POWER CONFERENCES POTENTIALLY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN DIVISION!

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Polling of the roughly 800 administrators at the NCAA convention's dialog on governance revealed solid support for an autonomous voting body for the five most powerful conferences – the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12. Fifty-eight percent of those administrators – from all levels of NCAA membership – were in support of autonomy for the power conferences; 30 percent were opposed; 12 percent were neutral.

To NCAA president Mark Emmert, that's a significant change in outlook.
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No this is potentially huge. I know the idea had been floating but with a majority support this may get legs. If this gains tractions look for more expansion to start. The BIG 12 Would likely have to strike immediately to increase their ranks. The PAC 12 while the benefits slim, may do it in fear. Hell even Notre Dame may be scared into joining the ACC.

 
I also think this is huge. I read the other thread and didn't get a chance to comment before leaving my office for a bit.

If you have 5 conferences that make up the top level of college football......wow. That would change the landscape considerably. Let's say all increase to 16. That would put 80 teams in the top level. That is manageable. The number of teams now in Div 1 (FBS) is absolutely ridiculous when you consider the teams only play a 12 game season.

If you have those 80 teams in 5 conferences and then you say that out of 12 regular season games each team will play 9 conference games. Then, you have 3 non-con. Of those three, say two have to come from these 5 power conferences.

That makes for damn good football week in and week out.

I'm all in.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I also think this is huge. I read the other thread and didn't get a chance to comment before leaving my office for a bit.

If you have 5 conferences that make up the top level of college football......wow. That would change the landscape considerably. Let's say all increase to 16. That would put 80 teams in the top level. That is manageable. The number of teams now in Div 1 (FBS) is absolutely ridiculous when you consider the teams only play a 12 game season.

If you have those 80 teams in 5 conferences and then you say that out of 12 regular season games each team will play 9 conference games. Then, you have 3 non-con. Of those three, say two have to come from these 5 power conferences.

That makes for damn good football week in and week out.

I'm all in.
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That would be amazing!

 
If the top division only has 80 teams, only half would qualify for bowl games. That means only 20 bowl games would survive. The other bowls would have to be fed from the next division down. Also as they keep trimming the bottom feeders out, what were formerly .500 teams will now have losing records. The FSU's, Alabama's and OSU's of the world will not be playing those bottom feeders. What happens when the top 40 want to pull away from the bottom 40?

 
A guy I was listening to about 4 years ago while I was driving through Illinois at 1am on some talk radio show was saying someth.....ah, what the hell.

I should just copy and paste it from awhile back. But I'm too lazy

 
I approve of this thread over the other one because this title was done in all caps. It gives it a trailer trash teenager feel that I think this board could use right now.

 
We play 13-14 games a year, while winning 9-10. 9-10 of which are against our "peers", as I understand it. So if we have 3 gimme wins in non con, replaced by 3 games against "peers", and we already have a 67%-70% win percentage against our peers, then I would assume we may lose on more game and go 2 for 3 in the extra 3 games against our peers.

 
Mr. Accountability said:
We play 13-14 games a year, while winning 9-10. 9-10 of which are against our "peers", as I understand it. So if we have 3 gimme wins in non con, replaced by 3 games against "peers", and we already have a 67%-70% win percentage against our peers, then I would assume we may lose on more game and go 2 for 3 in the extra 3 games against our peers.
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My point of course, is that Nebraska would be vying for the top spot in a conference with other very good teams. Playing against those teams regularly would be a better yardstick of where the program is rather than a sloppy four touchdown shitfest against Purdue.

 
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