Projecting Conference Realignment

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SteveDeace

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What I believe BCS conference realignment will look like by 2015

ACC (12 teams)

ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest

COASTAL DIVISION
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami, Fla.
North Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech

Big 12 (12 teams)

NORTH
Boise State
BYU
Colorado State
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State

SOUTH
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

Big East (8)
Cincinnati
Connecticut
East Carolina
Memphis
Pittsburgh
South Florida
Syracuse
West Virginia

Big Ten (14 teams)
I believe the league will retain its name no matter how many schools it adds, and I believe it will split into two divisions and sell the corporate naming rights to those divisions. The league will retain its 8-game conference schedule, with each team playing each of its divisional foes once a season, and then rotate a home-and-home series with two teams in the other division to round out the slate. I believe the current conjecture of the league going to 16 teams is purely for the purposes of trying to pressure Notre Dame and/or Texas to join.

FORD DIVISION
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Ohio State
Purdue
Wisconsin

MOTOROLA DIVISION
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Northwestern
Penn State
Rutgers

Pac-10 (12 teams)

NORTH DIVISION
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
Washington
Washington State

SOUTH DIVISION
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
Southern California
UCLA
Utah

SEC (14 teams)

EAST DIVISION
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisville
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

WEST DIVISION
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Houston
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State

Mountain West (12)

MOUNTAIN DIVISION
Air Force
Idaho
New Mexico
SMU
TCU
Tulsa

WEST DIVISION
Hawaii
Fresno State
Nevada
San Diego State
UNLV
Wyoming



 
Couldn't the divisions just be Ford and Chevy? That way they could make sure that each school is driving "the official vehicle" of their division...or does the SEC already have that kind of a deal in place for all of their players?
 
Imo Penn State and Rutgers will be in the Ford and Wisky and Minny in the Motorola. It makes no sense to do otherwise as the travel distance for those teams increases dramatically to do otherwise.
 
Not saying the B10 scenario is wrong, but I HATE IT. Maybe they could call one division the Ferrari and the other the Kia Sorento (sorry, couldn't resist)...okay, the Yugo. To Iowa, this would be a horrible deal.
 
The Iowa Clinic's vasectomy practice and Joseph's have already secured naming rights to each half of the Big Ten, which will be known as the Whipped Conference.
 
ddiction said:
The Iowa Clinic's vasectomy practice and Joseph's have already secured naming rights to each half of the Big Ten, which will be known as the Whipped Conference.
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Are you a big Iowa fan? Then prove it!:)

The only worse division than Iowa's is the B12 North. That is brutal.
 
Looks good to me! However...instead of calling it the "Motorola" division..."Kinnick" division would have a nice ring to it.
 
Wrong! 4 major conferences. No Big 12. No Big East

ACC will add UCONN, WVA, and Louisville. SEC will add OK State, OU, KState, Texas Tech. PAC Ten will add Utah, Texas, Colorado and TA&M.
 
Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan will not all be in the same division. I dont think the league will care about geography all that much...because all of the teams play one another now 8 out of 10 years (more often than not)
 
Big 10 1
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Big 10 2
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana

ACC 1
Florida State
South Florida
Clemson
Boston College
UConn
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
ACC 2
Miami
Duke
North Carolina
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech

Pac-16 1
Cal
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Oregon
Oregon St
Washington
Washington St
Pac-16 2
Arizona
Arizona St
Baylor
Texas Tech
Utah
Kansas
Kansas St
Colorado

SEC 1
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Louisville
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
Alabama
SEC 2
Auburn
Arkansas
Mississippi
Mississippi St
LSU
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma

MWC 1
TCU
Houston
New Mexico
SMU
Tulane
Iowa St
Oklahoma St
Rice
MWC 2
Hawaii
San Diego St
UNLV
Boise St
Colorado St
BYU
Nevada
Air Force

Ten-team playoff with each conference champion and five at-large teams playing in a tournament style. The four week tournament would run from the third week of December to the second week of January.
 
