Conference Realignment

Top 5 for 2020?

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Colekibler

Colekibler

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The conferences of college football are boring. It’s hard to consider the Power 5 the true Power 5. The SEC has presented the best team in the country more often than not in the 2000’s but is it really deep? You get Bama, Auburn, LSU (finally again), and more recently UGA. The bottom half of the SEC is marginally good at best. No way it can be a power conference. Then the ACC. Clemson is dominant of course but who is there all throughout the regular season. Florida State has had a fall since Famous Jameis left, one so large that the only fall greater was that of Lucifer from Heaven. There is no clear challenger and it is definitely not a power conference. The Big Ten presents Ohio State, another perennial powerhouse. Wisconsin can be considered a part of the elites because they win the division every year and Michigan and Penn State are borderline, depending on whether you wanna count non-conference winners with 10 wins every year. The Big 12 is dominated by Oklahoma. The conference has really come full circle since Mack Brown left UT. Who knows what to make of the Pac12??? Boise St would be a perennial top 3 team there so I won’t even dive in. The point is, there are not 5 power conferences. The only two conferences with more than 2, nigh I say 1, power teams are the SEC and Big Ten. With the current state of CFB, the near future looks as it will continue to be Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and whatever assortment of SEC teams, (most likely Bama, UGA, maybe LSU???.) those programs are recruiting on an extreme level, developing players, and are only getting better and better.
With that being said here’s my great idea which of course is nonsensical because the CFP committtee/NCAA will serve its own needs, not the programs, players, or fans. But nevertheless here we go:

10 REGULAR SEASON GAMES
8 CONFERENCE-2 NON
32 TEAM PLAYOFF- 5 GAMES
3 “POWER” CONFERENCES

East American Conference
Ohio St
Clemson
Penn St
Florida
Florida St
Miami
UGA
Tennessee
UCF
Virginia
North Carolina
Cincinnati

Central American Conference
Bama
Auburn
LSU
Wisconsin
Michigan
Notre Dame
Iowa
Iowa St
Kentucky
Mississippi St
Minnesota
Memphis

Western American Conference
Oregon
Boise St
Utah
USC
Oklahoma St
Stanford
Oklahoma
Texas
Baylor
Washington St
Arizona St
Washington

TOP 4 IN EACH CONFERENCE GET AUTO BID TO PLAYOFF
BOTTOM 4 IN EACH CONFERENCE ARE RELEGATED TO A NON “POWER” CONFERENCE

TOP 4 TEAMS FROM NON “POWER” CONFERENCE IN EACH REGION ARE BROUGHT UP TO THE “POWER” CONFERENCE (those power rankings would be determined by the BCS formula)

For Example:
In the East, if Miami, FSU, Florida, and Virginia finished in the bottom 4, and the top 4 eastern teams in the non power conference were VA Tech, Florida Atlantic, Maryland, and Pittsburgh, then VT, FAU, Maryland, and PITT would be moved up.

Finally, the PLAYOFFS, would be determined by the top 4 teams in each power conference. The other 20 teams would be determined by their respective BCS power rankings.
Ultimately, this would provide more competition for the current dominators, a more enjoyable experience for fans, and an opportunistic format for teams like 2017 UCF or 2019 UGA who believed they could and would challenge for a title.
While this has been perfect in theory nothing this cool will ever be implemented but nonetheless what else does another football junkie have to do at midnight? Assemble my ideal College Football format,THATS WHAT!
 
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The map I think! I did not include WVU in the power conferences because of last year and their projection for this year. Hopefully I’m wrong tho as I’ve always loved watching the Mountaineers potent offense!
 
