[NU Sports] Big Ten Expansion this week?

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PS The Big East has a total of 16 schools: eight that play football and
eight, including Notre Dame that do not.  Those that do not are, not
coincidentally, all  Catholic institutions.

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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> A number of sources are suggesting that the Big Ten could offer Nebraska
> a seat at the table as early as this Friday.  (Last week's Big XII meetings
> may have set that as a deadline for Big XII schools to commit to the future
> of the conference for something like six years.)
>
> I still think Notre Dame is the big prize, but offering Nebraska an
> invitation might be what it takes for the Irish to commit as well, since
> Nebraska leaving the Big XII is likely to snowball as the other teams in
> the Big XII start looking for good homes.
>
> Some writers have gone so far as to blame Nebraska for this mess,
> forecasting
> the end of the Big XII and the Big East as well as the BCS itself.
>
> The six BCS conferences could realign themselves into four superconferences
> of 16 teams each.  However, that would only include 64 teams and the BCS
> schools (plus Notre Dame) current have 66 schools in football.
>
>
> ACC        12
> Big Ten    11
> Big East    8 (in football)
> Pac 10     10
> SEC        12
> Big XII    12
> Notre Dame  1
>           --
>           66
>
> (The Big East has a total of 17 schools in basketball, but only 8 of
> those play Division I football.)
>
> So, unless some conferences decide to go to something larger than 16
> schools in football, it looks like two schools could be left out of
> the four superconferences.
>
> My guess:  Baylor and Iowa State.  That will not make for happy campers
> in either Texas or Iowa, not to mention the states like Utah where having
> their major football teams be non-BCS members is already a political
> hot potato.
>
> So, another possibility is that the final mix has five or six
> superconferences, which means that the CUSA, MAC, Mountain West, Sunbelt
> and WAC conferences could get reshuffled as well.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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