Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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KidSilverhair
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There is only 4, maybe 5 conferences that can be considered anywhere close to equal. I know we all don’t want the 4th best SEC team in a playoff but the thing is going to 12 teams. I’ll take runner-ups from B1G, SEC, big 12 and ACC before we mandate a sun belt or Maction champion. All American sports leagues play best of 7. Champions league plays two per round. Get the best teams and let them play. If big 12 only gets one then so be it, but some years we might get 2 or even 3 teams in. Why should last year we only sent k state, when we could have sent them and TCU?
Not bad. Half (four) are coming into the B12: Houston (twice), Central Florida (twice), Cincinnati, and BYU.
This is why we have to push for the best teams to get in. We are a multi-bid conference almost always. Why trade that in for the chance for a sun belt team to get murdered. They won their conference. Maybe some year the third best B1G and SEC team and our 2nd best team should get in to a 12 team playoff
This was on the first page of this thread. Cloneguy8…could you have even imagined what happened…maybe if you were on mushrooms that night
I would argue that excluding the smaller conference champs entirely just makes the gap bigger. Currently they can sell players a chance to compete for a conference title and maybe get a shot at the bigger schools that are overlooking them. Take that away and give the money and exposure to the bigger teams and you’re closer to a P2 situation. It’s not a right or wrong thing because both options have pros and cons, but I enjoy the David vs Goliath part of the college game that you don’t really get elsewhere in American sports.
Argument for best teams only means eye test. That would suck. Give me conference champs for top 5 conferences and then best teams.
Pac 4 should suck it up and merge with the Mountain West. Mountain West has some good football teams. I'd vote to keep them a power league and keep that auto bid. Granted, they would be the weakest power league. However, we were in the same position a couple years ago relative to the other leagues.
TV partners don’t want David vs Goliath, they want a P2 like model in the playoffs.
Coast to coast, every time zone, top brands, nattys in FB & BB . . . . I'm in.
So, a red herring to entice other options to believe they were on a determined timeline for a decision.
Got it.
If there's a true merger, which is highly unlikely, it would be with the AAC.
The most likely outcome, IMO, is that Stanford and Cal go independent with a Notre Dame-like scheduling agreement with the AAC. Stanford goes to the WCC for All Sports and Cal goes to the Big West. Stanford and Cal should be able to get $4ish million from somebody for their home football rights.
Wazzu and Oregon State just simply join with Mountain West whether it's under the Mountain West name or the PAC name.
There are no conference auto bids. It is simply the top 6 ranked conference champions. The top 6 could very realistically be B1G, Big 12, SEC, ACC, AAC, and MWC.
If they expand to 16, I’d be good with AQs for top 8 conference champions and 8 at larges.
Then do CW’s bowl draft, pay the players who participate, and viola, a more compelling postseason.
That or the AAC is probably their best option at this point but there's no way that conference should be given P4 status or an auto qualifier for the CFP, IMO.
TCU just canceled their series with SMU starting in 2025.
10 league games incoming?
10 league games incoming?
I am all in on a high profile conference called “The Big Red” that does not include Nebraska.
