(10-17-2020 11:52 AM)CrazyPaco Wrote: (10-17-2020 10:30 AM)schmolik Wrote: Do you ever wonder if the Big 12 should have taken Louisville over West Virginia as its 10th member?
They probably should have taken both, and one of USF or Cincy to get to 12.
But the B12 was mostly interested in keeping their media contract from being reopened due to dipping below 10 members.
This is a scenario I’ve often mulled over. Had someone in the Big 12 war room been adamant about a return to 12 then WVU, Louisville, and Cincinnati all go to the Big 12, Rutgers goes to the Big Ten, and then UConn gets Maryland’s spot in the ACC. Only USF gets forced from the ranks of the big time—they go to C-USA along with 1 of Charlotte/ODU/LA Tech/UTSA.
Temple gets joined by UMass as MAC fb affiliates as originally planned.
The SBC looks something like:
UNT, ULL, ULM, Troy, USA, MTSU, WKU, FAU, FIU + non-fb UALR
Then you got to play the guessing game with the WAC schools: Idaho, NMSU, Texas St, UTSA, and LA Tech. Do they rebuild or do all/some get absorbed by the SBC?
Plus there’s a whole slew of eastern time zone schools that may or may not still be in FCS: Charlotte, ODU, App St, GA South, GA St, CCU, Liberty