College Football Money Madness and Conference Mayhem - 2022

    (Originally queued up July 6, 2022).

    Well, the Big Ten Conference (of presently 14 members in two time zones) has now gotten the go ahead from the big two Los Angeles schools of the now destabilized PAC 12, to become part of the much wealthier but incredibly spread apart conference. California is two time zones to the west, and a very long drive. Even a long flight.

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    131 teams are vying for some kind of supremacy, viability, respectability, presence, gains, and profitability this fall of 2022. I enjoyed last season, the post pandemic one, where I covered seven teams throughout the season.

Georgia, Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Clemson, Auburn, Miami, Indiana. I wrote it up and sent it to a group of friends and associates that were invested in those teams. It was fun.

    This year, at the top we have some of the same old squadrons that are in the hunt for the top wins and honors. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, maybe Utah. More the Beehive State flagship than Southern California. Both of the PAC-12 for now.

    Conference and affiliation movement and change looms.

    Texas and Oklahoma will leave the Big 12 (which are ten teams at present), and make the bully SEC a bigger conference of 16. Now the Big Ten (now fourteen!) will add the West Coast USC and UCLA of the City of Angels.

    And the Big 12, based in the central U.S. plains, plus West Virginia, will add my alma mater BYU (Mountain Time Zone), rising Houston, Cincinnati, and the University of Central Florida, not the burgeoning USF Bulls. The Knights in growing southern Florida.

    James Madison in the Shenandoah Valley of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a traditional power of the lower tiered FCS (Division 1-AA), has become a major player, and joins one of the lowest conferences, the Sun Belt, but is looking to make a difference. The Mid-American Conference, of the Mid-West plus New York, is likely the weakest overall in the sport. But they all have their charm. People who follow the Ohio losers can get behind the Buckeyes, same with Michigan schools, and Indiana, etcetera.

    It's a beautiful thing.

    Pray for few injuries, fewer heart attacks. And warm days and evenings turning into colder, wetter, snowier and inclement weather. Syracuse, and couple others, play in domes. The Cougars and Irish will get it going in Las Vegas in October.

    Viva College Football.