RollWave35
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If the Big 12 is staying at 10, are they still adding the conference championship game? It wouldn't make any sense to since each team would still get to play everyone.
If the Big 12 is staying at 10, are they still adding the conference championship game? It wouldn't make any sense to since each team would still get to play everyone.
As long as Texas insists on having its own network (and the resulting revenue), the Big 12 will teeter on extinction. Guessing it will implode when Oklahoma gets an offer from another that it can't refuse. The other 4 power conferences operate on a shared revenue model. Big 12 does not. It's no coincidence that the Big 12 is the only Power V conference on the verge of collapse.
There's very strong evidence that socialism works in sports.
So who has been the biggest winner in all the expansion movement? I think there's a strong case to be made for Nebraska.
The Big Ten definitely boosted Nebraska's academics but it ended all the natural rivalries that the Huskers once had (OU, CU, KU, even UT to an extent).
Outside of a manufactured rivalry with Iowa there isn't much to get about excited about. Also they can no longer recruit Texas effectively. That really hurts. Look for them to have the occasional good season every 3-4 years, but big time Nebraska football is dead.
Louisville is the big winner
It's not so big any more.
. While the league might still implode, the revenue stream might actually have been better for the time being?Every team that has left the Big 12 has been a winner.
The program that was saved from oblivion is Utah. Had the Pac 12 gone in different direction, Utah would either be an independent like BYU or would be relegated to playing the likes of Wyoming and New Mexico in the Mountain West with very little conference revenue and no national buzz. If the ACC had not grabbed L'ville, the Big 12 would've added them; while they would not have the same revenue stream from the Big 12 as they found in the ACC, they would still be relevant nationally in both football and basketball.