New Names for Expanded Conferences

[snoscythe]

Big 10, I think will got Big 12

Won't ever happen. The Big XII has the rights to that name and wouldn't give it up unless they went to 14, and the Big 10 still wouldn't want it simply because of the confusion issue.

Big XII is going Big 14 or was it BIG XIV

So the Big 10, can go Big 12, Maybe they will go with BcS Flopping 12

To avoid name confusion, the Big XII wouldn't release the rights to Big 12 for a few years, and the Big 10 wouldn't want it. It has nothing to do with whether the Big XII is still around, it has to do with brand management--you don't want to risk your product being confused/homogenized. It's why the Big 10 didn't change to Big 11 when they added PSU. The Big XII isn't going to make Big 12 available until they are fully established as the Big XIV, and the Big 10 wouldn't want to touch Big 12 until the connotation of it's previous association has died out, which will take years.

[BerliNY]

If the Pac 10 adds Fresno and SDSU or SJSU: The Patsy 12

If the Big Ten (eleven) picks up ND: Big 10 + a deuce
(works on multiple levels)

If the Pac 10 adds BYU + Utah: The Eastern Polynesian 12

If the Pac 10 adds Utah + Colorado : The WTF? 12

[CougarPeasant]

Should the Big 10 expand: Super Underacheiving Conference 12, or SUC 12 for short.

Should the Pac 10 expand: United Pacific Coast Humanitarian University Conference 12, or UPCHUC 12.

[Mars]

IMO, the conference names won't change no matter how many teams they add. Especially with the Big Ten.

PAC-12? Maybe, but I doubt it.

[BoiseBYU]

IF Pac 10 adds say Utah and Colorado, they could be the Liberal Athletic Conference or LAC 12
IF BYU, Utah, TCU, BSU, Fresno, Nevada, Houston, Air Force and UNLV form their own conference, they can call themselves the BCS Conference--Better Collegiate Schools Conference