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U. S. College Athletics… Go Big or Go Home!

  • ljm623
  • 14 minutes ago
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August 23, 2026 - Recently at the SEC Media Days, commissioner Greg Sankey flexed his muscle again and made a statement that if the Protect College Athletics bill was not passed by the U.S. Congress, his conference and the Big Ten Conference would seriously consider leaving the NCAA and forming their own association/super conference.


Why?


Money, of course. Those two conferences want to maintain their power over college athletics by keeping the status quo.


Specifically, they don’t want another wave of realignment. The current bill would restrict Power Four schools from moving to another Power Four conference without serving a five-year sentence as an independent. This provision, combined with a conference membership cap of nineteen schools, would accomplish that goal. The SEC ad Big Ten schools do not want to slice up their revenue pie into smaller and more slices as a result of expansion.


If the SEC and Big Ten were to form their own “Super Conference," what would happen to the rest of college athletics?


One option would be for the ACC, Big-12 and selected schools to form their own “Super Conference.”


For talking purposes, let’s call it the United States College Athletics (U.S.C.A.)


The new USCA would be formed from primarily the ACC and Big-12 conferences, with the addition of seven new selected schools to bring the association to forty (40) schools.


The USCA would form into four division, with ten schools in each. The division champions would participation a four school National Championship Playoff using existing bowl games.


Below is a potential four-division model for the USCA.


East Division:

  1. Boston College

  2. Connecticut

  3. Syracuse

  4. Army

  5. Pittsburgh

  6. West Virginia

  7. Navy

  8. Cincinnati

  9. Louisville

  10. Notre Dame


South Division:

  1. Virginia

  2. Virginia Tech

  3. North Carolina

  4. NC State

  5. Duke

  6. Clemson

  7. Georgia Tech

  8. Florida State

  9. Central Florida

  10. Miami


Central Division:

  1. SMU

  2. TCU

  3. Baylor

  4. Texas Tech

  5. Houston

  6. UTSA

  7. Tulane

  8. Oklahoma State

  9. Kansas

  10. Kansas State


West Division:

  1. BYU

  2. Utah

  3. Colorado

  4. Air Force

  5. Iowa State

  6. Arizona State

  7. Arizona

  8. UNLV

  9. Stanford

  10. California


BOTTOM LINE:

A. The ACC and Big-12 must Fight Fire with Fire.

B. Go BIG or Go Home.

C. Strength in Numbers.


GO CANES!

 
 
 

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