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I'm pretty convinced that the next round will be SU and ND, and I don't think they stop there.

I figure once you get to 20, you're really two conferences, in effect.

The SEC claims it's done, but that obviously is "subject to review".

Anyway, they don't ask me.

I believe as long as all the football teams play ar least 50% of the time, it can be considered one conference.  So it is possible with 20 teams if you play 10 conference games and have only 1 fixed annual rival.  Then you could do a 1-9-9 schedule. 

With that said, a lot of teams would have an issue with only 1 fixed annual rival and many would push for at least 2 or 3 rivals.  So that suggests with 20 conference teams, you would have to do at least 11 conference games, then you could do a 3-8-8 schedule.

The thing I’ll be interested in is how we treat/feel about whoever rises from the ashes in the left behind groups. 

The fact is, a conference only has so many wins to go around. Someone has to lose the games. Some SEC teams or Big Ten teams go 6-6. And in turn. Someone left out is gonna start running up 10-12 win seasons. 

In some ways, those fans will be happier, but I suppose the question is how much happier? I doubt it balances out the unhappiness of the folks with a rougher time. 

The money would drop off considerably, and there are sports beyond football that need it.  Sure, maybe a team goes 11-1, but is broke in effect.

The program is better off going 6-6 in a real conference.

I mean from a fan perspective. 

if you have like department makes extra money, and can pay for a very nice softball team, does that really affect me? And beyond that, 6-6 team is more frequently paying out eight-figure buyouts trying to swim in a deeper pond. 

Everybody keeps talking about teams being left behind, but did they really ever have a chance?  Take the top 10-20 teams in CFB.  Year in and year out it's the same pecking order.  Ohio St, ND, Alabama.  All we're really fighting for is 10-20.  Auburn, A&M, LSU of the CFB world.  .  

30-50?  Fuggetaboutit.  Aside from Va Tech in '99, when was the last time one of these outsider teams had a legit chance?  You can give Vanderbilt all the money in the world from being in the SEC, they'll never do better than 3rd or 4th in their division.  They literally have not won the conference title ever AFAIK, or if they did it was so long ago nobody remembers it.  So at some point when does it really stop being all about the money, and more about success?  IMO all of these "secondary" teams would be much better served having their own league anyway where they could actually compete for something instead of perennial 5th place.   

And before you start in about A&M and our lack of success I'm fully aware of our lack of SEC hardware but I think you'd be foolish to think that we are incapable of winning it eventually.  We won the SWC multiple times, won the Big 12, won the Big 12 South multiple times.  The potential is there, the boxes are checked.  Schools like TCU and Texas Tech?  Where do they fit?  

Being left behind is more about money than winning an NC.  The SEC has programs on a par in football with TCU and TT, but they get a lot more money.

And they can at times excel in other sports.  Vandy has had some good baseball teams.

I believe as long as all the football teams play ar least 50% of the time, it can be considered one conference.  So it is possible with 20 teams if you play 10 conference games and have only 1 fixed annual rival.  Then you could do a 1-9-9 schedule. 

With that said, a lot of teams would have an issue with only 1 fixed annual rival and many would push for at least 2 or 3 rivals.  So that suggests with 20 conference teams, you would have to do at least 11 conference games, then you could do a 3-8-8 schedule.

I just don't see 10, let alone 11-game league schedules happening for two reasons:

• A number of teams have OOC rivalries such as IA/ISU, PU/ND, etc. Hard to do that with only one or two OOC slots available. 
• At least for now, you need to go .500 to go bowling. Most teams schedule for that by playing just one marquee OOC game and two bodybags. If Purdue was scheduled to play 11 B1G games and ND then even a pretty good PU team could end up ineligible to bowl at 5-7.