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Football season cometh.
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Goodbye to the PAC-12
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Oregon and Washington to the BIG-10. Oregon State and Washington State likely consigned to the Mountain West. Rumor has it the BIG-10 may add Stanford and Notre Dame - or Cal if the Irish don’t agree.
Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will join Colorado in the BIG-12.
Next conference to be dismembered is the ACC….
Oregon, Washington officially join Big Ten
Oregon and Washington officially joined the Big Ten Conference on Friday, expanding the conference to 18 members beginning in 2024.
Oregon and Washington to the BIG-10. Oregon State and Washington State likely consigned to the Mountain West. Rumor has it the BIG-10 may add Stanford and Notre Dame - or Cal if the Irish don’t agree.
Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will join Colorado in the BIG-12.
Next conference to be dismembered is the ACC….
Seriously…this is destroying the old regional rivalries that meant so much. I guess by 2030 there will be just two conferences like the NFL.Goodbye to the PAC-12
Oregon, Washington officially join Big Ten
Oregon and Washington officially joined the Big Ten Conference on Friday, expanding the conference to 18 members beginning in 2024.
Oregon and Washington to the BIG-10. Oregon State and Washington State likely consigned to the Mountain West. Rumor has it the BIG-10 may add Stanford and Notre Dame - or Cal if the Irish don’t agree.
Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will join Colorado in the BIG-12.
Next conference to be dismembered is the ACC….
The SEC (as we think of it now) won’t survive this either…something like the “National College Conference” and the “American College Conference.” Much better for beer selling TV rights. Still, I welcome the more robust playoff schedule.
From Tony Kornheiser on ESPN:
Does Big Ten rival SEC in football after Oregon, Washington additions? - ESPN Video
Pablo Torre and Tony Kornheiser analyze how the Big Ten compares to the SEC on the gridiron after Oregon's and Washington's arrival.
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As for the ACC, if they are dismembered, who will the SEC take?
1: FSU
2: Clemson
3: North Carolina
After that, for a 4th - and maybe 5th and 6th, I would guess in order of probability:
1: Virginia
2: Miami
3: Duke (for basketball)
Everyone else is effectively consigned to the minor leagues: NC State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and especially Virginia Tech - some schools with good football and great fanbases - unless they get picked up by another conference. Brutal not to have a conference when the music stops.
An old, but great clip, from VA Tech vs Miami: (gotta love having Metallica’s Enter Sandman”)
I agree, which is why the SEC and Big 10 are equally doomed. I’m half joking, but we aren’t far from two meaningless mega-conferences.From Tony Kornheiser on ESPN:
Does Big Ten rival SEC in football after Oregon, Washington additions? - ESPN Video
Pablo Torre and Tony Kornheiser analyze how the Big Ten compares to the SEC on the gridiron after Oregon's and Washington's arrival.
As for the ACC, if they are dismembered, who will the SEC take?
1: FSU
2: Clemson
3: North Carolina
After that, for a 4th - and maybe 5th and 6th, I would guess in order of probability:
1: Virginia
2: Miami
3: Duke (for basketball)
Everyone else is effectively consigned to the minor leagues: NC State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and especially Virginia Tech - some schools with good football and great fanbases - unless they get picked up by another conference. Brutal not to have a conference when the music stops.
An old, but great clip, from VA Tech vs Miami: (gotta love having Metallica’s Enter Sandman”)
One difference is that the BIG-10 now spans the breadth of the continent- 4 time zones - from Maryland and New Jersey in the East to California, Oregon and Washington in the West. The SEC is still a contiguous and comparatively compact group in the Southeastern quadrant of the US - from South Carolina to Texas.
Rick Pitino suggested that you have football only conferences for television rights while all other sports could stay in their traditional conferences. That would seem to be an excellent compromise.
… to then be defeated by the team that lost the SEC championship but still got in to the CFP.
This sport is silly.
I’ll still watch if Michigan is in. It’s entertaining. Which is all it’s meant to be.
Edit: also, there is an argument to be made that the expanded playoff will increase parity. More teams = more chance for chaos and shifting power dynamics. Also increased exposure for teams outside of the SEC leading to more balanced recruiting.
This.
Interesting read: the 2 biggest prizes (outside of Notre Dame) are UNC and Virginia due to new television markets. Local politics could force whoever takes UNC to also take NC State, whoever takes Virginia also must accept VA Tech.
The desirability of the big ACC football schools Clemson, FSU and Miami to either the SEC or BIG-10 could be much less than commonly accepted. Too far to travel for the BIG-10, too big a temptation to wither the ACC’s schools recruiting from a SEC perspective.
Dying on the ACC vine: what will Big Ten, SEC do about FSU, Clemson, and Miami?
A source with intimate knowledge of the realignment landscape in college athletics has sent us information on what could happen in the future.
Meanwhile, a fascinating backstory on the PAC-12. ESPN offered $30M per school (BIG-12 level money) but the PAC-12 demanded SEC/BIG-12 money. ESPN’s response: Goodbye and goodluck.