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Title: Competitive Balance and Conference Realignment: The Case of Big 12 Football.
Author : The Sport Journal
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 355 KB

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Abstract: Past research has indicated that an effort to achieve greater competitive balance has been one factor in conference realignments within college athletics. The purpose of this study was to determine if greater levels of competitive balance in football were realized after the Big 8 conference merged with four members of the Southwest Conference. Specifically, comparisons were made between competitive balance levels for the last ten years of the Big 8 with the first ten years of the Big 12. Three measures of competitive balance were employed; in general, the findings indicated that competitive balance in football has improved in the ten years after the merger.