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HOO86

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The TV Contracts are Driving Larger.


And these Conference Networks are driving larger. Originally the rules for Conference Championship Games drove to 12. The Conference Network Channel concept started by the Big Ten is driving to larger geographic footprints. I don't see it ever going back to 8 or 9.

In fact there is poster over on the Realignment Thread on the Oklahoma Board talking about getting to 2 Conferences of 32 teams. He's talking about a merger of the ACC, SEC, and former SWC part of the Big 12 to form one. I guess it would be the ESPN conference:
Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia,Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Baylor, Texas, Texas Christian, Texas Tech, West Virginia

Then there would be a Fox Conference basically combining the Big Ten, PAC 12 and former Big 8:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arizona State, California, UCLA, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Southern California, Stanford, Utah, Washington, Washington State, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State

He suggests leaving Notre Dame with status quo. I guess that means a scheduling arrangement with the ESPN conference.

The point in doing it is leverage for television contracts. It's basically 2 conferences the size of the NFL. There are all kinds of scheduling options.

I think the next step would be 16 to get the experience with the divisions of 4 and rotation.

(In response to this post by VTHokie2000)

Posted: 12/10/2019 at 5:33PM



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