If you love CFB, you'd wanna steer clear of your electrical fan today...

[epark88]

Because this just hit it.

The game is about to get much more exclusive...

 

[Fishy]

That is absolutely, positively the least surprising thing that I have seen this morning.

It is a four-conference world and the heavyweights are putting their foot on the lesser lights.

 

[CTGoonie]

What's the big deal with this? It's just another bowl game right? It has no impact on the playoff so it would just be another exhibition game. Most years both of the conference champs would be in the playoff so you are talking about the #2 team from each conference. Sounds like a snoozefest to me.

 

[The Funster]

Swofford gets pantsed again. If he didn't kill the BE, he could have had another conference with which to form an alliance.

 

[epark88]

What's the big deal with this? It's just another bowl game right? It has no impact on the playoff so it would just be another exhibition game. Most years both of the conference champs would be in the playoff so you are talking about the #2 team from each conference. Sounds like a snoozefest to me.

It's a greasing of the skids for a four-league power setup: B1G/PAC12 with the Rose Bowl, $EC/Bevo12 with the Sugar Bowl.

The ACC, Big East and ND - along with the Fiesta and Orange Bowls - are now hurtling towards SOL status...

 

[Carl Spackler]

Let's see Delaney starts talking about getting the Big 10 into the Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday. On Friday, "sources" are telling CBS that Neinas has been on the phone with Slive about a Big12 - SEC bowl game.

Connect the dots.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

You don't think either the Rose or this new bowl (Sugar?) wouldn't absolutely salivate at the chance to take ND as a backup if it could? I agree that this may push ND more towards conference membership, and Swofford is probably begging ridiculously hard to the Domers, but they're far from being left out. No college football landscape will ever leave ND out, that's far too much TV/attendance money left on the table, even if they're not doing well.

 

[zls44]

Dennis Dodd @dennisdoddcbs7m
Asked if he were ACC or Big East commish, what would he be thinking today, Neinas: "Better get a good bowl."

 

[businesslawyer]

It is ironic. The ACC's first response to this a year ago would have been to lock up the Big East, including ND, to play the ACC Champ in Miami. Having made the Big East less prestigious, the ACC now has to beg one of the big boys to do some deal -- any deal -- with it or look like total idiots.

This is also the first proof that the 4-team playoff deal is assumed to be a "done deal" by the big boys, because this deal kills off the BCS, and reduces money for the sport, otherwise (in that id devalues the Fiesta and Orange).

 

[UConnJim]

This announcement increases the value of the next two spots (maybe 4?) in the Big 12. I think this makes Florida State to the Big 12 more likely with one of their conference mates (Clemson, Miami, Georgia Tech, or Virginia Tech) begging to be taken with them.

 

[zls44]

Anything creating more conference instability is probably good for UConn.

 

[epark88]

Anything creating more conference instability is probably good for UConn.

Depends on where we end up, man.

Depends on where we end up...

 

[jostar1]

Pete Thamel ‏@PeteThamelNYT
ND AD Jack Swarbrick on new B12-SEC allignement. "We don’t think it has significant near-term consequences for Notre Dame."

Pete Thamel ‏@PeteThamelNYT
Swarbrick added that the Big 12 and SEC folks kept him abreast of the talks the past few months, which he appreciated.

 

[businesslawyer]

He is wrong. ND goes 10-2 and misses the Top 4. Who are they going to play. Say the Top 4 is two SEC, one Big XII and one Big Ten. They're not playing the Pac Ten Champ. They will be in the Rose Bowl versus the Big Ten #2. They will not be playing the SEC #3, because they will be playing the Big XII #2 in the Sugar (presumably). So a ND team just outside the Top 4 may have to play a bowl game against a significantly less prestigious opponent.

When Swarbrick says not significant short term consequences, he means "because we're not producing BCS level teams anyway." If they ever do get consistently good again, it will be a problem.

 

[ZooCougar]

So basically this sport wants to cut the east coast out bigtime college football.

This realignment stuff is probably the least healthy thing for the sport.