BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

It would take four no votes to block expansion. The league has always prided itself on consensus, but to bring in these teams and presumably renegotiate a television deal that would rocket past the Big 10, it might suffer an 11-3 vote.

For the sake of argument, let’s say A&M is a firm no. If it was just Texas coming in I think Arkansas would be fine with it, but Texas and OU leaves the Hogs officially boxed in by SEC schools in every direction, and they are never going to have the population base to keep up.

Who else could vote no? Many would look to Mizzou, but I don’t think they’d mind being back with the Horns and Sooners as long as it was in a league with equal power and revenue sharing. Could the Mississippi schools balk? They’ve got the same problem as Arkansas with a small population footprint and not as many resources to keep up in the arms race. And if the divisions remain geography based, they are almost certainly staying West while Alabama and Auburn go to the East, which solves the permanent crossover problem. Those annual games have helped sell a lot of tickets in years when the home teams weren’t so great, and the Alabama rivalry is almost as meaningful to State fans as the Egg Bowl.

It’s probably going to happen. And it is probably going to suck for those of us who were OG fans of the SEC.

 

LOL they should have put a couple of REALLYs before gravely and aggressively.

 

For fuck's sake, again with this?

If Texas were to join the SEC in 2023, it'd be looking in 2029 for a new home... probably playing footsie with the ACC and Pac-12 simultaneously. Or maybe it could create the one-team UT Conference.

 

These things don’t get out before they are actually already done. All that’s left is signatures.

 

The ACC did not undercut Virginia when they let Virginia Tech in. Virginia fought to get Tech into the ACC during that expansion. The Governor made Virginia do it. UVA was told not to vote for expansion unless Tech was included.

 

I could see the B1G getting interested in a Kansas-Missouri pickup.

 

The SEC has been socialistic with its revenue distribution, IIRC. Vandy gets the same as Alabama. UT would not stand for that.

 

Another thing to consider is that they won’t be playing a conference championship game in Texas. At best they might get an Atlanta-New Orleans rotation.

 

I would think that the B1G would be more interested in picking up schools in more populous states with larger television markets than Kansas. I think that f the B1G wanted to expand and Notre Dame continued to say no then they would look to ACC schools like Florida State.

 

Just stumbled on this piece on ESPN's site. Apparently it went up earlier this week.

Realignment revisited: The beginning of the end for Big East football

 

Missouri got on its hands and knees and begged the Big Ten to take it
Delany took Nebraska and told Missouri to piss up a rope