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14 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Would there actually be a PAC-2-PAC conference default championship game until WSU and OSU can find a permanent conference?

Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

It won't factor into the College Football Playoff, as they're amending the eligibility requirements to needing a minimum of 8 members to eligible for an automatic bid. But they are given a 2-year grace period to add enough members to reach the NCAA-required 6 for conferences or find a new conference.

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46 minutes ago, McCall said:

Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

It won't factor into the College Football Playoff, as they're amending the eligibility requirements to needing a minimum of 8 members to eligible for an automatic bid. But they are given a 2-year grace period to add enough members to reach the NCAA-required 6 for conferences or find a new conference.

The most logical way to do this is to poach 4-6 Mountain West teams. Swinging for the fences would be just merging with the MW outright. They could even lure some FCS regional teams into the mix. Say South Dakota State, North Dakota State, Montana, and/or Montana State.

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3 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

The most logical way to do this is to poach 4-6 Mountain West teams. Swinging for the fences would be just merging with the MW outright. They could even lure some FCS regional teams into the mix. Say South Dakota State, North Dakota State, Montana, and/or Montana State.

Yeah, they'd probably just take some of the top Mountain West schools if they could. But it's not gonna help them maintain Power 5 status. That ship has sailed.

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37 minutes ago, McCall said:

Yeah, they'd probably just take some of the top Mountain West schools if they could. But it's not gonna help them maintain Power 5 status. That ship has sailed.

If that’s the case, the PAC name should die. Force them to have an unnecessarily long name.

 

Something like…

 

Pacific Northwest Coastal Mountain Valley Athletic Conference

 

PNWCMVAC  for short.

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1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

If that’s the case, the PAC name should die. Force them to have an unnecessarily long name.

 

Something like…

 

Pacific Northwest Coastal Mountain Valley Athletic Conference

 

PNWCMVAC  for short.

It depends. At the moment, it appears Oregon State and Washington State could maintain control of the Pac-# name and history.

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On 12/6/2023 at 1:18 PM, DCarp1231 said:

Would there actually be a PAC-2-PAC conference default championship game until WSU and OSU can find a permanent conference?

In theory they could schedule the OSU-WSU game that would happen in the regular season on the week of Championship games

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On 11/30/2023 at 7:40 PM, jlog3000 said:

@sportsfan7 - My point was that it would make a bit more sense to have more a few more conferences than more at-large bids, when it comes to the FCS. Besides, will we ever see an actual superconference like how things are going in the FBS?

I mean, not from a numbers standpoint, but we're pretty much at the point where the Big Sky and MVFC are the two FCS super-conferences thanks to almost every successful program below the Mason-Dixon line moving up to FBS over the last decade-plus. The more FCS auto-bids there are, the fewer good teams are actually in the bracket.

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17 hours ago, Burmy said:

If the conference vote goes their way, the Beavs and Wazzu are joining the WCC at least for 2024-25 and 2025-26.

 

Oregon State and Portland having a rivalry could bring out the best in each other, and a Wazzu-Zags conference series would be the stuff that dreams are made of!

 

Oregon State is gonna spend their sojourn in this league pretending Portland doesn't exist, given the relative performance of the two athletic departments.

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Just now, rams80 said:

 

Oregon State is gonna spend their sojourn in this league pretending Portland doesn't exist, given the relative performance of the two athletic departments.

The Pilots have been on the cusp of contendership for a good while, and I think having a true rival in the Beavers is gonna do wonders to their mindset and momentum...it'll also help the Beavs be perennial March contenders.

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1 hour ago, Gary said:

They’re going into the transfer portal and playing for Alabama next year 

 

Why wouldn't they just declare for the draft and hope to join the NFC South?

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