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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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Woody1968 said:
Seattle market is decent sized, but Oregon is the only Pac School besides USC that is competitive with the NIL money.
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NorCal market with Stanford-Cal, natural rivals, and high-level academic profile.

Oregon may lead the NIL now, but Stanford and Cal are cranking out silicon valley grads. Bound to have a few who want to see winning sports, going forward.
 
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I think the biggest thing in this move is in how unexpected and quiet it was. Yesterday things were normal, and then this morning/afternoon UCLA and USC are in the B1G by tomorrow. This is going to set off an absolute panic in the rest of the PAC (and potentially the ACC), and the dominos will likely fall fast. If Kevin doesn't have a plan yet to grab Washington and Cal at least, I'll be very disappointed. We'll be at the Power 4 by the 2024 season regardless of if the PAC name continues to exist, so the question is if things settle down there for a while, or dominos continue to fall.
 
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Jake said:
B1G cornered the LA media market, not to mention added schools fitting the conference's academic profile.

That Nike' money won't buy TV ratings.
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Oregon still drives pretty good ratings since their chip Kelly days. I thought it would have fallen off by now, but Oregon is a popular team for many who didn’t have a big team to claim growing up. Part of it is Oregon is a cool and fun state so adding on the fun of all the uniforms and flash without turning into the cringe u of m bling. Oregon has the good guy vibe going for them and is second or third favorite team for about half the country. I personally always cheer for Oregon unless it isn’t against Ohio states interest.
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
Well might as well
Might as well grab CO and UT as well to lock up the inter-mountain west market (before the SEC does). Lots of rumors about 2 20 team conferences.
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Just sayin': I can actually see three 20 team so called "super conferences". The B1G & SEC takes who they want from the ACC and PAC-12 to get to 20, and the BIG 12 picks over what is left to full up their conference. I really think that the BIG 12 screwed up royally by by prematurely adding BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston; I wonder if it is too late for the BIG 12 to negate that deal......:lol:
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Just sayin': I can actually see three 20 team so called "super conferences". The B1G & SEC takes who they want from the ACC and PAC-12 to get to 20, and the BIG 12 picks over what is left to full up their conference. I really think that the BIG 12 screwed up royally by by prematurely adding BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston; I wonder if it is too late for the BIG 12 to negate that deal......:lol:
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Big 12 and Pac leftovers will merge. I fully expect 3 more pac schools to join the B1G
 
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Jake said:
NorCal market with Stanford-Cal, natural rivals, and high-level academic profile.

Oregon may lead the NIL now, but Stanford and Cal are cranking out silicon valley grads. Bound to have a few who want to see winning sports, going forward.
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Stanford and Cal is a no brainer. Bay area has at least 3 major cities, plus Sacramento, Modesto, Stockton and even Reno/Carson City
 
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gregorylee said:
So who's moving from the big east from the west?
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If this is the end of realignment

and if the B1G stays with East vs West

then by far the most common sense move is to have Purdue become an east team

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this is not the end of realignment. It’s probably not the end of what is announced this summer. It makes no sense to decide on divisions until the dust settles
 
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I just hope they go round robin instead of east west.
Bank 1 rivalry game every year, that leaves 14 other teams. You play 7 and 7 every other year. Every 4 year player has the potential to play in every stadium.
8 game conference slate.
So that caps the conference at 18 teams and a 10 game conference slate.
 
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