I mean if it's true that not even a Stanford, Colorado, or UCLA is safe in the next college football re-alignment, then what's the point of discussing any other of the 'lower' teams.
I for one am pumped that at here in Texas we will get to see our flagship school play in the super-league, and perhaps even be the best program with all that money that flows through Austin.
I'm from Austin but never liked Texas at any point, stemming from my first exposure to them being that 46-3 drubbing by Miami in 1991, and secondly the league they played in.
I could not get excited as a t-shirt fan about Texas going up against Kansas's and Iowa's and OK St teams.
Now Texas will be playing all the big dogs every week. It's an accomplishment to get any win in both this new 16 team SEC league and its successor super-conference.
We just got to accept it and find our team to root for among the 30-40 chosen teams.
On the one hand, Texas and A&M both benefit from all the other Texas schools getting wiped out. As do OU, Arkansas, and Missouri.
On the other hand, any school that wants to compete at the top level has to be able to recruit nationally. Also, the kind of provincial inflation of recruiting rankings that always has plagued Texas high school recruiting since forever ago will do absolutely zero good in this new reality, other than set unrealistic expectations.
If the B1G were to suddenly poach the PAC and take USC and Oregon than yeah, they're ed but i think the B1G would much rather poach the ACC.
Not a lot of good options currently for the PAC to expand but they're not currently struggling either.
Wouldn't surprise me though if someday we just see two huge SEC/B1G super conferences with 32 teams each in them that completely ditch the NCAA and make their own rules.
Poaching the ACC is more complicated because the TV deal with ESPN lasts until 2036, they have GoR in the bylaws, and they have a hefty exit fee. The ACC also has an alliance with ND whereby if ND chooses to join a conference before 2036, it must be the ACC.
I agree that the ACC long-term is disadvantaged relative to the SEC and B1G, and I doubt it lasts until 2036. The issue with the PAC-12 is that things come to a head much sooner on account of the expiring TV deal. They can spout rhetoric about how consolidation elsewhere makes them more valuable all they want, but they cannot make such rhetoric make any sense. The brands are worth what their schools make them worth. The collapse of the Big 12 doesn’t make the National audience any more interested in Cal versus Oregon State. Publicly, of course they are going to say everything is great. But publicly, Texas and OU were “committed” to the Big 12 all while reaching out to the SEC.
The biggest thing the PAC-12 has going for it is its geographic isolation. If USC, Washington and Oregon decide they’d rather accept a permanent financial disadvantage against SEC/B1G than travel back and forth to the Great Lakes all the time, then maybe the PAC-12 can survive. I doubt they would decide that, though.
14-0 vote for the Fighting Texas Longhorns.
Alabama would be a fitting first SEC game for Orange Nation.
How dead is this place that tu going to the sec doesn't even get a second page
Mostly all the posts on this are in the recruiting thread
The remnants...
"Report: Big 12, Pac-12 Commissioners to Discuss Potential Merger"
https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/0...edule-alliance
I can totally see USC and Oregon bolting for the big ten if this happens
Well we already have Alabama scheduled in 2023 third game anyway made with the Big 12.
Then they come to Austin next year. So... Its not like we were running from them.
We also rescheduled Ohio ST. and Michigan for later so thats looks gone.
Gonna end up with a 30 team super conference when this is all said and done which will practically be a minor league NFL with the rest of the schools playing for their own championship.
I wasn't intimating anything other than Alabama is the only SEC team whose glitz and glamour matches that of Texas football.
Those two along with Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Southern California, I think, are the nationally known teams among casuals.
But that's interesting the 2023 game may actually turn out to be UT first SEC game if the B12 plays hardball.
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