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THis is nothing more than your normal bowl tie in. I like what poster above said about it being the Cotton Bowl's turn to get back into the mix. Cowboys Stadium seems a perfect fit for this tie in. It's not a big deal. We went from f BCS games to 4 plus 1 a couple years back. Why not just have 5? It's a problem for the OB--not the ACC.
 
Another note is that this game will almost never, ever, actually happen as planned, and the rare times it does, it won't have much meaning. One of, if not both, of the SEC/Big-12 champs will be in the title game most years, and if the 4-team plus-one system is adopted (as now seems likely) they will almost certainly be in the top 4. In fact, 12 of the 14 BCS title games have had at least one of those champs in the game.

So the only time this game will happen is when neither conference champ is in the top 4, and at that point, who cares.
 
Time to go Independent again.......[/QUOTE]

Yup[/QUOTE]

Not sure why anyone actually believes we can go independent and survive once the superconferences are made.
 
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The way you not only survive, but THRIVE, by going independent, is by being a winning program.

With big conferences, the big boys keep knocking each other off, and at the end of their championship conference, only one QUALIFIES for the National Championship playoffs/game.

If you're independent, and you're a national power, you make your own schedule, you get your own contracts, and you're in great demand in every conference as a non-conference opponent. If you're ranked within the top ten every year, you're going to get the TV bucks.

Independence is perfect for a small PRIVATE school. Especially if a national contender. And we're getting there.
 
WTF are people acting like the ACC is going to fall apart for?
That's foolish. The ACC is first and foremost a basketball conference.
They've already expanded the conference with two schools who are
much stronger in basketball than football, and will absorb other like
schools to replace any football based detections. There is zero chance
Of the ACC falling apart.
 
The ACC didn't fail Miami. Miami has failed the ACC.
As did Clemson shttng a **** in the OB. . . . and now, all of a suddenly Clemson/FSU leaving rumors begin (for fifth year in a row)?
 
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UMFarArcher said:
The way you not only survive, but THRIVE, by going independent, is by being a winning program.

With big conferences, the big boys keep knocking each other off, and at the end of their championship conference, only one QUALIFIES for the National Championship playoffs/game.

If you're independent, and you're a national power, you make your own schedule, you get your own contracts, and you're in great demand in every conference as a non-conference opponent. If you're ranked within the top ten every year, you're going to get the TV bucks.

Independence is perfect for a small PRIVATE school. Especially if a national contender. And we're getting there.
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While that may have been true in the past, times have changed. All those schools want to load up on home/cupcake games for their OOC schedule. Even Jimbo's soft *** is talking about doing the same because he can't even win the ACC with all his top 5 recruiting classes. If and when these conferences go to 16 teams, you can bet those OOC schedules aren't going to get any tougher.
 
Maybe I just long for days past, when we'd play Penn State, UCLA, Houston, Florida, Arkansas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Missouri, California, Michigan State, Oklahoma State, Arizona, West Virginia, San Diego State, on and on, and on.

The reason we won our championships was because we played quality teams outside our 'comfort zone.' Then when it came time to play the Championship, there really wasn't much we hadn't seen.

No. We don't need to be part of a conference to make big money and play for the National Championship.

We just need our wins. Like the Miami of old.

We're notorious. We draw crowds like **it draws flies.

And numbers mean money.
 
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