Thought? 20 BIG Teams

[Skyhawk24]

Two BIG divisions of ten, which would keep the name Big Ten still relevant as far as divisions. We could go straight up East/West with a nine game round robin division schedule with championship game between East and West. While this scenario would damage BIG tradition, it would preserve the significant and historic rivalries of the old BIG, while creating some interesting new rivalries, especially in the East.

West

Kansas
Missouri/Notre Dame
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Indiana


East

Maryland
Rutgers
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia Tech
Florida St.
Michigan
Michigan St.
Ohio St.
Penn St.

From a geographic standpoint it would be perfect and travel costs would be minimal, especially for the Western division.

 

[NCHawker]

hey, why stop at 20?

 

[BSpringsteen]

If you do that, you put the original 10 in one division and the new 10 in the other.

 

[FalseMirage]

It's doubtful that the people that brainstormed Legends and Leaders into existence are too concerned with name integrity.

 

[99topdawg]

They could just rename it the NCAA.

 

[ICHawk24]

So you put the crown jewels of UM and OSU in a division with all new teams, screwing Iowa and others. Great plan.

 

[ThunderHawk]

Why even have conferences if you're not playing half the teams in them? For all its faults, the Big 12 (accidentally) has the great distinction of each team actually playing the others, so you don't have to guess who the best team actually is.

 

[tubahawk]

Why even have conferences if you're not playing half the teams in them?

Seconded.

 

[Xerxes]

Why even have conferences if you're not playing half the teams in them? For all its faults, the Big 12 (accidentally) has the great distinction of each team actually playing the others, so you don't have to guess who the best team actually is.

Money. Because NCAA is moving toward the NFL model. In the NFC or AFC of the NFL many teams in the conference play each other once every 3 years or so.

Pretty soon BTN, SEC Network, Pac 12 Network, ACC/B12 leftover network will be much like FOX & CBS are now. They will televise games within their conferences (or sell them to ESPN/ABC, CBS, or FOX for multi-millions) and work out deals between them about who has the rights when a B10 team plays a ACC/B12 opponent. For example FOX has rights to games when an NFC opponent plays at an AFC venue. CBS has the rights to televise when an AFC opponent travels to an NFC venue.

 

[bcl20]

Let's have all teams join one conference and then split them in divisions. They could probably split each division in half and play division championship games and then have a 4 team playoff to determine the conference champion.