Congrats UCF. You win. Permanently. I'm done.

[Bull Nut]

Both Maryland and Rutgers are AAU university's. Some conferences have academic standards which you would know nothing about. Now get back to work there are a bunch of hungry people in line.

Edited September 7, 2021 by Bull Nut

[USFsKnightmare18]

1 hour ago, Bull Nut said:

Both Maryland and Rutgers are AAU university's. Some conferences have academic standards which you would know nothing about. Now get back to work there are a bunch of hungry people in line.

Real big talk from someone who doesn't know the difference between South Florida and West Florida 

[Danm1983]

How old are you? The Pac 12 has USC? Yes. UCLA has also been a storied athletics program, with its ups and downs in football as of late. Stanford has been a solid football program for close to a dozen years between 07-19. Oregon even better. The Pac 12 doesn't get a ton of publicity on this side of the country, but still has prestigious institutions and enough money between them to throw around.

You also forget the ACC which has plenty of top tier institutions as well. The Big 12 is the only conference right now being questioned about its place in the world, at least where it matters (we know the American is going to dilute itself now but they're not a P6 player anymore).

The B1G has 13 out of 14 members in the AAU. Nebraska isn't. Know who else is? Kansas and Iowa State. I know most people are jaded about media markets from some of the last rounds of expansion, but some conferences look at the big picture when choosing members (clearly MD and RU weren't powerhouses in much and they got in, and don't tell me Maryland had much media market to care about).

If conferences all decided to keep up with the Jones' of the SEC, UCF isn't getting a sniff in any of the three other major conferences that exist in the Eastern Time Zone. If the B1G and ACC added two teams each, best bet the Big 12 will be calling the AAC again, and USF has to get off its ass to shine up for that round if/when it ever comes.