Colekibler said:
The conferences of college football are boring. It’s hard to consider the Power 5 the true Power 5. The SEC has presented the best team in the country more often than not in the 2000’s but is it really deep? You get Bama, Auburn, LSU (finally again), and more recently UGA. The bottom half of the SEC is marginally good at best. No way it can be a power conference. Then the ACC. Clemson is dominant of course but who is there all throughout the regular season. Florida State has had a fall since Famous Jameis left, one so large that the only fall greater was that of Lucifer from Heaven. There is no clear challenger and it is definitely not a power conference. The Big Ten presents Ohio State, another perennial powerhouse. Wisconsin can be considered a part of the elites because they win the division every year and Michigan and Penn State are borderline, depending on whether you wanna count non-conference winners with 10 wins every year. The Big 12 is dominated by Oklahoma. The conference has really come full circle since Mack Brown left UT. Who knows what to make of the Pac12??? Boise St would be a perennial top 3 team there so I won’t even dive in. The point is, there are not 5 power conferences. The only two conferences with more than 2, nigh I say 1, power teams are the SEC and Big Ten. With the current state of CFB, the near future looks as it will continue to be Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and whatever assortment of SEC teams, (most likely Bama, UGA, maybe LSU???.) those programs are recruiting on an extreme level, developing players, and are only getting better and better.
With that being said here’s my great idea which of course is nonsensical because the CFP committtee/NCAA will serve its own needs, not the programs, players, or fans. But nevertheless here we go:

10 REGULAR SEASON GAMES
8 CONFERENCE-2 NON
32 TEAM PLAYOFF- 5 GAMES
3 “POWER” CONFERENCES

East American Conference
Ohio St
Clemson
Penn St
Florida
Florida St
Miami
UGA
Tennessee
UCF
Virginia
North Carolina
Cincinnati

Central American Conference
Bama
Auburn
LSU
Wisconsin
Michigan
Notre Dame
Iowa
Iowa St
Kentucky
Mississippi St
Minnesota
Memphis

Western American Conference
Oregon
Boise St
Utah
USC
Oklahoma St
Stanford
Oklahoma
Texas
Baylor
Washington St
Arizona St
Washington

TOP 4 IN EACH CONFERENCE GET AUTO BID TO PLAYOFF
BOTTOM 4 IN EACH CONFERENCE ARE RELEGATED TO A NON “POWER” CONFERENCE

TOP 4 TEAMS FROM NON “POWER” CONFERENCE IN EACH REGION ARE BROUGHT UP TO THE “POWER” CONFERENCE (those power rankings would be determined by the BCS formula)

For Example:
In the East, if Miami, FSU, Florida, and Virginia finished in the bottom 4, and the top 4 eastern teams in the non power conference were VA Tech, Florida Atlantic, Maryland, and Pittsburgh, then VT, FAU, Maryland, and PITT would be moved up.

Finally, the PLAYOFFS, would be determined by the top 4 teams in each power conference. The other 20 teams would be determined by their respective BCS power rankings.
Ultimately, this would provide more competition for the current dominators, a more enjoyable experience for fans, and an opportunistic format for teams like 2017 UCF or 2019 UGA who believed they could and would challenge for a title.
While this has been perfect in theory nothing this cool will ever be implemented but nonetheless what else does another football junkie have to do at midnight? Assemble my ideal College Football format,THATS WHAT!
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Cole! How would revenue play affect in this? Would everyone get the same?
 
Colekibler said:
The map I think! I did not include WVU in the power conferences because of last year and their projection for this year. Hopefully I’m wrong tho as I’ve always loved watching the Mountaineers potent offense!
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We're 2 years away from taking our 1st B-12 Title.
Holy crap, Neal Brown... amazing!! Plus, we're upgrading
a lot of facilities. On par with a lot of 'big schools'... loving
the future. 6 wins (if we play) will do fine this year.
 
CouchOnFire said:
We're 2 years away from taking our 1st B-12 Title.
Holy crap, Neal Brown... amazing!! Plus, we're upgrading
a lot of facilities. On par with a lot of 'big schools'... loving
the future. 6 wins (if we play) will do fine this year.
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I hear ya man! I’d love to see. Anything to see a more competitive landscape and some new faces at the top. That’s why I started this thread, maybe us fans lead a revolt overthrow the CFP lol
 
FifthQuarter said:
Cole! How would revenue play affect in this? Would everyone get the same?
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Obviously there would only be 32 teams playing more than 10 games under this format, so most programs would see smaller revenue numbers. Plus the NCAA doesn’t like fun, and with less games in total, everything would be affected. I think that if an idea like this were instated, we would see millions of fan’s obsessions with CFB increase and with that many prime time playoff games, it would adopt that March Madness feel where people incessantly crave more and more.
 
