thread for frivolous realignment schemes

[Urcea]

What site is this?

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sam.epley/viz/CollegeFootballConferenceRealignmentSimulator/CollegeFootballConferenceRealignmentSimulator

not super intuitive to use but pretty useful information/cool

 

[Urcea]

rez'ing for "big 12 20 teams?"

a theoretical 20 team lineup ca 2036

Baylor
Iowa State
Kansas
K State
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas Tech
WVU
BYU
UCF
Cincinnati
Houston
UConn
Colorado
Arizona
Arizona St
Pitt
Cuse
Louisville
Virginia Tech

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split into quads or whatever you call them:

Colorado
Arizona
Arizona St
BYU

Baylor
TCU
Texas Tech
Houston

Oklahoma State
Kansas
Kansas State
Iowa State

WVU
Pitt
Cuse
UConn

Cincy
Louisville
Virginia Tech
UCF

 

[dvegas]

Based on what's going on right now in the "Possible Big 12 Invite rumors" thread, I'll throw out ADub to Dead & Company

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The Big12 is once again going to pass us up and add
Arizona
Arizona st
Utah
Colorado

Big10 adds
Washington
Oregon
Notre Dame
Duke
Virgina
UNC

Pac12 adds
SMU
Colorado State
Boise St
Gonzaga (bball only)
Wyoming (fball only)

ACC adds
Memphis
USF
Liberty(football only)
Nova (bball only)

 

[Urcea]

The Big12 is once again going to pass us up and add
Arizona
Arizona st
Utah
Colorado

Big10 adds
Washington
Oregon
Notre Dame
Duke
Virgina
UNC

Pac12 adds
SMU
Colorado State
Boise St
Gonzaga (bball only)
Wyoming (fball only)

ACC adds
Memphis
USF
Liberty(football only)
Nova (bball only)

this is a Rule 1 blackpill if i've ever seen one

 

[TheDrifter75]

College Football Is About to Change Forever

The Future NCAA Football Conference Realignment Your College Football world is about to change. I don't know if it will happen in 2024 or 2028, but sometime in the next five years I think the fundamental structure of college football is going to shift from five power conferences to three super/...

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[HuskyinWRNY]

College Football Is About to Change Forever

The Future NCAA Football Conference Realignment Your College Football world is about to change. I don't know if it will happen in 2024 or 2028, but sometime in the next five years I think the fundamental structure of college football is going to shift from five power conferences to three super/...

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Omg are you kidding me?

 

[TheDrifter75]

Omg are you kidding me?

Haha, thought it was pretty frivolous myself!

 

[Hogoff]

Haha, thought it was pretty frivolous myself!

It’s a perfect fit in this thread, and only in this thread.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Would be cool to see the PAC add Hawaii as football only and Gonzaga for all other sports.

That would give the PAC extra FB games for teams playing @Hawaii and come as close as possible to replacing UCLA BB

 

[Urcea]

Would be cool to see the PAC add Hawaii as football only and Gonzaga for all other sports.

That would give the PAC extra FB games for teams playing @Hawaii and come as close as possible to replacing UCLA BB

Now THAT’S multiple timezone inventory baby!

 

[Urcea]

Let’s say Oregon, Washington, Arizona, ASU, and Colorado leave the PAC-12. My assumption is that they will just merge with the MWC and keep the long-standing value of the PAC name, similar to the Big East situation. Fair to assume? I can’t imagine tossing away a century old brand

 

[JohnFSilver]

Dreams scenario for some is we drop all sports but basketball.

 

[freescooter]

Wesleyan
Amherst
Williams
Yale
UConn
UMass
Brown
Tufts
Harvard
Connecticut College
URI
Trinity

How's that?

If you bought the name “Big East” and plunked it on that group, 40% of the fan base would be fore it in a heartbeat.

 

[Hhoops19]

Surprised Villanova to the Big 12 hasn’t been floated more broadly. Big if, but if UConn does go to the Big 12, and the conference is entertaining the idea of elite basketball schools to fill out conference (whether that be to get to 18 or 20), why wouldn’t the Big 12 go after Nova alongside Gonzaga?

Elite basketball, strong brand in the Northeast. Adds to BY’s vision of a national conference with elite basketball.

 

[Urcea]

Surprised Villanova to the Big 12 hasn’t been floated more broadly. Big if, but if UConn does go to the Big 12, and the conference is entertaining the idea of elite basketball schools to fill out conference (whether that be to get to 18 or 20), why wouldn’t the Big 12 go after Nova alongside Gonzaga?

Elite basketball, strong brand in the Northeast. Adds to BY’s vision of a national conference with elite basketball.

