First off, Rutgers remains in the Power Five and specifically one of its toughest remaining divisions. Rutgers Impact: This at the current time is one of the BEST possible outcomes. Traditional rivalries in general due to schedule imbalances. Teams who make or even save their entire season by spoiling someone else’s playoff bid, particularly a traditional rival. Blue Bloods and former blue bloods who think they got the shaft by not being in the initial seven or eight. Maybe West Virginia? WVU’s undecided destination could be one of at least four different conferences all of which would decrease their travel budget. All the teams that don’t get squeezed out of the existing Power Five, but have no chance of contending for a national title. Everyone not in the SEC who qualifies for the Super division. How would the scheduling even work for schools in six team divisions? 4. Conferences as we know them can’t just absorb the losses of their biggest moneymakers. Less impact to the majority of teams and fans, some of which may be happy to avoid the beat downs from those trying to impress the playoff committee.Ĭons: 1. A promotion / relegation system could somehow be devised to cycle teams in and out. Being honest with who is actually a national title contender, possibly even having Texas replaced by a wildcard team in an 8 team playoff. Thus, the basis of this design is simply to put the Top teams plus Texa$ in their own division and call it a day. Power Five Schools who are three years away or at least say they are. Teams who claim they could be in the mix and who could qualify for the top 4 once every few years (i.e. Seven programs who have a legitimate chance to win a title each year in the four team playoff (Ohio State, Oklahoma, Clemson, Notre Dame, Alabama, LSU, Georgia), 2. I’ve heard high school coaches especially in the fertile recruiting grounds of Metro Atlanta and South Florida say that there are three types of teams that come to recruit their players 1. The elephant in the room, a Football Super Conference might as well be where we start looking at what might be the intermediate future. The picture today as a reminder with Oklahoma and Texas now ticketed for the SEC West. Admittedly, I even tried them out in NCAA Football 2014 for PS3. With nothing to watch live, I had been pondering the realignment last year when no sports were being played and list below the most likely options, pros, cons, winners, losers, and how Rutgers would be affected. Our B Vincent P just wrote that Rutgers will not be left in the cold, though crunching the numbers, I am slightly less optimistic. ![]() Our friends at other SB Nation sites have been covering their own angles: Boston College, West Virginia, and Penn State to name a few regionally. Do I want the Big Ten to expand or realignment in general? No, but if conferences wait they will miss on getting the pick of the litter. Like it or not, money drives college football, the 2020 season happening at all under pandemic conditions should have put any doubt to rest. One of our readers, JinNJ had a great comment of “sooner or later it will happen” regarding Art’s recent post discussing how the Big Ten should react. let’s review the proposals that seem to be the front runners for where we will be in say 2030, assuming there is no World War, UFO invasion, or even more lethal pandemic until then. I will acknowledge that I’m making a large jump on my own in tandem with the Big Ten having to change its ideals (which they have made no indication of) for any of this to happen. ![]() That being said, other factors may force their hand (even if it is not for another decade) especially in the event that relative revenue starts to decrease as SEC expansion continues. With the NCAA in a transition period of its own with NIL, not only do players, but the conferences and schools themselves have more power than ever before.Īt this point in time, the Big Ten remains steadfast that they will not add multiple non-AAU schools. In light of Oklahoma and Texas electing to take their talents to South Beach the SEC, the next cycle of college conference realignment is now inevitable, and message boards across this great nation of ours are blowing up.
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