Super Conferences

Nebraska makes no sense to me at all. Why would the Big 10 want them ? They have a great football tradition but it's in a state with a very small population and no significant tv markets.

 

Nebraska to the Big Ten looks to be a foregone conclusion. Tom Osbourne just made his recommendation to the NU board of regency to move to the Big Ten. KU, KS and Iowa State are soiling themselves as we speak.

3 for the Big 12

 

Wow, sad day for the Big 12. Money over common sense.

 

If I was king for a day, this would be my breakdown of conferences...


PAC 16:

Washington
Wash. St.
Oregon
Oregon St.
Cal
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Arizona
Arizona St.
Texas
TT
T A&M
Oklahoma
Ok. St
Colorado


Midwest Hybrid Conf.

Kansas
Kansas St.
Missouri
Iowa
Iowa St.
Minnesota
Colorado St.
Marquette
Baylor
Memphis


Big 10-Plus

Nebraska
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Illinois
Michigan
Michigan St.
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern
Penn State
Ohio State
Rutgers
Notre Dame
Pitt



ACC

FSU
Miami
South Florida
GT
Clemson
State
Carolina
Wake
Duke
VT
UVA
West Virginia
Maryland
Syracuse
Connecticut
Georgetown



Big East/Atlantic 10 Hybrid Conf.

Louisville
Cincinatti
Charlotte
East Carolina
Richmond
Temple
Xavier
Villanova
St. Johns
Rhode Island
Boston College
Providence
Seton Hall


The PAC 16, SEC and Big 10 Plus get 2 BCS berths each. ACC and Midwest Hybrid get 1 BCS berth each. A 9th BCS bid could serve as a wild card bid to any other team (i.e. Boise St.)

You would play a nine team playoff over a 3.5 week period to determine a National Champ. Everyone else in Div 1-A will play for a chance in post season bowls.

 

Genius idea NCAA Football. Travel expenses are so goddamn high already, teams are going to start playing via GoToMeeting.

 

Either that or XB360

 

From ESPNInsider. Texas to the Pac-10 might not happen

UPDATE: A piece by one Pauly Balst, whose name shows up on a number of blogs, at KentSterling.com (Sterling is a former program director at two Indianapolis radio stations) also reports that College Station sources say that Texas and Texas A&M could very well join the Big Ten. This would be the second phase of the conference's expansion, with Notre Dame and either Rutgers or Syracuse then coming aboard to bring the conference to 16.

In the comments section, Sterling adds that he hears that Indiana alum Mark Cuban is involved in discussions. Could things get any weirder?

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UPDATE: Kansas City TV station KCTV5 reports: "High-level sources in multiple conferences have told KCTV5 that Texas and Texas A&M are looking to move to the Big Ten Conference and have petitioned for membership." This would seem to jibe with the item from below, and the timetable seems possible given that officials from the two schools met with each other Thursday morning.

However, Chip Brown of OrangeBloods.com, who jumpstarted this last week of speculation with his original report on the Pac-16's interest in expanding to 16, tweeted this in response: "There's a Kansas City TV report saying Texas and A&M to the Big Ten. That would be news to those schools."

Whose sources are more in the know? Chances are we may find out in the next 24 hours.

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We're not sure if there is an ounce of truth in this, but we thought it worth passing along. According to a poster on a Northwestern message board who claims to have a friend who works in the Big Ten office, the league has offered (or invited to apply for membership, as the case may be) Texas, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Missouri in its efforts to expand to 16 -- with the Missouri offer contingent on Texas and/or Notre Dame joining.

Now, before we all dismiss this out of hand, know that a previous post by this same person -- which included some details that we have seen reported elsewhere -- supposedly angered commissioner Jim Delany, which would suggest that the source very well could be legitimate. (This assumes, of course, that the report of Delany's getting upset is true.)

Knowledge of this plan could very well be why Missouri AD Mike Alden has been quiet recently. The question is whether Texas or Notre Dame will play ball. Their answers almost seem to hinge on the other's decision -- neither one would have incentive to join without the other on board, but if the other isn't on board then why join? (The Big Ten's rumored plan to plunder -- or threaten to plunder -- the Big East in order to land the Irish appears to be dead.)

Chip Brown of OrangeBloods.com has been right about pretty much everything since he first broke the Pac-10's plans last week, and he has said that Texas is not particularly excited about being the southern boundary of the Big Ten. But a conference with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Nebraska and Notre Dame might be extremely appealing to the Longhorns -- or it could send them scurrying to the less competitive Pac-10.

All the reports about Thursday's meeting between Texas and Texas A&M officials have centered on saving the Big 12, moving to the Pac-10 or potentially considering the SEC. Could it be that the Big Ten is still on the table?



If Texas goes to Big Ten then Utah goes to Pac-Ten making 12. Pac-10 will not take on other Big12 teams without Texas coming in. So no Texas/Texas Tech, then no Oklahoma and Ok St

 

So for sure we've got Colorado to the Pac-10, Boise State to the Mountain West and Nebraska to the Big 10 now. I guess Texas is the next big decision everyone will wait on.

Looking at this from another angle, it would seem that now would be a pretty good time for an App State to make a jump to the bowl division wouldn't it?

 

What about the possibility of UNC and perhaps Va Tech jumping to the SEC ?

 

3 for the Big 12

Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State to PAC-10 no later than Tuesday afternoon per 4 sources according to ESPN​