Posted on 07/31/2023 8:29:27 AM PDT by FLNittany
College expansion has been a wild ride over the past year or so, and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
The Big Ten has spearheaded the movement. The storied conference adds USC and UCLA in 2024. It may not be done, either.
Barstool Sports' Jack McGuire is hearing a rumor that the Big Ten is adding four schools this week: Clemson, Florida State, Oregon and Washington.
That would poach two universities from the ACC - arguably its top-two athletics programs - and two from the Pac-12 - arguably its best as well, even with USC and UCLA in the mix.
Oregon and Washington have been rumored to the Big Ten for a while now, but the rumors died down recently. But Colorado's abrupt exit to the Big 12 has pretty much re-opened the door.
The expectation is that the Pac-12 is done for. Eventually, schools like Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will likely head to the Big 12. Oregon and Washington need a new home, and each belongs in the Big Ten.
Clemson and Florida State, meanwhile, probably make more sense for the SEC. But the Big Ten might want to enter the Florida recruiting market and tap into the Clemson roots.
Buckle up. It could be a busy week in college athletics.
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This is not going to help college football. Eventually there will only be two conferences?
I remember when rivalries and college mattered.
It’s just NFL developmental league now.
I also remember a time of watching sports without legal gambling advertising.
Might as well sell coke and hookers on tv now.
“Might as well sell coke and hookers on tv now.”
Coming soon to a TV set near you...
It’s economic violence. Jesse Jackson said it once.
I remember when the Big Ten Conference didn’t have 837 schools in it. :-P
Bowl games unnecessary. Nobody plays in them anyway.
The 20 year process of destroying college football takes another step. All the traditional conferences are ruined, their fake national championship with something pushed by Obama. It simply isn’t college football anymore, it’s sort of a AAA professional league. The final step will be to simply dissociate themselves with any university and be done with it,
In the end there will be two conferences: The Big Ten and the SEC.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody there to hear it does it make a sound?
If Clemson and FSU leave the ACC, will anybody notice?...............
The Pac 12 has been going down the toilet since the idiot they had who couldn’t deliver on the promise of the PAC12 Network on Direct TV. Larry something.
Too bad OU went to SEC. We have a history with Ohio State and I would have much preferred that. Texas Smexas can go to the POOP15 conference for all I care.
It’s an NFL Farm League now.
I remember when the Pac-8 had only schools from Pacific coast states in it, when I started college at the University of Oregon.
“Might as well sell coke and hookers on tv now.”
“Live from Los Angeles, it’s The Hunter Biden Show. Here’s your host, Hunter Biden...”
“I remember when the Big Ten Conference didn’t have 837 schools in it. :-P”
You’re so 20th Century.
Financially, makes sense if the legal issues can be resolved with Grant Of Rights, etc. Geographically, it’s terrible, and what’s it going to do with traditional rivalries? Unfortunately, it’s all about the Benjamins (as the cool kids say), traditions be damned.
That's apparently where we're headed. From a selfish standpoint, w/ the expanded playoff coming I welcome higher profile games that expansion brings about. Good 2 loss teams should still wind up w/ a shot to win it all, so go play someone!
PSU has USC at home in 2024. If FOX fixes their broadcast times or for some reason doesn't take the game, it could be a Whiteout Game. Imagine Whiteouts against Clemson and Oregon!? This would be incredible.
I concur. Greed is destroying college sports. What does it even mean to have a conference if it’s so big all the teams can’t even play each other? And the idea of the “student-athlete” is becoming a joke. First, athletic scholarships allowed students who weren’t even close to being academically qualified, and now the best of the “student-athletes” are becoming hired professionals.
The way they’re expanding, they can rename to the Big Ten Squared Conference.
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