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Originally Posted by Saul Good
They didn't need to partner with the Big 12 to make sure that they were a top 4 conference. They partnered with the Big 12 to make it 100% certain that there are 4 power conferences and everybody else. If there were 5 conferences that could claim to be in the conversation, there would be problems. There is now no way to deny that the ACC is in the conversation.
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By showing they are willing to do plus-one and that the Big 10 can't force top-4-champ, the Big 10 and PAC 12 risks getting aced out occasionally under the plus one.
Take last season, whoever wins between LSU-Okie State is surely in, and if Alabama thrashes whoever in their bowl and Stanford loses to Wisconsin, I don't think Wisconsin has a shot at all of getting in. Even if Stanford wins, that might not be enough.
If they at least agree on a 3+1 hybrid, then the Big 10/PAC 12 faction gives in to possibility that the SEC/Big 12 might occasionally get 2 in, in exchange for pretty much guaranteeing that they are in there at least once.