the Everybody Is Wound Too Tight Total B.S. Conspiracy Realignment Thread:
Headlines from this past Week:
1. Dennis Dodds says that UCLA and USC never signed the PAC GOR.
2. 12 Big 10 schools vote not to play football this year and Iowa and Nebraska vote to play.
3. Arkansas and Missouri are wholly pissed off about the two SEC games that were added to their schedules.
4. Trevor Lawrence wants to play ball and actually has some pretty compelling arguments to do so.
5. There is an interesting legal potential arising out of schools who want to fulfill their contracts and play versus those who do not. Could this void GOR's? Possibly.
So let's run with the real stuff and take it to what might be Never Never Land.
There's so much stuff going on it all has be interconnected in a great nexus of corporate control. So ESPN is following the old axiom of "Let no crisis go to waste!" The Big 10 is a FOX property so of course they should be busted up. Texas is an ESPN product of course they need to be enhanced. And the PAC is nobody's product as their rights are leased. So here goes:
Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas want to move back to the Big 12. U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. join them along with Utah. Colorado rejoins since two Cali schools are coming. Notre Dame finally joins USC and Texas.
Vanderbilt drops out. Texas A&M doubles down on staying.
Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Clemson sign on to play for the season with the SEC. It will be a move that proves to be permanent. N.C. State and Va Tech manages to get permission to play as well. They'll stay. West Virginia and Louisville join as well.
North Carolina, Duke, Pitt and Virginia decide not to play at all so they join the Big 10. Boston College and Syracuse will soon follow.
Now we have a 54 member upper tier 36 of whom will play this year, and 18 more that will join us at a later date.
Big 10:
Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, Penn State, Pitt, Virginia
Boston College, Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers, Syracuse
Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin
Big 12:
Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska
Arkansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, T.C.U.
California Los Angeles, Colorado, Notre Dame, Southern Call, Texas Tech, Utah
SEC:
Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina
Kentucky, Louisville, N.C. State, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
Alabama, Auburn, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Texas A&M
Voila Covid solves what the Networks couldn't accomplish.
ESPN owns the Big 12 and SEC outright. FOX holds 51% of the Big 10 and ESPN covers the rest.
If the remaining PAC teams want to play then perhaps Cal, Stanford, Washington and Oregon affiliate with another conference.
Vanderbilt and Wake Forest drop down.
Miami goes independent.
Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State sit it out and wait. You snooze you lose.
Now you guys are supposed to have fun with this. I just wanted to get it started. So using this premise one, two, three, go!
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