Former Big 12 president proposes strategic alliance with the Pac-12: The conferences should embrace the future together (Mercury News)

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Big 12, Pac-12 strategic alliance would make both stronger

>>In this world, the Big 12 and the Pac-12 are bound together by a strategic alliance in which all available non-conference dates are filled by teams from the other league.

No more FCS cupcakes.

No more Group of Five opponents.

It’s one Power Five against another: 30 head-to-head matchups, season after season.<<

>>“This alliance of 22 universities from the Great Plains to the West Coast would provide the vital content of big-time football games that dovetail nicely with the new developing platforms of information.”

Wefald’s proposal calls for all 30 of the Big 12’s non-conference games and for 30 of the Pac-12’s 36 out-of-league games to be played against each other.

The matchups would be spread evenly across the season (10 per month) with the winners of each conference meeting at the end of the regular season for a championship game, which would rotate between the Rose Bowl and AT&T Stadium.<<

All the reasons it wouldn’t work are covered in article.

 

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Lol.

 

[Rufus]

Prior to adding Rutgers and Maryland, the Big Ten proposed an all-sports alliance with the PAC-12. The PAC-12 turned it down.

Pac-12, Big Ten alliance is no more

 

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SBN: This Big 12/Pac-12 scheduling deal is so impractical, they must try it

 

[CoastAtlantic]

Dennis Dodd article: Inside the proposal for a Big 12 and Pac-12 college football scheduling alliance

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The year-old proposal from former K-State president Jon Wefald suggested the two league play their three annual nonconference games against one another. That would create 30 unique Big 12 vs. Pac-12 nonconference games each season in addition to the nine intraconference games played by each league.

At the end of the season, Wefald suggested the league's "could play a game for the interleague championship." Wefald went on to offer another proposition: four-team playoff "for the overall championship" between the conferences.<<