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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 3914441, member: 5685"]
The minute the ACC schools start talking to the B1G, the more the B1G can gage who they can poach from the ACC. The B1G is in a position of power why would they want the ACC dead weight schools?

ACC schools that offer something to the B1G
Miami, FSU, GA Tech, Clemson, UNC, Duke, UVA, SU, BC

ACC schools they likely have no interest in
NC State, Wake, Louisville, VA Tech, Pitt

Same goes for the P12

Interest
Washington, Oregon, USC, UCLA, Utah, Colorado, Arizona

No
Washington State, Oregon State, Arizona State

???
Stanford and Cal - both are good academically and offer NoCal but neither are strong at football or even BBall. The B1G could take one, both, or none.

If the 14 B1G schools added those 9 ACC schools (now 23 total) and those 7 P12 schools (now 30 total), ND would be forced to join the B1G (now 31 total). They would have no one left to play in FB otherwise. Taking 32 teams makes sense to create divisions or pods. As the 32nd team it would likely be between Kansas, Stanford, and Cal. I suppose you could take all three along with UConn and go with 7 divisions of 5 teams which offers an 8 team conference playoff.

Of the 41 states that play FBS football the B1G would cover 24 (or 25 with KU, 26 with KU and UConn) of them. The conference would stretch the entire East coast and connect all the way to the Pacific.

Once the B1G is at 32 teams they might even be able to poach Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Vandy which adds 4 more states. if you look at the AAU list the B1G would have just about every football playing school.
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