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The New Big Ten and Pac-12 Divisions
Ever since Nebraska joined the Big Ten and Colorado and Utah joined the Pac-10, no one has said much about how the conferences will be structured. Granted, the change can’t even happen this year so it isn’t a big deal, but what is the best natural fit for each conference? They obviously want a championship, so that requires to divisions of 6 teams each. Do you divide by geography? By rivalry? By seniority? What makes sense for each conference?
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Has the BCS helped or hurt college football?
The answer to this question is “yes.” Those of us who remember the old days of randomly assigned bowl games that were determined by your conference and not your record remember how bad that was. Remember in 1984 when BYU won the title? Washington wouldn’t even play them, opting for Oklahoma instead. BYU barely got past a 6-5 Michigan team to be voted national champions. That could never happen anymore. The teams at the top of the polls always play at the end of the year now. That’s better. But now things have gotten worse.
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My Proposed Big Texas Conference
I know everyone is already calling the new Big XII the Big Texas Conference, but hold your horses. Texas obviously owns the conference and all bow to their will. But this whole thing got me thinking- what if there really was a Big Texas conference? What would it look like? How would it go? I’ll tell you one thing, it would probably be light years better than the now mangled Big XII.
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The SEC plan for expansion
Well, it came out this week that OU and Texas A&M were in fact invited by a top official into the SEC. They of course refused because neither school has a spine and cowers in the presence of almighty Texas. So the now decimated and pathetic Big XII is now the Big X. Everyone has talked about them over and over and over again, us included. But the interesting thing people are missing here is about the SEC. Hello?! They tried to expand to 14 schools and no one seemed to care! It would have been a great plan too. Imagine adding OU and Texas A&M along with Vandy to the west division and Alabama and Auburn to the east division. But alas, not to be. However, this does give us an insight into the SEC’s plans for expansion in the future.
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BCS and Attendance
The Mountain West Conference, Conference USA and the Western Athletic Conference have spent the last few years attempting to position themselves as being the next conference to become a BCS conference. The MWC has been talked about in many circles, as the conference closest to becoming a BCS conference. This talk is the result of some MWC program’s exploits on the gridiron. The BCS formula is a complicated one that takes into account wins and losses versus other BCS conferences, final rankings and other criteria. It basically boils down to a numbers game. However, though the BCS likes to trumpet membership is performance based, truth is the number that the BCS cares about is the number that follows the dollar sign.
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