What If Conferences Were By Location in CFB?
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- For the past decade, conference realignment has been the talk of college football. Conferences decide rivalries, futures, money, and championships. But what if what we know as college football has been different from the beginning? What if we did all conferences by location instead of the way they organically came about? That's what I talk about in this video. Let me know in the comments what you think!
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What conferences were your favorites? And are there any other ways to make conferences other than by location for a future video?
College Football Chronicle I liked the AAC power 6 conference. Also, maybe do conference realignment with academics being the main factor. Finally, this idea might be a little less exciting but you could do conferences based on alphabetical order. For example, Alabama, Akron, Arkansas, and all the schools that r in the next few letters could be in one conference. You could do a power 5 and a group of five for that
I liked the P6 idea. But I felt some conferences could be better.
Ayy my home team richmond in fbs im not sure how good there going to be though😂😂
Ninja Danny the biggest problem is that no matter how the cake is cut, there’s gonna be some conferences and teams that’ll be better then their neighbors and fellow conference members.But overall, I think the power 6 is the best idea and has the power schools the most evenly distributed.
What about conferences with only 10 teams, how would that look
Giving me ideas for my next conference alignment on ncaa14 😂
Hahahahaha
American:
North:
Army
Boston College
Penn St
Pitt
Rutgers
Sryacuse
South:
Cincinnati
Louisville
Maryland
Navy
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Protected Rivarlies:
Army-Navy
Boston College-Cincinnati
Penn St-Virginia Tech
Pitt-West Virgnina
Rutgers-Maryland
Sryacuse-Louisville
Confrence Championship:
Philadelphia
ACC:
North:
Appalachin St
Duke
NCSt
North Carolina
Virginia
Wake Forest
South:
Clemson
Florida St
Georgia Tech
Miami
UCF
USF
Protected Rivarlies:
AppSt-Miami
Duke-USF
NCSt-Florida St
North Carolina-Clemson
Virginia-Georgia Tech
Wake Forest-UCF
Confrence Championship:
Charlotte
Big 10:
East:
Indiana
Michigan
MIchigan St
Notre Dame
Ohio St
Purdue
West:
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa St
Minnesota
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Confernece Championship:
Chicago
Big 12:
North:
Colorado
Kansas St
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St
South:
Baylor
Houston
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Protected RIvariles:
Colorado-Texas Tech
Kansas St-TCU
Misoouri-Baylor
Nebraska-Houston
Olahoma-Texas
Oklahoma ST-A&M
Confrence Championship:
Arlngton
PAC-12:
Just do what he said, and have the confernce championship in Vegas>
SEC:
East:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Memphis
South Carolina
Tennesee
West:
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
MIssissippi St
Ole MIss
PRotected Rivarlies"
Alabma-Tennesee
Arkansas-South Carolina
Auburn-Georgia
LSU-Florida
Kentucky-MIss St
Ole MIss-Memphis
Confernce Championship:
Atlanta
Other four confences put 14 teams in two divisons higher seed host con champ, and have 2 indepdents
@@someperson3883 I'm going to use this on my dynasty on NCAAF 14...
@@rayray5472 Tell me what happens.
@@someperson3883 keep auburn vs alabama
the power 6/group 6 is honestly the best option out of a massive CFB relignment. And it can still lead to some very fun and interesting games. As well as a fun and exciting 24 team playoff, where the top 3 from each conference make it.
Imagine a 12 game season, then another 48 of the most exciting and important games to end the season. I'm down for it. Sign me up for the realignment committee.
Thank you! I went to WVU when it was a member of the Big East, and that made sense. As students (or alumni) we could drive to away games in 8 hours or less. Our rivals made sense, especially Pitt and Penn State. Now, every team in our conference is on the other side of the Mississippi...CRAZY! I wish the NCAA would stop being more concerned about money, and focus simply on student/athlete education; but it is all about the money.
