Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC

[ThreatMatrix]

This just in: Texas lawmakers draft bill to require approval of conference realignment

Politicians are involved! This just gets better and better.

 

[soflagator]

That’s bullish!t. So Texas is Big XII football? Joining the SEC would help the state of TX as a whole. Tell Baylor and Texas Tech to get Fuched.

Maybe later. They both just hopped a flight to DC.

 

[Loogis]

Texas has the Longhorn Network too, right? I’m sure it won’t take much to get out of that one, but adds another wrinkle to the whole saga.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Threat getting ready to slit his wrists?

Who could have seen this coming?

This is a great development. NCAA was preparing to steal the P5 football money and send it to Hoffstra.

Your optimism about the UF football program is... disconcerting.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

That’s bullish!t. So Texas is Big XII football? Joining the SEC would help the state of TX as a whole. Tell Baylor and Texas Tech to get Fuched.

Illegal

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Texas has the Longhorn Network too, right? I’m sure it won’t take much to get out of that one, but adds another wrinkle to the whole saga.

Espn is losing money hand over fist on that shytshow. No one cares about Texas wimmens track or whatever.

 

[Spurffelbow833]

Espn is losing money hand over fist on that shytshow. No one cares about Texas wimmens track or whatever.

Where else can you get a front row seat at Bevo's castration?

 

[gator1946]

Finish the Job. Poach Clemson and Ohio-State. Tell the rest of college football to buzz off you are all now directional schools.

 

[Avenger48c]

Finish the Job. Poach Clemson and Ohio-State. Tell the rest of college football to buzz off you are all now directional schools.

I know this was meant as a joke, but screw it. Grab Michigan and Penn State, too, so you have a multiple of 4 for pod math. Use the SEC network pod setup, but put the three former B10 schools plus Kentucky in a pod and put Clemson in ours to replace Kentucky. The geography isn't even THAT terrible for the new pod, and you're protecting all the important rivalries for those teams plus the Clemson/USCe rivalry. Call the five resulting pods SEC N/S/E/W/Central.

Five pods means an 11 game SEC schedule works with the 3+2+2+2+2 math, so you'd still play every team every other year. We'd still get to beat on FSU every year to fill it out to 12 games.

The broadcast rights would be ludicrous and the games would be incredible. A 5 team SEC playoff is kinda screwy, but you could have a 6 team internal playoff with each pod winner plus one wild card and a first round bye for the top two. Let what's left of the NCAA figure out a winner every year and the SEC champion will annihilate them for the national title.

Make it happen, Sankey.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Im not a fan of 20, but I know many things have been discussed.

I think we are moving toward 4 superconferences with most of the playoff within the conference.

 

[gator1946]

I know this was meant as a joke, but screw it. Grab Michigan and Penn State, too, so you have a multiple of 4 for pod math. Use the SEC network pod setup, but put the three former B10 schools plus Kentucky in a pod and put Clemson in ours to replace Kentucky. The geography isn't even THAT terrible for the new pod, and you're protecting all the important rivalries for those teams plus the Clemson/USCe rivalry. Call the five resulting pods SEC N/S/E/W/Central.

Five pods means an 11 game SEC schedule works with the 3+2+2+2+2 math, so you'd still play every team every other year. We'd still get to beat on FSU every year to fill it out to 12 games.

The broadcast rights would be ludicrous and the games would be incredible. A 5 team SEC playoff is kinda screwy, but you could have a 6 team internal playoff with each pod winner plus one wild card and a first round bye for the top two. Let what's left of the NCAA figure out a winner every year and the SEC champion will annihilate them for the national title.

Make it happen, Sankey.

It was and wasn't meant as a joke. Something like that a few years from now wouldn't surprise me. If the other conferences can't reconstitute so that they can make money, the few big boys left will be looking for a way out. Welcome to the new SEC...a college version of the NFL.

 

[soflagator]

Finish the Job. Poach Clemson and Ohio-State. Tell the rest of college football to buzz off you are all now directional schools.

 

[t-gator]

I wonder if these big programs are trying to realign so they can still hold the cards now that the NCAA has passed the NIL. Not sure exactly the reasoning for this but I can't help but think this has something to do with it.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I wonder if these big programs are trying to realign so they can still hold the cards now that the NCAA has passed the NIL. Not sure exactly the reasoning for this but I can't help but think this has something to do with it.

Playoffs. It is all about the playoffs and bigger conference tv contracts.

 

[Gator By Marriage]

Playoffs. It is all about the playoffs and bigger conference tv contracts.

It’s not about the money; it’s about the money.

 

[t-gator]

Playoffs. It is all about the playoffs and bigger conference tv contracts.

I would imagine that if Ohio state, Michigan, Clemson and FSU got in. We'd have 4 divisions with 5 teams each. We'd definitely have to change the conference name. And most importantly tell the NCAA to **** off.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Knight Commission Recommends a New Governing Structure for the Sport of FBS Football - Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Don't know if this has been discussed. Basically the Power 5 (4?) want to break off from the NCAA and be ruled by their own governance. The little sisters of the poor can stick with the NCAA.

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

I wonder if these big programs are trying to realign so they can still hold the cards now that the NCAA has passed the NIL. Not sure exactly the reasoning for this but I can't help but think this has something to do with it.

Money Money Money

 

[FireFoley]

Playoffs. It is all about the playoffs and bigger conference tv contracts.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Big10 talking to USC and other PAC12 teams.