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Rod Griffin
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18 candidates + Big XII = 28 desperate teams
Well, not all of the Big XII is desperate as OK & Texas can go anywhere west, north or even south with the SEC if they want to go to 16. Ok St is in good shape and maybe even Kansas because of their basketball program. But hell yea, who of those 16 or 18 other teams would not be desperate to get into a new Big XII!!!!! When the AAC is paying at most $3 mill per school and CUSA is at about $1.5 mill and you can jump up to around $30+ mill, every A.D. in America wants to interview.
If this thing actually breaks up one day because Texas or OK get pulled away by a bigger lure of a Power 4 sixteen team conference, Iowa State needs to worry, maybe K State because I haven't seen anything that keeps them with Kansas [and luckily for us, we have the 20 year deal the ACC just put together and the coming ACC Network that should keep all of us in]
Nobody wants to get left out of the football playoffs but as of now there are only 4 spots and 5 power conferences. 2 years ago it was the Big XII and last year the Pac 12. This year who knows? If all goes exactly right, the ACC could get 2 if powers FSU & Clemson were to go 13-0 & 11-1, same in the SEC with Bama & LSU. The conference that may have the toughest time again this year because of the depth & toughness of the conference is the Pac 12. They have to play a 9 game schedule and most of their teams are inside the power indexes top 50. USC plays 10 of them, UCLA plays 9 as do many others in their league. On the other hand Clemson only plays 5. [Houston only plays 2 so should they beat OK in the opener they have only Louisville at home late in the season--can't say they should even be considered]. Most SEC West teams like Bama & LSU have 7 or 8. Now we see why everybody wants schedule parity & 9 game conference schedules.