Scorecard: the new Conferences (to be updated)

[HawkLBacker]

fluid for sure.....UT, TAMU and OU now staying in Big 12-10....

thinking that Big Tenlevenwelve stays put at 12 until ND comes a calling in 2014....

Pac10 needs another member to get to 12....watch Utah jump MWC ship, since it appears no one from the Big 12 will head there now....

i'm going to keep an eye out for a Miami, Clemson, Va Tech and FSU raid by the SEC....

[renmanaz]

So....if the Big-12 keeps Texas and now consists of only 10 schools, shouldn't it now be called the Big-10. And, of course, the Big-10, now with 12 schools, ought rightfully to be renamed the Big-12. Oh, the irony of it all.
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[kamuohio]

I think the former big ten current big twelve ups the ante on ND and invites a couple teams from the Big East t ( 2 of Uconn, Rutgers, Syracuse) to try and break up that conference and force ND's hand.

If ND buys they invite all 3 and are at 16.
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[Cookie Monster]

Great move by Texas and its lackey schools! I think they might have taken into account the travel expenses to these PAC-10 schools and realized that it's a bit farther of a travel to Seattle than to Ames.
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[MiamiMAC]

Right now Colorado is realizing they made a huge mistake. Welcome to the anonymous world of West Coast college football.
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[MrG]

Remnants of Big 12 (if any) will be force to merge with WAC if they can't strip MWC of its best and thus remain a BCS conference.

Basically B12 just got Pillaged and Raped here with out a Bohica warning or a courtesy reach around.

End result. Vs BE almost dying during last BCS raid and surviving to grab a few more to remain BCS in name if not quality in their peer's eyes...B12 will be a well picked skeleton with vultures sitting on the hornless skull of a once fat steer (cause we know they lost their balls somewhere down the line to let the rest of the BCS line up at the BUFFET table of their teams w/o any legal injunctions or plans to raid MWC or grab Boise to make their B12 conference bigger and better than it was.)

Die B12 Die! seems to be the aim of the rest of the BCS right now.
Now if they can do this to one of their own. Who in their right mind thinks they have any inklings of fairness for the rest of the D1 football world out there?

B12 survivors + MWC + WAC Must combine and form their own superconference to compete.

THis means that if the SEC raids and ACC does too in the EAST that the BE will be the main target. WV is gonna end up out of the BE as will some of their bigger teams again.

THis will leave the BE bleeding and twitching again like the B12 is now.

The BE will have to Raid the MAC, the C-USA to form it's own superconference to have a chance to belly up to the till of the BCS.

WHat then will happen w/ a 16+ team Superconference will be a split internally to a Premier Top 8 group and a Bottom 8 Group forming two internal subdivisions.
All nominally D1 all nominally allowed to compete for the National Championship under the BCS banner...
To stay in the Premier division you must have a Winning season and at least a .500 season w/in your own Superconference or get demoted...or do better and get promoted...

This controls the teams internally w/o actually demoting them to D-1AA status, lets them still play at D1-A status and be there as OOC games for other BCS Superconferences. (You'll see them scheduling the "B" teams more than the "A" league for OCC and still claim it's the BE-BCS conference they are playing OOC!! "TOUT! TOUT!"
THis allows for regional and traditional rivalries to remain on the table as well as adding in a A vs B Championship (guaranteeing most of the time thawt the A team is the winner of course.) And thus keeping the rankings of the rest of the A league set until Bowl Season is up and the team cards can be dealt. (You'll always see that the A league gets preference over the B here internally too and money will be weighted to the A league more heavily because of this. But then if a B team is higher ranked. Why then, that's what at large bowl games are for. Aren't they?


Any takers on this format here as a Bet? A frosty can of suds might be the prize!
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[MiamiMAC]

Uh, Mr. G, meds feeling good?

The Big 12 lost 2 also-ran schools. When was the last time Nebraska or Colorado were considered conference making teams?
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[NickSkin]

It's official. Conference realignment is over...with a whimper

Texas & all other schools to remain in Big 12 per ESPN:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5286672

This means that the BIG 10, now with 12 teams, will continue to wait for Notre Dame. However now it can play a championship game.

PAC 10 will make a play for Utah to get to 12 & stop...for now. It too can play a championship game.

With Texas A&M staying in the BIG 12, the SEC is unlikely to expand into the ACC.

Mountain West adds Boise but losses Utah

WAC lost the most so far with the departure of Boise

Can the MAC do anything to improve its lot?
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[kamuohio]

[kamuohio]

Something here or is PA's footprint what he is talking about?


http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/13129/nebraska-officials-gush-about-big-ten

Osborne on recruiting: "Sometimes you hear people say, 'Well, this will really affect your Texas recruiting, and it might.' We will continue to recruit Texas. We will continue to get some players out of Texas, maybe not as many, but we certainly can get more, probably, in the Midwest and the East Coast." Does he know something about the Big Ten's next expansion move?
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[CAredhawk13]

Things we have learned:

1. Texas does value tradition...and $$$

2. The Big (10-12) is the devil

3. Colorado and Nebraska thought ESPN reported facts and got skrewed

I couldnt be happier

[JrDex19]

I think the Big 12 should become the LAC (Longhorn Athletic Conference) the way everyone bent over for them. They almost have to add 2 teams sooner than later. Not playing a championship game will be fine until TX gets screwed by the long delay between regular season and the bowls and then MEMPHIS/TCU/whoever will be getting a phone call.


Nebraska has to be glad they are moving to the Big 10 (++) .

It will be interesting to see if Colorado regrets the move and who becomes the Pac 12?
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[NickSkin]

I don't know if the B10 needs to add BE teams UNLESS it feels that at least one of the teams added brings additional $$$ to the table. No reason the B10 should split the pot of $$$ it currently enjoys unless there is a bigger windfall from an added team.

Nebraska now allows the B10 to play a championship game which adds revenue.

Sounds as though the B12 is currently happy with 10. Although it loses a championship game, the redone TV package should more than make up for it.
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[OldSchoolScholar]

Have we lost all sense of Geographic Correctness?
Colorado and (almost) Texas in the Pacific Athletic Conference???

Also, we are having difficulties with The New Math (again). As of this morning, The PAC-10 has 11 teams, The Big Ten has 12, and The Big 12 has ten.
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