It's called greed created by the evil known as corruption! The more money we spend the more we make and the better athletes we can buy, that's what the NCAA has become. The fans are no longer a consideration. I grew up in an era when we had one nationally televised game and one of the local schools were televised. MONEY = EVIL and EVIL = CORRUPTION!
Hey, I totally echo the sentiment, but PSU was never in the Big East. On Pitt, you are 100% correct; those were conference games. As it happened, the founding of the Big East, to put a long story-short, was as a basketball-first (and keep PSU out) conference steered by some nasty petty politics and off-field animosities b/w the people running the institutions (Syracuse, Pitt and Villanova vis a vis PSU at the time). It's a long, unpleasant and short-sighted story. Due to the money football TV rights would later command, the Big East formula was doomed to fracture at some point under greater financial incentives. As an independent, PSU could and did agree to scheduling WVU more often especially, but this obviously changed once they joined the B1G.
Incidentally, super looking forward to the series coming up b/w WVU and PSU next season. Should be great atmospheres and a ton of fun. Always have enjoyed running into WVU alumni, having worked with several, and got some neighbors who went there as well. All the best to your mountaineers!
Let’s go mountaineers
Do a video on “What if the old Southwest Conference never dissolved”
That’s mean SMU would have a disgustingly long and powerful dynasty. I’d also predict that the big 8 would’ve been split up much sooner.
The SWC split because their was only one state after Arkansas left...big state but alignment is now based on lucrative TV deal which means TV sets per state...Oklahoma has no pull outside of being competitive...SEC doesn't want or need OU
Your Great plains conference would get either a shitty or NO TV deal...sparse population except for Missouri...not feasible...youthful opinions are fraught with disaster
@@calebchristensen900 If the SWC had never dissolved over time they would have added UTEP, UTSA, North Texas and Texas State (Formerly Southwest Texas State) and would have prevented Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor and Texas to merge with the Big 8 to form the Big 12
@@cfoster81 Possibly, however I don't think that the SWC would've wanted to add smaller Texas schools. If they wished to expand they'd more likely to have an open invitation to the major neighboring universities or possibly shed some of the less successful schools and merge with the Big 8.
The second scenario is great. Maybe have an 8 team playoff with the conference champ from P6 plus top two team from G6.
This is brilliant! Love your Power 6 and group of 6 model. The big wigs of the college football world should take notes.
That was very very well done! I like the first map before you split everything into P6 and G6 or whatever. That actually looked awesome.
I'm using this to rebuild my NCAA 2013 conferences. Thank you
Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Va Tech, BC, Temple, Rutgers, Maryland, Navy, Army, UConn
I agree except for Va. Tech. Leave them in the ACC. I'd add UMass, Marshall, & Buffalo
0:01 Introduction 1:25 Alternate Reality
2:50 12 Teams per Conference, with potentially two 6-team divisions within the conference
1:52 WCC (Brown) - The West Coast Conference (California, Oregon, and Washington: Warm and wet weather all year round)
2:14 RMC (Purple) - Rocky Mountain Conference (Utah, it's border states, and Montana)
2:28 GPC (Yellow) - Great Plains Conference (Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, New Mexico)
2:58 Brazos Conference (Orange) - TEXAS
3:18 GLC (Blue) - The Great Lakes Conference (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern Indiana, Illinois)
3:34 ORC (Red) - The Ohio River Conference (Ohio, Southern Indiana, Northeast Kentucky)
3:55 GCC (Aqua) - The Gulf Coast Conference (Arkansas, Louisiana , Mississippi, South Alabama, a small western slice of Tennessee)
4:12 SC (Sandy Sun) - The Sunshine Conference (Florida, Alabama, Southern Georgia)
4:28 MAC (Green) - The Mid-Atlantic Conference (Northern Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
4:44 CC (Grey) - The Cumberland Conference (Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia)
5:06 NEC (Black) - New England Conference (Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Maryland, Rhode Island, New York, Long Island, Brooklyn)
(I'd prefer East Coast or Northeast)
The BIG Conferences
6:48 Pac-12 North and South
7:05 Big 12 North (Not Texas) and South (Texas)
7:18 Big Ten West and East - The Illinois Indiana Split
Second one (power 6/group of 6) looks great 👍
I’ll agree with anything that gets App St out of the Sun Belt
I am glad you included my Alma Mater The Jacksonville State Gamecocks. I was on the baseball team for 2 seasons, the Football team for 2 seasons and I almost joined the Basketball team. JSU was a Division 2 program back then and a powerhouse in all the major men’s sports. I have 2 National championships Rings in Baseball 1991,1992 and we lost the National championship game 3-0 in 1991 and won the National championship in 1992. The Basketball program played for the National championship in 1992 but came up just short.
