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TCU is now accepting membership into the Big East, in all sports. They will join in the 2012-2013 season. An announcement will likely come early this week. It might not make much sense right now, but it's designed to add another football school that's actually good into the Big East, which hasn't been good as of late.
This would now mean that TCU is in a BCS school, which means they get an automatic bid once they join, if they win the conference.
"The Big East had said a few weeks ago it wanted to get its football membership to 10 teams. The league also made an offer to Villanova, a member in all sports but football, to move up from FCS to the Big East."
"The current four-year evaluation period for the BCS concludes in December 2011, so TCU's past BCS rankings – three consecutive top 11 BCS rankings, including this year – will transfer to the Big East since it joined the league before the 2012-13 school year.
The current 2008-11 evaluation period is being used to determine if a seventh conference earns automatic qualifying status for the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons – and the Mountain West (TCU's current home) will not qualify. The Big East, however, already has its automatic qualifying status for the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons by virtue of the contracts, Hancock said.
Adding TCU also would strengthen its position when the league starts renegotiating its television contracts that expires after the 2013 season."
- Fanhouse
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