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Calinative

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CFB program have in general always been kinda broken into groups:

Blue Blood Tier = Ohio St, Alabama, and Oklahoma at the top. Then USC, Notre Dame, Michigan in this middle part of this tier, followed by Texas and Nebraska at the end of it. These teams were always viewed as the original elite programs in CFB.

New Blood Tier = Miami, FSU, UF at the top and high end super recent part of this tier. Then UGA, PSU, LSU, PSU, UTenn, Auburn are in the grey area of the New Blood tier because they had a bit more history, but didn't really reach their peaks until liek post 80s as well. Then at the bottom of this tier would be Clemson and UCLA.

But now with NIL we are definitely entering a new era and programs that we are seeing have high end success than ever before. I'd designate these programs the Green Bloods due to them being ones that are breaking out in the legal cash era.

Green Blood Tier = Oregon, Texas A&M, Indiana, Texas Tech, Ole Miss,

Obviously in this tier the 3 Florida schools kinda separated themselves in this group, maybe with PSU. The rest were have been good alot but didn't have as high of highs until like Auburn, LSU, and Clemson all winning in the last 20 years.

But now with NIL it seems we are about to be in a drastic change in Program strength, which I'd call the Green Bloods, cause these teams got cash to spend:

Green Blood Tier = Oregon, Texas A&M, Indiana, Ole Miss, Texas Tech, and others?

Before it was just like 10 programs at the top that had any hope in CFB. Then it got pushed to like 20. Now it's looking like it'll be more like 30 programs that can truly be in the running.

Interesting.
 
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I would put Miami in your Green Bloods tier. This new NIL era is only a few years old. Miami has spent quite a lot of NIL money the last two seasons. What have Texas Tech and Ole Miss done that Miami hasn’t? Or did I misread your post in the middle of the night? :)

But your points are well taken. Interesting idea.

I believe things will change over the next handful of seasons. Right now college football is still a Wild West show with the portal now own sport like NFL FA. Revenue sharing, further conference realignment, CFP expansion, and the inevitable, in my opinion, collective bargaining and its stabilizing rules will give us yet another new era.
 
TemplarCane said:
I would put Miami in your Green Bloods tier. This new NIL era is only a few years old. Miami has spent quite a lot of NIL money the last two seasons. What have Texas Tech and Ole Miss done that Miami hasn’t? Or did I misread your post in the middle of the night? :)

But your points are well taken. Interesting idea.

I believe things will change over the next handful of seasons. Right now college football is still a Wild West show with the portal now own sport like NFL FA. Revenue sharing, further conference realignment, CFP expansion, and the inevitable, in my opinion, collective bargaining and its stabilizing rules will give us yet another new era.
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Well it's like once you established your program as apart of the tier you don't get in the later tier. Like that's why USC wouldn't also be in the New bloods and Green blooods...

It's just kinda pointing out like in all of old CFB history it was mostly a top 10 established programs. Then around the 80s the Florida schools broke through and like the UGAs/PSUs/etc started reaching the mountain top... So this top 10 grew to a top 20 of parity that were THE brand names. But now in this NIL era there will be like a firm 30ish programs that are established brands and always in the conversation basically.
 
Calinative said:
Well it's like once you established your program as apart of the tier you don't get in the later tier. Like that's why USC wouldn't also be in the New bloods and Green blooods...

It's just kinda pointing out like in all of old CFB history it was mostly a top 10 established programs. Then around the 80s the Florida schools broke through and like the UGAs/PSUs/etc started reaching the mountain top... So this top 10 grew to a top 20 of parity that were THE brand names. But now in this NIL era there will be like a firm 30ish programs that are established brands and always in the conversation basically.
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I wouldn’t disagree
 
Lane Kiffin will look back with regret because of this. He think LSU gives him a huge upper hand over Ole Miss when that’s just not true anymore.
 
Hufftwoseven said:
Lane Kiffin will look back with regret because of this. He think LSU gives him a huge upper hand over Ole Miss when that’s just not true anymore.
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It's going to be interesting....

Kiffin has always been a sideshow; not really a fan of how he has been handling this whole coaching transition. The whole narrative that he was going to attend the game last night with the Louisisanna Governor was ridiculous. Just shut up and stay in your new office.

He's such an attention hog
 
To add to this:

Whoever wins the NC this year will either be a first time winner or us.

Ole Miss - never won a legit one
Oregon- same
Indiana - same .

It's definitely a new era of college football. Call it the transfer portal era or the NIL era, but it gives any team that's willing and able to invest in coaches and players a chance to win a title.
 
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