What Would College Football Conferences Be Without Gerrymandering? (w/ maps)

[huskymedic]

Probably should go on college realignment thread but it's slow here...

http://www.collegeandmagnolia.com/2...e-football-conferences-without-gerrymandering

>>With the (possibly temporary) loss of UAB and the addition of Charlotte, college football still has 128 teams at the FBS level. So we can use the shortest line possible to split the whole map of the United States in two, each side with 64 teams. Then split those regions into groups of 32 and so on, until we have 16 groups of eight. The shortest line ensures that the splitting was done based on geography and not based on someone's whims or prejudices.<<

And the dream/nightmare looks like this.

Northeast (upper right yellow - duh): Buffalo, Syracuse, Temple, Rutgers, Army, UMass, UConn and Boston College.

Mid-Atlantic would add: Akron, Kent State, Pittsburgh, Penn State, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Navy

(8) 16 team conference may be interesting but never happening.

 

[SubbaBub]

It doesn't take $$$ in to account. Needs to have a minimum buy-in with respect to athletic budgets. The fact the UConn ends up in the worst possible position is naturally consistent with CR Rule #1.

 

[Redding Husky]

I love geography and I love college football. Sometimes the two don't mix very well.

 

[CL82]

It doesn't take $$$ in to account. Needs to have a minimum buy-in with respect to athletic budgets. The fact the UConn ends up in the worst possible position is naturally consistent with CR Rule #1.

Move Penn State and Pitt up and I can live with it.