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Originally Posted by Swaggs
I'll also be interested to see what happens with BCS autobids. The way things are set up now, the Big East without some combo of Pitt/Rutgers/Syracuse would probably, by the current set of rules, still hold on to its eligibility since Cincy, WVU, and Louisville have been their BCS reps and earned the highest BCS ratings over this evaluation period.
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Yep, I'd assume the BE would keep their bid if the only change was the Big Ten taking 2. The Big East's future now rests on what the SEC decides to do in a lot of ways. If the SEC goes to 16, the falling dominoes would lead to the end of Big East football. If not, the Big East will be in an interesting spot. To maintain the auto bid, they'd have to get to at least 8 members ASAP to meet the BCS requirements.
Would they try to add Kansas and KSU (and maybe Baylor/Colorado), for example, if those schools are left out? (It's about 1500 miles from Manhattan, KS to Storrs, CT - about the same distance to Tampa (USF) so the travel isn't necessarily as bad as it might seem.) I'm also not sure if they could split from the Big East bball schools and maintain the BCS autobid, so it could really turn into a mess if the SEC doesn't expand.