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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129570540" data-attributes="member: 1427666"><p>This is the conundrum.</p><p></p><p>Conventional Wisdom says that the glacial trend is to a conference supported playoff system tying CCs to slots in the NCP playoff bowls. If that is correct, the current system allows for no more than 4 major conferences. Obviously there are those that resist this trend: Notre Dame who would be forced to earn its keep in the college football world; the SEC and to a lesser extent the Big Ten who day dream over getting 2 of the current slots in the play off and all of those G5 schools hoping to be Cinderella at least for one year.</p><p></p><p>But the trend is pretty hard to debate and the direction seems to be rather set as well. It may take many years but we are likely to see the eventual formation of 4 major conferences that feed their champions into a playoff that determines the final game. The problem in part of this is the Sports Writers and Media outlets. All of those polls wont matter one bit in this system since it is 100% based on performance; you win you move on, you lose, try again next year.</p><p></p><p>This puts the Big Ten and SEC on solid ground and they have made it to the island of stability. The Big-12, Pac-12 and ACC are scrambling on the deck of the sinking ship fighting over the last two seats in the life boat.</p><p></p><p>This board and others have debated this issue to the point of "ad nauseum". We are all sick of the subject, well 99.9% of us, but none of us can say how we will get to that time when there are only 4 conferences, much less say with any authority on who is going to be where when the dust settles.</p><p></p><p>Many hold opinions, feeling that they have struck gold and only their opinion is right and everyone else is stupid. We have 1 or 2 on this board and we also have a troll that visits on a regular basis, joining them to form a trio of nitwits. No one has the answer.</p><p></p><p>Conference realignment is not over but I do not think raids are in the future. I think it is going to be more like the Maryland/Rutgers movement. Universities will become dissatisfied with their current conference and leave in spite of any cost - including challenging a GoR in court, to make their move.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129570540, member: 1427666"] This is the conundrum. Conventional Wisdom says that the glacial trend is to a conference supported playoff system tying CCs to slots in the NCP playoff bowls. If that is correct, the current system allows for no more than 4 major conferences. Obviously there are those that resist this trend: Notre Dame who would be forced to earn its keep in the college football world; the SEC and to a lesser extent the Big Ten who day dream over getting 2 of the current slots in the play off and all of those G5 schools hoping to be Cinderella at least for one year. But the trend is pretty hard to debate and the direction seems to be rather set as well. It may take many years but we are likely to see the eventual formation of 4 major conferences that feed their champions into a playoff that determines the final game. The problem in part of this is the Sports Writers and Media outlets. All of those polls wont matter one bit in this system since it is 100% based on performance; you win you move on, you lose, try again next year. This puts the Big Ten and SEC on solid ground and they have made it to the island of stability. The Big-12, Pac-12 and ACC are scrambling on the deck of the sinking ship fighting over the last two seats in the life boat. This board and others have debated this issue to the point of "ad nauseum". We are all sick of the subject, well 99.9% of us, but none of us can say how we will get to that time when there are only 4 conferences, much less say with any authority on who is going to be where when the dust settles. Many hold opinions, feeling that they have struck gold and only their opinion is right and everyone else is stupid. We have 1 or 2 on this board and we also have a troll that visits on a regular basis, joining them to form a trio of nitwits. No one has the answer. Conference realignment is not over but I do not think raids are in the future. I think it is going to be more like the Maryland/Rutgers movement. Universities will become dissatisfied with their current conference and leave in spite of any cost - including challenging a GoR in court, to make their move. [/QUOTE]
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