P5 Expansion...Where do you see it going?
If you could look into the future how do you see the power conferences turning out? Here's how I see it:
PAC-20
NORTH
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
Boise State (Gets in the conference by just constantly winning and improving facilities and adds Boise area and really solidifies great NW)
WEST
Cal
Stanford
San Diego State (PAC takes SDSU to really put a strong hold on San Diego for the conference, great basketball)
UCLA
USC
SOUTH
UNLV (Adds the Nevada state and Las Vegas and creates a bridge from California to Arizona, good academics, great basketball)
Arizona
Arizona State
New Mexico (Gets the PAC into New Mexico / Albuquerque area, great basketball school, good academics)
UTEP (Gets the PAC into Texas and El Paso area, good basketball)
EAST
Utah
BYU (PAC sucks it up and takes controversial BYU, who would be the last big players in the western US for college sports, great following and good sports, adds Utah rival)
Colorado
Air Force (The PAC takes Air Force to give Colorado a rival, better choice then Colorado State because of better fan following and gives a military team for California schools to play to for large military state / area, Air Force also has great academics and good size football stadium)
Texas Tech (The PAC takes Texas Tech to get another Texas school. West Texas would be owned by the PAC and Texas Tech adds good sports and fan following gets TTU a chance to separate from UT and TAMU)
LEFT OUT: Fresno State
Others Left Out: San Jose State, Hawaii, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico State, Wyoming, Colorado State
SEC
WEST
Oklahoma (OU gives the SEC another great power and the state of Oklahoma, makes Mizzou happy also bringing back old Big 8 schools)
Texas (UT brings another big time power, more Texas fans, an AAU school etc., makes Ark and OU happy, old SWC back together kind of)
Texas A&M
Rice (SEC takes Rice to have all the Southern Ivy schools in its conference and to take the Houston market, also another Texas school for UT, A&M, OU, and Ark to play)
Missouri
Arkansas
SOUTH
LSU
Tulane (SEC takes original member Tulane to have another AAU member and grab all Southern Ivy schools and take control of New Orleans market)
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Alabama
Auburn
EAST
South Carolina
Clemson (Takes one of the last true Southern college football schools not in the SEC and adds them as an SEC member to keep another conference from gaining a foot hold in the region)
Georgia
Georgia Tech (Original member of the SEC returns so the SEC can have another AAU school and really have a foot hold on Atlanta market)
Florida
Florida State (SEC takes FSU to grab another great Southern football power not in the SEC, adds more Florida fans)
NORTH
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Virginia (Gives the SEC another AAU school and access to DC and Virginia markets and gives a rival for UNC)
North Carolina (Gets the SEC into North Carolina market, another AAU school, and the famous Duke-Carolina basketball rivalry)
Duke (Same as UNC)
Left Out: Miami, NC State, Virginia Tech, Louisville, TCU, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Wake Forest, West Virginia
Others: Tulsa, Houston, SMU, Louisiana, UCF, Southern Miss, Memphis, South Florida, East Carolina, Old Dominion, etc....
BIG TEN
WEST
Nebraska
Kansas (Gets Big Ten into Kansas / Kansas City, great basketball and another AAU Mid-West school)
Iowa State (Big Ten gets another AAU Mid-West school to please Mid-West schools after multiple east coast adds, also prevents another conference from snagging up an AAU school in Big Ten territory, great fan base)
Iowa
Minnesota
NORTH
Illinois
Northwestern
Michigan
Michigan State
Purdue
SOUTH
Ohio State
Pitt (Gets another east coast / cultural fit AAU school for Big Ten good sports and would grow in Big Ten)
Penn State
Maryland
Indiana
EAST
Notre Dame (A non AAU member but the cream of the crop for Northern and NE football fans goes perfect with Ohio St and Mich...imagine a Big Ten playoff of Neb, Ohio St, Mich., and ND)
Syracuse (A former AAU school like Nebraska, great basketball and gets the Big Ten into New York state and more of the New York market)
Boston College (Private catholic school to go along with Notre Dame to play, gets the conference into Boston area, great academics)
Rutgers
Connecticut (To balance the conference UCONN gets into the Big Ten as long as they can become an AAU member, gives them a great basketball power and another presence in NYC and New England)
Left Out: Kansas State, Cincinnati, Navy, and Army
Others: Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Temple, UMASS, NIU, Ohio, Buffalo, etc...
The left overs of TCU, SMU, Baylor, Houston, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Colorado State, Tulsa, Louisiana, Memphis, East Carolina, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Louisville, Cincinnati, Temple, UCF, South Florida, NC State, Wake Forest, Miami, UAB, Georgia Southern, and Southern Miss would probably all join together to create a Big 24 conference that would be the best of the rest and would have a spot at one of the four overall playoff spots.
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