ESPN's Day of College Football

Just for this, especially when you toss in that a couple Grid of Death punishments will be paid off during the MegaCast.

Gabe you been drinking?

I thought they might mix in a little NFL talk - maybe keep harping on their annual Pats hit-piece (FRICTION IN FOXBORO!!) with a little NBA filler.

Nope. They're all in on ESSS-EEEE-SEEE footbawll.

I like that they focus on college football and don't just treat it as an afterthought like Fox and NBC.

NBA Playoffs and the full NBA Finals, ever heard of it?

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Point well taken, but . . . Let me try and explain why it should, perhaps, bother us. What this is showing is the ESPN belief in the "moar is better" idea of content delivery. The idea that if something is getting ratings just expand and duplicate ad nauseam. It's what has led to Sunday night football, and Thursday night football, and "Double" Monday Night football (on the NFL front) and Thursday night, Wednesday night, and Tuesday college games. It is also (IMHO) what gave us First Take and all the other PTI copycats. And while it does make some sense to try and expand coverage or create new shows of a similar ilk, you can only do that so much without dilluting everything else. 

And what else am I going to watch during syllabus day?

I would guess they are allowed to stay up because it's a rare occassion?

Don't get me wrong -- it should be on Saturday and the Monday after the Super Bowl should be a holiday -- But I think we all came out alright watching National Championships and Super Bowls as kids.

the National Title game format is an absolute mess.  The other part to this is that any game of any kind can only be so exciting once it actually starts, so the amount of pre-game hype that it gets always ends up making the actual game kind of pale in comparison.  The Super-Bowl syndrome.  Once the game actually starts it is nearly always a let down.

I posted it on The Climb thread.  I don't like the Playoff.  I know that there is a lot of regional bias involved, etc., but with who I work with and socialize, nobody cares about this game tonight.  I actually don't think it would mean as much to me as The Game or the MSU game even if we were in it.

The only league that gets their playoffs right is the NFL. The latest starts are 8pm on Saturdays, and the final game is 6 pm (or is it 6:30?) on a Sunday.

I remember being pissed as a kid wanting to watch the World Series. There was the 8 pm "start." Then you had to sit through the introductions and the national anthem. Lucky for the first pitch to be thrown by 8:30.

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NCAA Basketball is a close second. Move the Final Four to friday. 7pm/9:30 tip offs. Championship on Sunday at 7:pm.

All sporting events on ABC, NBA Finals included are ESPN productions, ad dollars go to ESPN, feature ESPN talent etc. There hasn't been a separate ABC Sports in over a decade.

Yes. It's the 2017 national title game. The teams are Georgia and Alabama. They are both in the SEC.

This should be the winning comment of the day.

They usually don't have play-by-pay on the all-22 -- just stadium ambient sound.

Oh, I'm sure Georgia is the team that will be fucked. The NCAA loves it when their two favorite teams win, those being Alabama and OSU.