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College Football 2021: Cash is King

Big Ten map is going to look like the MLB circa 1958. Makes sense why the media deal has been delayed for about a month now.

Throws a wrench into all the protected match-ups for the divisionless schedule, though.. Who ends up as “rivals” for two teams halfway across the country? Even trying to solve it with pods doesn’t work since you’d be splitting Iowa or Minnesota from eachother and Wisconsin.

If they expand to 18 give me Stanford and Oregon. If it’s 20 throw in Washington and one of Kansas/ND/Virginia.
 
Does Rice serve the purpose of Rutgers and allow the B1G into Houston/Texas while throwing an academic bone into the equation?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Here's your candidate list:

My money is on targeting Texas ...
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Texas won't walk away from SEC money.

Stanford/Cal makes too much sense. The question becomes what is the B1G target number? And if the B1G lands USC and Stanford, are they enough to lure in Notre Dame finally?
 
One D-1 conference right now would have 254 members (abolish FBS/FCS difference). Add 2 more. Play down from the round of 256 with random assignment of opponents and home field. There's only 8 rounds.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Texas won't walk away from SEC money.

Stanford/Cal makes too much sense. The question becomes what is the B1G target number? And if the B1G lands USC and Stanford, are they enough to lure in Notre Dame finally?
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At this point as ND I would pay to leave the ACC and join a Big20 that had USC and Stanford. Play all 9 from your division and 2 each year from the other. Title game the weekend after Thanksgiving.

East: Notre Dame, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Navy, Michigan State, Rutgers, Maryland
West: USC, Stanford, UCLA, Cal, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Northwestern
 
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Kepler said:
Are UO and UW leaving?

My god, an AZ team might win the Pac10 this decade.

NM must be excited about finally moving up.
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The B1G goes after schools (AAUs) on dx's map.
Stan/Cal/Wash/Ore meet that criteria and all but implode the PAC.

Best hope for the rest (Utah/Colo/Wazzu/OreSt/Az/ASU) in that scenario would be a merger with the Big XII.
 
The PAC Network was a dismal fail.
The PAC just doesn't generate money like B1G/SEC.
The B1G calling on USC/UCLA is the SRV solution they could only dream of:

Money's tight
Nothin's free
Won't somebody come
And rescue me
 
UW/UO make more sense than Stanford/Cal. The area populations are pretty close (Bay Area slightly larger than Seattle/Portland), but you get two schools that are much more the default ones in the state with UW/UO than you go with Stanford/Cal. You also get more geographical diversity, two TV markets instead of one, and we know TV markets are the name of the game; there's a reason B1G went for Rutgers (NYC) and Maryland (DMV) and Pac-12 went for Colorado and Utah in the last round. UW/OU also fit in the B1G genre better, large state schools with decent academic reputations.

In general I see B1G taking the northern half of the country and the SEC taking the southern half.

The question also becomes, at what point does CFB split off from the NCAA and the conferences? These nationwide conferences and the cost associated with all of the travel make sense when you're talking about CFB, which can afford all such costs and then some, but less so when you're discussing, say, women's field hockey. If CFB (and to a lesser extent CBB) were to go off and do their own things, do non-revenue sports find a way to associate that keeps teams closer to home and lowers the cost?
 
Holy shit. Apparently USC and UCLA reached out instead of the other way around. Didn't expect that, not sure why.
 
French Rage said:
UW/UO make more sense than Stanford/Cal. The area populations are pretty close (Bay Area slightly larger than Seattle/Portland), but you get two schools that are much more the default ones in the state with UW/UO than you go with Stanford/Cal. You also get more geographical diversity, two TV markets instead of one, and we know TV markets are the name of the game; there's a reason B1G went for Rutgers (NYC) and Maryland (DMV) and Pac-12 went for Colorado and Utah in the last round. UW/OU also fit in the B1G genre better, large state schools with decent academic reputations.

In general I see B1G taking the northern half of the country and the SEC taking the southern half.

The question also becomes, at what point does CFB split off from the NCAA and the conferences? These nationwide conferences and the cost associated with all of the travel make sense when you're talking about CFB, which can afford all such costs and then some, but less so when you're discussing, say, women's field hockey. If CFB (and to a lesser extent CBB) were to go off and do their own things, do non-revenue sports find a way to associate that keeps teams closer to home and lowers the cost?
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Big Ten Academic Alliance money dwarfs the athletic money. For that reason I see Stanford/Cal being equal options if not even more enticing than Oregon/Washington.

Also, they’re the same state, but would LA and the Bay Area be considered the same media market?
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Big Ten Academic Alliance money dwarfs the athletic money. For that reason I see Stanford/Cal being equal options if not even more enticing than Oregon/Washington.

Also, they’re the same state, but would LA and the Bay Area be considered the same media market?
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Yeah I think some people don’t realize the money the academic research big ten schools truly are dealing with…it’s huge
 
The Sicatoka said:
The B1G goes after schools (AAUs) on dx's map.
Stan/Cal/Wash/Ore meet that criteria and all but implode the PAC.

Best hope for the rest (Utah/Colo/Wazzu/OreSt/Az/ASU) in that scenario would be a merger with the Big XII.
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From SI:
The four teams most likely to be considered by the Big 12 are Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. Another conversation that could occur would be combining the two conferences in hopes of making a super conference, though talks aren't currently in motion as of this time.
 
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