Big Ten, Pac 12, and ACC in talks of making a scheduling alliance
August 14th, 2021 at 5:01 PM ^
Thanks for the insight.
August 14th, 2021 at 11:43 AM ^
I hope the big/acc/pac can beat sec/espn. I have no confidence in fox
August 14th, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
Who did not see this coming?
The SEC has been coy about even more expansion. They have done nothing to quash the notion that they are going to keep expanding until they own CFB, complete with their own rules and their own playoff, shutting out anyone left behind on the outside.
This new ACC/Big 10/Pac 12 alliance is designed as a counterweight to that. Improved coordinated scheduling will help everybody's TV rights, and will leave less reasons for teams to feel they have to leave the ACC/Big 10/Pac 12 for the SEC. A line in the sand so to speak.
USC gets more visibility outside the Pacific time zone. Clemson gets more non-ACC matchups with national appeal. The Big Ten gets more southern and western exposure.
The Big 12, on the other hand, is a lost cause. There is a reason they were not brought into this new alliance. They don't add any benefit. They will dissolve.
It will now be 4 major conferences, with 3 allied against 1.
The SEC could have avoided this backlash had they not ambushed the other conferences with a move that looked like the first step in a CFB takeover.
August 14th, 2021 at 1:36 PM ^
If the Big10 wanted to keep up with the SEC they would offer ND and Clemson and thats it. If you are a big ten school you dont want your shares diluted once again. Rutgers was our last move, Texas Oklahoma was theirs. Damn thats a big divide.
August 14th, 2021 at 3:37 PM ^
Clemson is a flash in the pan. They also don’t have a large market to add or a national following.
August 15th, 2021 at 9:14 AM ^
How does this provide more access to usc outside of the pacific time zone? Could they not schedule out of conference games before? Is this going to get the pac 12 network on more tvs? It’s basically the big 10-acc challenge in basketball, it’s meaningless
August 14th, 2021 at 3:28 PM ^
ACC has a bad TV deal for more than a decade. It would be a huge mistake to include them in anything which bails them out of that without severe concessions.
August 14th, 2021 at 5:05 PM ^
I hope this includes an agreement not to play the SEC ever. Including bowls and playoffs. SEC can play with themselves, so to speak.