Big Ten May Become Big 14, And The SEC

IMO this would hurt smaller schools that depend on these types of games to fund the athletics programs. $400,000 is no joke for playing a football game.
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Who would we take? Southern Miss? seems like, to expand the SEC and get high caliber teams (Please no more Vandy’s) it would shank other conferences in the back. If the SEC took Clemson and FSU then the ACC would lose two teams and a conference championship would no longer be played. According to the NCAA for a conference championship game you have to have 12 teams. I say leave the SEC alone we don’t need to counter the Big 10 here they are merely trying to play catchup.

…don’t enlarge the SEC…that is all….

write that down..

possibly picking up a Utah and another WAC or MWC team to get to twelve, but who would the Big Ten pick up? Notre Dame or possibly Cincy?

what will it call itself?

Missouri goes to the Big Ten, Arkansas goes to the Big 12, South Carolina goes to the ACC, and the SEC picks up two of the following (Clemson, Georgia Tech or Florida State).

OR

We could keep Arkansas, switch USCe with Clemson or Georgia Tech and TCU goes to the Big 12???

Mizzou goes to the Big Ten, Big 12 takes Ark, SEC take Georgia Tech, ACC takes Cincinnati, Big East picks up Penn State, Big Ten decides to take Texas, Big 12 gets Ole Miss, SEC picks up Mizzou, so the Big Ten takes Kentucky, so then SEC decides to take Clemson, the ACC is all pissed and decides to take Alabama, AND THEN WE’RE IN THE ACC! IT COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN!!!!!!!

just takes FSU and Miami. Talk about a super conference!

would never get in the SEC- they got out of the SEC because they could not stand the heat.

I could however see an SEC expansion. FSU- West and Clemson- East would be the logical choices. You would still play 8 conference games, just 2 from the other division.

However, 12 teams is actually a perfect number so we’d be smart to stick where we are. If UK or Vandy ever wanted to leave—let them. FSU and Clemson would be prefect fits.

That’s what happened in the SEC, Big XII and ACC. Why should it be any different for other conferences.

Expanding beyond 12 teams will limit the frequency traditional rivalries, by limiting the contact of non-divisional conference opponents. Since nearly every BigTen conference game has some trophy attached to it they would be giving a lot of that up by limiting conference play as to not lose scheduling competitiveness with other conferences.

The Pac-10 has demonstrated that it is near impossible to be a BCS CG contender if you play nine conference games when almost everyone else is playing eight. That is one of the reasons I see the Pac-10 expanding as well as the BigTen. Their experiment is failing.

Expanding beyond 12 teams would force the conference to either agree to play fewer non-conference games, which would increase the probability of a lose, or play fewer non-divisional conference games, which would limit skirmishes between traditional rivals.

the big ten is run by a bunch if idiotic fuckwads. of course they could take a good idea (expand to 12 teams, split into 2 six team divisions, allow for one cross divisional rivalry remain in place and have 2 rotational non division conference games plus the 1 perminent one, and 5 division games) and turn it into a really awful one (14 or 16 teams like the old WAC was, cause that worked out sooooo well for the WAC, i mean MTN west)