I’d agree with all you said. I can see the SEC adding Mizzou and standing pat.

The PAC-12 and Big Ten will each add 2 more teams each — one gets the OU/Okie State combo platter while the other adds two more teams (maybe TBL’s favorite boys, Boise State) — and things settle for a while.

people who voted the number 16 ranking for USF = frauds?

I also think Pitt is showing that “high octane” offense. It’s just gimmicky and fast enough that unless you can just overmatch them with personnel/speed like Alabama or LSU, they can stay in any game. Ray Graham is also a really good college back… though his hesitation moves won’t translate nearly as well in the NFL, where ends run as fast as college LBs.

/frustrated

Ok. Here’s my take. 16 team any conference isn’t happening this round. And there will be another round. The elite Big 10, SEC, and Pac-12 realize that if they goto 16, there will be some stinkers (like KU) that would have to be invited. A sour pill. They are not ready to hold their noses. They’ll hold off for now until these conferences realize they have Indiana, Ole Piss, Piss St., Vandy, Illinois, NW, Purdue, Wash, Wash St., Oregon St. already (academics is not included in this. I think the academics argument is highly ovverrated.) They’ll see how the gradual expansion goes and then decide if adding more non-elite football schools is worth it. KU would have had a better argument had the football team at least maintained bowl level play after the Orange Bowl season. We are going 2-9 this year with our hoops team on a probable down year. Just bad timing. If Mizzou does leave for the SEC (or, a rumor I doubt, but they are playing the SEC against the Big 10)whatever, if they go, the conference is severly crippled.

In other words… more pointless speculation. Just giving my thinking on why there won’t be any 16 team conferences this go round. I think conferences might find 14 more appetizing for now. 13 is dumb (looking at you SEC) which is why I think Mizzou is gone.

went with USF -2.5

Always go with Pitt once they have two crushing losses to make their season meaningless.

/as I type that, USF scores

and will have a champion, also known as “the grenade” to BCS bowl commissioners.

link?

Why wouldn’t KU end up in the Big 16N? Middle-of-the-road football program, fine. But KU basketball would make their Feb title tourney bigger to watch.

Ever since I found out she got engaged to Wes Studi, I’m more interested in Ms. Brown.

/might have gotten my Wes wrong
//don’t care. I’d rather a world where Jenn Brown marries Wes Studi.

/Big 12 fan’d
//cries
///Mizzou is gone on Tuesday
////Embraces the Great Midwest Conference in 2013.

/snickers
//….but your coach is old
///yours used to be Dave Wannstedt