re: New Round of Expansion

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The BIG10 wants even numbers

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This means absolutely nothing. It makes things easier, but it's irrelevant, especially since divisions are gone. Not a factor whatsoever.

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so their other teams ranked in order are:

1. Notre Dame
2. Texas A&M
3. North Carolina
4. Florida State

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I believe they prioritize Notre Dame, and having a presence in Texas or other high population centers, so this makes sense, but if they are smart and I think they are, it's more like:

1. Notre Dame
2. Texas A&M/tu/Oklahoma
3. Florida State
4. UNC/Virginia
5. Miami/Tennessee/Clemson
6. Georgia Tech
7. Another school in Texas. Choices here are limited but if it's a priority, I'd say Tech/SMU/TCU would be good additions.
8. Mizzou/Virginia Tech/NC State
9. Colorado/Arizona/Kansas/Utah

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The BIG10 will try to convince Notre Dame they need to abandon their independence / scheduling agreement with the ACC since Clemson leaving will be the first death blow to the league. That’s why Clemson is first choice. They need Clemson to leave to convince Notre Dame the time to leave the dying ACC is now.

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Clemson is not the B1G's first choice, imo. Why would it be? Because of a 4 year run with Dabo? In these situation you have to think of Clemson as identical to South Carolina. Two large public universities in the state of South Carolina. Why in the world would the B1G prioritize that over a large public university in the state of Florida? It wouldn't. Maybe I'm wrong, and Clemson's recent run has helped it's "prestige" in many people's eyes, but just imagine nothing happens for 5 years and in that time Clemson goes 9-3 or 8-4 every year. Is the B1G still clamoring for a school in South Carolina over a school in Florida? I just don't buy it.

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If the Irish remain independent, I think they’ll try to get Aggie to leave the SEC. I think that’s why rumors have been percolating for the past few months.

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I would like to know how serious the talks with A&M are and were, and who this source is that keeps popping up, but tu and Oklahoma were going to be in the B1G with USC/UCLA if the SEC said no. They likely had grand ambitions and reached out to A&M as a backup once tu leveraged the B1G offer to Sankey, but I've seen nothing from A&M that would allude to them wanting to leave the SEC. I can't fathom that the Board of Directors would get away with that move, or even want to. The revolt from the fan base would be too great.

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If Texas A&M stays in the SEC, then it becomes a real fight between Florida State and North Carolina. The Seminoles are the better athletic program and would get the BIG10 into Florida which has seen explosive population growth. However, growth in NC is also strong and UNC provides the academic prestige that the BIG10 presidents desire.

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First thing you've really said I agree with, but the idea that the B1G would prioritize Clemson over either is weird.

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Part of the hang up with North Carolina is they’ve always had a loose agreement with Virginia that they’d be a package deal together. Will UNC leave Virginia in the dust or stand firm with them and rival Duke to keep the ACC afloat? Who knows.

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The B1G would take Virginia. They took Maryland and Rutgers. The DMV is a talent hot bed, and UVA/Virginia Tech would THRIVE in the SEC or B1G. I don't think UNC has any loyalty to Duke or would care. I think the bigger issue there is the shared Board of Directors with NC State.

Read this.

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If all else fails, Florida State is waiting eagerly for an invitation.

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They wouldn't be so loud and raucous already suing the ACC if they were simply waiting for others.

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Notre Dame and/or Texas A&M would get full rights / full money.

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If A&M did leave, and I legitimately can't fathom it, they would need to be and the B1G would need to pay a lot. It would cost $45 Million for A&M to leave the SEC. It's no longer penalty free.

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I think for Clemson and the other ACC teams, they’d have to take a small cut to be able to come in

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They aren't getting enough money in the ACC for them to be greedy, so this is correct, they'd take whatever the B1G gives them.

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We need to shed teams not add them.

Ou Texas aggy and Mizzou

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Yes, make the B1G the premier conference with the best tv deals. Smart man you are.

I barely remember the SWC but according to my dad and other oldsters it was the premier conference up until the late 70's or so. Wish we could get that back together, but ain't happening in today's CFB.

I believe the EXISTING contracts will have a huge impact on any further expansion[s]...i.e. Sankey and all his mental midgets FAILED to get ANY escalator clauses in the espn/disney deal...so, adding big marquee teams like TX/OK had ZERO financial impact to 'payouts'...whereas the Big10's multi-network deal DOES have that clause included ! The end result of the SEC's blunder was...ZERO additional $ after adding TX/OK...even dangling a 9th SEC conference game did NOTHING to entice espn/disney to 'up' the package compensation ! I don't believe the Big10 was guilty of such a stupendous blunder !

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Mizzou and the other expansion members have made the conference better

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I think most Clemson posters here are sidewalk gamecocks

I think fsu is first choice I think you’re just confusing Clemsons sec value with thier value to the big ten. Top 16 in Nielsen and 21 in all games(this one is most impressive bc Clemson is bringing most of the eyes to acc games not named fsu) after nd fsu Tex atm I think it’s unc(big president’s preference) and Clemson(network preference)

Averaging 1.70 million viewers while playing cuse bc wake and two awful non cons will translate very well against brands with big football following

If it’s all about money then in the end the top 40 teams Maybe a little more are going to form a new league and collectively bargain every big football brand against every media company. The end result will be cfb version of nfl network

Btw, it's B1G.