Ok, every banging on Big 10 (and BigEast and Pac10 but mainly Big10) for not having a C title game..Answer this.. in order to do this... you would have to get 12 teams in each of these 3 conferences,, +1 to Big 10, +2 to Pac10 and +4 to BigEast... That is 7 teams needed.
4 Independents, so if you "force" them into a conference you still need 3,, where do you get them? I have ideas, but will wait to see some other solutions.
2007-12-01 02:34:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
xero- true, but the haters want a "true" and xtra game like the others
MRDurf- Notre Dame would have to be forced, they dont wanna give up the money they get as an Indep, (though 1/12th of 8 bowl games would probably equal close to what they get averaged over 10 years) and the haters say ALL conferences need the extra game to be "fair"
2007-12-01 02:42:00 · update #1
kcbf- NCAA rules says 12
2007-12-01 02:42:51 · update #2
I didnt ask if there should be,, just how would it be accomplished,,,
2007-12-01 02:49:50 · update #3
stateofw- if title game happened,,, either Mich v OSU would be for the div champ or if in different divs then they would have to play it earlier,, say maybe make it a first conference game tradition,,, that would make it easier for the loser to rebound in the rankings as well.
2007-12-01 02:51:37 · update #4
mrkeef- agreed, and the title game can hurt or help (re: Florida last year) depending on the circumstance... I was just trying to get ideas going, on where the teams to make the conferences work would come from... without taking from other conferences and making them lose the title game
2007-12-01 03:05:14 · update #5
of course, if you fill in the 3 BCS conferences, find 10 more for the midmajors that need them for the 12 team minimun
2007-12-01 03:21:42 · update #6
ok, my suggestion...
Western Kentucky to the Big 10... not a power, but @ 7-5 bowl elegible this year and played a pretty decent midmajor schedule.
Notre Dame to big east (other teams alreadyare)
Navy and Army to Big East,, they fit geographically and could be competitive
Now promote the 13 largest enrollemen 1-AA schools to 1A brings the total 1A schools to 132 fill in one more in Big East, 2 to Pac 10 and then the other 10 to approprieate mid majors and you have 12 teams in each of the 11 1A conferences.....
Teams wishing to switch conferences would have to work out a 1 for 1 swap with another school and get NCAA approval...
All conferences have the title game and noone can ***** about uneven playing field... :)
2007-12-01 03:30:53 · update #7
or alternately put all 4 1A indep into Big east, giving them 12...
Promote the entire Great West Conf to 1A and disband... putting North Dakota State into the Big 10 (maybe rename the Midwest Dozen)
Cal Poly and UC Davis to Pac 10 (rename to Pac Dozen), Southern Utah and South Dakota St to Mountain West.
That would leave only 8 more teams to promote from 1AA (either Gateway or Big Sky would work and be appropriate level properly dispersed to other midmajors to fill them out.)
2007-12-01 03:42:48 · update #8
hey Guns, i don't believe that the big 10 needs a Conference title game either. Just because the SEC does it, doesn't mean everyone else ought do it. The SEC'ers on Y!A are not going to give legitimacy to the Big 10 champion with or without a conference championship game. And since they are the only ones calling for it....i don't care. You think they give legitimacy to the MAC title winner, or the Conference USA title winner...NO!! Most SEC'ers won't even give credit to Missouri should they win the Big XII tonight. You can't please everyone.....
EDIT: OHHHH. well Notre Dame is the school. They don't want to enter. But that would be the school for the Big Ten. Otherwise Pittsburgh or Cincinnati would be somewhat viable alternatives. But the Big 10 would really want Notre Dame, the big 10 doesn't really want anyone else.
2007-12-01 03:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by mrkeef 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The main problem with Notre Dame joining the Big Ten is that the rest of their athletics compete as a member of the Big East. But yeah having a Big Ten Championship Game would ruin the year-end Michigan-Ohio State rivalry game. They always end the season playing each other. That is the tradition and I think fans and students alike want to keep it that way.
2007-12-01 03:21:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why in the world do we need conference championship games? The fact is that half the major conferneces have one, and half dont. The conferences who have one did it for one reason, and one reason only, revenue. Now that it could potentially hurt Mizzou people want to bash other conferences for not having one. How does this make sense? you should be bashing your own conferences for doing stuff so selfishly. For some reason people want to take all of the meaning out of the regular season. The regular season is a playoff, thats why its important to bring it every week. With people wanting playoffs and conference championship games, it will take all of the allure out of the regular season and reward teams who did not play well the whole year and just got hot at the end. People should start being careful of what they wish for or college football will be ruined.
2007-12-01 02:46:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure why you say they NEED 12. As long as the two divsions are even I dont see a problem. Even in the SEC (12 teams) they play games against the other division so I see no problem with an 8 team conference needing to do so.
As far as the Big 10 is concerned they need to drop a team or pick a team up as it is. Their current format can proclude some of the top games from happening because they dont always play every team.
2007-12-01 02:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by kcbf 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is a Big Ten conference game. It's played the 3rd Saturday of November between OSU and Michigan. That game directly or indirectly decides the conference title.
2007-12-01 02:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Notre Dame to Big 10
But some conferences dont need a title game, the records are better than the team under them.
2007-12-01 02:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by M R Durf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a big ten conference championship game would ruin the entire Michigan vs. Ohio State rivalry. This game almost always determines the winner, and I'll be damned if they don't play that game with everything they got to wait until a re-match the very next week to play in the conference game. leave it be. LEAVE IT BE!
2007-12-01 02:46:23 · answer #7 · answered by stateofwoo 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Never happen
2007-12-01 02:42:48 · answer #8 · answered by Smokey 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