Pac-12 expansion: The case for the Oklahoma schools
8:45 p.m. update: If this espn.com report is accurate, Big 12 politics may bottle things up for a period of time (days? weeks?). And if Texas is, in fact, one of the teams trying to force Oklahoma into...
View ArticleBCS football: The ACC expands, is the Pac-12 next? (And how big could it get?)
The ACC announced this morning that it has officially added Pittsburgh and Syracuse, with the start dates to be determined (but it may not be 2012-13). The thunderous development means the ACC — not...
View ArticleBCS football: The latest on realignment
After a bit of a lull (did you miss it?), the next chapter in expansion chaos is about to begin. The decision Tuesday by the Missouri curators to empower MU president Brady Deaton to explore a change...
View ArticleBCS football: Realignment news starring the Big 12, Missouri, West Virginia,...
There has been a ton of news, semi-news and potential news on the realignment front in the past four or five days (and plenty more to come in the next few weeks). I’ll attempt to touch on all the...
View ArticleBCS realignment: West Virginia joins the Big 12 (and picks of the week)
As many Hotline readers are no doubt aware by now, West Virginia is (officially) leaving the Big East in favor of the Big 12 despite the best efforts of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to...
View ArticleBCS football: Examining ESPN’s role in realignment
Make sure you read USA Today’s terrific story on the WWL’s role in realignment. It’s online now and will be in Tuesday’s paper, and it’s by far the best look I’ve seen at the complicated relationship...
View ArticleBCS football: Updating the realignment chaos (Big East, Mountain West and San...
As always: 1) Nothing is done until it’s done, and sometimes not even then, and 2) The following could be moot by the time you’re finished — expansion is, to say the least, fluid … *** Let’s start with...
View ArticleFBS realignment: M-Day approaches for Mountain West, CUSA (and what that...
The potential alliance/consortium/merger between the Mountain West and Conference USA hardly grabs headlines the way realignment at the BCS level has over the past 20 months or so. But in terms of...
View ArticleFBS realignment: M-Day becomes A-Day for the MWC, C-USA (and what that would...
Throughout the realignment wave that hit the BCS leagues last summer, the Hotline cautioned fans to keep one thing in mind above all else: Because there are so many levels of state and university...
View ArticleAction/reaction: USA Today strikes again, Florida State to the Big 12(?),...
Before we get to the latest developments on multiple fronts, a few words on one non-development (because Hotline readers have asked): No, I haven’t heard anything new regarding potential Pac12Net deals...
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