Well it finally happened ...
The ACC champ went undefeated
The Big Ten champ went undefeated
The Big 12 champ went undefeated
The Big East champ went undefeated
The Pac 10 champ went undefeated
The SEC champ went undefeated
The BCS was in shambles ... major controversy over who played for the BCS Championship. The public got what it wanted ...
A 16 Team Playoff for the Championship!
But, first the landscape of NCAA Football needed to change. The "powers that be" stated that there must be 10 conferences each consisting of 12 teams. Each conference will have a Conference Championship game. The winner of each Conferene Championship game will automatically get a seed in the BCS Championship Playoff Bracket. The remaining 6 seeds will go to the highest ranking teams left over in the BCS Standings.
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I am not too sure how to realign the conferences. I am looking to the board for some suggestions. On one hand I would like to realign to offer more regional rivalries and on the other hand I would like to keep with some of the traditional conference setups.
Please give me some of your ideas of realigning under the rules I stated.
Thanks in advance.
How things are currently:
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TEAMS BY CONFERENCE
Big Ten (11) ACC (12) Big 12 (12)
---------- ---------- ----------
Illinois Boston College Baylor
Indiana Clemson Colorado
Iowa Duke Iowa State
Michigan Florida State Kansas
Michigan State Georgia Tech Kansas State
Minnesota Maryland Missouri
Northwestern Miami (Fla.) Nebraska
Ohio State North Carolina Oklahoma
Penn State North Carolina State Oklahoma State
Purdue Virginia Texas
Wisconsin Virginia Tech Texas A&M
Wake Forest Texas Tech
Conference USA (12) Mid-American (12) SEC (12)
---------- ---------- ----------
Central Florida Akron Alabama
East Carolina Ball State Arkansas
Houston Bowling Green Auburn
Marshall Buffalo Florida
Memphis Central Michigan Georgia
Rice Eastern Michigan Kentucky
Southern Methodist Kent State LSU
Southern Mississippi Miami (Ohio) Mississippi
Texas-El Paso Northern Illinois Mississippi State
Tulane Ohio South Carolina
Tulsa Toledo Tennessee
UAB Western Michigan Vanderbilt
Big East (8) Pac-10 (10) Mountain West (9)
---------- ----------- ----------
Cincinnati Arizona Air Force
Connecticut Arizona State Brigham Young
Louisville California Colorado State
Pittsburgh Oregon New Mexico
Rutgers Oregon State San Diego State
South Florida Southern California TCU
Syracuse Stanford UNLV
West Virginia UCLA Utah
Washington Wyoming
Washington State
WAC (9)
---------- Sun Belt (8)
Boise State I-A Independents (4) ----------
Fresno State ---------- Arkansas State
Hawaii Army Florida Atlantic
Idaho Navy Florida International
Louisiana Tech Notre Dame La.-Lafayette
Nevada Temple Louisiana-Monroe
New Mexico State Middle Tennessee
San Jose State North Texas
Utah State Troy