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.
I remember when the Big Ten Conference didn’t have 837 schools in it. :-P
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,
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.
The way they’re expanding, they can rename to the Big Ten Squared Conference.
An accurate headline would have said “The Big 10 + 4 seeks to become the Big 10 + 8.
Going to be sick to my stomach. This is way out of control.
Clemson to the Little 10 would be a major mistake on their part. If they want to leave the ACC, they should petition the SEC first. Maybe they have had talks with South Carolina and been told NO, maybe not. Clemson adds no market to the Big 10.
First time I’ve seen these teams named as possibilities.
I was bored a few years ago, so I came up with a way to restructure College Football.
Basically get rid of Conferences, and I came up with 11 divisions. Each division would consist of two-tiers. The “Power” tier, which mostly consists of the Power 5 teams, and the “Secondary” tier, which were the teams in the non-Power 5 conferences. The idea is that there will be one team from the Secondary Tier, that will play in the Power tier, based on a playoff game at the end of the season. That way I could assign all 130 Division I teams, and they would be geographically close.
Then with those 11 divisions, I would take the Top 2 teams in each division and they would make the playoffs.
The 11 division winners would get the first round bye, with the second-place teams playing each other, so we get to a Round of 16.
If Clemson and FSU leave the ACC, look for UNC and NC State to petition the SEC. Who else would the SEC want? Maybe OK St and Baylor? Maybe VA Tech and Duke? Who knows?
I believe Colorado is headed that way as well.
Ain’t buying it. This is nothing more than idle speculation. In the case of Clemson and FSU, they are contractually obligated to the ACC until 2036. Breaking that contract would cost the schools neatly a billion dollars. The “story” also contradicts the results of the latest ACC meetings in Greensboro, in which UNC, Clemson, FSU and Miami agreed to new revenue sharing targets that would increase their takes.
Add this to the pay to play for college athletes and small or less financialy attractive schools essentially become intermural sports programs.
1. Meaningless pre-season games
2, Ohio State vs. Michigan
3. Post-season exhibition games.
Should make for some great TV where I live
The way I see it, if everyone is gonna be Big 10, no one is gonna be Big 10. “Big 10” will become a euphemism. How often will they ever play each other in conference? Every 3-5 years?
Do the Hokey-Pokey; that’s what it’s all about.