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The Columbus Dispatch is reporting Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee told the university’s Athletic Council last December that talks regarding the Big Ten’s further expansion were “ongoing”. On the heels of adding Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers it appears the Big Ten is not quite done expanding.
Gee “believes there is movement towards three or four super conferences that are made up of 16-20 teams.” After Maryland and Rutgers officially become members the conference will be at 14 teams.
The Ohio State president did not name specific schools that the conference was targeting, but said “there are opportunities to move further south in the East and possibly a couple of Midwest universities.”
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Notre Dame, Iowa State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh make the most sense to me.
completely disagree with WVU. Pitt doesn’t add any demographics. We are likely thinking much bigger than Iowa State’s wrestling program.
note: he mentioned 4 superconferences, so either the ACC or BigXII would dissolve.
ACC dissolves: VaTech, UVa, UNC, NC State, Clemson become prime targets
BigXII dissolves: Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State become prime targets. Texas as well, but I don’t see them coming here.
ND is obviously always a prime target.
Notre Dame, Kentucky, Texas, & Oklahoma jump on board.
Kentucky is already intrenched in the SEC. Ga. Tech and Louisville would be interesting, with B1G and SEC having 2 cross-conference rivalry games (Ga and Tech, Ky and L’ville).
My take is there might be 5 ‘super-conferences’ with the Big East dissolving into the ACC and B1G, the Mountain West splitting between the Big 12 and Pac-12, and C-USA splitting between the SEC and Big 12.
not sure 5 conferences can get to 16 teams each as Gee mentioned.
and, hasn’t the BE already dissolved into the ACC 🙂 (Cuse, Pitt, ND, Louisville – after already taking BC, VaTech, Miami)
put Clemson on that list as well then 🙂
The Big Ten X 2:
Notre Dame, Iowa State, Louisville, Cincinnatti, Pitt, and snag Missouri from the SEC
I don’t see the big ten wanting va tech – not academic enough. I really believe they are targeting Virginia – would be an academic coup. Kansas, also, is a possiblity.
To me, UConn makes the most sense (based on what the conference is doing). the big ten is very progressive in looking for basketball schools that play football. Can you imagine if Kansas and UConn joined the big ten???
Yeah I just think vatech comes with uva and they are no slices in the engineering fields
Big 20 East: OSU, MICH, MSU, PSU, MD, RUTG, Virginia*, UNC*, Ga Tech*, Florida St*
Big 20 West: IND, PUR, ILL, NW, WIS, MIN, IOWA, NEB, Missouri*, Kansas*
Actually, 20 teams would probably lead to 5-team pods.
South: MD, VA, UNC, GT, FSU
East: RUT, PSU, OSU, IND, PUR
North: MICH, MSU, ILL, NW, WIS
West: MINN, NEB, IOWA, MIZZ, KS
smells like georgia tech for sure.
Yah engineering
Fortunately, Ohio State will never allow Cincinnati into the Big Ten.
Why don’t they stop messing around and just call it The Big Revenue Conference?
if we wanted Mizzou, then wouldn’t we have taken them when they were begging us to?
Unfortunately…
I think OSU vs. UC is a huge missed opportunity for a rivalry in football and basketball.
Man, as an OSU student and lifelong fan, let me tell you that Gee needs to be out in check. The Big 10 is plenty big enough.