BOL Round Table

The ACC, Big East are - On the outside looking in

The makes me very happy. I grew up loving the Sugar bowl & the BCS killed that bowl for me with the match ups. the Big East & ACC has no right to be given a BCS game because there 11-1 or whatever the record teams SUCK & I'm sick of it ruining the bowl season & I don't want to see BSU or any other team that plays 1 average team a year get in against a good team that earned the right to play in a big bowl.

The ACC, Big East, and independents are finished. The better programs in the ACC will he after an opportunity with another conference in a big way now. Notre Dame is about to he forced into a conference imo. No way they survive otherwise. The Big East might as well become a basketball only conference. Their days of relevance (what little they had) are over.

It never was about the game. It's about power, and we have it. If the Big Ten and Pac 10 want to play by our rules, great. If they don't, we've formed an alliance with second best football conference in America, and we will do our own thing which would cripple the little ten and pac 10. We don't need them, they need us. We are college football. We are the most watched, the most drafted, the most recognized, the most decorated, and THE dominant conference in the history of the sport. If the SEC and Big 12 were to form their own power conference, the college football landscape would totally swing in our favor and the weak conferences know that. It would look something like this:

1) Power Conference
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2) What's left of D1
3) Division 2
4) Division 3

That would not be good for them, not at all. Jmo

I agree with this.

An SEC/Big 12 Conference would totally kill football imo. What would that accomplish really? It would mean only a handful of football games would be worth watching. College football is the best regular season in sports. It doesn't need to be watered down by a Power Conference. Why not just go to an NFL playoff model if that is the plan?

I completely disagree. What waters down college football is weak conferences and weak scheduling. What seperates the NFL from every other sport, and league, is that every week is a big game. A Power Conference would give us that. No more cry babies. No more easy roads to championships. Real football, week in and week out. jmo

Nope brother that is backwards thinking. I think a lot would get a huge dose of reality. If we did indeed make college football into the NFL's minor league. Would absolutely turn a lot of people off. A lot of the tradition's that college football was built on. Would be reduced to 16-20 teams that only care about themselves. Yep.... that sounds like a great overall plan! LMAO

& if u think every NFL game is a big game. Then I don't know how to comment on that statement really. People talk about the NFL like it's the end all be all. But then turn around & bitch & cry because a wild card team wins a Super Bowl for gods sake! Which is it people? The whole system is never gonna be perfect for everyone.

I've never heard someone whine about a wild card team winning the super bowl. Wild card teams have to win four consecutive games against the leagues elite to be crowned Champs, which is exactly my point. There are no Georgia States in the NFL. Every week their opponent cam beat them. Every game is competitive.

I hear what you are saying but you are defining the future by capturing a small moment in a larger history of dominance and awful Bowl Games featuring our best teams. Just like the Rose bowl gets to pick its participants first, this will allow this game to do the same. Additionally, this game that would often pit the second best team in each conference in late new year's day matchup would still be better than 90% of the forced bowl matchups in the bowl season. So while this is more about positioning than the actual game, it still will produce a pretty good game.

Imo on the surface it looks like a good move. But for this to sustain over the long haul. We need the level of Big 12 football to improve a lot. Texas needs to be Texas once again. & OU needs to actually be a title contender most years. For this to look like a good move. If the Big 12/SEC champs would be in the playoff anyways most years. Not many will be excited over another Cotton Bowl type matchup. Unless it involves "certain" teams from these two leagues.