One can easily figure out a scenario where four or five teams are battling it out to win the conference at 7 - 2 or so, so this week's two
big conference matchups — Baylor at West Virginia and Texas at Oklahoma State — are not exactly elimination matches.
Not exact matches
Note that the East Region First Four
matchup between the Radford Highlanders and Hampton Pirates will be a
conference game next season, as the MEAC's top seed is moving to the
Big South after this academic year wraps up.
Illinois has dropped its last two
conference matchups and is in the middle - of - the - pack with a 2 - 2 record in the
Big Ten.
«Another
big ACC
matchup, great for our
conference, great for our league, great for both teams.»
Conference Title Matchups and their preseason conference title odds: AAC: Houston (+600) vs. Temple (+550) ACC: Clemson (+300) vs. North Carolina (+3300) Big Ten: Iowa (+6600) vs. Michigan State (+950) CUSA: WKU (+325) vs. Southern Miss (+5000) MAC: Northern Illinois (+325) vs. Bowling Green (+475) MWC: Air Force (+1800) vs. San Diego St (+450) Pac - 12: USC (+240) vs. Stanford (+625) SEC: Alabama (+325) vs. Flori
Conference Title
Matchups and their preseason
conference title odds: AAC: Houston (+600) vs. Temple (+550) ACC: Clemson (+300) vs. North Carolina (+3300) Big Ten: Iowa (+6600) vs. Michigan State (+950) CUSA: WKU (+325) vs. Southern Miss (+5000) MAC: Northern Illinois (+325) vs. Bowling Green (+475) MWC: Air Force (+1800) vs. San Diego St (+450) Pac - 12: USC (+240) vs. Stanford (+625) SEC: Alabama (+325) vs. Flori
conference title odds: AAC: Houston (+600) vs. Temple (+550) ACC: Clemson (+300) vs. North Carolina (+3300)
Big Ten: Iowa (+6600) vs. Michigan State (+950) CUSA: WKU (+325) vs. Southern Miss (+5000) MAC: Northern Illinois (+325) vs. Bowling Green (+475) MWC: Air Force (+1800) vs. San Diego St (+450) Pac - 12: USC (+240) vs. Stanford (+625) SEC: Alabama (+325) vs. Florida (+3100)
The Sugar Bowl has traditionally been a
matchup of the winners of the
Big 12 and SEC
conferences, but since the SEC has pretty much turned the BCS National Championship game into its auto - bid game, the Sugar Bowl has featured among the best at - large bids or, in last year's case, a
matchup of two teams many felt didn't deserve to be there, the Michigan Wolverines and the Virginia Tech Hokies.
In previous seasons, the Selection Committee attempted to go to great strides to avoid regular season rematches of both the
conference and non-
conference variety, with a particular emphasis placed on keeping league rivals apart until at least the Elite Eight, though the 2011 Tournament saw a pair of potential
Big East Round of 32
matchups, thanks to that
conference placing a record 11 teams in the field.
The 2017 college football
conference championships games are right around the corner, prompting oddsmakers at BetDSI to post lookahead lines for the
biggest potential championship
matchups.
On Thursday, the
Big Ten put out a press release detailing the upcoming
conference opponent
matchups for the league next season.