This revenue factor was clearly motivating enough for Texas and Oklahoma to abandon their conference. The ACC TV contract in place is less than ideal for the conference, but renegotiation is expected to happen, especially if teams threaten to leave.
It becomes an member conference, and the ACC is left with the remaining 12 teams and sort of Notre Dame. The Big 12 at this point is either much weaker or completely dissolved.
No football bluebloods, but still some quality football programs and they remain a top basketball conference. Maybe the Big 10 would venture into the Tobacco Road area to try to grab a few schools even less likely or replace the ACC as the partner with Notre Dame possible.
All of this would still leave about 8 ACC schools minimum, likely more, that would stick together. Not a great scenario to be in, but still what would be a top-4 conference. One is that the ACC dissolves because too many teams leave for new super-conferences. The other would be if Boston College gets courted by the Big 10 so the conference can capture the New England region, much like they went after Maryland and Rutgers to establish a presence in the DMV and Tri-State areas.
The ACC is a much easier conference to play against that gives them pretty much an automatic bid to the CFP every year, while the revenue streams overall remain adequate. Boston College likely ends up fine, even if other conferences like the the SEC start making obscene amounts of money. Ten years ago this month, the last great spasm of realignment began shaking the college sports world. When it finally subsided in , the landscape had changed dramatically. For the richer, but not necessarily for the better.
The Southeastern Conference expanded into Texas and Missouri. The Atlantic Coast Conference wandered nearly 1, miles inland. The Pac annexed the Rocky Mountains. The Big 12, pushed to the brink of collapse, steadied itself by adding a school 1, miles to the northeast of the league office. Lesser conferences followed suit, scrambling for financial viability. For full-sized image, click here.
If only this could be pitched to centralized leadership of college football that was interested in the good of the entire enterprise. What college football would gain from this realignment: uniformity; conference championships that truly matter; increased access to a more lucrative playoff; a more level playing field for the little guys; renewed regional identity; cherished rivalries preserved, restored—and, in some cases, forced into permanent existence.
The advantages are abundant. The complaints about conference schedules would disappear. Everyone would play 11 league games, taking on every opponent within the conference every season. There would be no unbalanced scheduling, beyond six home games vs. Without divisions, there is no luck of the draw in cross-divisional opponents. And the endless carping from conferences that play more league games than others would be silenced. Having automatic playoff bids tied to conference championships—and having enough room in the playoff for every conference champion—would remove another chronic complaint.
Win your league, get a shot at the national title. And there would be triple the access to the playoff, from four to 12 teams. Instead of having to fight its way through eternal Big Ten roadblock Ohio State for a playoff bid, Penn State has a clearer path.
Same with Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and others. Schools out west would no longer have to worry whether their league was strong enough to compete for a playoff spot. Spreading around the heavyweight teams to more conferences increases playoff access, which should help with recruiting. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. This led to some further discussion about the conference in general, and ultimately what the next - and perhaps final - round of conference expansion and realignment might look like.
Perhaps if promotion and relegation were also put in place they could be included, but for now, just P5 teams. Please also note - and this may cause some controversy - due to the fact that it is not a full member of any particular conference, Notre Dame will be excluded from this exercise. There are currently five P5 conferences, comprising 64 teams in total. This sets itself up nicely, in my opinion, to be broken down to four super-conferences of 16 teams each.
Each of those 16 conferences would then be split up into four 4-team pods for scheduling purposes. But each of those conferences is going to want to keep itself intact. So which conferences are safe, and which are vulnerable? Well, the ACC currently has all of its members protected by a grant of rights, meaning for the time being, no one is leaving that conference.
And the Pac is so far flung that not many other conferences would consider poaching their teams. That leaves us with the Big For that reason, the first choice is Kansas. The SEC wants to maintain itself as the premier conference in the country, and they do just that by taking one of the top two teams in the Big 12 - Texas - reuniting the Longhorns and the Aggies. After that, they look for another proximity-based school and opt for West Virginia.
As mentioned previously, the Pac is the farthest away from everyone else.
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