It was mentioned by someone, maybe in this thread, but if you get to a 16 team Big 12 (UConn, Arizona, ASU, Colorado) and go with four four team pods, you can add a non football member to each. I think the best combo would be Gonzaga, Villanova, Wichita State for the Western, Eastern, and Central pods respectively. Not sure who you would add for the Texas pod

 

[Urcea]

It was mentioned by someone, maybe in this thread, but if you get to a 16 team Big 12 (UConn, Arizona, ASU, Colorado) and go with four four team pods, you can add a non football member to each. I think the best combo would be Gonzaga, Villanova, Wichita State for the Western, Eastern, and Central pods respectively. Not sure who you would add for the Texas pod

On reflection I feel like you just skip a Texas team, add Creighton, and figure out the pod arrangement later

 

[Hhoops19]

On reflection I feel like you just skip a Texas team, add Creighton, and figure out the pod arrangement later

Gonzaga, Villanova, Creighton and Marquette

 

[pepband99]

College Football Is About to Change Forever

The Future NCAA Football Conference Realignment Your College Football world is about to change. I don't know if it will happen in 2024 or 2028, but sometime in the next five years I think the fundamental structure of college football is going to shift from five power conferences to three super/...

www.larrythegm.com

Aside from the last MEGA reshuffle, this has just as much of an opportunity as everything else.

 

[ZooCougar]

Here’s a frivolous and dumb scheme:

UConn stays in the Big East despite an all sports invitation to the Big 12 and $30M more a year.

 

[GampelGladiator]

POWER 3 + Notre Dame

SEC​	Big Ten​	Big12/Pac12​
Alabama	Illinois	Baylor
Arkansas	Indiana	BYU
Auburn	Iowa	Cincinnati
Florida	Maryland	Houston
Georgia	Michigan	Kansas
Kentucky	Michigan State	Kansas State
LSU	Minnesota	Oklahoma State
Mississippi State	Nebraska	TCU
Missouri	Northwestern	Texas Tech
Oklahoma	Ohio State	UCF
Ole Miss	Penn State	Utah
South Carolina	Purdue	West Virginia
Tennessee	Rutgers	Arizona
Texas	UCLA	Arizona State
Texas A&M	USC	Cal
Vanderbilt	Wisconsin	Colorado
Clemson	Duke	Oregon
Florida State	Georgia Tech	Oregon State
Louisville	Miami	Stanford
NC State	Pittsburgh	Utah
Virginia Tech	UNC	Washington
Wake Forest	UVA	Washington State

• Boston College and Syracuse lose power status and join AAC.
• Non-Power Independents: Army, Liberty, UCONN, and UMASS.
• If ND is forced to join Big Ten...Pitt to SEC, and Wake Forest to AAC.
• All ACC schools moving to Big Ten are AAU institutions.
• SEC gets two best football schools, but Big Ten gets two best basketball schools and expands footprint into FL, GA, NC, and VA.
• Leaves Big Ten with only two West Coast schools...which is unlikely.
• Would require an incredible amount of cooperation and compromise between conferences...so its fate is doomed.

 

[Urcea]

I’m not a Siena fan, but as an Albany guy I’d love to see them make an A10 move to have at least a little interesting basketball locally. I feel the MVP Arena acquitted itself very well this March and deserves some bigger time basketball

Too bad UAlbany is locked in irrelevance.

 

[BarkingDog]

Go back to regional conferences with
Eight 10-team conferences. You play nine conference football games plus three out of conference.

Every conference winner makes the playoffs plus four wild cards (based on ranking, computer or committee…. we still need something to argue about) Top four seeds (something else to argue about ) get a first round bye.

In basketball regular season is a home and home for 18 conference games. rotate through top or bottom of other conferences for non conference games. Plus a few cupcakes not in the group of 80.

Big East:

UConn
Boston college
Syracuse
Rutgers
Penn state
Pitt
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech

Love this conference for football and basketball. It has a big dog football program (Psu) and big dog basketball program. The basketball isn’t great at the moment but it could be. (This would also be good lacrosse conference.) plus it has great traditional rivalries.

Elsewhere, Go back to original Big 10 and PAC 10, back to the original Acc and southwest conferences. There would be a Mountain Conference ( Arizona, Utah Colorado etc) restore the American and a new national conference with the leftovers.

Some years ago I actually wrote it all down on paper and it appeared to work out really well for everyone except notre dame … so I guess it will never happen!

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Go back to regional conferences with
Eight 10-team conferences. You play nine conference football games plus three out of conference.

Every conference winner makes the playoffs plus four wild cards (based on ranking, computer or committee…. we still need something to argue about) Top four seeds (something else to argue about ) get a first round bye.

In basketball regular season is a home and home for 18 conference games. rotate through top or bottom of other conferences for non conference games. Plus a few cupcakes not in the group of 80.

Big East:

UConn
Boston college
Syracuse
Rutgers
Penn state
Pitt
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech

Love this conference for football and basketball. It has a big dog football program (Psu) and big dog basketball program. The basketball isn’t great at the moment but it could be. (This would also be good lacrosse conference.) plus it has great traditional rivalries.

Elsewhere, Go back to original Big 10 and PAC 10, back to the original Acc and southwest conferences. There would be a Mountain Conference ( Arizona, Utah Colorado etc) restore the American and a new national conference with the leftovers.

Some years ago I actually wrote it all down on paper and it appeared to work out really well for everyone except notre dame … so I guess it will never happen!

MD and Penn State are not leaving the B1G.

 

[TheDrifter75]

MD and Penn State are not leaving the B1G.

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