Big 12, SEC, ACC, MAC - All stay the same
Big 10 - has 11 teams - add Notre Dame and call it the MID 12 Conference
Big East - add Navy, ECU, Army, Marshall
Pac Ten - add Boise State, TCU
Rearrange the displaced teams:
Western Conference: Fresno State, Hawaii, BYU, Utah, Air Force, Colorado St, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis, Southern Miss
Sunbelt: Troy, Middle Tenn, U La. Monroe, Florida Atlantic, La Lafayette, Florida International, Arkansas St, La Tech, Western Kentucky, UAB, UCF, Rice
OTHER: Nevada, Idaho, Utah St, San Jose State, San Diego State, UNLV, New Mexico, Wyoming, UTEP, North Texas, New Mexico State (Problem here...only 11 teams)
I haven't yet decided whether we should create an upper tier of teams and reduce some of these...or if it's more interesting if we gave them all a shot.
Also...I've updated my thinking to say that, while you must win your conference, your conference doesn't entitle you to a BCS title shot. So if the top SEC team was somehow 9-4...and there were other Conference Champ teams ahead of you....you aren't in the top 4 just because we all just love the SEC. In fact, if that 9-4 SEC winner came in at #9 in the overall rankings...you don't go to a BCS bowl. Suck it. The SEC team that beat them could, in fact, play in a BCS bowl ahead of them...just not in the top 4 for the National Title.
Again...still working on it. Please check my math and make suggestions. I want a good system more than I want to be right.
Good start, but if you're going to make major changes, I think they should be based on 2 main criteria: geography & potential rivalries.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it would be nice if all conferences had 12 teams, but I don't think it's mandatory.
For conferences w/less, they simply need to make sure they play every team in the conf (ex: Pac 10 schools currently do not play the other 9 schools every yr).
That said, here is 1 man's take. A work in progress...
* Pac 10 - Boise, yes. TCU - no. TX ain't near the Pacific. Neither is Idaho, but it's close. If you must have 12 teams per conf, add Fresno St.
* TCU belongs in the Big 12. Move Iowa St to the Big 10 along with ND.
* Blow up the Big East. Add Penn St, BC, Army/Navy & move Louisville & South Fla. That conf needs some more meat, & this would make them legit. Plus, they'd get built-in rivalries like Pitt/PSU, BC/UConn. And, Army/Navy would now become even more important since it's a conf game.
* Replace BC w/East Carolina in the ACC. Again - geography prevails.
* Move L'ville & So. Fla to Conf USA. Instant rivalries abound.
* Move UTEP from Conf USA to Mtn West to replace TCU.
- The new conferences are as such:
* SEC & MAC stay the same.
* ACC drops BC, adds ECU.
* Big East adds BC, Penn St, Army & Navy. Drops Louisville & South Fla.
* Big 10 drops Penn St, adds Notre Dame & Iowa St.
* Big 12 drops Iowa St & adds TCU
* Conf USA adds L'ville & So. Fla, drops ECU & UTEP
* Pac 10 adds Boise St & Fresno St
* Mtn West adds UTEP
With these changes, the Big East is the only major conf w/out 12 teams (10), & both the Pac 10 & Big 10 now have 12 teams.
Plus, teams like Boise & TCU can no longer piss & moan about being left out of the party. They are now forced to play legit conference schedules, & can finally prove it on the field.
A few loose ends re the WAC & Sun Belt, but that can be addressed by possibly moving teams up/down from 1-AA. Example: drop a few of those Sun Belt teams (MTSU, Ark St??) down to 1-AA & move La Tech from the WAC into the Sun Belt w/their LA brethren. Then move Montana up from 1-AA into the WAC.
None of this will never happen but it's fun to play with.
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