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NCAA Mulls Increasing Bowl Eligibility Requirement To Seven Wins In 2014
While college football's postseason format set to change, could changes also be coming to the current bowl system? Multiple sources have told CBSSports.com that there is "growing support" among conference commissioners, ADs and bowl officials to increase the difficulty of becoming bowl...
Big Ten, Pac-12 To Create Inter-League Schedule System
Earlier in the year, Stanford coach David Shaw suggested that the BCS AQ conferences make scheduling deals a la the Big Ten-ACC Challenge in basketball. At the time, I posited that it was an awesome idea that would never get off the ground due to concerns about SOS and programs incentives to...
ACC Roundtable: 2011 Postseason Edition
The ACC Roundtable is back, this time to wrap up the 2011 ACC football season. Brendan from From Old Virginiais hosting. His questions and our answers below. 1. How did the season go, relative to expectations? For bowl teams, are you ahead or behind the slot you thought you'd be at the beginning...
ACC Moves To 18 Game Conference Schedule Starting Next Season
With the ACC renegotiating its current TV media rights deal with ESPN after adding Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the conference, most expected the league to move to an 18-game conference schedule in hoops. Greensboro made it official today, but with a catch. Looks like the conference won't wait for...
Conference Realignment: Missouri Officially Joins SEC As 14th Member
The SEC and the University of Missouri made it official today, announcing the Tigers as the 14th (and final?) member of the conference. "I am pleased to officially welcome the University of Missouri to the SEC family on behalf of our presidents, chancellors, athletics directors, students and...
Conference Realignment: West Virginia Files Suit Against Big East
In an attempt to extricate itself from the Big East Conference for the 2012 season, the University of West Virginia has filed suit against the Big East Conference. This is going to end about as well as you'd expect it to. "West Virginia University filed a lawsuit against the Big East Conference...
Conference Realignment: Big East Will Hold Syracuse And Pitt To 27-Month Commitment
It should probably come as no surprise that on Tuesday, Big East commissioner John Marinatto announced that the Big East will hold Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the 27-month commitment. This despite the fact the Big East could soon balloon to 14 programs in football and 19 in basketball. CBSSports'...
Big East Expansion, The New New Big East And The Big Finish
Brian: The Big East could be adding new members as early as next week. The New York Times' Pete Thamel reports that the conference may soon be extending invitations to Boise State, Navy and Air Force as football-only members, and Central Florida, Houston and Southern Methodist. Under the Big East...
Conference Realignment: Clemson (Again) Denies Interest In Move To SEC
It appears that Mark Blaudschun's fantasy Big East implosion scenario that sent Clemson to the SEC and Connecticut to the ACC as the Tigers' replacement made its way all the way down to Clemson, South Carolina on Friday. If Clemson has had conversations with the SEC recently, that is news to...
Boston Globe: Latest Conference Realignment End Game Adds Notre Dame, UConn To ACC
Assistant to the Big East Commissioner / Boston Globe BC football beat writer Mark Blaudschun continues to go HAM stumping for the ACC to extend an invite to the University of Connecticut. On Wednesday, Blauds blogged that that Missouri holds the fate of Big East football in its hands, in a report...
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