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Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP
The Pac-10 wont get 2 auto-bids unless 4 16-team conferences are formed. They especially wont get 2 auto-bids as a 16-team conference with no conference championship game. Talk about a big group of 16 pansy schools scared to have a true conference champ.
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I'm not saying they will or they won't, I'm just relating what has being bandied about. The argument is based on numbers, not whether or not one has a championship game. The argument is a 16 team mega conference has enough member for two 8 team conferences and with the dissolution of one of the automatic qualifying conferences, that bid should go to the conference that assumed the majority of said conference. This is why there is all the talk of the four sixteen team super conferences, because it eventually leads to one of three conference scenarios:
A four team playoff of conference champions. The most simply but the least revenue generating.
An strait eight team playoff where the division winners of each conference get automatic invites regardless of who wins the conference championship. More revenue, but less importance placed on winning the conference title
A twelve team format, conference winners get first round byes, conference runner-ups get automatic invites leaving four at large selections (these could be non big four conferences, an independent, or even at large big four teams). This is the scenario that projects near a billion dollar windfall.
Conference networks aren't the only money generator these realignments are aiming at. A potential college football playoff system is seen as a huge windfall which is why the two invite rule for mega conferences is being brought up.