The picture today as a reminder with Oklahoma and Texas now ticketed for the SEC West. Admittedly, I even tried them out in NCAA Football 2014 for PS3. With nothing to watch live, I had been pondering the realignment last year when no sports were being played and list below the most likely options, pros, cons, winners, losers, and how Rutgers would be affected. Our B Vincent P just wrote that Rutgers will not be left in the cold, though crunching the numbers, I am slightly less optimistic. Our friends at other SB Nation sites have been covering their own angles: Boston College, West Virginia, and Penn State to name a few regionally. Do I want the Big Ten to expand or realignment in general? No, but if conferences wait they will miss on getting the pick of the litter. Like it or not, money drives college football, the 2020 season happening at all under pandemic conditions should have put any doubt to rest. One of our readers, JinNJ had a great comment of “sooner or later it will happen” regarding Art’s recent post discussing how the Big Ten should react. let’s review the proposals that seem to be the front runners for where we will be in say 2030, assuming there is no World War, UFO invasion, or even more lethal pandemic until then. I will acknowledge that I’m making a large jump on my own in tandem with the Big Ten having to change its ideals (which they have made no indication of) for any of this to happen. That being said, other factors may force their hand (even if it is not for another decade) especially in the event that relative revenue starts to decrease as SEC expansion continues. With the NCAA in a transition period of its own with NIL, not only do players, but the conferences and schools themselves have more power than ever before.Īt this point in time, the Big Ten remains steadfast that they will not add multiple non-AAU schools. But if the Big Ten added schools like North Carolina and Virginia, it could create more opportunities for budding rivalries to form.In light of Oklahoma and Texas electing to take their talents to South Beach the SEC, the next cycle of college conference realignment is now inevitable, and message boards across this great nation of ours are blowing up. While the Nittany Lions will get to rotate through new conference opponents like USC and UCLA, the thought of losing annual games against Ohio State and Michigan has been frustrating to some. Much has been made over Penn State’s lack of permanent rivalry games in the new Big Ten scheduling format. While the prospect of landing North Carolina or Virginia may not be as appealing as adding Clemson, Florida State, or Miami, it would be significant for Penn State football nonetheless. So they watch and wait.” What would this mean for Penn State football? “Neither wants to be overtly destructive or accused of tortious interference…But neither league wants to be a step behind the other. “Both leagues are peering at each other from their respective league headquarters,” Thamel writes. However, Thamel notes that with the ACC grant of rights running through 2036, a power grab from the Big Ten or SEC may not happen for some time. In addition, both North Carolina and Virginia are among the most populous states in the union, which can help with student recruiting for the entire conference. The schools are in contiguous states for both the SEC and the Big Ten, allowing the conferences to expand their geographic footprints without too much extension (not that it matters as much with the new coast-to-coast Big Ten). Thamel explains that the appeal of North Carolina and Virginia is not directly tied to football success. “Outside of Notre Dame, there are no programs that will be as coveted by the SEC and Big Ten thanks to both geography and market,” Thamel writes. Thamel reports that the Big Ten and SEC are both eyeing the same two ACC schools – North Carolina and Virginia.
After discussing the latest happenings with realignment issues with Colorado, the Big 12, and the PAC 12, the piece moved on to the impending turf war between the SEC and the Big Ten. This week, Pete Thamel of ESPN wrote a piece covering the latest developments in conference realignment. Big Ten and SEC both want to add these two ACC schools
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