independents. I basically voted based on anything prior to the BCS, but then forgot about the Bowl Alliance and Bowl Coalition, so prior to that is ideal.
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2025, 06:08:39 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on January 19, 2025, 09:11:05 PM
From a question on Josh Pate's show, what's your Golden Age of college football?
It will end when I go toes up,actually had they kept the conference alignments before Miami,VTech and BC bolted to the ACC that would have been alright.And I'm voting 70s Woody and Bo were always interesting tho neither grabbed all the hardware then
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2025, 06:23:47 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 20, 2025, 12:31:44 AM
B1G and SEC expansion starting in the early 90s, was the beginning of the end.
So the SWC and the Big 8s love child doesn't count?
 
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2025, 07:08:43 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on January 20, 2025, 06:23:47 AM
So the SWC and the Big 8s love child doesn't count?


That was a contraction of major conferences not an expansion.  And it happened 5 years later, as the direct result of TV revenue being driven by B1G and SEC expansion.  The SWC and Big 8 had to merge if they wanted to keep up in the new era of conference television revenue.
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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2025, 08:23:22 AM »
Word Salad

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Re: When is college football's "golden age?"
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2025, 08:26:50 AM »
History is word salad to you?

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