UW is on par with much of the Big 10
USC, UCLA to join the Big Ten in 2024
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Imagine adding USC, ND and Miami all in one round of realignment.
Imagine you're a star in a Hollywood movie
Rose Bowl did $200mm worth of renovations less than ten years ago. There still are some core problems with the venue that will never be fixed (parking egress, narrow tunnels, bench seating, majority of seats in end zones) but it’s a lot fresher than it used to be. And the location and history are priceless.
Not a chance. They are two entirely different worlds and cultures. Berkley to UCLA is a 6 hour drive. UIUC to Ohio State is what 4.5?
It’s official, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Absolutely amazing this didn’t leak before the day it happened.
The BIG Ten West football just got a lot tougher. Gulp.
Absolutely amazing this didn’t leak before the day it happened.
The BIG Ten West football just got a lot tougher. Gulp.
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The SEC doesn't care about Ga Tech. Heck, most of Atlanta barely cares about Ga Tech.
FWIW, the SEC rarely cares about any ACC schools not named Clemson or Florida.
Joel Goodson
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More schools are going to ask the BIG for an invitation. If denied, they will certainly look elsewhere. The game is afoot.
My mistake. UW would be middle of the pack in the Big10 academically.
Which college football conferences have the best academic rankings?
The conference with the best average ranking in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings might surprise you.
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UW may get left out due to geography. UCLA/USC and Stanford/Berkley are nice geographical pairs. Who does one pair with UW? Oregon is a big step down academically (Another Nebraska fiasco?). WU, an OSU are well below that.
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You're telling me there aren't USC and UCLA alumni in the Bay area?
The UCLA Bay Area alumni group claims there are 40,000 alumni in the Bay area. The UCLA Alumni Association claims about 500,000 total alumni. So a significant portion of UCLA alumni base lives in the Bay area.
The US News Rankings are total C R A P.....My mistake. UW would be middle of the pack in the Big10 academically.
They use the USNews rankings.Which college football conferences have the best academic rankings?
The conference with the best average ranking in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings might surprise you.
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Not so fast. Do you think USC & UCLA are the only schools joining?
Super accurate way to describe what is happening.
My mistake. UW would be middle of the pack in the Big10 academically.
Which college football conferences have the best academic rankings?
The conference with the best average ranking in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings might surprise you.
medium.com
(I lived in the bay area for ~30 years.) There are some UCLA fans in the bay area. They are a minority (40k/10M is about 0.4%). Anyone looking to get the Bay Area audience from them will be disappointed.
For college sports:
Stanford (Surprisingly many given the school size.)
Berkeley (You go for the party, and faint hopes.)
San Jose State (A much bigger school than people realize.)
For the pro sports people watch:
SF Giants [Oakland Raiders]
Golden State Warriors
We better hope not, we would be among those potentially being at risk of being shoved out of a football-dominated super-conference.
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PLEASE LET THE ERA OF RELEGATION BEGIN!
Check the ratings for those schools though. Apparently they are not that great of a media draw.
I'm not saying UCLA and USC gets you a monopoly in the Bay area, but their alums are enough to get you on cable there. That's significant. You can absolutely consolidate by going Berkley, Stanford or both. I'm just saying it may make more sense to add a large market in which you don't have any presence at all, such as Phoenix, Denver, Arlanta, Houston, Miami.My mistake. UW would be middle of the pack in the Big10 academically.
They use the USNews rankings.Which college football conferences have the best academic rankings?
The conference with the best average ranking in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings might surprise you.
(I lived in the bay area for ~30 years.) There are some UCLA fans in the bay area. They are a minority (40k/10M is about 0.4%). Anyone looking to get the Bay Area audience from them will be disappointed.
For college sports:
Stanford (Surprisingly many given the school size.)
Berkeley (You go for the party, and faint hopes.)
San Jose State (A much bigger school than people realize.)
For the pro sports people watch:
SF Giants [Oakland Raiders]
Golden State Warriors
Well the question mark can be removed from the title of this thread. As mentioned earlier by @WeWillWhen, hard to believe that this didn't leak earlier.
Phil Knight and Nike money make Oregon a national program. No way they’re being left out of a top slot in a reformed super-conference.My mistake. UW would be middle of the pack in the Big10 academically.
They use the USNews rankings.Which college football conferences have the best academic rankings?
The conference with the best average ranking in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings might surprise you.
UW may get left out due to geography. UCLA/USC and Stanford/Berkley are nice geographical pairs. Who does one pair with UW? Oregon is a big step down academically (Another Nebraska fiasco?). WU, an OSU are well below that.
UW and Oregon is a compelling pair; they’re already rivals, and traditionally battle for Northwest football supremacy. Big losers there are WSU and The Other OSU.
Theres lots ot losers today. Hopefully this means Illinois is going to come out ahead. I worry at some point the super teams of College Football are going to want to leave the rest of their conferences behind.
Almost certainly they are not
Yeah how did Illinois fall from about 5th in the 1980s to 47th?
The bit about USC and UCLA being the ones to initiate the process could be just PR spin from inside the B1G to make the conference out as less of the badie. But if that's actually true, it speaks volumes about the real-time state of college football. Once Texas and Oklahoma went for the money play, the other major programs had to reassess. At least two of the biggest obviously concluded that two super-conferences was an inevitability. Who else on that tier can feel comfortable now just staying put.
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