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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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Thoughts on bringing in Colorado? They are AAU but barely bring Denver market. I rarely saw CU gear while living in Aurora and Co Springs. I remember seeing more Co State gear.

Or do we take in Washington and Oregon while telling Nike and UA to pony up money and let the SEC wear Adidas or Riddell gear? :lol:
 
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Abenaki said:
Colorado feels like Cal/Stanford with a worse market and no Notre Dame rivalry. The latter of which is fine for me, but a big negative to the conference suits.
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Colorado has Denver market (No 16 in US) and has a now dormant rivalry with Nebraska, plus it provides a somewhat closer opponent for the SoCal schools. Academically, just behind Sparty and Indiana, and similar profile to Oregon and Utah, both of which it beats in terms of media market.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Thoughts on bringing in Colorado? They are AAU but barely bring Denver market. I rarely saw CU gear while living in Aurora and Co Springs. I remember seeing more Co State gear.

Or do we take in Washington and Oregon while telling Nike and UA to pony up money and let the SEC wear Adidas or Riddell gear? :lol:
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I know quite a few Colorado grads, but they all live in NYC/DC area.
 
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If we can pull it off, ND, Stanford, Oregon, Florida State. ND for obvious reasons, proximity, history, added rivals for the newly added USC and UCLA. Stanford wins the NACDA Directors Cup on a regular basis, outside of the revenue sports they are dominate. Also provides USC,UCLA a closer away game. Oregon with the influence of Knight Nike can be the official apparel provider of the BIG, consistent in football and bball. Another west coast team. FSU more for recruiting as well as TV Market so I assume Miami would be a sufficient suiter as well. The downfall for both of these Florida teams they are not on the same level for academic perspective. I can see three power conferences when all said and done. I looked in to the revenue distribution https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma...ower-5-conferences-but-not-light-years-behind. BIG, SEC, Big 12, PAC 12, and ACC last. I can see the last two falling apart quickly. The only thing that the ACC has going for it is the 100 Million dollar exit penalty.
 
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Woody1968 said:
Colorado has Denver market (No 16 in US) and has a now dormant rivalry with Nebraska, plus it provides a somewhat closer opponent for the SoCal schools. Academically, just behind Sparty and Indiana, and similar profile to Oregon and Utah, both of which it beats in terms of media market.
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Personally, I've liked Colorado since they dry humped Nebraska up and down the field in 2001. But their program is stagnant, at best, and nobody watches them. Oregon* and Washington* both bring more viewers and comparable markets (#21 Portland and #12 Seattle-Tacoma, respectively).

It'd be a great road game trip and I'd love to see them playing Nebraska again, I just don't think they have any shot at getting an invite.

*These aren't perfect. Oregon's 2021 number are skewed in a big way by playing Ohio State. They count games with no info as zero. But, since they're in the same conference on the same TV deal with the same networks, I figured it's a good approximation.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Thoughts on bringing in Colorado? They are AAU but barely bring Denver market. I rarely saw CU gear while living in Aurora and Co Springs. I remember seeing more Co State gear.

Or do we take in Washington and Oregon while telling Nike and UA to pony up money and let the SEC wear Adidas or Riddell gear? :lol:
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Denver population cares zero about college football, except for the ex-pats from the midwest. Boulder cares even less about college football. The academic side of CU is solidly anti-sports. The only good thing about Colorado is the rivalry with Nebraska, which was decades ago.
 
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Abenaki said:
Personally, I've liked Colorado since they dry humped Nebraska up and down the field in 2001. But their program is stagnant, at best, and nobody watches them. Oregon* and Washington* both bring more viewers and comparable markets (#21 Portland and #12 Seattle-Tacoma, respectively).

It'd be a great road game trip and I'd love to see them playing Nebraska again, I just don't think they have any shot at getting an invite.

*These aren't perfect. Oregon's 2021 number are skewed in a big way by playing Ohio State. They count games with no info as zero. But, since they're in the same conference on the same TV deal with the same networks, I figured it's a good approximation.
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Folsom Field in Boulder is one of, if not the worst stadiums in D1.
 
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NCBuckeye86 said:
If we can pull it off, ND, Stanford, Oregon, Florida State. ND for obvious reasons, proximity, history, added rivals for the newly added USC and UCLA. Stanford wins the NACDA Directors Cup on a regular basis, outside of the revenue sports they are dominate. Also provides USC,UCLA a closer away game. Oregon with the influence of Knight Nike can be the official apparel provider of the BIG, consistent in football and bball. Another west coast team. FSU more for recruiting as well as TV Market so I assume Miami would be a sufficient suiter as well. The downfall for both of these Florida teams they are not on the same level for academic perspective. I can see three power conferences when all said and done. I looked in to the revenue distribution https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma...ower-5-conferences-but-not-light-years-behind. BIG, SEC, Big 12, PAC 12, and ACC last. I can see the last two falling apart quickly. The only thing that the ACC has going for it is the 100 Million dollar exit penalty.
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Florida State is not in the conversation. At all.
 
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