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College Football Realignment – Big Ten Want to Add Oklahoma
The realignment in college football isn’t resting for a second, with certain conferences, like the Big Ten, on a constant prowl to add impressive pieces from shaky conferences. Next on their list? The Big 12, and specifically the most successful program in the conference, the Oklahoma Sooners.
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Most Valuable Conferences in College Sports
Football generates most of the money in College sports, and then comes basketball at a distant second
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Florida State Seminoles – Soon a Big 12 Team
There’s no stopping progress, and it seems to constant tectonic movements in College Football aren’t over. Next up on the realignment schedule? Florida State thinking about joining the Big 12, leaving the ACC, or at least hoping to.
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BCS Bowls – All About the Money
College Football and bowl season are about one thing: Making money. That is why there hasn’t been a playoff and why the one installed is a limited, disappointing ones. Teams from the AQ conferences: The SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 Pac-12 and still the Big East don’t want to give up on the nearly $200 million that will be paid out by the BCS to the conferences represented in the five BCS bowls.
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Red River Rivalry – Oklahoma Keep Crushing Texas
A good rivalry needs a fair fight, and the way the Oklahoma – Texas rivalry has been played on the field the last two years means it’s not at that point right now. Both teams came in with one loss going into the game in Dallas, but the Longhorns came out of the Cotton Bowl with one of the more humiliating defeats in the Red Rivalry history.
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How Much Money do the Big College Football Schools Get?
Why don’t we have a College Football playoff? Money. Everything about college football revolves around money, which is going into everybody’s hands – Schools, Conferences, TV networks. Everyone, but the players. It’s an amateur sport, remember? One you’re supposed to be playing for the love of the game and the chance of becoming pro?
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The Rose Bowl 2.0 – Big 12 & SEC
Remember all the talks about a new College Football playoff? Well, while that’s still the plan – going ahead with a four team playoff with yet to be determined venues and format, the two best conferences in the BCS era decided to make a power move of their own, announcing a deal that will put the Big 12 champions against the SEC champion on New Year’s Day, starting 2014.
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The Big-12 Crumbling and the Forming of a Pac-16?
Realignment is the latest trend. In the NHL, in Baseball, and in College Football. Nebraska left the Big-12 for the Big Ten. Colorado left for the Pac-10. Texas A&M are leaving from the SEC next year. Now, Oklahoma, and right behind them, Texas, are talking Pac-16 future. And Baylor beat TCU , 50-48. What the hell is going on?