Ok so I was doing some thinking about the whole conference shuffle that is coming.
As I see it, there are several situations that may unfold.
Situation 1: Notre Dame joins Big 10.
– In this situation, the Big 10 would probably just stop at 12; Big 12 would probably stay together; Pac 10 will probably try to take a couple teams from MWC or will stay at 10 and the world goes on as normal.
Situation 2: Notre Dame tells Big 10 to *edited* off.
– This will *edited* all the conferences
– Missouri and Nebraska will bolt for Big 10.
– This causes Texas to bolt for Pac-10, bringing Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and probably Colorado with it.
– Big 10 sucks up Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State
At this point, things could either stop, or get *edited*ing haywire.
**If SEC decides not to expand, Baylor will join MWC, along with Nevada and Boise State, and MWC will effectively take Big 12’s place as a BCS conference.
**If SEC becomes intimidated and decides it will also expand to 16 teams, it will likely take 3 from ACC plus USF from Big East
– This will cause ACC to expand i.e. engulf Big East, taking UConn, Pitt, and Syracuse. At this point, ACC can either stay at 12 or up to 16 to match the other conferences. Not sure if they would want to take some of the other remaing Big East teams (WVU, Cincy, Louisville, Rutgers) because of academic concerns (believe it or not, ACC actually cares about academics).
– If ACC decides to go to 16, taking those other 4 schools or perhaps some C-USA schools (Memphis? UAB? Southern Miss? Marshall? god I hope not ECU), MWC would probably expand again to 16 teams as well, taking Fresno State, New Mexico State, SMU, and UTEP.
This brings us the following conferences (changes in bold):
Big 10
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- Penn State
- Iowa
- Purdue
- Michigan State
- Indiana
- Northwestern
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Missouri
- Kansas
- Kansas State
- Iowa State
Pac-10
- Washington
- Washington State
- Oregon
- Oregon State
- Cal
- Stanford
- UCLA
- USC
- Arizona
- Arizona State
- Texas
- Texas Tech
- Texas A&M
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Colorado
SEC
- LSU
- Auburn
- Arkansas
- Mississippi State
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Tennessee
- Georgia
- Florida
- South Carolina
- Kentucky
- Vanderbilt
- Florida State
- USF
- Clemson
- Georgia Tech
ACC
- Boston College
- Maryland
- Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Duke
- UNC
- NC State
- Wake Forest
- Miami
- Connecticut
- Pittsburgh
- Syracuse
- Cincinnati
- West Virginia
- Louisville
- Rutgers
MWC
- BYU
- Utah
- Air Force
- TCU
- San Diego St
- New Mexico
- Colorado State
- UNLV
- Wyoming
- UTEP
- Boise State
- Nevada
- Baylor
- New Mexico State
- Fresno State
- SMU
5 super conferences, all the leftover schools dont get *edited* basically, though conference USA might expand to take over some of the remaining schools.
So long story short, I hope Notre Dame joins the Big 10 lol.