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Originally Posted by Swaggs
Other Big Ten buzz (this is all message board fodder, mostly from NCAAbbs - Expansion/Split ) :
They are not looking to add a conference championship or playoff because they want to preserve their rivalries at the end of the season.
If the rest of the league plays 8 regular season games and allows ND/Texas to only play 7, an 8-0 team would be the champion over a 7-0 ND or Texas, but the 7-0 team would be guaranteed the second BCS slot (ND and Texas would play each other every year to ensure that there would not be two 7-0 teams).
If Notre Dame joins the Big Ten, it will not add any other Big East schools. |
The way I read this post, a 7-0 team would not be the champion, but would get some other kind of benefit -- a sort of 1b champion, I guess.