(07-21-2021 05:13 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(07-21-2021 04:58 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  Ugh. The rich get richer.

So if this were to occur, I think we'd see the SEC move to 4-team pods:

Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina
LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M

None of the remaining power conferences (now the P4) make any moves. The Big 12 restocks with Cincinnati and UCF, the AAC restocks with UAB (or falls apart entirely), and CUSA stands pat. Boring realignment. Wasted opportunity.

If they do rotating pods, that line up makes the sense.

As far as the Big 12 restock goes, I think your 6 top players are:

Houston
UCF
Cincinnati
USF
BYU
Memphis

I suspect they will keep things small and stick with 9 or 10 members.

The American survives but only restocks to 10 members.

XII adding Houston is the best way to get back at Texas for leaving.

Going all the way back to 12 is possible. Houston, SMU, Memphis and Cincinnati.

The AAC is going to take a big hit. Who is going to join Wichita, Tulsa, Tulane, UCF, USF, ECU and Temple in a conference? Travel with those 7 is terrible. Wichita can go back to the MVC or join the MWC. The MWC would be a stronger football conference moving forward at that point.