... will be a second or third tier conference.  It truly doesn't matter how many teams a conference is going to have, it's still its power at the top that decides where it stands in the college football pecking order.

The Pac-10 expansion may add Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech to its fold, but when it comes time for the National Championship game only one of those new, or old, Pac-10 teams, and not Southern California will face an SEC school.

It has been four years since another conference has claimed a National Championship, and five out of the last seven rest in the SEC.  Just because teams are joining one big conference doesn't put the SEC at a disadvantage.  As a matter of fact, it could be argued that...

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