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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
That's because my beloved Sun Devils have kind of, hmm, sucked the last couple of years in football. U of A won the territorial cup! That sucks!!!!!
LOL to your daughter. That made me smile.
So now the Pac-10 has become the Pac-11 (that just sounds odd) and it could become the Pac-16 (which sounds odder).
So now my question to the sports officianados (totally spelled that word wrong), how would this change the football season? I looked online and ASU already has their football season planned. With the adding of Colorado to the Pac-10, if ASU isn't scheduled to play them, don't they have to be scheduled to play them? Then who (well what team) would they get "rid of" to compensate? And what if it becomes the Pac-16 are teams expected to rearrange their seasons to compensate for the new schools in the Pac-10? Or would this be something that would be started next season?
What about the bowl games? Wouldn't the dissolution of a conference change the bowl games? Right now the Pac-10 (if I remember correctly) does the Holiday Bowl, a Pac-10 team can make the Insight Bowl. I don't think they can make Fiesta Bowl anymore (they could at one point). Those are the only ones I can remember (probably because two of the three are done in AZ).
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I think the conference shakeup is pretty much done for this round, with the exception of Utah potentially joining the Pac-10 at some point in the next two years.
Bowl tie-ins did some switching around last year. I'm guessing, barring some huge incident, that they will stay the same.
Current Pac-10 tie-ins:
2010-2013:
* #1 Bowl Championship Series. The Pac-10 champion gains an automatic berth to a BCS bowl game, preferentially the Rose Bowl
* #2 The Alamo Bowl receives the second choice of Pac-10 teams.
* #3 The Holiday Bowl receives the third choice of Pac-10 teams.
* #4 The Sun Bowl receives the fourth choice of Pac-10 teams.
* #5 The Las Vegas Bowl receives the fifth choice of Pac-10 taams
* #6 The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl receives the sixth choice of Pac-10 teams.
The Pac-10 might be able to add another bowl tie-in when contracts are up due to being 12 teams. The Big XII will probably lose one.
As far as scheduling goes, you won't play everyone in your conference every year. You'll play the teams in your division every year and then alternate teams from the other division every two years. This being the final year of the Big XII in its current format (Nebraska is moving to the Big 10 at the start of the 2011 season; Colorado has said they're staying until 2012, but that might change since Neb is leaving "early") Iowa State's conference schedule looks like this -- (N) designates a team from the North division, (S) designates a team from the South division:
Sat, Sep 18 Kansas State (N) at Kansas City, Mo.
Sat, Oct 02 Texas Tech (S) Ames, Iowa
Sat, Oct 16 Oklahoma (S) at Norman, Okla.
Sat, Oct 23 Texas (S) at Austin, Texas
Sat, Oct 30 Kansas (N) Ames, Iowa
Sat, Nov 06 Nebraska (N) Ames, Iowa
Sat, Nov 13 Colorado (N) at Boulder, Colo.
Sat, Nov 20 Missouri (N) Ames, Iowa
Next year, if the conference wasn't changing, we'd play the same three teams from the South, but switch locations. Then the year after that we'd play Texas A&M, OkState and Bayor and have a reprieve of Texas, OK and Tech for two years. The Pac-12 might have a slightly different type of schedule, but that's what the Big XII did.
Okay, now that I actually re-read your question, you were asking something completely different. Most likely the schedules will get revamped once the Pac-10(12?) is final. Some non-conference games will be bumped or switched and the conference games will be modified to suit the new divisions/teams.
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