Posted on 12/02/2018 5:02:01 PM PST by C19fan
If anything, Notre Dame will join the ACC in football. They are ACC members in basketball, baseball and other Olympic sports.
Thanks for reminding me though. I've always just kinda associated them with the Big 10, what with being right smack in the middle of Big 10 country.
Saban was the first guy in the stadium to have that one figured out.
Yes I’m the idiot here. You must know that was the first time the osu ever had defeated bama right? Didn’t realize a 7 pt loss was getting totally destroyed, but hey math is hard.
Also that the mighty bucknuts are 5-11-1 against the SEC all time, pretty awesome showing huh?
Last 2 big10 teams in football playoffs,
Alabama vs Michigan St 38-0 Bama
Clemson vs Ohio St, 31-0 Clemson
I’m not calling names or pulling imaginary things out of my foggy brain, these are all easily researched facts, but i’m sure ESPN has tampered with these also. As I said before just stop, you look more like a moron with each big10/bucknut licker posting.
I wasn’t aware you could just join a conference. I thought you had to be invited.
wrcase wrote: “I wasn’t aware you could just join a conference. I thought you had to be invited.”
That’s correct. However, ND could join the ACC or the B1G this afternoon. The BigXII looked at the G5 schools including USF and UCF and the nets declined all sixteen schools examined. None of them were worth the cost.
There is no sweet spot, all expanding to 8 would mean is transfering the complaining from teams #5 to #7 to teams #9 to #12.
In fact, due to how normal distribution works, there is probably a smaller gap between #8 and #12 than there is between #4 and #7, which means there will be more complaining than before.
Who absolutely confused Bama for a half with that (unpracticed) triple option. We learned that linebacker speed and a big push from the front 5 ain't all there is to defense that day. I've never seen so many red shirts behind the line of scrimmage and the running back in front of them.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of the UCF - Big 12 deal falling through. Sounds like the same reason NDSU can’t join an FBS mid-major conference. They’re pretty good but don’t make much money. A bad combination. Notre Dame on the other hand makes a butt-load of money.
They already rank the teams beyond the top 4 so I think you just play 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5. The bracket layout is such that if the higher seeded teams win you end up with a 1-2 championship game.
I'd have to be convinced that Washington (9-3) PAC-12 champion should get an automatic bid ahead of UCF 12-0 (for 2 years straight).
In the top 25:
Big 10 East - 3
SEC West - 4
SEC East - 4
Looks like a win for the SEC West and East. Shall we extend it to the entire conference? Let's do that.
Big 10 - 4
SEC - 8 (more than half the conference)
Big 12 - 4 (surprise, same as Big 10)
For fun, how many National Championships in the last 20 years?
SEC - 10 (5 are Bama)
BIG 10 - 3
Infographic of today's rankings:
Why not every year?
But they weren’t in that game, were they? Don’t worry little Nicky will have Tua healthy and Bama ready and Oklahoma is in for a butt-kicking. Too bad we didn’t draw Notre Dame, but Clemson will take care of them for us :)
Well, I hate Notre Dame with a purple passion, way worse than I hate Auburn, but I certainly agree with your last paragraph. College football is not as fun as it used to be, or maybe I’m just getting old.
Roll Tide
wrcase wrote: “Thanks, I wasn’t aware of the UCF - Big 12 deal falling through. Sounds like the same reason NDSU can’t join an FBS mid-major conference. They’re pretty good but don’t make much money. A bad combination. Notre Dame on the other hand makes a butt-load of money.”
UCF is a part of the American Athletic Conference. The TV contract for the AAC is worth about $20M per year, roughly $1.6M per school. The Big XII contract is approximately $40M per school per year. The nets already own the rights to UCF football at $1.6M. Why would they want to pay $40M for something they already own???
Fair enough. But OU will not beat Bama. Although their QB may get the Heisman.
“They should have planned to go to an eight team playoff this year, with plans to go to sixteen in a couple of years.”
That would spell the end of the conference championship games, and the conferences now make too much money on them.
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