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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3926983, member: 1145"] Thoughts on this should start with knowing that until the SEC took Texas and OU, the BT never would have included the ACC in such talks. The BT has long seen the northeast as its auxiliary territory, and the ACC moving into the northeast pissed off a host of BT power brokers. The deal with ND then infuriated those people. The BT desire to make the ACC pay for getting in the way of the BT forcing ND to join the BT meant the BT was caught totally flat footed and snickering about how the 12 team playoff would mean the ACC has 0 chance to land ND as full football member when Sankey reeled in the Red River Shootout. The BT was revealed, yet again, as a super rich, vindictive fool. The worst case scenario for BT football is Texas in the SEC along with OU, and a 12 team playoff with no restrictions on the number of teams per league that can get invited. And that is where we are. BT 'country' has fewer top recruits than does Pac 'country,' which has fewer than ACC 'country,' which has fewer than 'SEC' country. Over time, that could handicap BT football, no matter how rich the BT is. It seems to me that the ACC, BT, and Pac all should agree now to oppose a 12 team playoff, offering instead an 8 team playoff with champs of the 4 Major/Power leagues getting auto bids, and an auto bid to the highest ranked champ of a non-Major/Power conference. The committee also then would pick 3 at-large teams, and no league could have more than 2 members in the playoff. ND won't like it, but ND pushing hard for that 12 team playoff did heavy lifting to get Texas and OU into the SEC while thinking of nothing but ND. So ND should be ignored as the 3 of us conferences act to keep SEC football from becoming a virtual monopoly. The BT and Pac both must agree to end the NCAA restriction on Conference Championship Games so we all can end divisions. I think most people here are fully on board for the ACC going to 3+5(5) scheduling as soon as the NCAA allows it. The BT would also benefit from such scheduling. The Pac would benefit from 5+3(3) scheduling without divisions. All 3 of us then could guarantee that every season we get our 2 best teams into our CCG, which would maximize our chances to have 2 playoff teams. All 3 of us playing 8 conference games would allow us to play each other OOC much more often than now happens. Now for the rest - The BT is rich as Croesus and has huge TV audiences for both revenue sports. The BT needs more games against teams from, games played in, states rich with talent: CA, FL, GA, NC, VA, TX. The Pac needs many more games against teams from Eastern Time and Central Time. The ACC needs OOC games against foes in other regions that bring large numbers of guaranteed fans to stadiums and, especially, TV sets. Both ACC and BT need the northeast to see a big increase in interest in CFB. Penn St playing Pitt at least half the time (say, 2 years on and 2 off) should be the obvious first step, with Penn St playing Syracuse fairly often the second step. Syracuse versus Rutgers as a neutral site game in Yankee Stadium could help. BC playing BT teams in Foxboro, Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium could prove beneficial in building a consistent CFB audience in the northeast, because it would be the huge Land Grant bully from the midwest taking on the scrappy little northeastern team. [/QUOTE]

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