(08-15-2019 09:16 AM)zoocrew Wrote:  What do people think happens step by step if the Texahoma 4 go to the PAC for 16? Not asking whether you think that happens or not.

First let me say I think this would be the best possible thing to happen for the sport of college football, but right now it is virtually impossible.

1. The PAC Network needs to be owned outside of the incompetent PAC offices. It could be streamlined by the carrier handling it to cut down on needless overhead and could focus on events that actually draw eyeballs instead of appeal to a limited number of donors.

2. By monetizing the PACN properly the gap preventing the possibility of movement could be closed part of the way.

3. Don't think in terms of 4 schools, think in terms of 8 in a move to 20. For that to happen the PAC snobbishness over academics needs to come to an end. It would behoove both the PAC and Big 10 to keep their academic conference separate from their athletic conference since the two serve two different missions.

Add Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, and Brigham Young. That makes a helluva PAC 20 and opens many slots in the Central Time Zone in which to sell more inventory driving up revenue.

PAC West: Arizona, Arizona State, California, U.C.L.A., U.S.C.
PAC North: Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State
PAC East: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
PAC South: Brigham Young, Colorado, Texas, Texas Tech, Utah

4. What this does is put the PAC into 3 time zones tripling their national exposure, adding solid football and basketball schools and keeping a core of schools that desire to stay together together. It also takes the two biggest balance shifters to a conference where it keeps things in balance with the SEC and Big 10.

5. Such a move would destabilize the ACC. If the SEC and Big 10 grew to 20 each out of the ACC it wouldn't destroy the balance that 3 conferences of 20 would bring to college football's upper tier.

Virginia, Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh join the Big 10.

Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, N.C. State and Texas Christian join the SEC.

Big 10 East: Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia
Big 10 NE: Ohio State, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse
Big 10 NW: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue
Big 10 West: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin

SEC North: Clemson, Kentucky, N.C. State, Virginia Tech, Tennessee
SEC East: Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina
SEC South: Alabama, Florida State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt
SEC West: Arkansas, Louisiana State, Missouri, Texas A&M, T.C.U.

Those 3 conferences would offer a lot more balance than having either the SEC or Big 10 picking up one or both of Texas and Oklahoma. And the income difference that exists now between the 5 P conferences would be greatly ameliorated.

I don't offer the schools I've included as definitive, just as an illustration of what it might look like.

It would create conference semifinals and the CFP would remain 4 schools (3 champs and 1 at large).