Big East, Conference USA & MWC To Merge?

Amidst all this recent conference jumping, the commissioners of the Big East, Conference USA and Mountain West Conference are meeting to talk about joining forces to create a nationwide football superconference of 28 to 32 teams with the goal of gaining an automatic Bowl Championship Series qualifying bid. UNLV athletic director Jim Livengood said...

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"We would figure out some way -- four divisions of seven teams each, a playoff and then a conference championship game -- to come up with the (automatic qualifier)," "Craig and Britton are going into this meeting in New York with one thing in mind, to make this happen with the Big East,"

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