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If we go to only 16 would one of these bump horn or OU? Which one?

Or could 18 make just as much long term sense as 16, maybe even better money long term according to most LSU posters on the rant

Old Sarge, Barrett Sallee and Dennis Dodd reported that UGA, UK and Florida along with SCAR all have agreements to not support to add teams from their respective states. Texas is the 2nd largest state in the country having "8 Million" more than Florida.

Love them or hate them, Texas and OU have top 10 brands.

FSU and Miami in the ACC will survive as if the super conference thing starts, Notre Dame is "contractually" obliged to join the ACC. They are already in the ACC for every sport save football.

Notre Dame going to the ACC will give them 15 teams, West Virginia if the Big 12 folds is a natural to move over to the ACC and they are at 16 teams.

The Big 10 has 14 teams currently, I always heear about the AAU universities, which are 64 schools, 2 of them in Canada and consists of schools like Dartmouth, PENN, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Washington U at ST. Louis.

Other than Nebraska, all other 13 teams in the BIG10 are in the AAU. KU and Iowa State are both in the AAU and could easily be a fit and get them to 16.

So 5 of the former Big 12 are now in the SEC (OU, TX), ACC (WVU) and BIG10 (KU, Iowa State).

SO what does the PAC12 do. 3 of their members are not AAU already, Oregon State, Washington State and Arizona State. So do they allow schools like Texas Tech, Kansas State, Ok. State to join the PAC12. While they are not AAU schools, they are among the 131 Carnegie Research 1 Universities. maybe they add UNLV, etc

All 14 SEC Schools are also Carnegie 1 Research Schools.

So the PAC12, after the Big 12 looks in a very precarious position unless they are willing to think out the box.

Under this Scenario, 4 Super Leagues, conference champs are all in the 12 team playoff, and then at large spots for the other 8 based on Strength of Schedule. Under that scenario, I could see the SEC getting 4 teams in no problem maybe more than that.

This post was edited on 7/22/21 at 10:49 am