Within the Big Ten and Pac-12, you had wonderful and very large alumni bases.
Individually, neither the Pac 12 nor Big Ten beats the SEC in football.
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Ultimately, seceding from the BCS is one of the most self-destructive things that the Big Ten or Pac-12 could do.
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Last season, TCU defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, the traditional postseason home of the Big Ten and Pac-10's top teams.
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There will be no lead story on ESPN or in major newspapers or a Tebow-esque fascination about the Pac 12-Big Ten collaboration.
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Even more likely is that the quality of football in the Big Ten and Pac-12 will worsen as top recruits go elsewhere.
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The Rose Bowl game was first televised in 1948, one year after the Tournament of Roses partnered with the Big Ten and Pac-12.
Many Big Ten and Pac-12 alumni live in southern California, so it was a natural fit for us to have these two conferences be part of our game.
Major conferences like the Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC rake in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, well ahead of even smaller FBS conferences like the MAC and Mountain West.
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Last year, the Big Ten and Pac-12 each sent two teams to BCS bowls: Stanford to the Fiesta Bowl, Michigan to the Sugar Bowl and Oregon and Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl.
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The lost BCS income would put the Big Ten and Pac-12 at a significant financial disadvantage, creating a climate that would encourage the top conference teams to leave for the Big 12 or SEC.
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College football is a historically parochial sport, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences clinging to the lucrative and beloved Rose Bowl on New Year's Day and the recently dominant SEC pushing for a playoff to showcase more of its powerful teams.
Next year, the PAC-10 and Big Ten will roll out championship games of their own, hoping to rival the SEC.
And they'll make even more as the bulk of billion-dollar TV contracts flows into power conferences like the Pac-12, Big Ten and SEC.
One area in which the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences benefit from due to their relationship with the Rose Bowl Game, is broadcasting revenues.
The Pac-12, Big Ten and Tournament of Roses receive tickets.
At the very least, the Pac-12-Big Ten alliance creates an unprecedented viewership and international market that advertisers would likely pay unprecedented dollars, beyond the value of current media contracts.
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The Pac-12 Networks are likely to be less profitable than the Big Ten and SEC networks in the short run but allow the Pac-12 to keep the revenue it generates and retain the option to sell an ownership share.
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But six Big Ten teams have lost to Pac-12 representatives in that time.
We limited consideration to schools in the major conferences that compete for automatic qualification to the five Bowl Championship Series bowl games: the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC.
We looked at members of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC because those schools are eligible for an automatic qualification to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowls).
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and the Pac-12's Scott noted that the presidents will consider a plus-one championship format in which two teams are selected after the bowls to play in a championship game.
By 2017, each Big Ten team will play someone from the Pac-12 annually, which should help cure one of college football's greatest ills the galling, gutless nonconference schedules that many major programs play during September.
As every college football fan knows, the Big Ten Conference traditionally sends a representative to play a Pac-12 Conference team in the Rose Bowl.
The Big Ten also deserves praise for its recent agreement with the Pac-12.
It isn't quite Rose Bowl season yet, but on Saturday, Big Ten teams went belly-up once more against the Pac-12: a perfect 0-3.
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