The epic UConn-Louisville roshambo for all of the ACCs just got real, son. Tulane was 2-10 a year ago, and now finishes 12-2 with an American Athletic Conference championship Tulane is on the board and back in the Cotton Bowl. The brief history of SEC conference realignment. Here is where the Pac-12 expansion candidates rank in ESPN.

The only question I have is why didn't East Carolina hold out for an all-sports invite? Don't the Pirates have all the leverage here? What did the Big East say that forced ECU hand? That they had Florida International waiting in the wings?īYU reportedly received an invitation to join the conference as well, but once they heard ECU and Tulane were coming on board, the Cougars kindly asked Aresco to lose their number. There are two teams that are widely viewed as locks, and three others that have a punchers chance and are worth a look by the conference.

Talk about the ACC killing the Big East, but what the Big East is doing to C-USA. On Tuesday, less than a week after longtime members USC and UCLA left the conference for the Big Ten, the Pac-12 released a statement saying that its board of directors have. So in 2014, nine of the 14 football teams in the Big East will have once been members of Conference USA. Pac-12 insiders are reporting the path the conference is going to take is secure media rights contracts first before expanding. The Big East expanded by two on Tuesday, adding East Carolina as a football-only member in 2014 and Tulane as an all-sports member that same year. The Pac-12 university chancellors, presidents, and athletic directors met at Arizona State last week to seek alignment and focus with the pending exodus of Southern California and UCLA in less than 18 months. Then-Vanderbilt president Harvie Branscomb spoke to several presidents in 1962 about a breakaway conference. Three immutable laws of conference realignment:ģ) If you are, or were at any point of time, a member of Conference USA, there's a reasonable expectation that you'll find your way into the Big East The SEC was sitting at 12 members, the ACC at eight.

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