00:00Big news in college sports is our first story.
00:03Yes.
00:04The college football playoffs, which this year and the past years has been 12 teams,
00:08which I thought was enough, next year it expands to 24 teams.
00:12So here's what I got asked.
00:13That's a lot.
00:14That's what I feel.
00:15Twelve games.
00:16It's, it's, it, so, do we like, I mean, look, the playoffs are fun.
00:21Yeah.
00:21But in knockout rounds in any sport is fun.
00:23But 2014?
00:24Is this like, uh, influence of the World Cup?
00:27Do they, like, after the World Cup, they saw this amount of games that can happen,
00:3264 game, you know, combinations of the impossible.
00:35It's like, dude, we can do, we can do 12 games.
00:37Yeah.
00:38I actually think that's what, you know, I think they, I think they saw the World Cup expanding
00:41and they're like, let's keep on expanding because look, it's more money.
00:43But here's my issue.
00:44It makes the regular season less special.
00:47The thing about college football is that like, you lose one game, you're possibly out.
00:51You lose two, for sure you're out.
00:52Now we're going to see teams with three losses, making the playoffs.
00:55I don't know.
00:56I also think as a college student, you know, the pressure is what drives you to go to the
01:00games, right?
01:01People are actually, you know, now, unfortunately, UCSB does not have a college football team,
01:06so I wouldn't really know about that.
01:08But from the college football games that I have been to, you know, people are really
01:11into it, right?
01:12And I think that if you take that pressure and the stakes off, I don't know if the numbers
01:16are going to be that high in the regular season.
01:18Yeah, exactly.
01:18So the playoffs, they'll get the numbers they want.
01:20But now they're regular season, you're probably going to see less of a crowd.
01:23And also, football, I played high school football.
01:26It's very taxing.
01:27So for the college athlete to now be playing the same amount of games, if you're on a high
01:32profile team, you're playing the same amount of games as an NFL team.
01:36God, I don't know what that, and we're seeing more injuries.
01:38Yeah, we're going to talk more about it because it's a reality that we are pushing players
01:42of all ages to an increased number of matches in every sport at every level from youth sports
01:49before kids would play 20 matches a year.
01:52Now we're seeing the ECNL, the NPLs, the higher leagues, the MLS Pro, there are 40 games
01:59a year.
02:00And then what you see, increased injuries in the knees, joints, people living the sport
02:06way too soon into their life.
02:08But look at this headline.
02:10Look at this headline that is super telling, my friends.
02:13College football, 1.7 billion revolution will eliminate a tradition fans have known for decades.
02:18Just like you were talking about, 24 teams, Humberto.
02:22It's the money, man.
02:23Five-year ride expansion value at nearly $1.7 billion.
02:26Starting in the 2027 season, the landscape will completely change, my friends.
02:31These and much more stories.
02:34Gone are those bowl games.
02:36You're going to try to incorporate the traditional bowl games into the playoff system, but it's
02:39not the same, you know?
02:41So, look, things change, things evolve, and money is now completely obvious in college
02:47sports, whereas before it was an amateur, you know, an amateur sport, but they made money
02:51obviously with TV rights.
02:52Now with the NIL, also with...
02:55NIL.
02:55I think NIL has been a game changer.
02:58It has.
02:59And there's a lot of money, and here's the thing also, the changing landscape of entertainment
03:03in general, because you have digital on demand, live sports are the last vestige to keep
03:09the broadcast new.
03:10That's the point, like we like to say in the industry, the very last survival of appointment
03:14watching.
03:14Exactly.
03:15Right?
03:15Like people used to go and watch TV at a certain time, a certain day, for a specific show,
03:20weekly releases, and now everything is just dumped on you for binge watching.
03:23But sports is the only one that still brings that people together around the TV, like very
03:29much the tradition that sports continue to build.
03:32But the money talks, my friends.