I rarely comment , but I loved this too much not to. The first geographically relevant plan cures my college football OCD! The second plan makes perfect sense!
Awesome I have been a fan of this bumping up the top FCS schools and making 72 teams tiers. I would however have a champion for P6 and the G6
It’s the smartest thing to do. Maybe every 5 yrs or do you could have a potential realignment where schools could move back and fourth from the power 6 and group of 6.
Did you know in 1900-1912 Ohio State was in a conference with only Ohio school so that first use to be correct
Looking at this in the future, this is still surprisingly full of good takes. With future knowledge, I would switch BYU and Boise State, Illinois St with Missouri St, Richmond with Delaware, Central Arkansas with Sam Houston, and Chattanooga with Kenesaw St
I like your ideas. You evidently know a lot of geography, college football, and universities...
You conference alignments make more sense than anything said on RUclips, FoxSports, or ESPN
I like it. Really like the 2nd even more.
Up next we have the Cumberland conference
222-0 pretty good
For Power 6, the Big10 east would be a powerhouse. It would be weird having Iowa State with the Big 10. Also, if we went by location, I think Iowa should be in the "Great Lakes Conference" because Iowa has rivalries with Minnesota and Wisconsin. These rivalries date back up to 100 years.
Memphis, UCF, Houston and Cincinnati makin the jump nice
Its definately interesting. I noticed the B1G in your 2nd scenario was very close to it's original footprint.
Besides the addition of Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, Penn state was originally independent... so yeah minus making notre Dane join a conference it's almost dang near unchanged anyway
Followed closely by the pac 12 and sec respectively
The first one would be bonkers. Tennessee would own that conference but never have the strength of schedule to do anything with it. The second one is pretty good, though.
I like the power 6 breakdown
I feel like if the first map was how the NCAA was originally designed, and was kept permanent, it would likely make some teams that are poorer quality a stronger program today. If a team like Sand Diego State was playing USC and UCLA, or if TCU was always playing Texas they could be a stronger program today. The greats today has to come from somewhere, and obviously size of school is a huge factor, but the strength of a team’s conference was likely one as well. There are plenty of smaller schools that have proven themselves to be tough opponents that can’t just be slept on (Norte Dame has 8,000 students)
I love these conferences. If they ever were to happen I’d hope the big 12 would call its divisions the Big 12 Texas and the Big 12 USA. That would really make winning the state championship in Texas mean something!!!
As it was intended to be....I liked the power 6 and the group of 6 breakdowns.
boise state, fresno state, san diego state, and san jose state are a package deal you can't break up those rivalries
What happened to your old Vids you were my favorite CFB YT channel 😭
They were mysteriously deleted.
I woke up one day and my channel just...wasn't there
College Football Chronicle I feel bad now.
I’m sure most think the same way. l would add one other wrinkle to this equation. That there should be a upper tier of teams that average over 30-35k regular home attendance over a prescribed number of years, that they get in (if they choose), or out of the top tier of teams. This again rewards the fans. This will set goals for up and coming programs, and give them a reward for their efforts. It will also punish a few teams who have little fan support, by putting them on notice that they will have to temporarily be dropped to a 2nd tier if they don’t increase attendance. This would rid a team like Alabama or Ohio St from playing in a conference with a school that has a 25k stadium and averages 19k at home.
