Conference Realignment
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redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
Yeah if the B1G Championship game is not at the Rose Bowl in at least 1 out of 3 years moving forward I would be STUNNED.
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
There might be a silver lining for Oregon State and Washington State if they take it (and maybe more cash if ASU and Utah bottle it)
Give it about five more years and the constant rain will just be a thing old folks talk about.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I am tempted to go along with you, but the reality of this is just a whole heaping bunch of Maryland vs Washington, and vanishingly little of the real Big Ten teams playing football games against each other.
We're not even going to play the Iowas and Minnesotas of the world every other year now.
They killed it. It's over.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
MacArthur Court is melting in the dark,
All the sweet. green icing flowing down, Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Oh nooo!
Kramerica Industries
- Greenville, SC
What’s more likely? A pod system or a return to two divisions?
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
It's not the players that lose the ball in the trees, it's the fans watching. The first time I saw a televised UO game on the court I had a headache within 15 mins.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
and I get a headache watching Boise St play on that damn Smurf Turf
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
It's a tragedy that William Shatner never covered that one.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
As I laid out earlier, I think they can keep the "current" format (announced earlier this summer) by just adding a 10th conference game*. Everyone has three annual games made up of 0,1, 2, or 3 permanent rivalries and the rest rotate in and out every few years, while the remaining 14 teams you play every other year. Maybe they have to wait a few years to do that, but I bet that is what they work toward.
Now, if they expand beyond 18, I'm not sure what they could do. I'm sure they would consider a similar format, but you just wouldn't play every team in a 2 year cycle. It would have to be at least once every 3 or 4 years.
*As for adding the 10th conference game, I imagine each team / Fox would be able to afford paying to cancel a non-conference buy-game (like Eastern Illinois in 2024, for example). It will no doubt be tricky, and the smaller programs that rely on these games to fund their programs will suffer, but I imagine that is what they look at first.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
It's that old saying " you can't see the court for the trees ".......At least I think that's how it goes ........................................./s
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
One sad part of this is that many of the Pac 12 fans were tricked into thinking everything was fine and now the trap door opened.
IlliniSaluki
- IL metro east burbs of St. Louis
If Pac 12 fans really believed this, I have some ocean front property I'd like to sell them...
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
if the ACC falls apart, ND likely needs to affiliate with some conference
ACC were fools to accommodate them , no one else will
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So does the college football playoffs wait until the dust settles to determine how the 12 teams will be selected. Right now there is the Sec Big 10 Big 12 ACC. If any other conference collapses the format has to change
“The 12-team format will feature, in order, the top four conference champions, followed by some combination of the top six at-large bids and two highest-ranked remaining conference champions. Teams will be ordered based on the College Football Playoff rankings.”
www.sportingnews.com
“The 12-team format will feature, in order, the top four conference champions, followed by some combination of the top six at-large bids and two highest-ranked remaining conference champions. Teams will be ordered based on the College Football Playoff rankings.”
College football's 12-team playoff, explained: Start date, how it will work & more to know about new CFP format | Sporting News
The Sporting News provides a detailed explainer on the College Football Playoff, from start date to format to how it would look in 2022.
www.sportingnews.com
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
getting AD's and coaches to give up an alomsot automatic W to play a 10th conference game is NOT going to be an easy sell.
SEC is still only playing 8 league games
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