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Message: [QUOTE="ACCBballFan, post: 34859, member: 1278"] [SIZE=3]B12 already has #1 Oklahoma, #7 Okie St, #10 Texas, #21 K-State plus Baylor honorary #27 with 90 votes and Texas Tech right behind with 68 votes. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Adding #19 West VA plus honorary #28 USF who still get 49 votes after Pitt humbled them, would give them 7 of the top 28 ranked teams, not counting TCU who was ranked until the SMU upset.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]B12 ranked teams is second only to SEC who with A&M has 7 of the top 25.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]B10 has 5 in top 25 plus #30 Penn State. Iowa and Ohio State also got some votes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]ACC has 4, plus Putt and UNC got votes, won't count Spurrier's customary Duke vote.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]P12 has 3 plus #31 Washington with 30 votes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I realize the counter argument is that is they played better teams, their rankings would fall but same may be true for any teams not in top 12 or so.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]So B12/BE combined not all that mediocre in football power rankings, though some of those BE TV markets are dilutive UL (300K), Cincy (323K), TCU (371K) relative to Texas 2.25 million viewers and Oklahomas 1.2 million.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]West VA 959 K and Rutgers at 938K are larger markets than Texas Tech 912 K , KU 768K or Okie St @ 719K. UCONN at 619 K and USF at 521 K are larger markets than K-State 428K and Baylor 210K, and sandwich Iowa State's 535K.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]If there are hard feelings between the Oklahoma teams and Texas, SEC could go for the kill with OU and Okie State as 15-16 after A&M-Missouri 13-14. Then B12 with or without BE would be mediocre leaving Texas Tech at 912 K the second biggest B12 market after Texas, smaller than WV or Rutgers, after then losing 4 of its top 5 markets the past two years counting Nebraska, A&M, Oklahoma and Missouri, not to mention mid sized Okie St.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]One way or another though in order to get to 12, B12 will have to absorb some smaller markets, and mights as well go for new ones that have ranked football teams, after first finding some way to retain Missouri 1.085 million TV share and entree to the STL-KC areas from grasp of SEC or the sleeper B1G.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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