BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

There’s no freaking way SMU or Memphis are valuable enough to justify splitting the pie into thinner slices. Boise State might move the needle enough for that, but something tells me if they were then they would have squeezed past somebody else for this round.

 

Agreed, but remember, the remaining Big 8 slices will be smaller once Texas and Oklahoma leave. The threshold will drop significantly.

That said, any more additions might be tied to departures if there’s more realignment at the P5 level.

 

PAC-12 may yet become a PAC-14.

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/article254113023.html

 

God I hope not. Stay the hell out of Texas.

 

USC should drop to FCS.

 

Always thought Boise State had three problems when it comes to this stuff:
1) Location and market size
2) Academically, it's got a mediocre reputation
3) Even though its football program has become a brand name, it doesn't bring much else to the table athletically. It's not any kind of power in men's or women's basketball, and traveling to Boise from some of the more far-flung Big 12 or Pac-12 locations for the Olympic sports would be budgetary nightmare. Most of the other expansion candidates we're seeing bring a much more balanced athletic profile.

 

Everything you just said about Boise applies to Central Florida except Central Florida is in the number 17 or so television market. And if Boise had been admitted to the Big12 it would have set up a nice rivalry with BYU.

Boise has only one problem; market size.

 

The high plains shifter. I'm going to go smack my head with a Boulder, a map or a clock set to Mountain Time.

 

I fully expect a couple of the B12 to be acquired and move up. When the Texas Tech AD said that there would be more teams added, he may have meant this as much as increasing the number of teams.