I liked the first map. Putting all the Texas schools in one conference makes sense. Also, being from Ohio, The Ohio Valley Conference is an assured victory each year for Ohio State. But I think it would hurt their rankings, because they aren't playing any top teams. Also you took away one of the longest rivalries it College Football, Ohio State vs Michigan.
The second one is essentially what we had before the big east desovled its football.
WVU and Hawaii are the only 2 division I schools I know of who play all their conference away games in a different time zone.
this aint a hypothetical. this is a retrospective on what used to be
Love the video concept mate! Quality content!
As a Chattanooga alumni it would be great to see us play a team that anybody can actually recognize.
I think it was a great idea to put North Dakota State in the FBS
Well, here I am after the Oklahoma and Texas press release.
when this video was made before the Jeff Traylor dynasty at UTSA and it shows
*cries in purdue fan*
I’m fine as a die hard Troy fan playing MTSU from the battle of the palladium and bringing back the rivalry against Jacksonville State
Becoming just a regional conference is what killed the SWAC causing half of them merge with the big8 to become the big12.
(SWC) not SWAC, but you are correct. The SWC began losing recruiting battles because Texas kids wanted to play schools outside of Texas, to see and experience other environments.
I like the G6 and P6 scenario
The reasons we have conferences is grouping schools by stadium size, attendance, fan base and that usually correlates with performance. I would like to see more Independents. I’d like to see teams that can’t compete in the entirety of these conferences be given an offer as an Affiliated Independent where they may retain 3-5 games including their rivals - Vanderbilt, Duke, Wake Forest, Boston College, Rutgers, Northwestern. Blowup the American and those teams Independents. And the team with the highest ranking plays Notre Dame for the Independent Championship in St. Louis.
Hawaii, San Diego State, BYU and UNR belongs in a P6. If you do 16? Those 4 would fit. New Mexico State is unwanted. I could see Northern Arizona in their place.
Lamar, Jacksonville State, Youngstown State, South Dakota State, Sacramento State, Eastern Kentucky, Towson, Stony Brook, Missouri State, Illinois State, Indiana State, North Carolina A&T, Florida A&M and the likes are good targets. Tennessee State as well.
D2's Midwestern State, West Texas A&M (former FBS independent), Central Oklahoma and CSU-Dominguez Hills (have close to 30,000 seat stadium that is on campus that they share with a pro-soccer team which an NFL team used it temp.)
Wichita State, Long Beach State, UTRGV, Fullerton State all looking to restart football. North Florida and FGCU are interesting ones looking at starting football. West Florida and North Alabama could be options as well.
With the virus that is going around? The schools at the lower levels may make moves were a lot of the small private schools could close for good. D3 could be gone, the larger schools moving up to D1 and the rest would merged what is left of D2, D3 and NAIA. D1 would be broken into 1A and 1AA for all sports which would mean about 180 schools at the FBS levels.
I might be the only person in America who misses Big East football.
I was gonna say that UTEP being so close to both New Mexico schools but New Mexico and New Mexico State playing in the same conference as both Iowa Schools would be way out there lol
Atlantic Seaboard Conference: Boston College, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, F_U, Georgia Southern, Miami, Navy, NC State, Old Dominion, Rutgers and South Carolina
The point of the conferences was playing teams by proximity, because that was before the flew. They took the bus to the games.
I love my new conference
This video has only become more relevant in recent years
Flash forward 2 years. One of the two teams you elevated from the FCS has actually made the jump to FBS. JMU has, while NDSU has been unable to. I wonder what the next realignment holds for them
I agree with you
the rocky mtn would be no better than a group of 5 conference
It is overall great except for Michigan not being with Ohio state
Fun episode!
