ESPN pays each school in the SEC huge sums of money. ESPN has to sell ads to write the checks.
Advertisers are not interested in small audience states like Arkansas they want big audiences similar to the 32 NFL towns.

The announcers are told to keep promoting brands. It has nothing to do with bias, or blue bloods.

This is a simple sales revenue model.

The last game in Austin is going to get hyped to high heaven because ESPN needs to sell more beer, cars and everything else.

There's no business like show business.

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I agree, I just can't see why they hitched their wagon to sippy. Must be the Howard Stern rule, he wants 50% to love him and 50% hate him, that way he has 100% of the audience.

Don't look past Sanford. Trap game if I ever saw one.

Bee***_00~ said:

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Don't look past Sanford. Trap game if I ever saw one.

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We won't look past him

Bee***_00~ said:

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Don't look past Sanford. Trap game if I ever saw one.

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Bee***_00~ said:

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Don't look past Sanford. Trap game if I ever saw one.

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Samford

Don't worry about Fred. Lamont's the sneaky one!

OP's right.

The only problem is that in really large-$$$, internationally-successful sports (FIFA, NBA) impartiality of the game itself is one of the early casualties. Drama, contention, and "just enough" outsized personas and franchises "that just got mojo" is a surefire recipe for maximizing mindshare. Those things are very hard to achieve with parity and stochastic, roughly-evenly distributed innovation and support.

Oh, and amongst ingrained fans of the sport like us, they've already got maximum mindshare.

So Disney is driving the sport towards the FIFA & NBA models, which means disrupting fairness of play and throwing their whole entire aaa -- much more than just their thumb -- on the scale to build up certain franchises and personas.

That will -- the business plan goes -- bring the same armies of uncritical t-shirt fans that you see cramming into FIFA, NBA, and even WWE events into our CFB world. It's OK to be mad about it OP.

The OP is like the 1% that actually gets it. If you don't believe what he is saying is true, you have your head planted in the sand. Blue star, Op.

DevilD77 said:

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Don't worry about Fred. Lamont's the sneaky one!

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Don't forget Aunt Esther!

Mega Lops said:

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The OP is like the 1% that actually gets it. If you don't believe what he is saying is true, you have your head planted in the sand. Blue star, Op.

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Really don't think this is as big a revelation as you think or this is a 1% issue. Anyone who has taken marketing 101 understands this.

Its called box office baby, and its bigger than elvis aaron presley. RIP todd snider.

Law Of The Quad said:

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ESPN pays each school in the SEC huge sums of money. ESPN has to sell ads to write the checks.
Advertisers are not interested in small audience states like Arkansas they want big audiences similar to the 32 NFL towns.

The announcers are told to keep promoting brands. It has nothing to do with bias, or blue bloods.

This is a simple sales revenue model.

The last game in Austin is going to get hyped to high heaven because ESPN needs to sell more beer, cars and everything else.

There's no business like show business.

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This isn't how it works but please go on. Keep feeding your insecurity complex while our best football team in decades does cool stuff.

Bee***_00~ said:

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Don't look past Sanford. Trap game if I ever saw one.

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Samford is not a trap game in any way imaginable. Missouri and SC were potential trap games but not this game. But maybe my sarcasm meter needs calibrating, and I missed the joke.