Which non Power 5 team would the Big 12 Take?

[batchaps4me]

Yeah and even partially tied to Tulsa. We have to rotate home and homes. It's all legislatively tied.

It took our legislature to restart the Iron Bowl back in the day.

 

[Duckboy33]

Also, if I read correctly, oSu and OU are tied together. @CowpokeU is that correct?

But they can play each other every year without being in the same conference.

 

[Duckboy33]

Kill me now lol!
Just take us already, ACC.

ACC made some serious mistakes during expansion. They should have looked North much sooner than they did. If they acted earlier, they could have added Penn State before the B1G did and raided the Big East to make the divisions make sense.

North:
Penn State
Maryland
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Rutgers
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech

South:
Florida State
Miami FL
Georgia Tech
Clemson
NC State
UNC
Duke
Wake Forest

 

[batchaps4me]

I wish that back in the expansion to 12, the SEC would have picked up some teams that had natural and ongoing rivalries like FSU, Miami, Clemson or GA Tech.

 

[TechRaiderRider]

New conference, New TV contracts.

so no more 11am games?
or will the west coast watch games at 9am ?

 

[Duckboy33]

so no more 11am games?
or will the west coast watch games at 9am ?

I see no reasons why a central time zone team couldn’t play an 11 am kickoff. Obviously no pacific time zone team will host a 9 am kickoff

 

[Bamaklingon]

I would be willing to trade Tennessee for Boise St. And, subsidize their travel costs.
I never was a fan of goat humpers.

 

[Colekibler]

Suprisingly we have a few Group of Five guys on the forum, and some would have a future opportunity at this. Earlier in the last decade TCU and Utah finally got their chance. Utah was a new state footprint for the PAC 12 to get into, and TCU brought the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the Big 12 with history of their old SWC foes. Ever since the Big East dissolved, the SEC/Big 10 did their poaching it seems like there is stability among all the power five conferences. The Big 12 is the only conference without 12 or more teams, which some say is less revenue. In college football cash is king.

So below we have a poll of logical non P5 teams for the Big 12 to take. What makes logic to you? Should they stay at ten? Will West Virginia always be isolated? I want to hear your view points on this. @CouchOnFire @Nod4Eight @UCFhonors

Well wouldn’t it be fitting for the Big 12 to actually have 12 teams again? Asking for a friend.

 

[TechRaiderRider]

Well wouldn’t it be fitting for the Big 12 to actually have 12 teams again? Asking for a friend.

actually, ten schools is the perfect number --
play all 9 teams, plus 3 non-conf -
and in b-ball,
play all 9 teams, home and away -

mega conferences are stoopid -

 

[Duckboy33]

Well wouldn’t it be fitting for the Big 12 to actually have 12 teams again? Asking for a friend.

When was the last time the Big Ten actually had ten teams?

 

[Colekibler]

When was the last time the Big Ten actually had ten teams?

NCAA can’t do math

 

[CouchOnFire]

WVU
VT
Pitt
Syracuse
Miami (FL)
BC
Maryland
Rutgers
Temple
Louisville
UC
UCF?

I know there's a serious drop-off after the first team, but gimme the Big East!!

 

[Colekibler]

WVU
VT
Pitt
Syracuse
Miami (FL)
BC
Maryland
Rutgers
Temple
Louisville
UC
UCF?

I know there's a serious drop-off after the first team, but gimme the Big East!!

Big East was awesome in the mid-late 2000s. Pat White/slaton at WV. Brohm and Bush at LOU. Donald brown at UCONN. Shady McCoy at Pitt. Pike/Gilyard at Cincy. Ray rice! Some of the most entertaining games in CFB 2005-2009.

 

[OldDevilDawg]

NCAA can’t do math

This might be one of the most obvious statements, yet unnoticed facts, in history.