BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Wouldn't work.
Tennessee vs. Alabama: They Play. Every Year. Period. No one would suggest otherwise. There literally would be riots in the street.
Georgia vs. Auburn: The oldest rivalry in the South. They play each year.
That means these four schools only get one team from the other division on a rotation. That dilutes your conference a lot if you know you're only going to see a particular team at home once about every two decades.

As a college football fan first and foremost, I hope there are no major realignments. College football is about passion and tradition. Leave the mercenary shit to the NFL.

While some of these realignment scenarios might produces some entertaining games in their own right, who gives a crap other than the guys cashing the checks?

Tennessee vs. Alabama, Texas vs. Oklahoma, Ohio State vs. Michigan, the list goes on. That's what makes college football special.

Unfortunately, I realize the asshats in charge of such things making millions don't ask my opinion.

 

A&M and Arkansas just played the first game of a 10-year deal at Jerryworld last fall.

And yeah, A&M and LSU played each other just about every season right before the SWC broke up. It was about as heated as a non-conference game can get.

 

Actually, and you probably know this, every SEC school has one school from the other division that it plays every year, to go with the five games with division foes. Here's how they pair off: Georgia-Auburn; Bama-Tennessee; LSU-Florida; Ole Miss-Vandy; Arkansas-South Carolina; Miss. State-Kentucky.

The other two conference games are set on a staggered rotation, two years on and four years off.

I agree that tradition and traditional rivalries mean a lot to the average college football fans, but they don't mean squat to the beancounters running college athletic departments.

 

If Texas and ATM go to the SEC, Oklahoma sure as hell ain't staying in the Big 12.

 

Yeah, right now UT-Bama is every year. Ole Miss, Miss State, LSU, Ark, Auburn are on a rotation. But I was just saying if you expanded, that would add to the rotation and mean you play out of division only once every 7 years. That's just too long.

 

Naw, A&M and Bama are all square now after that little Bear Bryant matter.

 

Mid-majors and smaller schools would likely be the ones to do the most squawking.
If you had super conferences and the teams were all playing nine league games, that leaves only three at-larges on the schedule, assuming college football stuck to a 12-game season.
You'd still have to maintain some traditional rivalry games and then that leaves just two slots.
So teams like Arkansas State and Northeast Lousiana-Monroe that support athletic budgets with payday games would suddenly have fewer scheduling opportunities and a rather large chunk of income would be lost, for them.
The big schools would make huge money with super conferences. Would 250,000 people at Bristol become a reality if UT-Va. Tech were in the same conference?
Probably.

 

I still believe that 12 team conferences are already a mite unwieldy, and that larger ones would cause more problems for scheduling, administration, etc., than they'd solve. Also, I don't believe UVa could draw 250,000 people if free beer and the reincarnation of Jim Thorpe were involved.

 

Maybe the Big East will drop the non-football schools and form a football-only conference. They should invite Villanova, which already was invited once about 10 years ago and plays a pretty good band of I-AA ball, poach Temple and University of Central Florida (natural rivalry with USF and expands your footprint in the Sunshine State). BE can also take a school like East Carolina and maybe ask BC if it really wants to still be in the ACC.

Schools like St. John's, Marquette, Seton Hall, really don't add much IMO.

Dunno if any of that works, but I figure i can throw stuff against a wall like anybody.

 

Dallas-Fort Worth is way bigger than SLC area and has no BCS schools.

 

And so far it has worked out just fine for TCU.

 

That's a ridiculous statement. Orlando and Kansas City also have no BCS schools, but they right in the middle of several huge programs and have huge bases of college football fans. Same thing with Dallas.