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We started the Mountain West with a wing and a prayer, and within five or six years, we were playing in (Bowl Championship Series) bowl games ... With these 10 football-playing institutions, we're going to claim our stake. I can't say what that stake will be, but one of the things that's very exciting is that potentially there will be two football-playing conferences in the western United States. There's only two leagues, the Mountain West and the Pac-12, and that gives us a new focus.
Major college football is on the verge of implementing a playoff, its own version of the final four — two semifinals and a title game ... After years of defiant, hugely lucrative stasis, news broke Thursday that the major-college conference presidents and the Bowl Championship Series brass were moving forward with plans for a college football playoff that could pit the nation's (supposed) four top teams against each other as soon as 2014.
For the past two years, the athletic department has worked tirelessly to build a top notch athletic department and a solid foundation in our football program ... One of the biggest strides we've taken is today. We've taken a big step up to the Sun Belt Conference, because it is one of just eleven conferences in the nation who are members of the Bowl Championship Series.More quotes »
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BCS Playoff TV Deal Worth At Least $3 Billion
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Big talk, little bit of news expected
DAVE MARTIN Credit: AP SEC Commissioner Mike Slive is expected to reveal the conference’s position on the proposed change in the Bowl Championship Series at SEC meetings this week in Destin, Fla. A new scheduling format for football, the latest revenue-s from Northwest Arkansas Online Read more »
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Annual Southeastern Conference meetings has made waves in past, will start Tuesday in Destin, Fla.
BATON ROUGE  What started as an ÂOh, by the way, two decades ago has led the way to tumultuous change in the rocking world of college football that continues on a continental, tectonic expansion shift almost by the day. There could be more tremors this from The Monroe News Star Read more »
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History shows SEC spring meetings rarely uneventful
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Teel Time: SEC began dominating college football despite trailing ACC in revenue
With realignment debates raging online and perhaps in university and conference boardrooms, the primary, often sole, consideration is money. As if sports were Monopoly and those with the biggest piles win. Clearly, that is not the case. Texas’ basketball from Hampton Roads Daily Press Read more »
