BillsFever
07-16-2003, 03:51 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference has asked the NCAA to change a rule that would allow the league to hold a football championship game.
The ACC expanded to 11 schools two weeks ago by adding Miami and Virginia Tech, but under NCAA regulations only conferences with 12 or more teams can stage such a lucrative title game.
Three conferences -- the SEC, Big 12 and Mid-American -- are now authorized to hold league championship games.
Shane Lyons, an ACC assistant commissioner in charge of compliance, said the ACC filed the necessary paperwork with the NCAA on Tuesday, asking that leagues with 10 teams be allowed to play conference title games -- some of which make as much as $12 million.
The NCAA will send the ACC proposal, along with about 100 others, to the college membership in August, Lyons said.
"This is the time period we'll start gauging how the NCAA membership feels about it,'' Lyons said Wednesday.
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/news/2003/0716/1581454.html
The ACC expanded to 11 schools two weeks ago by adding Miami and Virginia Tech, but under NCAA regulations only conferences with 12 or more teams can stage such a lucrative title game.
Three conferences -- the SEC, Big 12 and Mid-American -- are now authorized to hold league championship games.
Shane Lyons, an ACC assistant commissioner in charge of compliance, said the ACC filed the necessary paperwork with the NCAA on Tuesday, asking that leagues with 10 teams be allowed to play conference title games -- some of which make as much as $12 million.
The NCAA will send the ACC proposal, along with about 100 others, to the college membership in August, Lyons said.
"This is the time period we'll start gauging how the NCAA membership feels about it,'' Lyons said Wednesday.
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/news/2003/0716/1581454.html