(09-04-2022 10:34 AM)Big 12 fan too Wrote:  You have such wounded ACC pride!

Nah, the ACC is 10-3.

(09-04-2022 10:34 AM)Big 12 fan too Wrote:  As I’ve stated many times, the Big 12 was also a corporate marriage driven by the need to expand footprint for survival. Not as much Frankenstein as ACC, but an element of it. Both conferences therefore more susceptible to departures in this consolidation.

T-Boy, your numbers don't add up here. The majority of the ACC still traces its roots back to the SoCon. The rest were all major independents that never had consistent conference homes until now.

The Big XII is all over the place and spans from Orlando to Salt Lake. The Big Ten will span from New Jersey to Los Angeles, with a whole lot of space in between.

You're just being biased.

(09-04-2022 10:34 AM)Big 12 fan too Wrote:  The P2 era has been coming ever since the three weak conferences couldn’t figure out how to recombine in a setup that could lead to a true P3. All three flirted with ways to add some of the other in a quest to keep up, with the ACC and Big 12 already being products of such a process. But in the end, P2 was always a more likely outcome.

Well, the playoff will feature six conference champs, so I'm going to call it the T6 era: Top Six.

(09-04-2022 10:34 AM)Big 12 fan too Wrote:  I’mnot a NIU fan. I’m big 12 fan too in the sense I have a 10+ year prediction that it wasn’t really a Big 12 issue in realignment, but consolidation that would hit other conferences. This account was for explaining the econometrics driving that consolidation to NIU fans that thought they had a chance of Big 12. I don’t care too much about games, or really any school or conference. It’s already a P2 era, which is good for the sport in the long run. The Big 12 and PAC are already rump states, and it being immaterial what year the Big East schools let FSU and Clemson go to SEC