So, who's next up as far as schools to join the PAC?

The issue for the P4 is:

67 P4 teams.  134 FBS teams.  (There are two transitional members, which complicate things, as well as whether they can run things with 67 members.)

Within the P4, 34 Big Ten and SEC teams out of 67 P4 teams.

Big Ten and the SEC only maintain control, if they have more teams lined up.  They can bring in the Pac-12 to maintain control.  They can add teams.

For the P4, they have to add teams, add the Pac-12, or lose control.  (Or they could vote to blow up the whole thing and start over.)

It is not as simple as it might seem.

Terrible example, but it is like Mussolini with King Victor Emmanuel III in 1943.  You have a lot of power and authority on paper.  But you never know when the king will kick you out of office and arrest you.  

What is a little odd to me is we were so focused on getting back to a conference of schools in our region/geography.

I love the idea of adding UNLV. No issues with Texas, that is a recruiting hot bed.... but adding schools from Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana? We are clearly stepping away from our region.

As a fan... I'm down to visit all of those places for a road game.... so I'm good it just appears we are making a shift. I think the shift is necessary to get the best schools we can to be added to the Pac brand.

Adding those 4 schools had a great impact on moving the needle in our direction and showing we are going to rebuild the Pac...

How many fans do you think want to travel across the country for a football game though? I guess if you're retired, with lots of disposable income maybe.

Maybe not too many. But there are numerous OSU alums in the DC/Research Triangle area who would probably love to see the Beavers play a game without having to travel clear across the country to the West Coast to do so. It's a fairly easy drive from DC to Winston-Salem and Raleigh/Durham is about 100 miles away.

We played at Temple in 2002 and there were lots of Beaver fans there. 

I am talking about the FBS framework and the rules surrounding FBS.

The B1G & SEC are a majority of the P4, and the P4 is a majority of all "full" FBS teams.  They have control, because they can vote in a block.  And I think that that is true, unless they get outnumbered.  At that point, they will have to expand, or they will lose voting power.  The P4 can expand by adding teams, or they can make a fifth "Power" conference to maintain control (and to break ties between the P4, which has been a concern in the past).  They can do this by increasing the P5 conference's share of money from the CFP.

I think that the SEC is kind of keen for the ACC to fall apart to get to 18 teams like the Big Ten, so they are not outnumbered at the highest echelon of conferences.  That will give the ACC the opportunity to backfill and help the other three maintain control.

But money is largely irrelevant without control.  If the number of non-P4 teams gets to 68, and they can vote in a block, they can outvote the P4, which will be disruptive to the P4.  The easiest solutions would be additional expansion or to add a P5 conference.  That said, the P4 does always have the option to just blow the whole thing up and start something else.

I also think WSU/OSU have gotten wind of Clemson and FSU re-opening negotiations with the ACC to restructure the revenue sharing model so they get a bigger slice of the pie. It's becoming more and more apparent the ACC isn't going to break up, and we needed to get cracking on a new league.

Even though it is independent of the NCAA, the CFP is an offshoot of the FBS structure.  If you lose control of the FBS structure, you lose control of the FBS structure, you can lose control of the CFP.