It would be cool if the ACC, Big 12, SEC, Big East, MWC, and C-USA could work out a deal so that all schools could begin play in their new conferences on July 1, 2012. The only conferences being screwed are MWC and C-USA...maybe they could get a check to STFU.
@gregwrubell: Bronco: "There is a push and there are conversations in place for BYU to join [Big East]."
The leaks are starting to pour out now. Seems like the Big East is going to make announcements soon (this week?). Supposedly finalizing the BYU tv contract interworkings. Rumored divisions: West UCF BYU AF Boise Houston SMU East USF UCONN Rutgers Louisville Cincy Navy Cincinnati and Louisville did not want to be in the West...so they stuck UCF. UCF and USF will have annual game, as will AFA and Navy.
^ That's like the Atlanta Braves being in the NL West How stupid is that? 5 teams west of the Mississippi...and one in Orlando.
After all the work of Boise, UH, TCU, etc to join "BCS" conferences, they are now talking about junking the whole system and eliminating BCS bids entirely: http://espn.go.com/college-football...ndling-national-championship-game-sources-say Basically, teams like Boise would never, ever get invited to the big bowls because they could now just choose marquee names without regard to anything else.
Boise would never get a big bowl? And 3 teams from 1 conference could get in, like Arkansas/LSU/Bama? Sign me up.
Cause yeah, the national championship should be decided based on which team brings the most fans to the stadium.
An unranked Connecticut made a bowl game last year... unless there's a playoff its pick your poison. I'll take the version where all good teams are guaranteed a spot.
This does nothing of the sort - it just lets bowls pick who they want, which is generally brand name schools. If Vandy goes 13-0 and dominates the SEC, they could be passed up for bigger brands having an 11-2 season.
True, though maybe not if there were a 13-0 USC and 12-0 Oklahoma. Their schedule would be nice, but voters love name brand schools too. 1999 (I think), K-State was undefeated before losing to A&M in the Big12 title game. They ended up in the Alamo bowl because they were not an attractive brand and no one was forced to take them, despite being ranked top 5 - it was the reason the "top 4 is guaranteed a BCS game" rule was added. Now they seem to be going backwards to that world - if you're LSU or Texas or USC, you get much more margin for error than if you are K-State or Vandy. At least in the K-State case, they didn't win the Big12. Now, if they don't make the national title game, the conference champion of a great conference could end up in a crap bowl game. I think that's ridiculous.
Good point. But do you really think they'll let it get back to that? I don't. But who knows. All we have right now are some ideas being presented.
Not sure if these are legit, but FWIW. Bill Byrne internal memo about the fallout from the ESPN contract: http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20111118-document-ad-bill-byrne-rips-tu-says-deloss-dodds-says-he-can-control-espn.ece Bill Byrne/Ken Starr exchange emails about Big 12's future: http://htmlimg4.scribdassets.com/6c9q4strcw19ao69/images/1-84322e7b08.jpg edit: updated link
