ESPN: What a blown-up CFB map could look like
Ryan McGeeESPN Senior Writer
Last week’s college football headlines were dominated by expansion chatter emanating from the Big 12, which has been a 10-team league since 2012, when it went from being a 14-team league to an eight-team league to the current dime roster.
If you are surprised to hear the Big 12 kicking around the idea of adding a pair of new schools, thus adding a conference championship game, its first since 2010, and getting back in line with its other four Power 5 brethren, then … why in the world are you surprised?
If you were surprised at this, then you’ll probably also be surprised at the next inevitable step for all five of those conferences: one more round of expansion and realignment across the board. This will be the final great tectonic shift that forever breaks the Power 5 away on their own, becoming some sort of self-governed alliance of 16-team conferences.
To those folks, that’s a perfect world. To a lot of other folks, it’s not, particularly those schools within the Group of 5 busy trying to build a program that might become the next TCU, Boise State or Utah. …
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