Now that the internet distributes information too quickly to verify, the Spin Doctors are fighting back by sending out half baked ideas and then gauging the response.
so the Big Ten kicks it off first by saying "expansion",
then when the response is, "no way ND does this" the next thing we here is "maybe Pitt?"
then it's gone from 12 to 16 teams, then Missouri is added in,
finally the TV guys take notice and someone with math skills multiplies 16 x 4 and realizes 64 is the same number of teams in March Madness, as well as a mojority of all the Division 1 schools,
The problem I see with this half baked leak is that Texas could do whatever they wanted, what is their upside splitting money with big names on the West Coast, when they can add the likes of Boise State who have finally made a name for themselves on the national landscape, but are still hungry for legitamcy?
I see the 4 power centers as Big Ten-Midwest, SEC for south and Atlantic, Texas eating up the west and mountain region, and Pac 10 getting the remains of the day (BYU?).
you can still have an 8 team playoff by adding in 4 wild cards from Non-Super Conferences.
The tricky thing is getting enough momentum to build all 4 super-conferences at about the same time. that's why the Big Ten can't just come out with, "here's the plan, now everyone do as we say"
Unless the Big Ten has managed to convince the other powers-that-be in the other conferences out there that this is, in fact, a Good Thing for college football. If all the power players in college football worked together, they could move mountains or Notre Dame (lolz) to make something like this work.
Suck on that Kansas.
Their bball team would be screwed.
It would start with the 4 superconference with 64 teams but sooner or later there would be a play in game... then it expands to 68... then 96.... 128... I see where this is going.