BIG ERN Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Since there was a bunch of news on Nebraska wanting to move back to the Big12 (un-true of course), I thought I would share the conference realignments I had done a few years back when the BCS was scrapped. Since it is a bye week I would like to hear peoples thoughts on how they feel the conferences should be aligned, or if they are okay with how they are today. I feel these are geographically more friendly as well. Each team plays their divisional opponents with 2-3 crossover conference games (rotates yearly), 3 out of conference games with one of those being from a 'conference challenge' similar to college basketball. 6 auto bids from the conference winners with 2 at large bids or all at large bids. I left off quite a few teams as I feel they should move down to FCS and try to compete. There are a few questionable teams that I left in the FBS, but I feel they could grow within the conferences. I had all the teams logos instead of text names, but it wouldn't allow some of the images and I wasn't going to go back and find out. Pacific Conference (North) Boise State Cal Oregon Oregon State Stanford Utah Washington Washington State (South) ArizonaArizona State Fresno State Hawaii San Diego State San Jose State UCLA USC Mountain West Conference (North) BYU Colorado Colorado State Iowa State Nevada North Dakota State Utah State Wyoming (South) Air Force Kansas Kansas State New Mexico San Diego State TCU Texas Tech UNLV Big South Conference (West) Arkansas Baylor Houston OklahomaOklahoma State SMU Texas Texas A&M (East) Arkansas State LSU Louisiana Tech Ole Miss Memphis Miss St Southern Miss Vanderbilt Southeastern Conference (West) Alabama Auburn Georgia Tech Louisville South Florida Tennessee Tulane (East) Clemson Georgia Kentucky Florida Florida State South Carolina Wake Forest Atlantic Coastal Conference (North) Boston College Connecticut Maryland Rutgers Syracuse Temple Virginia Tech West Virginia (South) ECU Duke Miami Navy North Carolina North Carolina State Virginia UCF Midwestern Conference (West) Illinois Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Northwestern Notre Dame Wisconsin (East) Cincinnati Indiana Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Purdue Penn State Pittsburgh 2 Quote Link to comment
everybody knows my name Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Why does the SEC get to keep its name and the Big Ten doesn't? Bogus. Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Iowa State, Kansas, and KSU in mountain west? Quote Link to comment
BIG ERN Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 Iowa State, Kansas, and KSU in mountain west? I felt like they didn't belong in the South, and if they were in the Midwestern - the west division would be awful. More teams to their caliber in the MW Quote Link to comment
ADS Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Iowa State, Kansas, and KSU in mountain west? I felt like they didn't belong in the South, and if they were in the Midwestern - the west division would be awful. More teams to their caliber in the MWFair enough. Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Cue the "if you dont like it dont read it guys" but this conversation gets really really old. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Looks as good as any scheme I've seen. : I'd be inclined to put Army someplace too. You've already added two other independents, BYU and Notre Dame. Maybe add Army to the ACC. You could also include UMass if you wanted to keep an even number of teams. Just a suggestion. Quote Link to comment
husker_rob Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 My immediate reaction is, "oh, I bet this has Notre Dame in whatever the Big Ten is called," and I wasn't let down at all. lol That ship has sailed. I couldn't agree more -- Notre Dame was always a logical fit for the Big Ten. But it's over. They're not interested, and if that was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Too bad there isn't a nice configurable college football video game for you to play with this realignment, but that's about as close as we're going to get to it. Way too much money at stake (just to simply pick ONE swap at random) for Maryland and Rutgers to suddenly just be cool with swapping conferences and allowing Cincinnati and Pittsburg to take their places. All conferences are not created equally. We should know. We somehow escaped the biggest joke of a conference there is. We're very lucky to be in our new stable, respectful home. 2 Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Cue the "if you dont like it dont read it guys" but this conversation gets really really old. Hey if ya don't like it, don't read it. Quote Link to comment
MichiganDad3 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 There should be 8 conferences. Each conference champion is in the playoffs. If you don't win your conference, no playoffs for you. 2 Quote Link to comment
Bowfin Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 A pretty good job of what could happen if common sense could overrule politics and money. Only thing is that you have Texas listed as an FBS school. They might be dropping down to be Northwest Missouri State's whipping boy if current trends continue... Quote Link to comment
HuskerMav11 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 There should be 8 conferences. Each conference champion is in the playoffs. If you don't win your conference, no playoffs for you. Sounds terrible. Quote Link to comment
grandpasknee Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Cue the "if you dont like it dont read it guys" but this conversation gets really really old. Hey if ya don't like it, don't read it. Oh yeah 1995 Redux...well...I"m not going to read your post! Doh...I already did. Dang it! Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Cue the "if you dont like it dont read it guys" but this conversation gets really really old. Hey if ya don't like it, don't read it. Oh yeah 1995 Redux...well...I"m not going to read your post! Doh...I already did. Dang it! Yeah! Take it, take all of my post in! Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 There should be 8 conferences. Each conference champion is in the playoffs. If you don't win your conference, no playoffs for you. Sounds terrible. If by terrible you mean exactly ideal, then yes. Quote Link to comment
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