Conference Realignment - What's next?

The ACC would need to be a football only thing, with WCC for everything else. No way they're sending their olympic sports across the country for every event (outside Stan v. Cal).
 
Add these final 8 if available:

Duke
Pitt
Louisville
Syracuse
NC State
Va Tech
UConn
Georgia Tech or Miami


I know that’s a lot of teams but man talk about a buzz saw basketball conference.
 
Osucowboys344 said:
Add these final 8 if available:

Duke
Pitt
Louisville
Syracuse
NC State
Va Tech
UConn
Georgia Tech or Miami


I know that’s a lot of teams but man talk about a buzz saw basketball conference.
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It has been done before in the SEC and it is quickly headed back that way. From early 20's until early 1930's the SEC was a 20-35 team conference (it varied) but in 1936 the 13 schools South of the Appalachian mountains split off to form the start of the SEC you know today. There are currently 129 Div 1 schools with 14 conferences with an avg of 9 teams per conference. That is why you have the ridiculous number of bowl games out there and why Texas was being invited to bowl games while they have a losing record...because of all these conference affiliations with different bowl games created because we have too many conferences.

Huge mega conferences back in the day (due to travel) were very common and in reality huge mega conferences are kind of more traditional than what occurred when the BCS showed up in 1998.....prior to the BCS in 1998 there were 10 conferences with 112 teams total.

with the BCS inception in 1998 until 2014.....80 schools changed conference (some more than once) and a full on 14 new schools moved up from FCS to FBS tier. so in the 16 years of the BCS we went from 10 conferences with 112 teams to 14 conferences with 126 teams...can't add 4 new conferences when you only added 14 new teams. That is where the numbers started getting all jacked up.

Most experts believe you will end up with 3-4 mega conferences with 20-25 teams each and then smaller conferences of ~10 team schools
 
Yeah, no. ESPN is riding that shitty ACC contract out to 2036. They have zero incentive to pay more any earlier. On some level even if FSU and Clemson leave in 2036, ESPN will have saved a shit ton of money in the interim, and FSU leaving for SEC or BIG is going to happen either way, if those leagues really want them that far in the future.
 
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