Big 10 Expansion

[SoCal_Pony]

Does it have to stop at 16 or could they go all out and bring in:

North Carolina, Virginia, Duke and GA Tech.

Those 4 schools make a more natural grouping, especially since you already have Maryland. If not, I think the odds of us being aligned with Duke are pretty good. And the school that gets left behind by the B10 will not be happy.

[SMUer]

Forgive me if this is stupid but: Why is it a race to 16 teams, not 18? You need 8 conference games and 4 OOC to make 12 games; meaning you need 8 conference opponents. Eight plus you is nine, two divisions, so eighteen...does my math make since? Does every conference want to build in one cross-division game or something?

[JasonB]

Delaney I believe recently mentioned going to 18. There are a lot of thoughts that things are headed in that direction.

I agree, it makes a lot of sense. 8 conference games, all against your own side of the conference. Some non-conference against the other side, others with outsiders. Helps out with basketball scheduling.

What it really does is that if there were 4 18 team conferences, it is really 8 9 team conferences, and the conference championship game is the first round of the playoffs.

If all 4 went to 18, it would really capture all of the major players, and the side conferences would be completely irrelevant.

[Charleston Pony]

the "side" conferences would be FCS. Along that comes fewer scholrships and less financial pressure and they could still be scheduled once a year by power conference teams. Money game for the FCS program and "breather" game for the FBS team...at least they hope that will be the case