BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Does anyone care about it though? I watch a ton of CFB and very little Pac-12

 

The Cleveland Indians are changing their name to reflect 21st century values. I think UT should change to reflect their 21st century values. From the Longhorns to the Franklins and switch to green jerseys.

 

As a Bama fan, losing to Texas or Oklahoma would be disappointing in the way that all losses are to schools from another part of the country. The same goes for A&M and Missouri really, and to a large extent Arkansas and South Carolina.

Losing to one of the other nine original schools hurts. It hurts in weirdly specific and personal ways that vary from school to school, but there are real emotional stakes attached, and not just in football either.

That is the difference. That is what is being lost.

 

The Pac-12 has been a dream for SDSU since before I was there in the 1990s, and I would be thrilled. However, if it ever looked like the conference would extend an invite, USC and UCLA would put the kibosh on it. They've recruited heavily in the San Diego area and they don't want the local team suddenly considered on their level in any way.

 

The Big 12's biggest hope is that the Oklahoma legislature sticks up for Okie Lite, which will wed them to OU in any conference change — and obviously the SEC can't go to 17 in any case. That may not block UT, but it forces the SEC to cast a wider net for membership to get to a sweet 16 and they might reconsider after looking at what else's out there.

 

TCU was in C-USA back in the day before most of the conference left for the AAC. The only way they join the much weaker current version is if the music stops and they don't have a chair. I don't see this happening.

 

Considering that it leaked just as Jimbo was going to the podium at SEC media days, I suspect that UT leaked it, probably to put pressure on the SEC to get on with it. Sounds like the UT everyone knows and loves.

 

It would take about one loss to UT and their jackass smug superior fans for Bama to hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.

 

As an LSU fan, it's not so much losing to one of the other original nine. It's which ones you lose to that hurt more. Losing to Mississippi State, Georgia or Tennessee sucks, but not nearly as much as losing to Alabama or Auburn. The Alabama losses always hurt for us because so much is always riding on that game. But the others are just losses, for the most part.
And Texas A&M has turned into a nice little rivalry for us. Way more than the phony border war they've tried for years to manufacture with Arkansas. The bullshit seven-overtime game in 2018 and the subsequent ass-whipping in 2019 threw a spark into things. Losing to A&M right now is almost worse than losing to Ole Miss or Mississippi State.

Honestly, half the time I still have to remind myself that Missouri is actually in the SEC. It's like when you see a popular restaurant franchise's list of locations, and they're all clustered around one part of the state except one that's 200 miles away in the hinterlands.

 

Exactly, games against Colorado and Utah still do not feel like conference games, even though they've been in the Pac-12 for almost a decade.

 

This is what they are talking about on another website: USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon to the Big Ten. Didn't see any other moves over there.

 

This was on the UM and MSU message boards
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