Chatter continues that the next schools in will be TAMU and ND.
UNC and UVA are also targets for down the road.
UNC and UVA are also targets for down the road.
Schools #19 and #20
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OSU might relenquish the top spot for most annoying Big Ten fanbase if TAMU joins.
Not big on the idea of A&M. They look insanely obnoxious. If I had to pick a Texas school, I'd prefer TCU.
Pretty much the only Texas schools that could "fit" the B1G in terms of academics, research, athletics, and market-reach would be Texas or TAMU. Baylor actually could potentially be borderline too ... their med-school given them a substantial bump ... but their market-reach probably isn't significant enough.
All these expansion moves now are all about money ... and trying to get leverage over sports-media providers.
Nebraska has a permanent lock on that title.
A valid argument. Three insufferable fanbases in the league should be good times. 🤢
Spent several years in Toledo where it is about 50/50 Michigan and OSU fans. The Michigan fans were 100x more insufferable than OSU fans.
Nebraska isn’t, right?
All this crap is totally ridiculous. I pray they blow this up and go to 10 team divisions.
Here are some additional details from back at the end of Feb.
(full tweet mentions that per his source, no invites will be issued to non-AAU schools, so unless FSU is successful in it's attempt to join the AAU they will not get an invite for the B1G)
Actually, yes they are:
Our Members | Association of American Universities (AAU)
AAU includes 65 distinguished public and private research universities dedicated to improving human life through education, research, and discovery.
www.aau.edu
I have no interest in picking up TAMU or any other Texas school. I'd be good with UNC and UVA, assuming they are able to raise the per school tv revenue. Then you could go to four 5-team divisions that look as follows:
Western Division - USC, UCLA, Wash, Ore, Neb
Midwest Division - Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois
Central Division - OSU, MSU, Purdue, NW, Indiana
Eastern Division - PSU, Rutgers, Md, UNC, UVA
You could then do a rotation where each team plays every team in their division (4 games) plus every team in one other division. For example, Iowa would play every team in the Midwest Division and every team in the Western Division in one year, then every team in the Central the next year, and finally, every team in the Eastern Division. Then start all over.
You could then do a mini-playoff for the conference title whereby the 4 division winners square off in a semi-final with the winners playing for the conference title.
How fun would that be?
Western Division - USC, UCLA, Wash, Ore, Neb
Midwest Division - Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois
Central Division - OSU, MSU, Purdue, NW, Indiana
Eastern Division - PSU, Rutgers, Md, UNC, UVA
You could then do a rotation where each team plays every team in their division (4 games) plus every team in one other division. For example, Iowa would play every team in the Midwest Division and every team in the Western Division in one year, then every team in the Central the next year, and finally, every team in the Eastern Division. Then start all over.
You could then do a mini-playoff for the conference title whereby the 4 division winners square off in a semi-final with the winners playing for the conference title.
How fun would that be?
I don't see them separating Iowa and Nebraska but something along those lines will almost have to be the answer. It would be the only way to ensure teams play each other every few years. The 6 year lay offs teams had with the recent scheduling was ridiculous.
I like what you did there.
Regarding a TX school addition, I can see why the conference would want a foothold into the state...same with Florida.
Secure/expand fertile recruiting grounds and add solid media markets.
Guess we'll see over time how this all shakes out.
It's far from over.
Um, not sure where you've been the past 120 years, but yeah, Virginia is in the AAU and would fit excellently in the B1G.
They were a member of the AAU when they were admitted, then the AAU gave them the boot.
Can we send Nebraska to the portal?
Coincidently, the same guy on X posted this a couple days ago...
So that would eliminate the Mavericks sports? Or would it be like the California or. Wisconsin state school model?
Good question.
Pretty sure it's just the teaching hospital that needs to be tied to UNL.
Ummm. UVA has been a member since 1904.
I doubt that would happen, but OMG, would that be hilarious. Back to the Big 12 where they belong.
I'm sure their fans would rejoice, but I think we all would miss kicking their butts on Black Friday.
I’d miss them about as much as I’d miss a boil on my ass.
Amen, I was wondering when someone was going to ask if we can finally fooking dump Nebber. The red-headed stepchild that is literally a red-headed stepchild.
Not sure why we wouldn’t replace them with somebody who’s at least won an NCAA tournament game, maybe someone like Farleigh Dickinson?
If they did get the boot, I would LOVE to replace them with Kansas.
Not sure the B1G would want KU since they don't bring much to the table outside of a blueblood MBB program and membership in the AAU. It's more then what Neb brings tho.
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They are talking about UNMC. UNO is a different deal.
I have been saying since the Big got to 18 teams that they will grab two more to get to 20 total. I believe they will go to 4 five team divisions which will set up a money grab round of the four division champs playing in two semi-final games and the two winners playing for the Big Champ.
Having smaller divisions will allow more teams to be in the running closer to the end of the season to keep fans interested.
I could see the final # of schools settling at 24.
TAMU/ND* in the next phase (2026 or 2027)
UNC/UVA in the phase after that, once the ACC GoR issue is put to rest (2030'ish)
Colorado/Utah in the final phase (2034) <-- these are my dark horse candidates**
*If ND holds firm and refuses to join a conference, I think Stanford would be viewed as a the probable fallback, but to me Georgia Tech makes more sense
**While I feel schools like Miami/FSU would be better in order to get a foothold into FL, something tells me that the SEC will force UF to tow the line and will do everything in their power to block any B1G move into the deep south - what they consider "their territory" - and those schools will end up in that conference.
Here's how the the four "pods" would shake out in my scenario:
WEST
Colorado, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington
MIDWEST
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin
PHUKTITS
Indiana, Notre Dame or/TAMU, Ohio State, Michigan, MSU, Purdue
EAST
Maryland, PSU, Rutgers, TAMU or/GT, UNC, UVA
^If ND doesn't join and it's GT instead, then swap pods with them and TAMU.
Every school plays against their pod members each year with a rotation of two schools from each of the other pods. That's a total of 11 conference games, leaving just 1 non-conf game. This is how it should be when you get to a conference of this size. You can then have the mini-conference playoffs of four schools, the champ from each pod.
TAMU/ND* in the next phase (2026 or 2027)
UNC/UVA in the phase after that, once the ACC GoR issue is put to rest (2030'ish)
Colorado/Utah in the final phase (2034) <-- these are my dark horse candidates**
*If ND holds firm and refuses to join a conference, I think Stanford would be viewed as a the probable fallback, but to me Georgia Tech makes more sense
**While I feel schools like Miami/FSU would be better in order to get a foothold into FL, something tells me that the SEC will force UF to tow the line and will do everything in their power to block any B1G move into the deep south - what they consider "their territory" - and those schools will end up in that conference.
Here's how the the four "pods" would shake out in my scenario:
WEST
Colorado, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington
MIDWEST
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin
PHUKTITS
Indiana, Notre Dame or/TAMU, Ohio State, Michigan, MSU, Purdue
EAST
Maryland, PSU, Rutgers, TAMU or/GT, UNC, UVA
^If ND doesn't join and it's GT instead, then swap pods with them and TAMU.
Every school plays against their pod members each year with a rotation of two schools from each of the other pods. That's a total of 11 conference games, leaving just 1 non-conf game. This is how it should be when you get to a conference of this size. You can then have the mini-conference playoffs of four schools, the champ from each pod.
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