Big Ten Expansion / ACC Apocalypse Roundtable
With conference realignment rumors in full swing, two things to keep in mind for any rumors that are floated.
With conference realignment rumors in full swing, two things to keep in mind for any rumors that are floated.
Could Big East football return to Massachusetts?
Basically, UConn and Cincinnati really, really, REALLY don't want to be in the same conference as Houston, SMU, Tulane, Navy and ECU.
Weighing the pros and cons of the ACC's expansion candidates to replace Big Ten-bound Maryland.
In addition to extending an invitation to Notre Dame, the ACC voted to increase the conference exit fees to three times the annual operating budget. Currently this would equate to an exit fee of over $50 million.
Virginia Tech AD Jim Weaver proposes the idea of an ACC-SEC football scheduling partnership that would see 11 ACC and SEC schools rotate home-and-home series over a 22 year period.
The new Big 12 / SEC Bowl doesn't have either a name (working title: Champions Bowl) or a home (Dallas and Atlanta appear to be the front-runners), but the mere existence of the bowl may trigger the oft-rumored Big 12 expansion.
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