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Hypothetical: Building a New Conference

Zurp

I have misplaced my pants.
You're building a new conference. Who is in it?

Givens:
(Just take these as facts - I don't want to start an argument over any of these)
1. The Big 12 has fallen apart. Teams currently in the Big 12 want to be in a conference. They want to be in a BCS AQ-conference.
2. Many of the teams currently in the Big 12 can and will find homes in other BCS AQ-conferences. They will likely decline your invitations. Teams currently in other BCS AQ-conferences also will likely decline your invitations.
3. Texas wants to be the "Big Dog" of a conference. They, like everyone else, also want to be in a BCS AQ-conference.
4. Notre Dame wants to be in a conference, but also only if they can be a "Big Dog". They also want a lot of "wiggle room" so they can continue to schedule their out-of-conference rivals.

You need to come up with a list of teams that you think will have a legitimate chance to join your conference and with hopes that your conference will become a BCS automatic qualifier. Include Texas, Notre Dame, both, or neither. Or make 2 conferences. Include as many teams as you want. Use geography as a factor, or not. Use the money you think a team will make your conference a factor, or not. Just make an argument that your conference should get a spot in a BCS bowl game. And if you suggest that you could take Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Nebraska, etc. then you aren't doing it right.

(By the way, I believe that I heard back when the ACC was taking teams from the Big East that a conference needs to have 8 teams in order to maintain status as a BCS automatic qualifier. That's another rule you have to follow.)
 
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Notre Dame
Army
Navy
Air Force
BYU
Rutgers
Pitt
Syracuse



one of the dominoes expected to fall if the Big XII crumbles is the raiding of the Big East, I'm taking the rest.

National appeal:
Notre Dame brings a large national following.
Army/Navy/Air Force. you're un-american if you don't at least sorta root for them

TV markets:
Air Force and BYU brings in viewers from the mountain states
Army, Rutgers, Pitt, and Syracuse get you on TV in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Penn.
Navy gets you the baltimore/dc area
Notre Dame gets you the midwestern states.

another bonus is that it eliminates all independent schools.

8 members means only 7 conference games.
that leaves 5 OOC games to help scheduling traditional rivalries that would no longer be played within a conference.

the Army/Navy game gets a boost in ratings to help draw attention to one of the great traditions of college football.
 
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