Agreed. This is why I was never in favor of the idea of expansion. Teams lose valuable conference games and it creates a mess.
Fuck, people!!!!!! It's time to move forward. Stop whining about not being able to get the southern Cal schools in your stadium each year, and start getting excited about the extra money and prestige that a conference championship game will bring. Plus, I am the real loser in all of this. Living in Houston I don't get to watch many PAC 10 games because the big 12 always bumps them on ABC. I had a chance to get them all if this merger had worked.
I am very anxious to see what sort of divisions they come up with. Reportedly, Colorado was guaranteed a spot in the same division as the So Cal schools. I think losing the yearly games in So Cal will hurt recuiting a bit, so I hope they can come up with a plan to fix that, and even it out a bit. Here is my proposal. Division 1 Oregon Wash Cal UCLA Arizona Utah Division 2 Ore St Wash St Stan USC Arizona St Col Play each team in your division once, and your in state rival once. Then 2 more schools from the other division and 3 non conference games. That way Oregon gets to play Wash and Ore ST each year, and so on for the other schools
I dont understand why the Pac 10 would guarantee Colorado anything. They should be happy they where asked to even join.
Schools would have to be in the same division as their in-state rival. If Colorado was somehow guaranteed to be with the Cali schools then it would be the NW plus Arizona. I just assumed they would pair Cali up with AZ/ASU.
I'll be shocked if the divisions are anything but the following: Division 1 Oregon Ore St Wash Wash St Col Utah Division 2 Cal Stan UCLA USC Arizona Arizona St
I would like this much better for my Beavs, but could they really break up Cali? Those would be more even divisions.
I just don't see them doing something that wild and radical, having every conference rival be in a seperate division.... Not to mention you could have the Oregon/Washington/AZ/Cali schools all play each other one week then meet again the next week in the conference championship game??? What do you do about the other 5 teams outside your division, play 2 of them? That means there is one team you play only once every three years.... But if you play 3 of the 5 then your playing up to 10 conference games which is more then I see happening.
Ok well while we’re at it thinking of radical ideas how about this….. have 3 divisions: Division 1 - Northwest Oregon Oregon St Washington Washington St Division 2 - Cali schools Stanford Cal USC UCLA Division 3 - New guys AZ ASU Colorado Utes Top2 division winners meet in conference championship game. Yeah sucks to be 3rd place division winner... but hey you still go to a decent bowl game. You play 3 of the 4 teams in the other two divisions. So over 8 years you still get USC/UCLA to come to town 3 times instead of the current 4, which isn't a huge change.
Well I did just hear this is what they’re thinking of going with... that’s cool I like this setup. It does make some travel sense. I do wonder what’s going to happen with USC and the conference title game. If they are eligible to play for it but are banned from postseason play then you could end up with a situation where the loser of the conference game goes to the Rose Bowl???
probably just like the pac-10 basketball tourney last year...they just weren't invited to the champ game,
I have to wonder how the NW schools signed off on this to be honest. I would be oissed if I wasn't getting a game in SoCal every year for recruiting purposes.
If you play a 10-game or even 9-game pac 12 sched, you should be able to guarentee every school in the north at least a game with either USC or UCLA
This is called the "zipper" alignment from what I have seen from other blogs and it would work and make plenty of sense. You are guaranteed to play all teams in your division, plus your rival, each year, then 3 teams from the other division on a rotating schedule. It would make THE most sense of any of the said proposals.
