Still Keeping Score

 I last discussed the super conference scenarios for the Colorado Buffaloes on this particular blog 11-years ago. At that point, the Pac-12 was looking to expand after Texas A&M bolted from the Big-12 to the SEC. Several Big-12 teams looked to move over to the recently expanded 'conference of champions' to join Colorado and Utah in that once, happy, healthy, collegiate sports alliance. Looking back, the Pac-12 should have expanded then and a year or so ago when Texas and Oklahoma announced they were finally following Texas A&M to the SEC. Hindsight, as we often say here, is 20/20 and now that's what college football may look like with a pair of 20-team super conferences led by the Big-Ten and SEC. While not officially official, it sounds like the two richest programs in the Pac-12 are bolting for the Big-10, as early as 2024. For the new look Pac-10, and Washington looking to see if they can find a way to follow USC and UCLA, the rest of the west may be on the outsi...

The ancient television show from my youth was called, "Eight is Enough," and it was a vastly mediocre comedy/drama show about a family with, you guessed it, eight kids.  Because we all know too many kids can be overwhelming, which reminds me of all the screaming children remaining in the Big-12.  Or as I enjoyed referring to them as the Texas Ten. Eight teams was certainly enough for the old Big Eight, the old Southwest Conference, the older PAC-8, and even the SEC in the way back machine.  Twelve seems to enough now, but of course, this time last year sixteen teams was the magic number for the 'Super' Conference.  The aforementioned Super Conference theory looked inevitable after the departure of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big-12, and the wild game of musical chairs between the WAC and the Mountain West Conferences, that the world of college football was destined or doomed, depending on perspective, to move into at least four sixteen team conferences and openi...