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I love the #3 option you present. In the long run i like the 4 team pod system bc i think this is what the SEC will do at some point. I feel 10(get to play all teams so true champion) or 12 team conferences are the best to determine a true conf champion and all systems are better than the 14 team conf.

I know Lousiville is a good basketball school but this is run by football so if comes down to Louisville vs a Pitt of GT or even a Maryland, i think most of the other ACC schools or even a team like BYU would/should get the nod.

Lets assume Fsu and Clemson do come to Big 12 what are the other options?
a)stay at 12 teams and get a conf title game.
or
b)add 2-4 more teams.
If we add ND then Pitt, GT and Miami will pay anything to join us.
or
We dont add ND and maybe 2 others of the following Pitt, GT, Miami, Louisville, etc would want to join. Louisville wants to come no matter what but there are at least 10 teams more deserving than them.

If Louisvile ends up in the same side of a 12 or 14 team conf with Ku, Iowa St and Ksu then that becomes a much weaker side of the conference, similar to what we had in the old big 12 though i hope not as bad.

I feel its a 12 team or 16 team situation.

Hookem 89,
It is possible for Pac, Big 10, Big 12, Sec, Acc to go to 16 teams. It just means that teams like Byu, Louisville, Cincinnati, etc will all be in a bigger conf and Big east will not exist and a few smaller conferences will be diminished. Only 2 logical geographical choices for Pac are Byu and Boise at this point but as the Aggie t-shirt clearly showed us all, geography isn’t too much of a priority.

I hate the unfairness that ND gets currently with the Bcs and what they will probably get with BCS playoff system. 9 wins is all it takes for them to get in is a joke. Should have been10-2 minimum.

Brian E, thanks for the information! Keep it coming!!

Bob in Houston, great post!

I believe it is the networks that are driving this bus. The BCS wants the most it can get and same with the networks.

Talk about an exciting and major upgrade. Imagine replacing aggy with FSU as a rivalry game and opening Florida to more UT recruiting. Bring it on.

How about another option.

Take FSU and Clemson to weaken ACC and improve Big 12. If no special playoff clause for ND, with FSU/Clemson gone from ACC, ND will want to join Big 12 over B1G.

that would be ideal. What will Acc do to stop them from going? I hope they dont care for them and wand more basketball schools but doubt it.

Sec would love to block this deal, and what would Sec do stop this deal? Invite Fsu themselves?