Rumors continue to abound that Florida State and Clemson are looking to leave the ACC for the Big 12. In the myopic world of conference realignment, a quote from Big 12 interim commissioner Chuck Neinas that his conference has tabled expansion for now is met with rolling eyes (and considering the track record of half-hearted [...]
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A 5-Step Summer Plan to Save the ACC
Posted: May 30, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: ACC, Big 12 Expansion, Clemson to the Big 12, Conference Realignment, Florida State to the Big 12, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Bowling for Dollars: New SEC/Big 12 Bowl and Realignment Rumors
Posted: May 21, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: Big 12 Expansion, Clemson to Big 12, Conference Realignment, Florida State to Big 12, Notre Dame to Big 12, SEC Big 12 Bowl
The SEC and Big 12 had a major announcement this past Friday that the two conferences are creating a new bowl pitting their champions against each other (provided that in the event either or both champions end up in the new college football playoff, the bowl will select other “deserving” teams from those conferences). Coupled [...]
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Rumors of Florida State and the Big 12
Posted: May 14, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: Big 12, Big 12 Expansion, Clemson to the Big 12, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State to the Big 12
For long-time readers of this blog, you know how important that I consider TV rights to be in shaping the world of sports, both college and pro. It has driven conference realignment the past couple of years, convinced the reactionary leaders of college football to finally institute a playoff, turned the NFL into a financial [...]
Tomorrow Never Knows: The Latest Conference Realignment FAQ
Posted: May 8, 2012 in Sports, College Basketball, College Football, Big Ten, Big East, DePaul Blue Demons, Illinois Fighting IlliniTags: Big 12 Expansion, Big East Expansion, Boise State Broncos, Conference USA, Louisville Cardinals, Notre Dame, San Diego State Aztecs
The past week has featured more conference realignment moves and rumors in quite some time. Seven schools switched conferences last Friday, all of whom are really pawns in the college sports game of double chess. Stewart Mandel has pointed out that ever since the Big Ten announced that it was going to expand back in [...]
The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Thoughts on BCS Bowls as Semifinal Sites and a 12-Team Event
Posted: May 1, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, SportsTags: BCS Bowls, BCS Final Four, BCS system, college football playoff, plus-one system, seeded plus-one
In an update to last week’s news that the powers that be in college football are finally instituting (or more precisely, are submitting to their respective university presidents for approval) a 4-team playoff system, both Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com and Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated have reported that the early leader for the format for [...]
My (Hopefully) Final College Football Playoff Proposal: Four Team Bowl Event with a Flex Wild Card
Posted: April 26, 2012 in Big Ten, College Football, SportsTags: college footba, plus-one system, seeded plus-one
Change is here: the BCS commissioners have announced that they are recommending a 4-team college football playoff to the university presidents. While the details of how that 4-team playoff is going to be structured is still up in the air (along with how the revenue is split among the conferences and schools), we’re in the [...]
Picture Me Rollin’ in a College Football Playoff: Is it a Hologram or is it Real?
Posted: April 24, 2012 in Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: BCS Final Four, college football playoff, plus-one system, seeded plus-one, Tupac Shakur, unseeded plus-one
A few years ago in writing one of my myriad college football postseason proposals, I noted that while the general public supported a college football playoff as an abstract concept, the problem was that no one could agree upon what the playoff should look like. With the countless proposals that I’ve seen in the comments [...]
Playoffs?! The Final Four College Football Playoff (or Plus-One or “Event”) Options and Why “Four Team Plus” Helps More Than the Rose Bowl
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Football, SportsTags: BCS system, college football playoff, Jim Delany, Pac-12, Rose Bowl
In what is the biggest leak to come out of the smoke-filled BCS conference rooms yet, USA Today obtained a document provided to the conference commissioners that outlines the four college football postseason options that they are focusing upon. (The complete document can be found here.) So, here are what the powers that be are [...]
Take Me Down Like I’m a Domino: Realignment in the Rest of the World
Posted: March 27, 2012 in Big East, Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: Atlantic 10, Big 12, Butler Bulldogs, Conference Realignment, Conference USA, George Mason Patriots, Horizon League, Mount USA, Mountain West Conference, VCU Rams
With the Big 12 on the verge of signing a large new TV rights extension deal with ESPN and Fox and seemingly heading toward a period of stability, conference realignment is looking more about completing the domino effect of the moves by the power conferences. The merger of the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA [...]
