I'm not sure I understand this comparison. What conference are you comparing the Big 12s foot print too? As best as I can tell those cities are in 3 different conferences.
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The realignment thread
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They wouldn't. They control the BIG---they would be second fiddle in the SEC.
My initial reaction was that this was the catalyst for super conferences. Now I think the Big 12 adds Houston, Memphis, Cincinnati and UCF and everyone else stands pat.
To be clear it’s nothing like Wisconsin having our #. It got the point we’re Texas was clear better team and beat Nebraska but the Cornhuskers were with our a doubt the better team for half a decade until we “gravitated to mediocrity”. Wisconsin have Nebraska’s number is much like the busker had Kansas or Kansas st number
And yet the BIG is desperate to get into those kind a places. The sec moves are football related while the B1G moves are clear as day politically based
Difficult to argue with that. Excellent point.
That’s what I was thinking but seen quite a few articles stating sec was talking to them. Just can’t see the benefit of the move for them. They have a seat at the playoffs already and the money won’t be any better so just don’t see the appeal thought maybe I was missing something
How so?
Pal you really think Texas listens to anything from a 1-9 opponent?
I don’t think Ohio State would, but Michigan, definitely yes.
I don’t know, wasn’t Michigan balking at even playing football at all last year. I don’t see them bouncing to a conference that puts football above all else.
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Is the Big 12 still a power 5 conference, with that configuration? If So, Oklahoma State would have a sweet setup. Even if it was, I think pretty certainly it would be short lived, as this expansion won’t be done with.
Michigan is a brainiac University…they are real proud of that. The SEC wouldn’t not be a good fit for them.
But in Ohio, football is king. Yes, I know they are a very good school academically, but they very much care about football, athletics. It’s the Buckeye state. Winning is important to them. Ohio State would hold their own in the SEC. They already recruit with the best, it could get even better within a league like that. They’d be no pushover for sure.
Can’t say the same about OU, Oklahoma doesn’t have 14 million people in its state, and now, the SEC teams will be full bore after the Texas recruits they would have probably gotten. They’ll wind up like Auburn, or less. Their fans will see, just like Nebraska fans did, It’s not as easy as it appears while in the transit phase. You got big’ol low hangers, until you don’t. You gonna dominate, until you get punched in the face. I look forward to it. And for 15 m less, they could have wrote their own ticket, been king, and make the playoffs on the regular. Enjoy.
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