The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced a scheduling partnership on Wednesday encompassing football and basketball with plans to apply it to other sports. Starting in 2017, each Big Ten school will play a Pac-12 counterpart annually in football. In a shocking development, this pretty awesome setup was the brainchild of former Illinois athletic director Ron [...]
Archive for December, 2011
B1G 24 Pac: The New Big Ten/Pac-12 Partnership
Posted: December 30, 2011 in Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, SportsTags: Big Ten Pac-12 Partnership, Jim Delany, Larry Scott, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pac-12, Rose Bowl
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The Halfway There Compromise: A BCS Plus-One Proposal That the Big Ten and Rose Bowl Could Live With
Posted: December 22, 2011 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: BCS system, college football playoff, Jim Delany, plus-one system, Rose Bowl, seeded plus-one, unseeded plus-one
In my last post, I went over four proposals that the FBS commissioners were evaluating to add a plus-one national championship game to the BCS system. What is apparent is that the firmest resistance to a plus-one is coming from the Big Ten (led by Jim Delany) and the Rose Bowl.* When I wrote my [...]
Change is Coming: Four BCS Plus-One Options Under Consideration
Posted: December 8, 2011 in Big East, Big Ten, College Football, SportsTags: BCS Bowls, BCS system, college football playoff, Jim Delany, plus-one system, seeded plus-one, unseeded plus-one
With Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany effectively stating that BCS automatic qualifying status is going to disappear in 2014, there’s some even more important related news. A couple of weeks ago, one of my contacts told me that the FBS conference commissioners were evaluating a plan for the BCS to only run the national title [...]
Big East Expansion: The Big Country Conference Lives!
Posted: December 7, 2011 in Big East, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: Big East Expansion, Boise State Broncos, Boise State to the Big East, Houston Cougars, San Diego State Aztecs, SMU Mustangs, UCF Knights
After what seemed like a dozen false alarms over the past few weeks, the Big East is poised to finally add Houston, SMU and UCF as all-sports members and Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members with the schools joining for the 2013 season. Navy won’t be able to join until after 2014, [...]
Big 12 Expansion Options: Every New Beginning is Some Other Beginning’s End
Posted: December 4, 2011 in Big East, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: Big 12 Expansion, Big East Expansion, Cincinnati to the Big 12, Conference Realignment, Louisville to the Big 12, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Notre Dame to the Big 12, Rutgers to the Big 12, UConn to the Big 12
Tis’ the season for debating who’s the #2 team in the country (personally, I feel that Oklahoma State’s better wins trump Alabama’s better loss) and unsubstantiated Internet rumors spreading like wildfire. Coaches are getting hired and fired, conferences are giving away free tickets to championship games, BCS systems are about to get dismantled*, the founder [...]
