QUOTE(Portland Frog @ Jun 6 2010, 05:00 PM) [snapback]569717[/snapback]
There may be nothing TCU can do if the BCS becomes four, 16 team super conferences.
I know that this is a popular scenario for cfb fans dreaming of an eventual playoff, but I'm not sure it will necessarily end up this way. The current round of re-alignment is about t.v. contracts, and in this regard not all conferences are equal. The SEC is locked into an ESPN deal, so they do not have the incentive to expand that the Big 10 and Pac 10 do. And if the Big East and ACC get raided again, they would be really hard pushed to hobble together 16 teams worth anything. This could play out in lots of different ways, but since it's about money rather than setting up a neat, effective system it may not end up all neat and tidy.