BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The Big 12 should have been content to just play with nine members until it found a better partner.

 

Which schools could be better partners?

 

Not to mention, the Big 12 would have been in violation of its TV contracts playing with nine.

 

Wait, what? For the love of the BBVA Compass Bowl, is nothing sacred anymore?

 

certainly more so than Tally and Atlanta

 

Or Louisville.

 

Missouri is west of the Mississippi River and in the Central Time Zone.

Borders 8 states (most for any state, I think), yet none of them border a coast.

So not sure how Mizzo is South or East.

At least Louisville is still in the Eastern Time Zone.

 

Tennessee also touches eight states.

 

Missouri in the SEC is as much of a misfit as West Virginia in the Big 12 or Rutgers in the Big 10.

And to think, these are the geniuses charged with shaping higher education in America. We've already thrown math completely out the window. And geography and history as well. Maybe science is next. At least economics is still going strong.

 

Thanks for the analysis, NDJournalist Sr.

 

Missouri borders three states that have schools in the SEC, which is one more than Kentucky, Texas and Florida, and two more than South Carolina. Plus, Missouri was a slave state before the Civil War, so there is that connection as well. Columbia, Mo., is also at approximately the same latitude as Lexington, Ky., and is actually further east, in longitude, than Fayetteville or College Station. In today's world of college athletics that's more geographical continuity than in most cases I can think of. It certainly beats Conference USA, aka Colleges and Universities Scattered Aimlessly.

 

When will the chaos end? Dickinson State leaves the Frontier Conference for the newly formed North Star Athletic Association in 2014.