I'm actually working on a thing where every conference becomes a Super Conference (16 teams each). Any interest on a video on them idea?
If you were going to move the AAC's geographic locale back to the northeast, you should have just renamed it the Big East like it used to be.
Also, wouldn't an East/West division setup make more sense for the Northwestern Conference? It wouldn't be perfect either, but there's a clear space between the 7 western schools and 5 eastern ones, as opposed to awkwardly linking Colorado and Wyoming with Iowa and Illinois.
Can’t wait for UGA and ECU to be an annual game
How about type of location? NCAA is all state-wide schools. PCFC is Private College Football and runs off of private institutions football clubs. Finally there is the CDF or City Division Football which has your single city areas like Portland, Boise and Sand Deigo.
I like this a lot.
By putting Texas and Oklahoma in different divisions of the same conference you are doing away with a 114 year old rivalry, or forcing them to play the same conference opponent in a non-conference type game each year, or doing that stupid thing the SEC does where you only play certain teams from the other division in your conference. Just put them in the same division!
James Madison is a great idea for the FBS
And now it’s a reality 😅
Hmm. Put Southern Miss with the LA schools; La Tech, ULL, ULM & Tulane.
Then maybe you would have a great idea for your Group of 6
I would put New Mexico in the Rocky Mountain conference because the mountains do go to New Mexico then I would add South Dakota State and South Dakota or South Dakota State and Missouri State
The "Gulf Coast Conference " where 7 of the 12 teams are not on the coast.
Georgia Tech and Clemson must join S.E.C for me to me happy during College Football season as full members.
This is where ncaa needs to grow a pair and jump in and save college football
Yeah WVU would have a fit and a half if they ever had to share a conference with us known as "Little Brother" in Marshall.
Why is App State elevated to the higher level? WVU does not want to play little App State in a conference. BYU is a major program. Top 20 in attendance.
Rutgers and USC are going to be in the same conference, soon
Awesome work.
Thanks!
All 5 Wake Forest Fans are fuming at being left out of a conference with their Tobacco Road rivals. I guess that's what they get for relocating from Wake Forest to Winston-Salem
What if they had a group of 5 playoff champ vs power 5 playoff champ 🤔
tThe expanded Atlantic Coast Conference
Boston college UMass UConn Syracuse,
Army , Navy , Pitt Temple , Rutgers , Penn State, Maryland call it North
South Clemson , NC State, Unc , Duke, Georgia Tech, FS U , U of Miami, U of Virginia, Virginia Tech, W Virginia Louisville
Each division plays it traditional rivals
Northern schools play mostly northern
South vs south then division winners play in a true North South conference Championship You would own the east coast TV major markets in NE , New York
Penn DC down to Fla The rivalry would be what people want and care about travel time would be reduced fans could go to more games etc
Can you do videos for these realignment options? (Each team sets beside their assumed local rival.)
POWER 4
16 TEAMS EACH
NORTHEAST (ACC) | DC
RUSTBELT DIVISION
BC, Syracuse,
Pitt, Penn St,
Ohio St, ND,
Mich, Mich St.
