Football Armageddon: Death To The BCS Edition!

West Virginia is going to the Big 12-- which I think, geographical oddities aside, will be a good move for them. There are also rumors that Notre Dame (apparently scared of both rejection and hardcore power football in the Big 10) might be discreetly preparing itself a landing spot in the ACC- just in case...

But the sexy paragraph that made me perk up a little was buried deep:

A source has told ESPN.com's Andy Katz that the conference commissioners of the Big East, Mountain West and Conference USA are expected to meet in New York. According to multiple reports, the three leagues are considering forming a single football league of 28 to 32 teams.

The Mountain West has been talking a super-league with C-USA for awhile now with a potential 16 team playoff for the championship...you throw in what's left of the Big East and suddenly that gets interesting. The Big East loses its AQ status and the BCS might turn to the Mountain West to replace them, but the Mountain West might genuinely say, 'no thank you' and stick with the playoff. Soaking up the revenue and creating an alternative national championship that viewers want.

The BCS, I think, can't survive that. Which is good, because it'll force changes to the Bowl System. First: less Bowl games. The proliferation has gotten completely out of hand.

Second: raise the requirements to 7 wins- I say this with trepidation, as the Hawkeyes have yet to notch win number 6, much less 7- but to me, Bowls are supposed to be showcases for some of the best teams in college football. How good is a team with only 6 wins- really and truly? There's a way to bring order to the chaos, raise the game to new levels of excellence and preserve the history and tradition of the game while embracing a playoff to decide just who gets all the marbles at the end of the season.

But once again, things are getting interesting...

UPDATED: But hold the phone... mayhap West Virginia is not going anywhere? It seems that crafty Commish Chuck Neinas is dangling the possibility that Notre Dame might move its non-football sports to the Big 12 in front of Mizzou to keep them onboard.

This is why I'm lovin' on this lunacy. The amount of conspiracy theories and rumors flying around out there get better and better as time goes on...

Oh, and the MWC-USA-EAST SuperLeague got a bit of clarification yesterday: apparently they WOULD keep their AQ Status in the BCS... they'd just have a playoff to decide who gets the top spot. Which is fine- but I still think once you let the playoff genie out of the bottle, it won't go back in.