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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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ScriptOhio said:
What if I told you that there will someday soon be a 32 team College Football "Super League" that will be funded by private equity (similar to LIVV Golf), and that I already know who most of the 32 teams are, and where they're ranked by this group?

Just sayin': I'd say you're full of shit!!!!
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Define "soon". I can see the 32-team thing being a thing, but not in the next 5 years. Probably not 10 years, either. After that, I wouldn't consider that "soon".
It might be more likely that the whole thing collapses and we revert back to smaller conferences before we get to 32 teams.
 
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Zurp said:
Define "soon". I can see the 32-team thing being a thing, but not in the next 5 years. Probably not 10 years, either. After that, I wouldn't consider that "soon".
It might be more likely that the whole thing collapses and we revert back to smaller conferences before we get to 32 teams.
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The B1G and SEC have a "golden goose" (i.e the most lucrative TV contracts). There is no way that any team in either the B1G or SEC would want to merge with some BIG XII or ACC teams into a Mega Conference and end up with less money. In addition, there are collectively more than double the 32 teams in the 4 major conferences now. If the teams excluded from the 32 member Mega Conference didn't agree to it (and they probably wouldn't) there would be never ending lawsuits.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
The B1G and SEC have a "golden goose" (i.e the most lucrative TV contracts). There is no way that any team in either the B1G or SEC would want to merge with some BIG XII or ACC teams into a Mega Conference and end up with less money. In addition, there are collectively more than double the 32 teams in the 4 major conferences now. If the teams excluded from the 32 member Mega Conference didn't agree to it (and they probably wouldn't) there would be never ending lawsuits.
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I'm guessing the B1G and SEC could agree to form a new league with 34 teams, keep their existing conferences intact, and leave the NCAA, and there wouldn't be much the other conferences could do about it. Not sure if that would result in more television money for the B1G and SEC though.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
I'm guessing the B1G and SEC could agree to form a new league with 34 teams, keep their existing conferences intact, and leave the NCAA, and there wouldn't be much the other conferences could do about it. Not sure if that would result in more television money for the B1G and SEC though.
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I think the Big Ten and SEC could just tell the world, "We're gonna do whatever we want," then they can say that they opt out of the college football playoffs. Meantime, they each agree that they'll each have a 4-team conference playoff (or 6 or 8 or whatever) and the winners of each will play in a post-season bowl game. Don't call it the "national championship game", because that's already taken by the college football playoffs. Also, you might get the G5 teams crying that they don't have a chance to get in that new playoff. So you just have your own 8-team playoff with the final game being the "Flying Slim Jim Bowl" between SEC and Big Ten. Everyone will know who the champions really are. Don't need to use "national championship" in the name of the game.

ACC and Big 12 and everyone else can fight for whatever level of relevance they want to.
 
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Zurp said:
I think the Big Ten and SEC could just tell the world, "We're gonna do whatever we want," then they can say that they opt out of the college football playoffs. Meantime, they each agree that they'll each have a 4-team conference playoff (or 6 or 8 or whatever) and the winners of each will play in a post-season bowl game. Don't call it the "national championship game", because that's already taken by the college football playoffs. Also, you might get the G5 teams crying that they don't have a chance to get in that new playoff. So you just have your own 8-team playoff with the final game being the "Flying Slim Jim Bowl" between SEC and Big Ten. Everyone will know who the champions really are. Don't need to use "national championship" in the name of the game.

ACC and Big 12 and everyone else can fight for whatever level of relevance they want to.
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This was the strategy used by the NFL in an attempt to kill the AFL. It didn’t work then. I doubt it would work now.
 
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