NCAA: College Football 2024: Conference Re-Malign-ment, News & Notes Talk

[Nogatco Rd]

Amidst all of schools reaffirming their alliances, Utah State defects to the Pac.

The Big 10 totally dropped the ball by not rebranding as the ‘BIG/PAC Conference’. Could have really leaned into the East Coast/West Coast rivalry angle

 

[GKJ]

The Big 10 totally dropped the ball by not rebranding as the ‘BIG/PAC Conference’. Could have really leaned into the East Coast/West Coast rivalry angle

They don’t have enough teams out there for something like that.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

They don’t have enough teams out there for something like that.

Ha, I was being facetious. 2Pac and Biggie were hip hop artists whose feud was emblematic of the 90s east coast / west coast rivalry. Maybe not as famous in Canada.

 

[Unholy Diver]

They don’t have enough teams out there for something like that.

I think the Big Ten name and branding also carries too much value and cache to change it, If Pepsico bought out Faygo, they wouldn't change the company name to Pepsi-go

 

[GKJ]

I think the Big Ten name and branding also carries too much value and cache to change it, If Pepsico bought out Faygo, they wouldn't change the company name to Pepsi-go

The Pac name got left with the 2 remaining schools as well.

 

[DaveG]

Deathbed is a bit extreme. The Mountain West only dies if there's a reverse-merger. There's multiple FCS programs in its footprint that are of a similar quality as the FBS ones they struck out going after. There'd be an immense amount of pride swallowing for it to happen, but if it's death or paying a few million of those exit fees to bring the Montana programs up that shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Hell, the timing has never been better for Idaho to finally get that Mountain West invite they wanted so badly before being forced to drop back down. It won't happen, but Idaho athletics is in a far better place now than it's been in in decades (including beating a Mountain West team this season). Point is that there are options, even if they aren't in the FBS today.

A not small part of me would get a giant kick out of the Mountain West effectively ending up replacing what the old WAC was.

yep, just off the top of my head they can go out and bring in the 2 Montana schools, Idaho back to FBS, and 2 of the Dakota schools and as long as NDSU is one of them be no worse off for it. FCS in that region would take a big hit but that's not really their concern at this point.

 

[DaveG]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1838802285423718419

Pardon my ignorance, but would that not be considered tampering & should that school not face sanctions? What happened to the game I love?

wouldn't be the first time, hell Kentucky basically did this to Oscar Tshiebwe before the transfer portal nonsense hit overdrive and nobody did a f***ing thing to them.

 

[GKJ]

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

If Cal and Stanford were smart they'd go running back to the Pac-12 too.

 

[GKJ]

If Cal and Stanford were smart they'd go running back to the Pac-12 too.

I think there's questions as to whether or not a new Pac-X could support their niche/Olympic sports. But if the ACC falls apart, they may have to.

I don't think anyone is willingly going to take a step down since the Pac-X would be a G5 conference.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

I think there's questions as to whether or not a new Pac-X could support their niche/Olympic sports. But if the ACC falls apart, they may have to.

I don't think anyone is willingly going to take a step down since the Pac-X would be a G5 conference.

I get all that, but those two might as well be Go5 teams anyway, and this travel will kill them eventually. They're not Oregon or USC.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Why doesn't everyone just move to the SEC and Big 27 at this point and just get it over with? I feel like if/when the ACC implodes that will be the ultimate future of college football anyways. Then all the "peasant" schools can go and form a superconference.

Shit's awful.

 

[GKJ]