It would be better if there were a system out there that gets the entirety of every full D1 school into a "division" of eight schools which play a seven game round robin where the outright winner faces the champ of another division in the same "conference" for a championship. Every D1 school must schedule one FCS school and one permanent FBS non-conference rival every year.

Nine game regular season schedule with probably half of each division reaching a bowl game for a tenth game if they don't win their division. Conference champs then get to participate in a potential three game playoff to determine a true CFB championship.

So we need the B1G, SEC, and Big12 to agree to a full merger. Then the three commissioners fight to the death on who’s the commissioner.

Damn the NCAA is a complete pile of shit ROFL College sports are unwatchable already, but soon....

I'm for it. If you can get rid of the NCAA then basketball becomes a much bigger money maker. The NCAA tournament is the only reason that broke dick organization even has any money.

We are going to end up with 2 major conferences, the SEC and the BIG. In the end each will have the same number of schools, adhere to the same set of rules, and will eventually schedule games against the other division.

Sixteen team playoff, 8 schools from SEC, 8 for BIG, just like the NFL. Super Bowl to determine the winner.

The SEC and ACC locking themselves into long term deals with one primary media partner is looking more and more like a strategic error considering ESPN’s dire current financial situation.

ESPN was unwilling (unable?) to pay the SEC extra for something as incremental as going from 8 to 9 conference games.

The Big 10 had the right approach going with multiple media partners and with a deal that starts immediately… the SEC entered into their deal with ESPN in 2020, but it doesn’t actually begin until 2024… so much will have changed with ESPN in those four years and not for the better.

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Arizona and Arizona State will be in the Big 12.

Have regents or state legislatures ever prevented a team from re-aligning conferences?

The new Big 12 is going to be a GAUNTLET in college basketball. Jeez.

Didnt California govt try to get involved with USC/UCLA moving?

Especially if they add UCONN and Gonzaga as bball only

Rumor had it for years that Oklahoma couldn't leave the Big 12 without taking along Okie Dokie State.

Otherwise, I haven't heard anything specific.

Well, I take that back. Houston was left out for Baylor when the Big 12 formed because the governor of Texas was a Baylor grad.

Yeah. Going to be like the AFC and the NFC.