Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[1UNI2ISU]

We could be in a situation where a conference could stage a bowl game against itself.

The Big Ten could own its very own bowl game in Orlando and put two teams that didn’t play each other that season in it.

Very possible. Also probably looking at every school in those two leagues getting a bowl game regardless of record.

 

[CascadeClone]

Maybe ESPN lets the SEC and Big12 raid the ACC now. B1G raids a few more PAC schools, as does the Big12. Boom P3

Only if the P3 is the Rock, Vin Diesel, and Steve Buschemi.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

And can grab the ACC leftovers like VT, Syracuse, NC State, BC once the SEC and B1G take the cream. That would fit in well with UCF, WV etc out east.

It would be coast to coast, about 24 schools, same size as the SEC and B1G, just half the revenue. Minor league CFB.

I agree that the best case scenario right now is Iowa State in the middle conference between the B1G/SEC super leagues and the G5. The middle conference is nationwide and made up of major universities that just don’t make as much money. But they still have 60,000 people showing up to watch football games. It’s just not the 80,000 of the big two leagues.

 

[jcyclonee]

So SEC will pluck Clemson, FSU, Miami, and probably a 4th - North Carolina? Figure Stanford and Cal to the Big 10 eventually. Washington and Oregon Big 10 lean IMO.

Miami's a maybe. I'd rank North Carolina ahead of them and probably Virginia.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Conferences are just a name and a means to negotiate a media rights contract. The way things are trending, conference affiliation will not matter in my opinion. Brand is what matters. Not conference brand, school brand. It will only take a handful of big brands to get a sweet deal on their own from one of the many players jumping in the media rights market to decide the conference model isn't for them and there's more money to be made on their own.

It’s of course possible that you and the unequal revenue people are right but again it’s never once been brought up in any other conference besides the big 12 which did not go well. Have to agree to disagree on this one

 

[cyIclSoneU]

PAC’s obvious top 6 to make 20 makes way more sense than just two LA schools.

Big 12 instantly drastically more stable and the 4 mountain schools obviously put big 12 at 16.

WSU/Ore St are question marks in really bad spot.

ACC prays like hell everyone leaves them alone and ND keeps its spite based link to them.

New big12/Pac is stable because it’s already been picked over and next SEC big ten money grabs are obviously acc.

Agree with this for now. WSU and OSU are demoted to the Mtn West and the Pac-12 dies. The P5 turns into a Super 2 and a Kind of Power 2 ACC and Big 12. But all bets are off once the ACC GOR ends.

 

[NWICY]

That's the other thing that's nauseating about this. All the media members who hated on the Big12 for expanding are lauding the BiG for the same things.

Well as long as it's ESPN sponsored expansion it is good. Everyone else's expansion is bad because it doesn't fit into their model. And ESPN only cares about B1G and SEC and ACC for basketball.

 

[ISUcyclones11]

Agree with this for now. WSU and OSU are demoted to the Mtn West and the Pac-12 dies. The P5 turns into a Super 2 and a Kind of Power 2 ACC and Big 12. But all bets are off once the ACC GOR ends.

Once the ACC GoR ends, the ACC ends.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Well as long as it's ESPN sponsored expansion it is good. Everyone else's expansion is bad because it doesn't fit into their model. And ESPN only cares about B1G and SEC and ACC for basketball.

ESPN doesn’t have the big ten rights anymore

 

[MugNight]

Might be premature, but this should put talk of adding Boise, USF, Memphis, or SMU to the XII to rest. Time to play offense and think bigger.

… unless the ACC or PAC raid the current XII and it looks drastically different.

 

[simply1]

It’s of course possible that you and the unequal revenue people are right but again it’s never once been brought up in any other conference besides the big 12 which did not go well. Have to agree to disagree on this one

I don’t think the unequal revenue sharing mattered much, it was the teams benefiting from it that left.

 

[CascadeClone]

I wonder if Florida would support FSU and Miami to the SEC. That stuff used to matter but idk anymore.

Texas A&M opinion on Texas sure af didn't matter.

 

[tim_redd]

If the B1G is looking to add two more from out west it'll get real interesting... I see Oregon, Washington, and Stanford, and only two spots.

B1G is trying to pressure ND to join before offering the next tier of PAC schools.

 

[Trice]

And we would have waited for a clear no before resigning from the AAU. No question in my mind

"resigning"

 

[alarson]

Might be premature, but this should put talk of adding Boise, USF, Memphis, or SMU to the XII to rest. Time to play offense and think bigger.

Their best hope is landing spots to backfill when the ACC gets picked off by the big 10\SEC.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

ESPN doesn’t have the big ten rights anymore

For me, this pretty much assures that ESPN isn't getting a part of the Big 10 rights package. FOX is obviously getting the lion's share and then they'll do deal with CBS and NBC for exclusive windows. Amazon gets non-conference basketball and Olympic sports and a football game or two.

This is full on FOX v Disney.

 

[HFCS]

I agree that the best case scenario right now is Iowa State in the middle conference between the B1G/SEC super leagues and the G5. The middle conference is nationwide and made up of major universities that just don’t make as much money. But they still have 60,000 people showing up to watch football games. It’s just not the 80,000 of the big two leagues.

Will unlimited money make every team competitive or will some of the grandfathered teams end up as cannon fodder? People like winners.

OK state might be a better program than Rutgers no matter how big the media money diff is.

 

[Gonzo]

B1G is trying to pressure ND to join before offering the next tier of PAC schools.

You're probably right.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

Once the ACC GoR ends, the ACC ends.

The Big 12’s position relative to the ACC leftovers will be huge here. One of the leagues will swallow the other. Maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s a true merger. But maybe you don’t want to bring along Wake Forest or something, and then it does matter. If Wazzu and Oregon State are getting demoted this round, some schools from those two leagues could get demoted then, too.

 

[JP4CY]

Something that isn't being talked enough about, today is a bad day for Notre Dame.