CFB Insider Bruce Feldman Reacts to the Pre-Season Coaches’ Poll | The Rich Eisen Show

Feldman reacts to the PreSeason Coaches Poll the coaches poll first coaches poll is it came out on Monday is out uh it's out and uh what were your what was your opinion a it it was kind of in line with where I thought it would go um I was a little surprised that yur Al Mater did get one first place vote they're sitting at 8 um and you know there's 50 some votes or something like that and they actually got one of them at eight um most of the bo most of the votes went to Georgia I think Ohio state had seven seven first place votes those are the two teams that I feel like are best positioned to play for the national title I mean Oregon's number three I think they're they're loaded as well um there was nothing really that shocked me when I looked at the poll in its entirety I was a little surprised that USC made the top 25 I think we're only 23rd yes but beyond that um you know it wasn't anything I when I saw there I was like oh I'm surprised to see Missouri at 11 Missouri had a terrific year they they're pretty loaded on off defensively back mean you look through this I mean you have to go aways to find a big 12 school I think it's sitting there at Utah that you know the new member the new member yeah this also I guess this sets up what we expected to be the first big game of the year which is Texas at Michigan week two do we call it week two week one of the NFL season that's going to be huge in the big noon game we're excited to get to an arbor for that you're going to do that yep uhhuh and then you got the Lions uh hosting the Rams this Sunday night after that so it's a huge football week in the state of Michigan um so that's that's a pretty big one right there and um it's big also also Rich because it is SEC versus Big 10 yes sir and we don't get too many of those heavyweight kind of matchups that is absolutely going to be one yeah and since those they have a working group right talking together yeah they do and I know I do know this from running into Tony petiti that the head of the Big 10 there's definitely a lot of communication between the the heavyweight you know big shots what do Feldman on the Big 10s communication with the SEC they talk about do you think what's the what's your general sense here I mean everything from like there was the scholarship number of of like what what it's going to be I think they go through to try to have have Real Alignment there I think because they know their issues are different than the issues that almost everybody else who's in charge of of a entity in college athletics really is dealing with well that's you know I feel like we go down a similar Road when we when we have a conversation here those are the seeds from which I believe a Super League will eventually Sprout whatever they're talking about it may not be full-on conversations but just having a conversation about that subject matter well that and that subject does matter it grows into it grows into everything else out of it and then eventually there will be a working fra framework of what the SEC and the Big 10 feel are multiple issues that they feel that they can solve together and then who's coming with them then who's coming with them and then th that will be the Feldman on the NFL framework for everybody figuring out how to um work football in a way that is as uniform as it possibly can be on so many fronts where there's no uniformity right now I think the different part of this because there's a lot of parallels to people thinking okay this is going to get like the NFL what I do think is different right now is the TV Partners um I feel like are way more influential in those two leagues and this you know full disclosure I work at Fox which is one of those two bigger TV Partners especially as relates to the Big 10 but in the NFL I'm not saying they don't have and you know this way better than me they don't care what their Partners think on the broadcast side but I feel like the NFL is driving the NFL's business well because they have an actual you know governing body with a commissioner and everybody um and a uniformity and a salary cap and we know the schedule and we know when free agency is and there's a contract in a union so that's where I'm saying this is headed on every single one of those fronts whether it's an impetus from the Supreme Court's decision or it's an impetus between a working group figuring out who's with them in the same boat you know what I mean like that's the point I also don't know though on on on that part though I remember hearing this this anecdote about one of the owners in the NFL saying how you know on Sundays he reachs for the Dallas Cowboys because it's good for business you know I I seriously doubt that there is like you know a uh an ad who roots for Ohio State in the Big 10 who's not in Ohio State you know or or whatever where because of it's really good for business I just think that there's there's certain things that either need to shift and I'm not saying you can't still get to the place you're talking about without that because I I mean there's a lot of changes that have happened in the sport in the last 20 years that myself and a lot of other people didn't think they would get to when they've gotten to it but those are the biggest I I feel like uh disconnects right now catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free