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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5427032, member: 1145"] Ignore Southern CA? Both SC and UCLA are in the BT. Only if they feel real pressure will they back off and allow the ACC and maybe Big 12 to have each at least 2 Auto bids to a 16 team playoff. The key is the smaller the number of schools involved in what will be for football certainly a closed no division - no games vs MAC or Sunbelt, for example - and the fewer states involved, the more that House and Senate will see people rise up to demand some Federal oversight. I think One thing that would be a given among many such politician types is to wonder why the new Pac cannot be merged with the Big 12 so that at least that name is saved, along with making certain that another state or 2 is represented. The Pac now has 7 for football, but only 1 new state (ID). So perhaps such talks could get the Pac added to a LARGE Big 12, that also adds New Mexico and maybe UNLV - anger state or 2. Plus we know that Yormark really wants UConn. Fie the ACC, I think the key is that it must act gressiveoy to maximize its abuiklity to have as large a TV deal as possible. The BT and SEC will not give up their own TV deals to share equally with any other league that gets to be in the Top Tier and so have really access to the Playoffs. So unless the ACC improves its TV deal money nicely it will keep falling behind BY and SEC which will totally dominate the playoffs, save for an occasional great Clemson or FSU and maybe Miami team. To improve its TV deal, the ACC must drop some dead weight and replace with schools that better fit the proven formula for CFB football wealth and power. And the ACC must be large enough to easily play 10 league games. SEC and BT seem dead set of playing each often OFTEN to make the case that only their teams have the strength of schedule to deserve the Playoffs. [/QUOTE]

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