(02-03-2018 08:03 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Let's say the SEC were to land Texas and Oklahoma and the asking price is Tech and Oklahoma St. That's 18.

At that point do you push the NCAA to let you do conference semi finals and arrange in 3 divisions of 6, with a wild card getting a berth.

Do you push for hosting a title game without having divisions and move to a model where each school has some protects rivalries.

Do you toss another two schools in the mix and go to 20, utilizing a loophole that as long as you have 4 divisions of 5 and a plan in place where at the season where the Division A winner players the Division B winner and C plays D.

The way I see it, if the SEC is able to score a massive coup and get the Texlahoma 4 no matter how you slice it you either need a rule change or a rule stretch to make it wieldly.

What would be interesting to me is if a power conference were to reach 16 and lobby the NCAA to permit conferences with at least 16 teams to hold semifinals. If they were successful, you might see a push by other conferences to reach 16, which I'd love to see. However, the NCAA would probably be able to foresee the chaos that would ensue. They'd either (1) deny permission for semis, (2) permit them for 16-team conferences but cap conference sizes at 16 (if that's even something they can regulate), or (3) further deregulate CCGs and divisions, allowing smaller conferences to have semis as well. Option 3 seems likeliest, since it would have the support of the conferences that do not want to expand further.