(06-06-2013 04:35 PM)NJRedMan Wrote:  

(06-06-2013 04:32 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(06-06-2013 03:49 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(06-06-2013 03:21 PM)NJRedMan Wrote:  

(06-06-2013 02:38 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  you mean Boise is pushing

They have a legit BBall lineup and their FB conference is much deeper than just Boise. Watch out for Fresno this season along with Utah St and SD St. Boise might not even be in the inaugural FB championship game.

Utah St. had one good year. Their bball got knocked out tourney time, doubt they get that many in ever again. The AAC has Memphis, UConn, Cincy, Temple, top flight recruiting classes in SMU and Houston, and ECU/UCF are on the cusp.

As a conference the AAC has earned nothing, and past history has no bearing on the matter. The BEast was in the same position after the first ACC raid, when Miami, VT, and BC bailed on the conference. Most of the nation thought that without Miami and VT The BEast would lose its BCS bid in no time flat, and if WVU hadn't beaten Georgia in the 2006 Sugar Bowl it might have happened. But WVU and Louisville won 3 straight BCS bowl games, proving The BEast best days were far from over...

The AAC is now under the same gun, and talking about past history won't change that. You guys will need to prove you can win on the big stage before the conference will get any respect from the nation's media...

Exactly! They need UCF to win the league and then win a BCS bowl.

Why UCF?

If the Big Ten is after they move to 9 conference games, the math is wrong.

Consider the case of the locked schools. They will have two unlocked cross division games. There are six unlocked cross division schools to play. So that's 33%.

Now, for the unlocked schools, they have on average, 2.66667 games to play against the six unlocked cross division schools, which is 44%.

That's only an average, and there will be series both above and below that average over any student's four years of eligibility. The limit they place on tinkering around with the scheduling frequency is every school plays every other school at least once within a four year span, so the unlocked cross division schedules are more like a range with a minimum of 25% and a maximum of 50% or 66%.

Big Ten
Football (everyone but Indiana and Purdue):
6 teams: 100%
6 teams: 44.4% (8 out of 18)
1 team (Indiana or Purdue): 33.3% (6 out of 18)

Football (for Purdue/Indiana):
7 teams (division teams and Indiana/Purdue): 100%
6 teams: 33.3% (6 out of 18)