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National Football Post: Big 12 on the clock in conference realignment
By Dave Miller | National Football Post
By now, most college football fans realize that conference realignment/expansion chatter is here to stay.
When Notre Dame landed a partial agreement with the ACC, the majority of college football observers believed that a lot of the heavy lifting was done on conference realignment, at least until programs saw how the first few years of the impending playoff system affected them and their leagues.
But then Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany sent shockwaves through the collegiate landscape by taking his conference further eastward and landing Maryland and Rutgers. And we realized that things were far from finished.
The Big East became further decimated when Louisville decided to join the ACC, while Boise State and San Diego State decided to remain in the Mountain West when they realized that access to one of the six major bowls in the new postseason system would not change by switching leagues.
As we have seen over the last year or so, smaller conferences such as Conference USA, the Sun Belt, Mountain West (and, now, the Big East) will always be movers and shakers. But what does the future hold for the larger BCS conferences? ...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/big-12-clock-conference-realignment-103000567--nfl.html;_ylt=A2KLOzHgmfpQqzsAQ6nQtDMD
By Dave Miller | National Football Post
By now, most college football fans realize that conference realignment/expansion chatter is here to stay.
When Notre Dame landed a partial agreement with the ACC, the majority of college football observers believed that a lot of the heavy lifting was done on conference realignment, at least until programs saw how the first few years of the impending playoff system affected them and their leagues.
But then Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany sent shockwaves through the collegiate landscape by taking his conference further eastward and landing Maryland and Rutgers. And we realized that things were far from finished.
The Big East became further decimated when Louisville decided to join the ACC, while Boise State and San Diego State decided to remain in the Mountain West when they realized that access to one of the six major bowls in the new postseason system would not change by switching leagues.
As we have seen over the last year or so, smaller conferences such as Conference USA, the Sun Belt, Mountain West (and, now, the Big East) will always be movers and shakers. But what does the future hold for the larger BCS conferences? ...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/big-12-clock-conference-realignment-103000567--nfl.html;_ylt=A2KLOzHgmfpQqzsAQ6nQtDMD
