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A cinematic celebration of college football's exploding influence and a rigorous look at how and why the sport may look totally new once again College football in 2025 would look unrecognizable to a fan, player, or coach from even the recent past. Between massive influxes of television money, dramatic conference realignments, a restructuring of how the game crowns its national champion, and even a full revision of what it means to be an "amateur" athlete, America's most popular sport is rupturing, evolving, destroying itself, or getting with the times— depending who you ask. And the dramatic changes won't be stopping any time soon. A complex media landscape, a transfer portal and endorsement money for players, and coaches carrying themselves like branded celebrities unto themselves are just a few reasons why the game will continue transform at a breakneck pace. Forward Progress is the definitive and most comprehensive examination of how we got to this wild era in college football and what's in store for the game's future. Rather than offer easy or trite predictions about the game's future, renowned sports-data journalist Bill Connelly examines the crucial factors and forces that will drive these changes, showing fans how factors like influxes of private capital or a shift toward actually paying the game's players the money they are worth could lead college football in new directions. Travelling from the pivotal 2006 Rose Bowl— a game so loaded with stars and money it felt silly calling any part of it "collegiate"— to the present day, Connelly's compelling storytelling and trademark data distillations illuminate the many moving parts that compose this shifting landscape.
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Sport & Exercise ScienceTable of contents
- Contents
- A Mission Statement
- 1. Rewatching Texas-USC 2005 (Everything Has Changed)
- 2. A Brief(ish) History of Conference Realignment
- 3. How Sports Fall from Grace
- 4. Television—the Cause of, and Solution to, All of College Football’s Problems
- 5. Sixty Years of Playoff Debates (and What Do We Owe Bowls?)
- 6. Slippery Slopes and Roster Management
- 7. Tall Poppies and Sports Socialism
- 8. Who’s Actually in Charge of College Football
- 9. Soccer Fans Rejected a Super League
- 10. From Here to Utopia
- Acknowledgments
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