What’s the point of making the SEC into a magaconference with 3 times as many teams as it started out with? Is there really a benefit into dividing all the major college football teams into 3 giant conferences?
I’ve heard the goal of the 3 megaconferences is to tell the NCAA to get lost and write their own rules.
I could easily see UVA and UNC in the Big 10, although they may only take one and wait for their long-awaited prize of Notre Dame to come calling, which signed a deal with the ACC just months ago.
The SEC wants markets, so they’ll ignore schools like Florida St., Miami, Georgia Tech and Clemson who would shrink the territories of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina respectively. I’m not sure the SEC wants to expand further after Texas A&M whipped the best team in their conference in the very first year but, if they are shopping, Virginia Tech would likely be their first choice and UNC their second.
That leaves the Big XII which, like the Big 10, has flunked at simple math. The 10-member conference would easily pick off Florida St. and Miami but if they want a bigger enchilada, they might grab Clemson, Georgia Tech, UNC and Virginia Tech in one big grab or, like the Big 10, may try to lure Notre Dame with the final spot. BYU may also have an outside chance.
I think everybody stops at 16 teams except the PAC-12 who may stop at 14 to create four superconferences and everybody leftover forms a new division including the Big East and the Mountain West.
The good news is that it turns the four-team playoff into a de facto eight team playoff because each conference will have a conference championship game so the CCG winners of the Pac-14, the Big XVI, the Big 16 and the SEC will be the four automatic seeds in football’s Final Four. That would take practically all the politics out of the football championship where it more resembles the Elite Eight of the NCAA basketball tournament.