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I just wonder how many BcS Bowls they think they can get in if they are in a Division with Texas, OU, Texas Tech, Arizona State, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma State?

What a very weak argument this article (surely it must be an editorial) makes.

The U is 20 minutes away from an international airport, 35 minutes away from 11 world-class ski resorts, and numerous billion-dollar corporations are headquartered in the Salt Lake Valley. KSL and KUTV are two of the longest-running TV stations in the intermountain region, and national sportscasters such as Jim Nantz and Craig Bolerjack have gotten their start here.

The criteria for getting into a BCS conference sure are all over the place.

I can see the Pac10 discussions now:

President #1: "But is Utah a fit athletically, academically and culturally? Will they help us increase revenues enough to offset their additional piece of the pie?"

President #2: "Who cares about that stuff? They have an airport, they can ski and Jim Nance got his start there. What else do you need to know?"

I'm sold.

If the PAC 10 becomes 12, I wonder how the divisions will be set up? My guess would be USC, UCLA, ASU, Ariz, Utah & Colorado. The Utes might compete pretty well against that group

This "academic" angle the PAC-10 (is trying to present) is really being played way too much.

After living here in LA going on 20 years now, all I can say is: WAY OVER PLAYED.

But oh well, back to the salt minds until the next alignment chaos.

As any one who follows the PAC will tell you the set up of Divisions in the PAC may itself cause huge dissension in that league. The biggest reason there has never been expansion to 12 in the PAC was because no one wanted to give up playing in LA every year for recruiting purposes. Going to 12 never would have gone through if they had known they were going to 12 w/o Texas schools. The original PAC 8 all thought they were staying together. This should be a doozy. How about splitting the traditional rivals in two then playing a mandatory traditional rival in a non-division game. Lots of ways to do it but for discussion something like this

USC
Arizona
Washington
Oregon
Utah
Stanford

UCLA
Arizona St
Washington St
Oregon St
Colorado
Cal

Traditional Cross Over Game
USC/UCLA
Washinton/Washington St
Oregon/Oregon St
Stanford/Cal
Colorado/Utah
Arizona/ASU