The Conference Expansion Thread

[MassNole]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

The Big Ten plays a substantially harder bowl schedule than the ACC.

We played:
-Stanford
-Georgia
-South Carolina
-Mississippi State
-TCU
-Oklahoma State
-Texas Tech


The ACC played:
-LSU
-USC
-Northern Illinois
-Vanderbilt
-Rutgers
-Cincinnati


So....yeah. Look at that list above with a straight face and begin to tell me you can even remotely make a comparison.

And if teams weren't getting their asses handed to them it would be one thing, but by and large the B1G teams aren't even competitive in most of those games.

[bearsfan_51]

The ACC consistently gets their asses handed to them by the SEC as well (not to mention the Big East) so I'm not sure what your point is.

[JoeJoeBrown]

Originally Posted by MassNole

And if teams weren't getting their asses handed to them it would be one thing, but by and large the B1G teams aren't even competitive in most of those games.

You couldn't understand the pairing math, so I won't waste my time walking through the relative pairing seedings.

[Smooth Criminal]

So after the ACC deal, are we done with major moves being made for awhile? I can still see the Big 12 and ACC picking up schools to get to better numbers, but it appears Big 10 and SEC don't really have any targets left after taking the Big 12 and ACC teams out of play. Hurts the Big 12s chances of landing the quality programs people were talking about them poaching from the ACC. Will they settle for lower schools to get back to 12 sooner?

People I talk to in Conn are holding out hope that this move could mean a Big Ten invite, but that's just not gonna happen. They should just enjoy their Michigan, Maryland, and Rutgers games this season an pretend they made the move.