OU to BIG10 Heating up

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But really 16 team conferences are just 2 8 team conferences with a couple tie in games. You would play a max of 2 inter division games a season for football. So really, tour division is more important than your conference.

Ok, but I guess I don't see 16 team conferences really being a thing. I think it's much more likely that the P5 would just break away as is. Plus, 16 team conferences aren't nearly as entertaining. I'd love to see Wisconsin (who I'm a fan of) in a 10 team Big 10 and Iowa State in a 10-12 team Big 12 than see both of them in a 16 team conference.

I think they can be resurrected. Look at Alabama football in the late-90s/early 2000s. They went through a series of awful coaches, they had some really bad (by Capstone standards) seasons. Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Shula. I think there was a coach in there that got fired before he even coached a game too?

Not saying that Frost is Nick Saban, but when you're at a blue-blood, all it takes is the right coach to recapture some past glory.

The real question is when will Nebraska stop being considered a blue blood. Because kids starting college now were not alive the last time Nebraska won a national title. And we don't consider Minnesota a blue blood, but they're tied for ninth among national championships by FBS schools (Nebraska is 7th and has 2 more national titles) and actually has more claimed national titles than Nebraska.

Relegation is European soccer garbage. It would be another step in making another sub-division of college athletics. We could have a schedule that's in line with Northern Iowa or a MAC school after one bad season?

Even at a professional level it's garbage. Why would I spend $$ to see a scrub matchup?

As an owner how could I sell my product if we have zero chance of winning a title?

LeBron gets hurt. Team sucks. Gets sent down. LeBron comes back. The team is fantastic and I'm stuck in the JR division?

Come on, Argent. This is un-American

Eh, I think relegation's great and should be in American pro sports, but it would ruin college sports. Because pretty much all pro teams are the same. Besides market size, the only real difference between the Reading Fightin' Phils, the Iowa Cubs, and the Kansas City Royals is the amount they can spend on players. Otherwise they're just businesses.

College teams are different though because they represent the college and colleges have very different sizes, missions, goals, etc. There are fundamental differences between Simpson, UNI, and Iowa State. And, even today, by and large conferences are still based around similar institutions. In general, the Big 10 is a conference made up of large midwestern research institutions. The Big 12 is similar. The Mac is generally made up of medium-sized universities that started as normal schools. It's more fun to watch your team compete against schools that you have a history against and are similar to. I would rather watch Iowa State in the Big 12 or Wisconsin in the Big 10 than either one in a top league that consisted of Alabama, Florida St., Texas, USC, Ohio State, UCF, etc.