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

[timekeep]

Hard to say because the Big 12 is so balanced. Maybe 7-5.

They don't have allot of depth and the O-line has some weakness. With all the moving of teams, I don't know if the Buffs have a harder or easier schedule this year?

 

[GKJ]

Memphis, Tulane, USF, UTSA commit to AAC

Some of the highest-profile targets of the Pac-12's expansion have rebuffed its interest, as Memphis, Tulane, USF and UTSA all publicly committed to stay in the American Athletic Conference on Monday.

www.espn.com

Sounds like Air Force is staying in the Mountain West, too.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

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

 

[Blitzkrug]

So if i got this right;

The MWC before this shitshow had 11 teams, and was generally healthy

Pac-2 comes in and f***s with it by luring 4 away in Boise, SDSU, CSU, and Fresno, dropping them down to 7.

Not an ideal scenario, but with UNLV and Air Force reaffirming their position, the conference could just add somebody to keep the number at 8 and avoid dissolution

Utah State ruins this, does a heel turn and blindsides everybody after the PAC whiffed on all the AAC schools it tried to lure in like Memphis/Tulane

with Utah State leaving, the conference on its deathbed with UNLV ultimately holding the fate of it in their hands depending on what they decide to do?

and all this happened in like the span of 24 hours. Shit is whack.

 

[GKJ]

You can see why they cut off the scheduling alliance after just one week.

However, how does the Pac-x become a higher conference by taking all the MWC when they could've just joined them, simply on the belief it can get a better TV deal. They needed AAC teams to do that, but those schools changing their geography isn't worth the risk.

Now they're just getting to numbers, we'll see of NMSU and UTEP move, or if both conferences have to invite FCS schools.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

with Utah State leaving, the conference on its deathbed with UNLV ultimately holding the fate of it in their hands depending on what they decide to do?

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.