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Message: [QUOTE="SU2NASA, post: 9121, member: 800"] If it's either West Virginia or Missouri, it will have a significant impact. If WVU leaves, you can count the Big East as every man for himself. If Missouri to the SEC, then the Big Ten's targets have been reduced by one and that just focuses on possible Big Ten expansion eastward. My shot in the dark: - Texas A&M to the SEC starts the process -> SEC adds Missouri to go to 14. - Pac-12 adds Texas, Oklahoma, Ok State, and Texas Tech to become the Pac-16 - SEC adds West Virginia and a current ACC school such as VT, Clemson, FSU to go to 16. At this point, the ACC is at 11, the Big Ten at 12 - looking at the Big East and Big 12 remnants (and ND), the following BCS schools are left: Syracuse, UConn, Pitt, Rutgers, South Florida, Cincinnati, Louisville, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor, Notre Dame, (TCU?) Removing the schools that I believe are non-starters to any Big Ten or ACC expansion, you have left: Syracuse, UConn, Pitt, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Kansas So if the ACC wants to go to 16, they need all 5, if the Big Ten wants to go to 16, they need 4, where you have 6 realistic candidates out there. If I had to guess, I'd say that if/when any ACC team is poached by the SEC, the ACC will give a call to someone in the northeast (which I think will be SU first, but let's say it's any one of SU, UConn, RU, Pitt). I think that this is the move that will force the Big Ten's hand and make them proactive of whether to go after the NYC market, so of the five schools above, each one is going one place or another. So here's my guess as to how it all looks when the music stops: Pac-16: USC, UCLA, California, Stanford, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Texas SEC (16): Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Missouri, West Virginia, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Arkansas, Virginia Tech Big Ten (16): Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, Penn State, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers (if the Big Ten adds just ND and one more to go to 14, then take 2 of the 3 of SU, Pitt, RU and put them in the ACC) ACC (12): North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, Virginia, Wake Forest, NC State, Clemson, Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Boston College, UConn Big 12/Big East Remnants: Louisville, Cincinnati, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, South Florida, TCU, etc. [/QUOTE]

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