BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The Pac-12 was like that mini-sub story. It was already toast before people started worrying about it.

https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/pac-12-final-offers-cbs-espn-fox-apple.html

 

Is BYU the biggest winner in all this?

They were not getting invited to a power conference until the Big 12 got desperate following OU and Texas' departure, and now they're in one that seems relatively strong.

 

If the academic component of college athletics matters that much to Stanford and Cal, they should just join the Patriot League. That way they can still travel to the East Coast but play real academic schools instead of pretend ones like University 6.

 

It makes you wonder how much the Big 12 will get in the next go around.

 

I’ll take Maryland, but I ain’t doing anything with Rutgers.

 

College football reporters should stop reporting rumors and gossip as facts. I believe this about as much as I believed message-board drabble 20 years ago about Steve Spurrier taking over Kentucky and buying a horse farm in the Lexington suburbs.

 

My goodness, he's making some sense here.

 

The Big 12 added markers, added schools, and that’s one thing that sets it apart from the Pac-12. And if basketball ever factors into realignment once all the football power brokers settle into place, the Big 12 could be just fine.

 

I don't know how the ACC Network is set up, but if it's like the Big Ten Network when it added Rutgers and Maryland because of the additional subscriptions that would come from the Dallas / Fort Worth / North Texas area, that'd be a significant revenue stream

 

If you took the 64 power 5 teams, told them you can make X-game schedules and a selection committee will rank the top 32 for a playoff.....

 

The question is how many people in DFW/Texas as a whole will spring for the ACC network to get to SMU and the rest of the ACC. I doubt that there's that large a demand.

 

It doesn't matter if they want it or not -- it gets added to packages because a team is in the TV coverage footprint.