WOODS DIVISION
Maryland, WV,
Virginia, VT,
Duke, Wake,
NC State, UNC
SOUTHEAST (SEC) | ATLANTA
HILLS DIVISION
Clemson, SC,
Georgia, GT,
Tenn, Vandy,
Louisville, UK
GULF DIVISION
Florida, Miami,
Florida St, LSU,
Auburn, Bama
MSST, Ole Miss
CENTRAL (Big 16) | KC
FARMLAND DIVISION
Indiana, PUR,
Illinois, NW,
Minn, Wisc,
Iowa, ISU
HEARTLAND DIVISION
ARK, Mizzou,
OU, OK State,
Kansas, KSU,
Colorado, NEB
WESTERN (Pac) | PHOENIX
SOUTHWEST DIVISION
A&M, Texas,
Baylor, TCU,
TTU, Utah,
Arizona, ASU
PACIFIC DIVISION
UCLA, USC,
CAL, Stanford,
Oregon, ORST,
Wash, WSU
--------------
GROUP 5
14 TEAMS EACH
Mid West Conf | INDIANAPOLIS
EAST DIVISION
Akron, Kent St,
Cincinnati, Ohio
BG, Toledo,
Miami-Oh
WEST DIVISION
NDSU, SDSU,
CMU, EMU,
NIU, WMU,
Ball St
East Coast Conf | DC
NORTH DIVISION
Army, Buffalo,
UConn, Umass,
Rutgers, Temple,
Navy
SOUTH DIVISION
APP, Charlotte,
Coastal, ECU,
JMU, Liberty,
Old Dominion
Old South Conf | ATLANTA
EAST DIVISION
FAU, FIU,
UCF, USF,
GAST, Kennesaw,
Georgia Southern
WEST DIVISION
Marshall, WKU,
Memphis, MTSU,
UAB, South Ala
Troy
Mid South Conf | DALLAS
EAST DIVISION
Ark St, USM,
LA Tech, ULM
Tulane, ULL,
Tulsa
WEST DIVISION
Houston, Rice,
UTSA, Texas St,
UNT, UTEP,
SMU
Mountain Top Conf | PHOENIX
EAST DIVISION
Air Force, CSU,
BYU, Utah St,
New Mex, NMST,
Wyoming
WEST DIVISION
Nevada, UNLV,
Fresno, SJST,
Hawaii, SDST,
Boise St
Interesting... :)
Damn, that Florida, Florida St., Miami, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss & Mississippi St. division is freakin loaded. That’s by far the overall hardest division among those conferences you listed !!
Whoever wins that division every year you could just give them the national championship for that season to where everybody can just go on home and call it a season !!!
Why not put Ga. State in the Mid Atlantic and move App State to the Cumberland? That seems to be a closer to your map outline. Other than that, this looks pretty good. Of course, the same 5 or 6 teams would always be in the playoffs.😒
I like it!
What about Rutgers and USC being in the same conference now?
Custom CFB conferences
Power 6: (12 teams each)
ACC: Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami-FL, NC State, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
Big Ten: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin.
Big XII: Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech.
EAC: Boston College, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UCF, USF, West Virginia.
Pac-12: Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State.
SEC: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt.
Group of 5: (14 teams each)
AAC: Boise State, Colorado State, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Portland State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Utah State, Wyoming.
C-USA: Army, Appalachian State, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, FAU, FIU, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Liberty, Massachusetts, Navy, Old Dominion.
MAC: Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Marshall, Miami-OH, Northern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan.
MWC: Air Force, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, New Mexico State, North Texas, San Diego State, San Jose State, SMU, Texas State, UNLV, UTEP, UTSA.
Sun Belt: Arkansas State, Central Arkansas, Houston, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Rice, South Alabama, Southern Mississippi, Troy, Tulane, Tulsa, Western Kentucky.
New Mexico State shouldn’t be in the AAC considering how god awful they are
This gonna be really drawn out but here's my idea. 18 team conferences with geographically aligned "feeder" conferences where teams can be promoted or demoted based on performance. (ex. Tulane currently in the "SEC," but they could be replaced by someone else if they struggle consistently.)
