Specifically, how much money can they deliver and can they win national championships. It’s not about the number of teams in a conference, it’s what those teams can bring to the league. The first step in considering conference realignment isn’t quantity but quality. Andy Staples of The Athletic lists out the pros for the Big Ten to team up with the Pac-12. But maybe their conference commissioners and university presidents read this and want to do it? I would give them my blessing. Okay, first of all, this is just a fun and wild theory and not meant to come across as something that is either imminent or something the Pac-12 and/or Big Ten is actively considering. Instead of raiding the leftovers in the Big 12, which aren’t all that appealing, what if the Big Ten and Pac-12 combined powers to form their own coast-to-coast superconference? Big Ten and Pac-12 should join powers to form a superconference

The talk of superconferences has been around for the last decade after the wave of conference realignment last decade with Texas A&M and Missouri joining the SEC, Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers joining the Big Ten, West Virginia and TCU joining the Big 12, Boston College, Pitt, Virginia Tech and Syracuse joining the ACC, Colorado and Utah joining the Pac-12 and the death of the Big East. What’s the ripple effect of this move? What does it mean for the Big Ten and Pac-12, specifically? Big Ten expansion and Pac-12 realignment rumors are heating up after the move of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC.Ĭonference realignment is back for another spin with Texas and Oklahoma officially telling the Big 12 they intend to leave for the SEC.Ī move to the SEC could be completed before the start of the football season and they could begin playing an SEC schedule for the 2022 academic year.

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