US Senate's Take on Conference Realignment

by Idle on Dec 15, 2011 8:36 PM PST

7 BCS conferences. 10 teams. 8 team-playoff. 7 BCS conference champions & 1 at-large. 9-game conference schedule. 1 out-of-conference BCS game. 1 non-AQ game. 1 FCS game. 12 regular season games. Up to 15 games to win the National Championship.Conferences based on geography. Teams promoted into BCS are in italics.

Big East	Atlantic Coast	Southeastern	Southwest
Boston College	Maryland	Florida	Louisiana State
Syracuse	Virginia	Georgia	Memphis
Connecticut	Virginia Tech	South Carolina	Arkansas
Rutgers	North Carolina	Wake Forest	Oklahoma
Penn State	North Carolina State	Tennessee	Oklahoma State
Pittsburgh	Duke	Vanderbilt	Texas
West Virginia	Clemson	Alabama	Texas A&M
Cincinnati	Georgia Tech	Auburn	Texas Tech
Kentucky	Florida State	Mississippi	Texas Christian
Louisville	Miami	Mississippi State	Baylor

Penn St gets their East Coast Conference from the late 80's put together
Classic ACC + Miami & Va Tech
SEC expands into that desirable Winston-Salem tv market
Big 12 South picks up LSU, Arkansas, TCU & Memphis

Big Ten	Great Midwest	Pacific	Ind.
Ohio State	Kansas	California	Army
Michigan	Kansas State	Stanford	Navy
Michigan State	Missouri	UCLA	Air Force
Notre Dame	Iowa	USC
Indiana	Iowa State	Arizona
Purdue	Nebraska	Arizona State
Illinois	Colorado	Oregon
Northwestern	Utah	Oregon State
Wisconsin	Brigham Young	Washington
Minnesota	Boise State	Washington State

close to the original B1G w/ a Iowa for ND trade
a new conference is born, the GMC stretches from Illinois to Oregon
classic PAC-10
military schools are Ind by themselves & play mostly BCS schools

After the 70 BCS schools, there are 55 non-AQ teams in 4 conferences.

Western Athletic		Conference USA
Mountain	West	East	West
UTEP	Nevada	Marshall	Tulane
New Mexico	UNLV	East Carolina	Louisiana Tech
Colorado State	San Jose State	Birmingham	Houston
Wyoming	Fresno State	Southern Miss	Rice
Utah State	San Diego State	Central Florida	Southern Methodist
Idaho	Hawaii	South Florida	Tulsa

mid-tier conferences. WAC on the left coast
CUSA on the right.

Mid-American		Sunbelt
East	West	East	West
UMass	Toledo	Florida Atlantic	Arkansas State
Temple	Bowling Green	Florida International	Louisiana Monroe
Buffalo	Eastern Michigan	South Alabama	Louisiana Lafayette
Ohio	Central Michigan	Troy	Texas State
Miami	Western Michigan	Georgia State	North Texas
Akron	Ball State	Middle Tennessee	UTSA
Kent State	Northern Illinois	Western Kentucky	New Mexico State

bottom rung. 1 in the North & 1 in the South. 14-teams each

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I LIKE IT! I LIKE IT!

by TDown on Dec 16, 2011 7:02 PM PST reply actions

I like

But where did this come from? It mentions the US Senate, but it could be the Senate of the TDS for all I know.

Go Cuse. Go Utes. Go Kings (hockey version). Go Panthers (hockey version). Go Marlins. Go Dodgers. I despise the NFL and NBA, so don't bore me.

by LeftCoastMan on Dec 17, 2011 12:05 PM PST reply actions

Since when is Boise State in the Midwest?

It’s much more pacific/northwest than midwest… I wouldn’t complain if we could be in that division though, pretty winable.

by BSUbluNorange on Dec 19, 2011 8:25 AM PST reply actions

12 for championship? Ind?

Personally, I like championship games and there are 12 required to have one… Also, if ND is to be eliminated as an independent, why make all three service academies independents? 10 total conferences, each with championship and each with one AQ. 16 team playoff with 6 at large. What would you think of:

Big East
Boston College
Syracuse
Connecticut
Rutgers
Penn State
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Wake Forest
Navy
Umass
Army

Atlantic Coast
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Duke
Clemson
Georgia Tech
Florida State
Miami
South Florida
Central Florida

Southeastern
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Kentucky
Louisville
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Alabama
Auburn
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU

Mason Dixon
Tulsa
SMU
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Texas Christian
Baylor
Arkansas State
Houston

Big Ten
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Indiana
Purdue
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Missouri
Memphis

Great Midwest
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Iowa
Iowa State
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
BYU
Colorado State
Wyoming
UTEP

Pacific
California
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Arizona
Arizona State
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Boise State
Fresno State

Southwest
Hawaii
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV
Nevada
New Mexico
Utah State
Rice
New Mexico State
North Texas
Texas State
UT San Antonio

Conference USA
Marshall
Eastern Michigan
Toledo
Buffalo
Temple
Ohio
Miami of Ohio
Bowling Green
Central Michigan
Northern Illinois
Kent State
Akron
Central Michigan
Ball State (14)

Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana Monroe
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
South Alabama
Troy
Georgia State
Southern Miss
Birmingham
Louisiana Lafayette
East Carolina
Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky
Need one more… (14)

You have a great idea (didn’t see the congressional input, but if you could link it, that would be cool), and I think we could sit around and tweak it quite a bit. In my opinion, college football should be fair, in as many ways as possible. The way I set them up here, would be to remain as regional as possible, to promote in state and close rivalry games. There are mistakes, to be sure.

by jitmon on Dec 19, 2011 9:55 AM PST reply actions

Mistake

In copying this over I made a few mistakes. Idaho is not in there and Missouri should ONLY be in B1G. Any ideas to fix it are welcome. Thanks.

by jitmon on Dec 19, 2011 10:00 AM PST up reply actions

Oops

Air Force should be in Great Midwest

by jitmon on Dec 19, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions

congress was more of a joke b/c it would take something ridiculous to force realignment like this to happen

i just dont see any point in arkansas playing arkansas state in a conference game or a 16 team playoff w/ the wac, sun belt & mac get a chance. bcs schools & a handful of exceptions are clearly in a different league than the rest of non-AQ

combining our ideas, the ncaa allows 10 team leagues to have a conference championship game. #1 & #2 play each other again after the 9-game round robin schedule for the right to go to the 8-team playoff. so now the best teams come playoff time get to play for a national championship.

8 conference championship games – 16 teams

4 playoff games – 8 teams (7 conf champs + at-large)

2 semifinals – 4 winners

1 national championship game – 2 best teams

1 champ

by Idle on Dec 20, 2011 5:54 PM PST reply actions

Or you could go back to 1991 & never mess with things & ask the 7 BCS conferences to please pay round robin 9-game schedules.

Big 10 – same

Pac 10 – same

SEC 10 – same, no Arkansas & Sakerlina expansion

ACC 10 – Sakerlina never left & FSU still joins

Big 8 + 2 = 10 – add in Utah & BYU

BEast 10 = classic 7 of BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt, West Va, Va Tech, Miami… kick out Temple (of course)… add in young UConn & USF programs… score Penn St over B1G

SWC 10 = now this conf had problems w/ 8 Tx teams. kick out SMU, Rice, Houston. add in Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati & Boise State (or leave Houston if you like geography over tv markets)

by Idle on Dec 23, 2011 7:40 AM PST reply actions