- Atlantic SuperConference : (All southern states that directly border the Atlantic)
North Wake Forest
North Liberty
North North Carolina
North North Carolina State
North Maryland
North Duke
North Appalachian State
North Virginia
North Virginia Tech
*
South Georgia
South Clemson
South Central Florida
South Florida State
South Coastal Carolina
South South Carolina
South Florida
South Florida Miami
South Georgia Tech
- BIG 12 : (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Dakotas)
Texas Christian
Texas
Baylor
Texas San Antonio
Texas Tech
Wyoming
Houston
Texas A&M
Southern Methodist
Texas El Paso
North Texas
Colorado
- Gulf SuperConference : (All gulf bordering states with exception of Florida.. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska)
East Tennessee
East Alabama
East Ole Miss
East Kentucky
East Louisville
East Mississippi State
East Memphis
East Auburn
East West Virginia
*
West Kansas State
West Louisiana State
West Oklahoma State
West Tulane
West Oklahoma
West Arkansas
West Kansas
West Missouri
West Nebraska
- North SuperConference : (All northern atlantic states, and pretty much all the same teams as before)
East Ohio State
East Michigan
East Pennsylvania State
East Syracuse
East Cincinnati
East Pittsburgh
East Rutgers
East Michigan State
East Boston College
*
West Illinois
West Purdue
West Notre Dame
West Minnesota
West Wisconsin
West Iowa
West Iowa State
West Indiana
West Northwestern
- Pacific SuperConference : (Pacific bordering states, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada)
North Utah
North Oregon
North Oregon State
North Washington
North Boise State
North Washington State
North Brigham Young
North Nevada Las Vegas
North Nevada
*
South Southern California
South California Los Angeles
South Arizona
South San Jose State
South Fresno State
South Stanford
South California Berkeley
South San Diego State
South Arizona State
Once upon a time, conferences were based on geography.
Like the second group of six other then I would a 6 more FCS schools. Eastern Kentucky, Sam Houston State, Villanova, VMI, The Citadel and Youngstown State, Missouri State (Maybe) and Delaware (Maybe) been wanting to make the Jump. I think it would be cool to pull the server Academy and bring up VMI and the Citadel and add a couple close fcs School to make a Service Academy Group of Five Coference so the commander-in -chief Trophy is always live and I can See VMI vs Navy become another major Rivalry. Plus there group of Five would be granted the rights to the Armed Forces Bowl, Military Bowl and Independence Bowl and possibly College football Play off.
Also the SEC second group might go as the falling.
SEC North(River Division)
Kentucky (LSU) (Battle for the Burbon Barrel)
Louisville (Auburn)(had a fun kick off game when Lamar was a freshman)
Memphis (Mississippi State)
Missouri (Arkansas)
Tennessee (Alabama)
Vanderbilt (Old Miss)
What schools would you look at elevating from D2 to D1 if any? Or conference alignment for D2 schools
This, but give Missouri and Iowa state back to the Big12, move A&M and UH to the SEC, and Cincinnati to the big 10
the first map went against what you were trying to do. Having North Dakota St. in the same conference with New Mexico defeats the purpose of having close rivals. the 2nd map makes so much sense that it will never happen good job on that. What happens to Navy?
Sunshine conference would be brutal.
Missouri really belongs in the bigXII. But I kinda like your P6.
Texas the only state that has it's on conference crazy
rewatching this a year later and I think the Group of 6 and power 6 ways are the best for realignment but with the Playoff committee going from 4 to 12 teams relatively soon I dont think realignment will happen for another 10 years maybe to be completely honest, because it always feels like realignment happens every 10 years to begin with.
Well thoughted out 👍
Thanks!
West Virginia University should be in whatever conference Virginia is in!!!
Why? the Wvu-Uva series is only 23 games long
Why? WVU is football focused while UVA has a diverse focus. I know that this vid considers geo only, but in reality that's only 1 of a number of material considerations.
Tulsa at D2 is criminal
Personally I love the jumbled mess of the Conferences. It keeps it all quirky and not just about the elite teams.
You think that the college football season is gonna get delayed due to the coronavirus
Please don’t put that evil out there yet
8:50
West and east divisions seem more logical I think.
So basically mid atlantic and sunshine are the only good ones
Calling that last conference in plan 1, the New England Conference, is horrid. Just call it the Northern Atlantic Conference.