Looks like a nice mid-major conference that the PAC-(insert random number) is building.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You will never be able to convince me this isn’t the old WAC. They might as well name Karl Benson the next commissioner <a href="https://t.co/4f38QvrSRh">https://t.co/4f38QvrSRh</a></p>&mdash; Joel D. Anderson �� (@byjoelanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/byjoelanderson/status/1834230427009384803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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The ACC/Big 12/the Pac Whatever will eventually merge after the SEC and Big 10 take the schools they want from those respective conferences.

The ACC is the only one remaining with schools of any real value to them. Maybe a Big 12 school or two might get lucky and get invited. The Pac 6 has no chance to get poached.

I still feel like, geographically speaking, 5 was a great number.

The Big12 and Big10 cover 'flyover country' extremely well, SEC the south, ACC the Northeast, PAC the West.

4 just has those conferences too spread out, IMO.

It's a real big country, lads. 4 conferences covering the whole smash is asking a lot.

6 PAC or BrokePacMountain?

They still need to get to 8 by 2026 to be considered a conference though. 12 to hold a conference championship game(although could probably get a waiver for 10 schools like the Big12 did).

Maybe they get Stanford and Cal back as well as add SMU after the ACC gets picked apart.

Stanford and Cal are so full of their academic prestige that I can't see them associating themselves with the academically inferior California State schools.

Its huge country but there really is no population to speak from California border to about Interstate 35.

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It was a joke since I live in one of those dark states.... but seriously, don't move here.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Can confirm, as <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteThamel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteThamel</a> reported, that Air Force has emerged as a target for the American Athletic Conference to add. The idea of having all three service academies in the same league is quite appealing, source tells <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCSports</a>.</p>&mdash; Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) <a href="https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1835758326896099820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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