I don't see how this ever works out. As a college football fan, I want 1.) more big games and 2.) a playoff system.
I'm not sure this expansion stuff brings either, and it could make matters worse.
16 team conferences will not give us more "big" games. For every Texas-USC "conference" game we'll have mulitple pulse killing Wazzu-Texas Tech-type games.
Plus, add in the fact that all of these teams will start acting like the SEC with the whole, "our conference is awesome so we don't have to schedule quality opponents out of conference" theory.
This will kill big out of conference match ups, and is something Notre Dame has to worry about. If we can continue to schedule top teams and play for a title, everything is fine. If not, this sucks.
College football is spiraling out of control.
First of all, there are way too many bowls. More than half of the teams in college football can make a bowl game every year. There are not 60+ teams in college football that are deserving of the postseason each year.
And now this talk of four sixteen-team superconferences. There are so many problems with this superconference business that I don't even know where to begin...
1. As mentioned above, big time out of conference games will become rare. With so many big name schools in these conferences, they will not have to search outside of the conference for big games.
2. Any team not in one of the four superconferences will have an
EXTREMELY hard time making a case to make a major bowl game seeing as how the level of competition outside of said conferences will be very weak.
3. If we don't join one of these superconferences, we better be able to schedule big name schools or we'll never be able to compete in college football again. Ever, or at least until an opening comes up in one of these superconferences or they're dismantled.
