re: Mizzou and Nebraska get Big 10 invite

Actually the scheduling would work perfect for a 16 team conference with four sub divisions. Here is how it would work:

1) Play each team in your subdivision (3 games)
2) Play another subdivision on a rotating schedule (4 games)
3) Play one game against the other subdivision you haven't played based on how you finished in your subdivision. For example: the four number 1 teams would play eachother in like a semi-final game and the the number 2 teams would play each other and so on and so forth. (1 game)

This gives each team 8 conference games. The winners of the number 1 teams from the two subdivision semifinals would then go on to play each other in a championship game. This would be a true conference champ too.

Bringing in teams like Texas and OU would make it less like CFB and more like the NFL...which means even the top few teams would come out of the conference with 2-3 losses at least, and that downplays the significance of every game.

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Actually the scheduling would work perfect for a 16 team conference with four sub divisions. Here is how it would work:

1) Play each team in your subdivision (3 games)
2) Play another subdivision on a rotating schedule (4 games)
3) Play one game against the other subdivision you haven't played based on how you finished in your subdivision. For example: the four number 1 teams would play eachother in like a semi-final game and the the number 2 teams would play each other and so on and so forth. (1 game)

This gives each team 8 conference games. The winners of the number 1 teams from the two subdivision semifinals would then go on to play each other in a championship game.

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won't work

NCAA presently only grants conferences with at least 12 teams a single exempt conference championship game

To do your subdivision semifinals option all 12 teams would have to play only 11 games instead of 12 games in the regular season. Seeing as that would probably mean every team gives up a multimillion dollar cupcake payday at home? That's a non-starter for a proposal

Without Nebraska to bolster the Big12 North, and with Colorado likely headed to the Pac10, I see the Big12 potentially dissolving.

The Pac10 will add Colorado and Utah, and maybe others like SDSU.

IF this is the case, I think the SEC needs to be pro-active and offer Texas and aTm, at the very least.

Oh, and nobody wants BYU. frick BYU.

Yes it would. The game before the championship game would be a quasi semifinal.

I will explain again.

The final week of the "Regular Season" would pit the four #1 teams against eachother, the four #2 place teams against eachother, the four #3 place teams against eachother, and the four #4 place teams against eachother. It would be a part of the schedule and would be the 12th regular season game.

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Without Nebraska to bolster the Big12 North, and with Colorado likely headed to the Pac10, I see the Big12 potentially dissolving.

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Louisiana and Louisiana Tech will save the day.

The big rumor bumping around Austin is that, if the Big 10 goes to 16, the PAC 10 becomes the PAC 16 by adding Texas, Texas A&M, Colorado, BYU, Utah and Boise State.