The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[lambdacoug]

I trust Tom and the boys.

[Blueintheface]

I hold only a modicum of hope and only if GN shows up with another screaming post on the nature of my gentalia thus filling in the final corner of the 'Believing-3' triangle will I keep this hope.

[Indy Coug]

Now I really trust Tom and the boys.

[USUC]

With the new 4 team playoff as well as the PAC/B1G and SEC/Big 12 deals, access to the national championship might even be twice as hard for most programs than the BCS system.

[BYUMizzou]

With the new 4 team playoff as well as the PAC/B1G and SEC/Big 12 deals, access to the national championship might even be twice as hard for most programs than the BCS system.

How does the SEC/B12 deal have any bearing on how hard it is to get into the proposed 4 team playoff? I'm not following the logic. The B12/SEC deal is just a privately arranged bowl game between the top SEC/B12 teams who don't make it into the 4 team playoff. The only difference between this game and a traditional bowl is that the game won't be lining the pockets of some bowl committee, and the payout for the teams/conferences involved will be probably much larger than whatever other bowl they might have otherwise gone to.

I see it giving the SEC and B12 more money, but it doesn't change or have any bearing on the access to the national championship given that pretty much everyone already assumed that we were going to some kind of 4 team playoff.

[Scorcho]

How does the SEC/B12 deal have any bearing on how hard it is to get into the proposed 4 team playoff? I'm not following the logic. The B12/SEC deal is just a privately arranged bowl game between the top SEC/B12 teams who don't make it into the 4 team playoff. The only difference between this game and a traditional bowl is that the game won't be lining the pockets of some bowl committee, and the payout for the teams/conferences involved will be probably much larger than whatever other bowl they might have otherwise gone to.

I see it giving the SEC and B12 more money, but it doesn't change or have any bearing on the access to the national championship given that pretty much everyone already assumed that we were going to some kind of 4 team playoff.

while this new SEC/Big XII deal doesn't change the 4 team playoff proposal, I think it hinders a 4 team playoff eventually evolving into an 8 or 16 team playoff.

And that would suck.

[WashingtonCoug]

As the article said this is just another version of the Capitol One Bowl. If anything if they opt to do this in Atlanta or Dallas, it will open up the Sugar Bowl to other teams outside the SEC. I think it also spells out that the current BCS Bowls may not be used in the 4 team playoff. It will be interesting to see what happens. Notre Dame won't feel pressure to join a conference unless the 4 team playoff is for conference champions exclusively. I still don't see that happening. There would be too many lawsuits. My guess is they end up with a selection committee. We'll still end up at an 8 team playoff in the end.

[Moliere]

Yowza!

Can you imagine if we would have gotten into the Big 12 last year? I'll try not to think about it

[byu71]

Yowza!

Can you imagine if we would have gotten into the Big 12 last year? I'll try not to think about it

The conference was too unstable for a school of BYU's stature to take the chance TCU did. TCU had nothing to lose.

[Indy Coug]

https://twitter.com/#!/CougarStats/status/203626301402255360

[YOhio]

https://twitter.com/#!/CougarStats/s...26301402255360

Good point. The other instance of this happening is when TCU was invited to the Big 12 with little buzz preceding the announcement.

[Portland Ute]

while this new SEC/Big XII deal doesn't change the 4 team playoff proposal, I think it hinders a 4 team playoff eventually evolving into an 8 or 16 team playoff.

And that would suck.

Why in the world would and 8 team playoff suck?

[Maximus]

Why in the world would and 8 team playoff suck?

You missed the hindering in the statement.

[Viking]

Tom and the Prophets surely saw this coming when they send Beebe packing last September

[Uncle Ted]

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@GSwaim

That sound you hear is the #Big12, #SEC & #B1G knives and forks getting ready to carve up the #ACC. #BonApetit

@davidubben

Hey, Sooners! Tired of playing UConn, Boise in no-win situations in bowl games? Say thanks to Big 12, SEC commissioners.