(02-17-2016 09:43 PM)murrdcu Wrote: (02-17-2016 08:41 PM)JRsec Wrote: I just want to point out that nothing is set in stone. No deals are done. Only twitter hit whores are speculating. And at least one Big 12 sports writer still thinks OU is headed to the SEC.
Thoughts?
When do we get to beat the Sooners in conference play?
Really is there a bad 18 or 20 school SEC/Big 10 scenario?
Let's start with 20:
Big 10 adds Kansas, Boston College, Syracuse, Pitt, Virginia Tech, & N.C. State. There is only 1 duplicated state in that mix.
The SEC adds Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas and Miami. Notre Dame lands a scheduling agreement, gets bowl connections, and agrees to 6 games versus SEC opponents and all they surrender are T2 & T3 rights to ESPN & the SECN. They remain independent and are not eligible for the conference championship.
Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Louisville join with Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Baylor, T.C.U., Texas Tech, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Colorado State, South Florida, Central Florida, and Brigham Young to form a new 16 member conference.
The PAC stays as is.
OR
The Big 10 lands: Duke, Kansas, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Syracuse, and Virginia.
The SEC lands: Clemson, Florida State, N.C. State, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia Tech.
A new conference is formed out of the remnants and the best G5 remaining. The PAC remains the same.
Why did I pick these alignments? Because neither the SEC nor Big 10 will violate contiguity, or locate outside of their cultural identity. North Carolina and Virginia are truly border states between the two conferences. Georgia and Florida are not. Just as Pennsylvania and North are not for the SEC.
Why Texas and Oklahoma? Because they won't fit the new conference culturally, economically, or historically.
Personally I still like 18:
Big 10 adds Syracuse, Virginia Tech, N.C. State and Boston College.
SEC adds Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida State. Notre Dame attaches as an independent as described above.
The Big 12 survives as is and adds: Clemson, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Pitt, and Miami. To this they add Connecticut, Cincinnati, and B.Y.U. Now they stand at a very productive 18 as well.
Cincinnati, Connecticut, Iowa State, Louisville, Pitt, West Virginia
Baylor, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, T.C.U., Texas
Brigham Young, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech
OR,
The Big 10 adds Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, and Virginia.
The SEC adds Clemson, Florida State, N.C. State and Virginia Tech
The Big 12 still expands to 18 out of the remnants.