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A Look at the New College Football Landscape

ESPN Daily

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Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s not hyperbole to say that this may be the biggest shake-up college football has gone through in decades. The Pac-12 is extinct, the Big Ten stretches from coast-to-coast, the Big 12 and ACC are fighting to stay alive, and the SEC just keeps on gaining steam. Oh, and the College Football Playoff is expanding from four teams to an even dozen. So ESPN senior college football writer Heather Dinich, fresh off trips to both SEC and Big Ten media days, explains how things are going to work in college football’s new chapter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Heather did itch this college football season is going to be like superlatives in a yearbook

0:06.2

conferences look brand new the playoffs are expanded the big ten has 18 teams from coast to coast.

0:15.0

Heather, if you were going to name that conference,

0:18.0

starting fresh, what would you name it?

0:20.0

I name it the Blue Conference,

0:21.0

because they should all just be colors because that's

0:24.4

where we're at because no numbers make sense.

0:28.2

You got the blue dots, the green dots, the red dots, the yellow dots. That's where we're at in college athletics because names don't make sense when you have Pacific Coast teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

0:45.0

So let's just color code these, all right?

0:48.0

B, blue for Big Ten, you know, that's how we're doing it.

0:52.0

And there's just dots on the map.

0:53.0

Something tells me that all of these conferences are looking to color themselves.

0:57.0

Green.

0:59.0

That's right man.

1:01.0

Lots of money flowing. If you haven't been following closely, you might not recognize college football this season.

1:18.0

That's because the pack 12 has been cannibalized and spread between the big Ten and Big Twelve. And the Big Twelve's biggest

1:25.8

brands pop ship over to the ever powerful SEC. And if you were just getting used to a four team playoff at year's end, get ready to welcome a dozen schools to the tournament.

1:39.0

So today, we turn to ESPN senior college football writer Heather Dinnich to help make sense of the college football landscape.

1:47.0

I'm Clinton Yates. It's Monday, July 29th. This is ESPN.D. All the big names are here. Oh, who is that?

2:04.0

I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.

2:07.0

No, not her, the florist.

2:09.0

She's automating invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall.

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