date：2023-09-15 23:49:16 click：310times
About 8.8 million people tuned into ESPN to watch Texas vs. Alabama last week.
This barely surpassed the 8.7 million who watched Nebraska vs. Colorado on Fox, but fell just short of the 9.2 million ESPN attracted the previous week during its Sunday broadcast of Florida State vs. LSU.
Overall, 21 college football games have already attracted more than 2 million viewers, compared to 18 at this point in the 2022 season, according to SportsMediaWatch.
In other words, ...... Is next year the year that fans will stop watching college football because of the "disaster" that is the NIL, or the "Wild, Wild West" of transfer portals?
Will the stands be empty because college football is just a "minor league sport," or will the Big Ten move to Division III for philosophical reasons?
Seek a friend: ...... Not least, the whining coaches, fear-mongering conference commissioners, irrational NCAA lawyers, and stereotypical media personalities who have repeatedly told us that everything would be ruined forever by now.
All we know is that the demise of college football will have to be postponed, yet again, for at least another year.
To the surprise of anyone capable of critical thinking, college football's popularity is not declining. [If anything, its popularity is growing.
Stadiums are packed. TV ratings are up, despite ESPN missing 15 million householdsdue to a contract dispute with Charter. The buzz surrounding the sport is incredible, and not just because of Deion Sanders.
But wait, haven't fans been told they won't see a sport awash in transfers and NIL contracts? But three years later, Colorado has the biggest contract of all.
What about the balance of competition? Even if you could stomach the idea that Caleb Williams might appear in a Dr. Pepper commercial, and even if many who now claim to do so were previously against it, the only thing the NIL means is that the rich get richer I would like to remind you that the only thing NIL means is that the rich will get richer.
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Well, nowhere is it richer than the SEC, which has dominated the sport for nearly two decades. This year, they are 3-6 against Power Five teams, including Alabama, LSU, Florida, Texas A
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