re: Let's talk SEC expansion - 16 teams

If we are going to expand then lets go whole hog. Never mind going to 16 teams.

Lets go to 131 teams. The entirety of the FBS and we add North Dakota State.

You play 1 rival home and away each season and 5 other teams home and away. In a mere 26 years you'll get to play every team in the country.

It makes as much sense as adding 2 more teams.

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16 team conferences will be the kill shot to college football - while the CFP will just continue to slowly choke the life out of it.

best thing for CFB would be restarting the Big 8 with its original members plus Arkansas, TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor.

Texas goes independent. Texas A&M remains in the SEC.

SEC-W = ALA, AUB, LSU, MSU, OM, TxAM
SEC-E = UF, UGA, UK, USC, UT, VU

B8-North = CU, ISU, KU, KSU, MO, NU
B8-South = UA, BU, OU, OSU, TCU, TT

B10 simply trades Nebraska for West Virginia to remain at 14 schools.

P12 replaces Colorado with BYU.

the ACC can continue into morphing into the Northeast Atlantic Conference with its current 'membership'

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I like it. I like it a lot.

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Let's talk contraction. Go back to the original 10 teams.

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Honestly, I like this idea. Shrink the power conferences. Maybe add one more power conference with the leftovers. Expand the playoffs.

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Let's talk contraction. Go back to the original 10 teams

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Yeah, let’s do that .... you ignorant fricking hayseed.

Right when everyone knows the key to survival is growth ... you wanna cut.

What do you do for a living? Lemme guess. Crack hooer, amirite? You blow peen for crack? Because even a shoe shine boy knows the three phases of everything in this universe ..... Growth, Maintenance and Decline.

When you stop growing (doesn’t matter what it is) you maintain. When you fail to maintain you decline. When you decline you die.

Don’t be such an obvious assclown as to make that, what you believe is some kind of elitist, statement again.

Nobody gives a frick about going back to an outdated business model that existed before your juvenile arse was born. Anybody that upvoted your dumbass for that statement is a fellow assclown of yours.

frick, I hate ignorant assclowns.

frick.

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bullshite, unless you are a school president or directly receive money from TV and bowl contracts, which I doubt you do. It's already hard as hell to navigate your way thorugh this league, then make the CCG, then win 2 more games in the playoff. Adding 2 more extremely difficult games against a blue blood only makes that harder. I mean that is basic common sense.

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Fans are tired of watching their team play Austin Peay, Liberty, etc. Even the games against Vanderbilt, Arkansas, and in most years Kentucky are somewhat subdued and lacking the fun factor that exists on a football Saturday against a great opponent.

Everyone prefers watching higher quality games- Not just the TV executives but the fans as well.

Give me Athens when Notre Dame comes to town next fall over when Murray State comes any day. I think most everyone agrees with that.

The reason the SEC has produced more Champs, more NFL draft picks, etc. for the last decade is because its a tougher league. What kid wants to go play in the BIG 12 for Oklahoma when you only play one huge conference game each year (Texas), and its not ever even played on campus?

Right now, there are only about 6 SEC programs capable of winning the SEC... and therefore making a playoff. So you essentially come in each and every year with a 16.6% chance of making the playoff over the long-run...... If you add Oklahoma, Texas, or Clemson to get to 16, you add two more capable programs. So your chances of making the playoff might go down to 12.5%.

I'll trade that for much better games coming to Athens in a heartbeat. Bottom line is if you have a good coach and good players, you'll still win the SEC and therefore make the playoff. Adding 2 more quality teams isn't going to change things that much.... it's already tough. But it will boost the overall quality and excitement exponentially.

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Carolina_Girl

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Shhh

I liked it at 12 teams. 16 is ridiculous. With the "traditional" rivalries, teams may take 20 years to play at a cross division conference away stadium.

Expansion stupid

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Let's talk SEC expansion - 16 teams

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Let's talk about going back down to 10 teams. I'd love to see 10, 10 team conferences, and each conference playing a round-robin conference schedule. All the conference champs go to a 16-team playoff. Then, of the remaining 32 schools not in one of those conferences, one will get a bid to the playoffs. That leaves 5 spots left for at-large teams.

16 team conferences is stupid unless you don't play any OOC games which would suck as a fan. But having a 16 team conference and only playing half the teams in that conference every year defeats the purpose of having conferences to begin with. SOS disparities within conferences would be a joke in that scenario.

This 16 team conference stuff was talked about years ago, but I don't see it happening. College football will just expand the playoffs before they'd ever do that.

How about no?

10 or 12 would be better.