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Conference Expansion: Stanford, California and SMU Join the ACC

There's more than 5 conferences.

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Then you wouldn't even be close to having the best teams in college football, excluding many many great teams and including the likes of Marshall who usually plays nobody, the MAC champion, the Sun Belt champ, CUSA....no thanks. Really can't say Houston would be deserving this year even if they did start off by winning against Ok because they play nobody else along the way until Louisville while many others play 5-10 Top 50 opponents. We don't need the CFP to be like March Madness as football players don't need all the wear & tear. One day we will be at 8 teams, but hopefully no more so the regular season means something.
 
Texas and Oklahoma can't be pleased. Inviting Colorado State? Memphis? Tulane? Those options are all very lame. Inviting L'ville was a tough pill to swallow for ACC teams, and they have an elite strippers recruitment program in almost every sport and a large and loyal fan-base.

;)
 
Then you wouldn't even be close to having the best teams in college football, excluding many many great teams and including the likes of Marshall who usually plays nobody, the MAC champion, the Sun Belt champ, CUSA....no thanks. Really can't say Houston would be deserving this year even if they did start off by winning against Ok because they play nobody else along the way until Louisville while many others play 5-10 Top 50 opponents. We don't need the CFP to be like March Madness as football players don't need all the wear & tear. One day we will be at 8 teams, but hopefully no more so the regular season means something.

Normally, I would agree with you, but Navy, Temple, Cincinnati, and Memphis are all solid football teams. If (and only if) Houston goes undefeated, they should get a shot.
 
UConn and Cincy make the most sense, right? Memphis and East Carolina if you add 4
 
They should add Cincy, Houston, BYU and Memphis. When Texas and Oklahoma leave they'll still be at 12 teams and they'll still have a solid base in the State of Texas.
 
Ouch. I saw they narrowed the list to 12.
 
I saw a tweet that basically read as follows: "ECU is incredibly confused right now. They had no idea an application could be declined."
 
Big XII officially pares it to "at least 12" and chops of 7--those being-- Arkansas State, Boise State, East Carolina, New Mexico, Northern Illinois, San Diego State and UNLV. One source could not confirm that Memphis made the cut per the ESPN article, which is surprising since they have been campaigning with the most sponsorship monies.

Another source says the list is down to 6-8 with UConn not eliminated--"TMGcollegesports.com Tuesday that the conference has whittled its list of candidates to six or eight, identifying UConn, Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, Brigham Young, Central Florida and South Florida as definites. A source with knowledge of Big 12 expansion says UConn has not been eliminated."

I would still think that Houston & Cincy are the leaders in the clubhouse myself but if they do take the chance and go with 4 teams then they take Memphis & maybe UCF for the Florida market or UConn for the Northeast market [that might appease the networks paying all the rights money]
 
Sports Nation reporting they feel like the Big XII is "unlikely" to expand as they don't see any school getting the required 8 votes out of 10 to get in. The writer feels that Cincy has the support & votes to get in, but they are not getting in as just #11 by themselves. He feels like no other school can generate 8 votes. BYU has been a main candidate but their honor code hurts them and with all the HB2-ACC/NCAA junk and pullout going on, it is going to make getting BYU in an interesting choice.

He says momentum has stalled so stay tuned.
 
What a tease.
 
Predictable. College sports fans needed a story over the Summer to entertain them, and this was it. There was no way that USF or ECU or even Memphis or Houston was going to be invited to the big boy table.
 
This wasn't some media generated hype. The Big XII took applications. It was attention whoring.
 
"The Big 12 expansion circus will likely play on for another month. Some type of decision—or at least direction—is expected to come when the league's presidents meet on Oct. 17. But as we near the two-month mark since the league's expansion exploration announcement, the Big 12 has reinforced its status as the biggest laughingstock in all of college sports."

http://www.campusrush.com/big-12-ex...cinnati-byu-uconn-david-boren-2006279271.html
 
"Multiple sources indicated there have been discussions with the Big 12’s TV partners to pay the league not to expand. The purpose of the payment would be to eliminate the pro rata clause in the TV contract—which the TV officials consider a loophole—that enables the league to receive nearly $25 million annually for every school it adds. The willingness of ESPN and Fox to discuss paying to eliminate that clause and end future potential expansion drama in upcoming years makes not expanding the most likely conclusion."

http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/10/14/big-12-expansion-unlikely
 
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