Realignment Carousel Spins Up again (USC and UCLA to Big 10)

[TrackSuitAndTie]

Army is a significantly more valuable football member than SMU, in terms of eyeballs, for what it's worth.

[mattdalt]

The insanity behind the SMU push to buy their way into a conference ...

As was quoted, "It's just business."

[Stickboy46]

The insanity behind the SMU push to buy their way into a conference ...

[SubGod22]

Let's not pretend if Wichita St. had a football squad that if Army came to town on a crisp October or November Saturday afternoon that there wouldn't be a standing only SOLD-OUT Wichita St. home game filled to the rafters with 50-plus thousand fans in attendance on national tv.

I'm not sure about the national TV part, but the rest is more true than not. The Service Academies will still draw more eyes to a product simply because of who they are and what they represent.

[Kel Varnsen]

Let's not pretend if Wichita St. had a football squad that if Army came to town on a crisp October or November Saturday afternoon that there wouldn't be a standing only SOLD-OUT Wichita St. home game filled to the rafters with 50-plus thousand fans in attendance on national tv.

There absolutely would not.

[Shoxing Me Softly]

Let's not pretend if Wichita St. had a football squad that if Army came to town on a crisp October or November Saturday afternoon that there wouldn't be a standing only SOLD-OUT Wichita St. home game filled to the rafters with 50-plus thousand fans in attendance on national tv.

It’s not 1925, what are you talking about?

Who cares if they add army or not, I’m just interested in whether or not they get a decent non football school to come with them.

[AZ Shocker]

Let's not pretend if Wichita St. had a football squad that if Army came to town on a crisp October or November Saturday afternoon that there wouldn't be a standing only SOLD-OUT Wichita St. home game filled to the rafters with 50-plus thousand fans in attendance on national tv.

[DanielBryan]

Army conversations moving along.

AAC: let’s add pure garbage.

Especially with Houston, Cinci, UCF gone… calling the American a power conference is extremely untrue.

Most, if not all original American schools want out of the American

[Stickboy46]

Army conversations moving along.

[SubGod22]

So is there any reason the departing Pac12 schools can’t get together and vote to dissolve the conference at the end of the 23-24 school year and equitably split up the money? Not sure why if everyone else is leaving they are so willing to hand everything over to OSU and WSU?

There is a reason they can't do that. Once a school has announced their intentions to leave, they lose all voting rights in regards to the conference standing and membership. So at this point, there are only two voting members of the Pac 12.

[1972Shocker]

Pac-12 fans lose their minds as conference is perfect while Big 12 crashes in Week 1

https://sports.yahoo.com/pac-12-fans-lose-minds-135032934.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Baylor was favored by nearly four touchdowns against Texas State at home. TCU was favored by 20 points against Colorado at home. Texas Tech was favored by two touchdowns over Wyoming on the road. Each of those three Big 12 teams lost outright on Saturday, part of an absolutely miserable day on the field for the Big 12.

Texas struggled for much of the first half against Rice before pulling away in the second half. West Virginia’s offense once again looked bad in a loss to Penn State.

New Big 12 members BYU and Houston looked terrible on offense in sluggish, uncomfortable wins against opponents they should have beaten by larger margins. Neither BYU nor Houston were able to score as many as 18 points (let alone 30 or 35 or 40).

The Big 12 was bad in Week 1 of the college football season. There wasn’t a single notable win from the conference. Oklahoma did, in fairness, look great, but that was against a cupcake opponent, Arkansas State. The Big 12 didn’t score a win over a high-quality team. Not one.

Meanwhile, the Pac-12 did not lose a game this week and has not yet lost a game this season. USC scored 66 points in a 52-point win. Oregon scored 81. Washington absolutely thumped Boise State. Stanford scored an impressive win at Hawaii. Cal scored 58 in a blowout of North Texas. Utah thrashed Florida on Thursday in a high-profile game. Last but certainly not least, Deion Sanders and Colorado stunned TCU, the team which made the national championship game last year.

Pac-12 fans couldn’t really laugh at the Big 12 because their conference is about to die. It’s one of the strangest things we’ve seen in college sports.

[Stickboy46]

So is there any reason the departing Pac12 schools can’t get together and vote to dissolve the conference at the end of the 23-24 school year and equitably split up the money? Not sure why if everyone else is leaving they are so willing to hand everything over to OSU and WSU?

I think if I remember reading right that if the conference is dissolved the payments stop and go back to the NCAA

[ShockBand]

Is it possible that eventually, maybe sooner rather than later, that the biggest power players in college football start a contraction process of who is in the "in" crowd? How big (or small) could such a breakoff group be? Structured like a minor league NFL, maybe a couple fewer regular season games, but a group of 32 or so? We're going to be on the outside of that process anyway, since we don't have football at all, but I might well have a Cheshire cat grin if in a decade we see a bunch of schools who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in their programs, only to get tossed out of the top group. For college football, I have no vested interest in any team, I just very casually follow a couple schools due to a player of interest to me. But as has been stated by me and others on here, the NIL and portal has really fractured my interest even in my beloved Shockers. If our teams can hold onto more of the players for more than a year, maybe I will feel a desire to invest more interest. Otherwise, it is just very casual entertainment to me.

[Ashockalypse]

Worked for the Holy Roman Empire for a good while.

im pretty sure the Holy Roman Empire never rebranded itself as the PAC 12; did it?

[MadDog]

So is there any reason the departing Pac12 schools can’t get together and vote to dissolve the conference at the end of the 23-24 school year and equitably split up the money? Not sure why if everyone else is leaving they are so willing to hand everything over to OSU and WSU?