No way the SEC "adds" Louisville and Houston. That would bring absolutely nothing and would actually subtract from the league. If the SEC were to expand, they would go after bigger fish and have the clout to get them.
 
If any conference sells-out to corporate sponsorship it will be a conference of the less fortunate, such as the Big XII or the MWC.
 
Everyone is forgetting about the MVC's stellar addition to it's conference...ISU. ROFLMAAO!!!!!
 
Big 10 & Big 12 thoughts

This is kind of based on a premis of 4-5 superconferences eventually forming maybe not right away, thus making a 4 team college football playoff easy with the winners and making it a legitimate one. It also factors in future conference tv networks and needing viewers.

If this is about $$$$ and the way the Big 10 network makes money is filling out events. I agree with Rutgers, Missouri & Nebraska. I can even agree with adding 3 and waiting and maybe going for 2 crown jewels like Texas & Notre Dame. But if one or both of those two don't come, one thought is have the premier basketball conference and add Kansas and Kentucky. Everything has been discussed from a football perspective but basketball season provides a lot of events, programming every night and advertising. This would maybe make the Big 10 the premier basketball conference. Maybe Kentucky doesn't have the academics and it doesn't work from that perspective, but athletically thats an interesting thought. Maybe you keep Kansas and add Syracuse if ND and Texas never come.

For the Big 12 it is much challenging. They need to start thinking proactively and if tv networks are important add sets. Look at going to 16 even if the Big 10 only goes to 14. If they want to make a tv network below are a lot bigger markets.

I completely disagree with Steve's ideas for the Big 12. They need tv sets. Look at making their own network and make overtures to Temple and/or Pitt., Cincinnati, Memphis, Louisville, East Carolina. Research can a school like Northern Illinois going to a power conference legitimize that school? and give you access to Illinois/Chicago?(just thinking out loud). Those add a lot more tv markets.

Even consider(I didn't say do) California and west markets with Fresno St., San Diego St., or if there is a better school out there I am not thinking of. This adds a lot of tv sets. Maybe you go to 16 even 18 schools. Non-revenue sports can play more regionalized schedules to limit travel costs.

Some of the schools I mentioned won't work but I think they need to evalute these markets or any I forgot to add tv sets and increase revenue for the league.
 
Big 10 West
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Northwestern

Big 10 East
Purdue
Indiana
Penn State
Michigan St
Michigan
Ohio State
Rutgers
 
thejumper5 said:
Big 10 1
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Big 10 2
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana

ACC 1
Florida State
South Florida
Clemson
Boston College
UConn
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
ACC 2
Miami
Duke
North Carolina
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech

Pac-16 1
Cal
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Oregon
Oregon St
Washington
Washington St
Pac-16 2
Arizona
Arizona St
Baylor
Texas Tech
Utah
Kansas
Kansas St
Colorado

SEC 1
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Louisville
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
Alabama
SEC 2
Auburn
Arkansas
Mississippi
Mississippi St
LSU
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma

MWC 1
TCU
Houston
New Mexico
SMU
Tulane
Iowa St
Oklahoma St
Rice
MWC 2
Hawaii
San Diego St
UNLV
Boise St
Colorado St
BYU
Nevada
Air Force

Ten-team playoff with each conference champion and five at-large teams playing in a tournament style. The four week tournament would run from the third week of December to the second week of January.
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THere will Not be 5 Mega conferences. I believe there will be 4 with their own networks. Having 5 adds 15 teams into the BCS mix from our current 65. The reason for the conferences will be for TV. Your MWC would have a television network that would fail financially within a year or two. Imaging the horrible basketball. Do all those teams even have wrestling? The SEC, PAC 10, BIG 10 and ACC could easily support their own TV network. The BCS (if it survives) wouldnt wnat to have anything to do with the MWC
 
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