NCAA Partners With Hudl to Stream Division 2 Championship Events
The NCAA has agreed to an exclusive partnership that will have more than 200 NCAA Division 2 Championship events streamed by Hudl. The partnership will be managed by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports with WBD Sports already holding the Division 1 NCAA…
Quantifying the Impact of the New NIT Rules on Bid Distribution
College football is in high gear but there was an interesting development that happened right before the college basketball season tipped off. The NIT has a new method of selecting its 32 teams. The NIT will no longer award automatic qualifying bids to…
How Does the Big South Conference Approach Realignment Right Now?
College sports realignment can be cruel in the best of times and in the worst times it can lead to a conference disbanding altogether like it did to the Southwest Conference in the 1990s or the current challenges faced by the Pac-12 2Pac. Realignment can…
How Do FCS-to-FBS Teams Perform?
With a new season upon us and two new teams in the FBS, we look at how teams coming from the FCS perform. We’ve researched this topic once before back in 2018 but we wanted to provide an updated article for a few reasons. First, there are more data…
More Thoughts on the Future of the College Sports After the Pac-12 Exodus
We’re back with some more thoughts in the aftermath of Friday’s realignment news that saw Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12 and Oregon and Washington leave for the Big Ten. There have been thousands of these…
Pac-12 Imploding as Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington Leave With Others Likely to Follow
Editor’s Note: This post was updated on the evening of Friday, August 4, 2023 to reflect the news that the Big 12 accepted the membership of Arizona State and Utah. What has been building since the summer of 2021 is finally being realized two years…
College Football TV Contracts Since 1984: How Much Higher Can They Go?
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated as of September 1 to include the recent events of the Pac-12’s disintegration and the ACC expansion. In addition, the ACC graph has been updated to include the new $72 million a year in revenue, a…
Thoughts on the ACC’s Fractured Membership Reports
If you haven’t heard, the ACC has a bit of an issue among its membership with roughly half the conference ready to challenge the Grant of Rights in a bid to leave. This development could be the next blockbuster realignment change that appeared out…
A Light-Hearted Review of Our Realignment Articles
In the spirit of April Fools, let’s take go back to October 2020 when we began a renewed focus on college realignment. Within many of the articles since that time, we have typically included our thoughts, opinions, and predictions. 2.5 years later,…
Thoughts on the Division 1 Transformation Committee Final Report
Recent years have seen numerous changes in college athletics, which has led to some speculation regarding Division 1 sports. One major change that has been discussed is an overhaul of the Division 1 structure with a committee set up to forge a new path…
