I could see the Big 10 having a harder time doing this because of the whole AAU affiliation and stuff.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The whole thing has been strange, probably muddied by misinformation flying around from varying interested parties, as well as the need for some secrecy from others.
Its all about the money. FOX/ESPN look like they want a real culling of chaffe from the PAC. I suspect its why Yormark is pausing. He was told to hold up at 14.
Honestly they are going to the mountain west and adding teams like Oregon state and Washington will make it a decent conference. Not a great one but still pretty decent
They can still potentially get access to the playoffs but it would bring a massive hole to their $$
I tend to be of the opinion that the top of the SEC likes only playing 3-4 challenging games per regular season. But I’ve heard the same rumors about the top of the SEC and Big 10 too.
That was very gut wrenching to read. I agree with all of his points. What made college football so great is disappearing in front of our eyes. NIL, transfer portal, realignment...As usual money has a way of destroying most things that made it great to begin with.
I think they are MWC for sure.
If the worst case would have happened years back when 8ish Big 12 schools could've gone Pac/Big Ten/SEC simultaneously...ISU/KSU and probably Baylor would have all had that exact level of certain doom that they'd be heading to the MWC or what eventually became the AAC.
We're talking about 7-10 Pac schools moving at once leaving 2-5 behind, like that worst case B12 scenario years back.
The Big 12 is allowing to expand things a lot more now than our own doomsday would've been 12-10 years ago. The Big 12 really is a lifeboat for some ACC/Pac teams compared to the worst case 12 years ago that ISU/KSU/Baylor would've faced.
Yes WSU and Ore St are going to lose "power conference" stature as USF/UConn did back then, but TCU, BYU, UCF, WVU, Cincy and possibly Utah or UConn have gained it all because of the Big 12's rugged survival mode.
If this had gone worst case 12 years ago...BYU, Utah, Cincy, UConn, TCU and UCF probably never get a chance to be "up" and ISU/KSU/Baylor probably move down. I didn't even mention Kansas but there were some versions where they didn't have an obvious taker back then.
Which of course is complete *********. If the money is right, AAU matters not. The B1G has no true principles other than scheming to make as much money as possible (but mouths a **** ton of virtue-signaling platitudes). That's it.
ya. it seems like a no-brainer. we get credit for being good at basketball, so losses dont hurt that bad. might as well really stack the conference. i could see a 14-16 team big 12 getting 10+ bids most years.
the value of a team like UConn that can be beaten up on a little in football vs a formidable team like Utah could be the difference in the big 12 getting an additional playoff bid some years, because any losses really seem to be disqualifying for us in football.
