Personally, I hope we hold pat... but I doubt it.
At any rate, I can see Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford joining the B1G.
That would leave Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington State, Oregon State in some type of limbo.
So from this pool of teams untouched by the SEC and what the B1G didn't take, you have the following teams in a pool of what's leftover.
Baylor, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kansas, TCU, Iowa State, West Va, BYU, UCF, Houston, Cincinatti, Arizona, Arizona State, Washington State, Oregon State, Utah, Colorado + the ACC which according to the GOR, isn't going anywhere, barring a near unanimous mutiny and that likely wouldn't benefit several schools like Duke and Wake Forest. Also, we should keep some bigger schools from the WAC, AAC and MWC like Boise State, Fresno State Memphis, South Florida in mind to be plucked to round out some conferences or divisions.
I could be wrong, but I don't think ND can actually join a football conference that isn't the ACC for a while.
Now, this group could have 32 members if they didn't take on some of the group of 6 teams I mentioned and do their best to have four eight team pods. There are actually a lot of variations. You could have three twelve team divisons with a wildcard and on and on.
It almost won't certainly shake out exactly like this, but I think there will almost certainly be a large group, comprising of this pool, fighting for a spot at the table. How this could possibly work out in terms of championships played is what will be interesting. But it would be weird if Miami, Clemson and FSU were somehow stuck playing for some best-of-the-rest crown.
I think something similar to the above is a certainty unless ESPN and Fox grant the ACC entry into another conference (The SEC or B1G) so they don't have to pay 50 million a piece to exit the ACC and then the terms of the payouts among all those nearly 40 teams along with the networks (and this would allow ND into the conversation, right?) could agree to new deals and payouts among the teams, which seems impossible imo. That said, if there were a way to make it possible on ESPN, it would probably behoove them... I don't think they want to be tied to a lesser product if they don't have to. Wake and Duke hold a lot of cards here imo.
Does this part sound about right to you? @LawDawg86 and other law-dawgs?
At any rate, I can see Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford joining the B1G.
That would leave Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington State, Oregon State in some type of limbo.
So from this pool of teams untouched by the SEC and what the B1G didn't take, you have the following teams in a pool of what's leftover.
Baylor, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kansas, TCU, Iowa State, West Va, BYU, UCF, Houston, Cincinatti, Arizona, Arizona State, Washington State, Oregon State, Utah, Colorado + the ACC which according to the GOR, isn't going anywhere, barring a near unanimous mutiny and that likely wouldn't benefit several schools like Duke and Wake Forest. Also, we should keep some bigger schools from the WAC, AAC and MWC like Boise State, Fresno State Memphis, South Florida in mind to be plucked to round out some conferences or divisions.
I could be wrong, but I don't think ND can actually join a football conference that isn't the ACC for a while.
Now, this group could have 32 members if they didn't take on some of the group of 6 teams I mentioned and do their best to have four eight team pods. There are actually a lot of variations. You could have three twelve team divisons with a wildcard and on and on.
It almost won't certainly shake out exactly like this, but I think there will almost certainly be a large group, comprising of this pool, fighting for a spot at the table. How this could possibly work out in terms of championships played is what will be interesting. But it would be weird if Miami, Clemson and FSU were somehow stuck playing for some best-of-the-rest crown.
I think something similar to the above is a certainty unless ESPN and Fox grant the ACC entry into another conference (The SEC or B1G) so they don't have to pay 50 million a piece to exit the ACC and then the terms of the payouts among all those nearly 40 teams along with the networks (and this would allow ND into the conversation, right?) could agree to new deals and payouts among the teams, which seems impossible imo. That said, if there were a way to make it possible on ESPN, it would probably behoove them... I don't think they want to be tied to a lesser product if they don't have to. Wake and Duke hold a lot of cards here imo.
Does this part sound about right to you? @LawDawg86 and other law-dawgs?
