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The Hot Dog Buffet

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  1. I think you would end up taking some 8-4 teams if 8 at large schools come from two conferences. It's more realistic to expect 2-3 teams from each of the Big 12, B1G, and ACC, and 4-5 teams from the SEC.
  2. The tournament makes the money that it does because of the gambling element. Getting rid of the midmajors makes it a lot smaller and more predictable, and it also makes it lose just about all of its value.
  3. Honestly, I think it kind of depends on where everything is going to end up. The only schools left in the Big 12 and Pac that are very likely to end up in the B1G or SEC are Oregon and Washington. So if every other conference gets left out completely, I think the Big 12 is better off with whatever is left of the Pac staying intact and vice versa. If everyone stays in the NCAA and the playoffs get expanded, then the Big 12 has some regrets.
  4. Back when it looked like we were moving to four 16 school conferences, I thought OSU was a shoe-in. I just don't see it if there are only two.
  5. The problem they have is that the best 48 can't get in. Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Minnesota are already there. So it's the best 37. And the B1G seems to be sticking to AAU status being a requirement, even though Nebraska got kicked out.
  6. I'm rooting for you.
  7. There should be a spot, but realistically the only spots are in the SEC and B1G. OSU is not going to the B1G and the SEC clearly is prioritizing ACC schools, or OSU would have been going with OU and Texas. So I don't think there is a spot.
  8. I expect both conferences to make a failed attempt at raiding each other before ending up where they started. The Big 12 has a much better chance at getting a few schools than the Pac 12 does, simply because it offers better national exposure with reasonable kickoff times for schools playing in the mountain time zone. So maybe 40% chance of Big 12 expanding, and 10% chance of Pac managing to get a Big 12 school.
  9. I think OSU ends up left out, sadly. The Pac isn't worth joining anymore and the ACC will be raided next. Maybe they get into the SEC if the SEC is willing to cut dead weight, but that's a big maybe.
  10. The Big 12, Pac, and ACC may have some mutual interest in keeping each other viable. Best case for all of them is to end up tier 2, anyway, and there is value in a league having conferences that have regional rivalries intact. I doubt they are going to be able to see it that way, but they could put out a quality product with a lot of viewers on a streaming service, played at a division between FCS and SEC.
  11. So far, most have trended down.
  12. I look forward to observing Stanford and Cal as San Diego State seeks membership.
  13. The SEC is the only conference that really seems to know what it's doing. They secure regional rivalries with schools that actually care about playing each other, and that draws television audiences. The Big 10 is more focused on getting coast to coast subscribers to its channel than it is on putting a quality product on the field, and I think it will eventually fall apart. USC makes sense from a quality perspective, but I really don't care about watching them play midwest teams. I'd be more inclined to tune into a game where they play Washington State than Wisconsin. Those types of games are fun out of conference because they don't happen often. They aren't going to be fun when they play every year.
  14. I think the number of people actually watching the game matters a lot more today than it did when the Big 10 added Rutgers. The old cable model is dying.
  15. I don't think the Big 10 really wants a Rutgers west. They will take Stanford if Notre Dame tells them to, but otherwise they could really use another school that is going to regularly be ranked. Stanford appears to be drifting toward where they were before Harbaugh.
  16. Seems like we get about 10 years of stability every time things get shaken up. We're going to have a new Big 12 with a few extra Pac schools (I truly believe Stanford and Cal won't allow the poaching to work in the other direction) and the ACC will stick around until their GOR expires. Give teams a couple of extra years to move, and best case is 2040 before college football is a minor league NFL affiliate that nobody cares about.
  17. Personally, I'd like for this shit to drag out until after I'm dead and gone so I can continue enjoying college athletics as I know them.
  18. Yeah, that is also a solid idea.
  19. I think we are headed toward a super league that leaves the NCAA, and I don't see how the other sports continue business as usual under that scenario.
  20. It's all Nebraska's fault, really.
  21. Yeah, that is why the Big 12 needs to make a strong push to the Arizona schools while Oregon and Washington are actively trying to leave for the Big 10. Get that ship sinking so that staying isn't much of an option for the rest of them.
  22. The Big 12 should only try to get the Arizona schools. Wait and see if Washington/Oregon end up in the Big 10. Would be awful to get Utah/Colorado if they could have had Oregon/Washington.
  23. Yeah, and you'd just about have to resort to polls to choose your championship game participants.
  24. You must have forgotten that Missouri is in the SEC. No big deal. It happens to everyone.
  25. Only relative to the SEC and B1G. And everything is relative.
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