Colekibler said:
Obviously there would only be 32 teams playing more than 10 games under this format, so most programs would see smaller revenue numbers. Plus the NCAA doesn’t like fun, and with less games in total, everything would be affected. I think that if an idea like this were instated, we would see millions of fan’s obsessions with CFB increase and with that many prime time playoff games, it would adopt that March Madness feel where people incessantly crave more and more.
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I don't know, I think it would lead to a ton of backlash and colleges leaving the NCAA.
 
Realistically, the NCAA doesn't have any authority to rearrange conferences. If they did, we could easily create a more ideal situation. However, given the situation we are in, I wouldn't be surprised if the next reshuffle involves some merging and some teams getting the boot. The next reshuffle is going to leave a lot of power programs on the outside looking in. Just my 2 cents.
 
Duckboy33 said:
Realistically, the NCAA doesn't have any authority to rearrange conferences. If they did, we could easily create a more ideal situation. However, given the situation we are in, I wouldn't be surprised if the next reshuffle involves some merging and some teams getting the boot. The next reshuffle is going to leave a lot of power programs on the outside looking in. Just my 2 cents.
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How do you think the reshuffle will play out? Do you have an idea of teams you think will be left out? And what do you think the implications of a reshuffle would be?
 
Colekibler said:
East American Conference
Ohio St
Clemson
Penn St
Florida
Florida St
Miami
UGA
Tennessee
UCF
Virginia
North Carolina
Cincinnati
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Nope.

As a UGA fan from WAY back, I would love to have Clemson on the schedule every damn year. But, I'm not willing to give up "The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" for ANY reason.

On a side note, I'm not sure UCF would agree to having to play tOSU, Clemson, PennSt, Florida, FSU,UGA, and even, Tennessee every year. That would practically guarantee they always had a losing season. Mickey Mouse ain't got enough magic to fix that.
 
8/10 are conference games, 2 non-conf. UGA would have room for Auby and GaTech. Based off recent success, and 2020 projection, in this format I could see UCF finishing in the 5-7 range. I just wanted to get a narrative going on the lopsided landscape of CFB
 
Colekibler said:
How do you think the reshuffle will play out? Do you have an idea of teams you think will be left out? And what do you think the implications of a reshuffle would be?
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Lots of different scenarios IMO. It really depends on what dominoes fall first. The way I see it, the ACC, Big 12 and PAC 12 are looking at how to close the gap between themselves and the SEC and Big Ten.

ACC really struck out on trying to expand the conference into the North East. The Big Ten really locked down the DC to NYC metro areas with the addition of Rutgers and Maryland to go along with Penn State. The ACC, at it's core, is a basketball conference but they have to do enough to keep FSU and Clemson from looking at other options. The ACC wants to be the SEC of basketball.

Big 12 really didn't recover from the raid. Losing Aggy, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado were big hits. Especially when they were replaced with TCU. The problem is Texas. They hold the cards for the conference and are really holding everyone else hostage. They don't have a conference network because Texas wants it's own network. I don't see anyone joining the Big 12 unless Texas is willing to budge. If not, I could see teams jumping ship any chance they get. If that continues, Texas will have to make a change. The big potential domino would be if Oklahoma left the Big 12 without Texas. Oklahoma to the SEC could make sense but the conference is already at 14.

PAC 12 struck out with expansion last time. If people remember, they were looking to add Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado. That would have been a homerun but the Texas issue came up and Aggy alumni didn't want to be a PAC 12 program. They didn't think it was a good cultural fit. Now the PAC is in a weaker position so the chances that Texas will budge this time around is unlikely unless something drastic changes in the Big 12.

Some scenarios that could start the dominoes:
- Oklahoma leaves the Big 12 (with or without Texas)
- Texas goes independent
- High Revenue PAC schools leave the PAC 12 to join the Big 12 if the new TV deal isn't a success.
- FSU leaves the ACC for the Big 12, this could lead to a mass exodus of non-basketball schools in the ACC.
 
Florida has won 3 national titles and played for another i the last generation. Florida has finished in the top 10 the last two years.....but now UF doesn’t merit consideration for the top 10 and is to be classified in the bottom half of the SEC???

I realize Muschamp and McElwain were bad hires, but they’re gone. UF has not ceased to be a major power simply because they made a couple of bad coaching hires in the last decade.
 
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