“Here’s another interesting tidbit for you. Do you see any Big 12 or Pac 12 team being in the conference championship in the near future? I don’t. When you look at the youth of the QBs, how stacked the teams are, I see a repeat of this championship game next year and possibly the year after.”
I would never sell Ohio State short. But your point is well taken and helps my own case — it is simply implausible that either of these conferences would indefinitely abide an arrangement that consistently shuts them out year after year after year. They have cornered the great majority of the biggest markets and could easily capture more, for example, by inviting in these academically outstanding big-market universities — Miami, Florida, Georgia Tech, Pitt and Boston College into the B1G; and Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Houston into the Pac12. Then exit the corrupt NCAA in favor of their own startup, no longer care about ESPN’s vested interests in sweet-talking the SEC, and so forth. I know this fantasy is unrealistic, but I cannot for the life of me find even one reason why B1G and Pac12 university presidents would stay with the existing arrangement. It s*cks for them.