Your best conference ideas?

[Cards_King70]

ACC (added Vanderbilt and Temple)
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
Duke
Maryland
Virginia
Clemson
Vanderbilt
Temple

B1G
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue
Illinois
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Minnesota
Northwestern

Big 12 (Big 8 plus Iowa)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Iowa
Iowa State
Colorado

SEC
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Miss State

AAC (Metro)
Louisville
Memphis
Cincinnati
Virginia Tech
Florida State
South Carolina
Tulane
Southern Mississippi
Georgia Tech

MWC (WAC)
BYU
Utah
San Diego State
Hawaii
UTEP
Wyoming
New Mexico
Colorado State
Air Force

PAC 10 (PCC)
UCLA
USC
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Stanford
California
Idaho

CUSA (SWC)
Texas
Texas Tech
Rice
Houston
SMU
TCU
Arkansas
Texas A&M
Baylor

MAC (Ohio/Michigan)
Bowling Green State
Toledo
Miami (OH)
Ohio
Western Michigan
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Kent State
Akron

Sun Belt
WKU
Louisiana Tech
Old Dominion
Georgia State
UAB
USF
South Alabama
UCF

Rest of them will go to Independent.

Btw, Georgia Tech is one of 6 teams founded Metro even though they joined ACC 4 years later because they want all sports.

[RabidPanther]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hypespeed77

I created a 3 Tier Promotion/Relegation System. Teams were initially place in conferences based on All-time Win Totals (not %). TIER ONE: Spoiler B1G PAC 12 SEC ACC XII 12 Teams in 2 divisions in Each League listed in order of founding and rank. Promotions: B1G is Top (Premier) League. PAC 12 Division Winners play each other in championship game; winner goes into B1G Div 1, loser to B1G Div 2. SEC Champion goes into B1G. Pattern is: Win your Conference Championship, bump up 2 leagues, Div 2. Win your division bump up 1 league, Div 1. Highest remaining team in conference bumps up 1 league. Relegations: Last Place in your conference? Drop 2 leagues, Div 2. Last in your division? Drop 1 league. Worst team remaining in your conference? Drop 1 league, Div 1. TIER TWO: Spoiler American MWC C-USA MAC Sun Belt Ten teams in each conference listed by Rank. Promotions: Top 2 teams in conference bump up 1 league. Relegations: Bottom 2 teams in conference drop 1 league. Tier 3: Spoiler FBS Independents Top 4 Independents replace bottom 4 Sun Belt. All in all 52 Teams change conferences each year. Teams in Each Conference to start: Tier One: Spoiler B1G Div 1: Michigan Texas Notre Dame Nebraska Ohio State Oklahoma Div 2: Alabama Tennessee Southern Cal Georgia LSU Penn St PAC 12: Div 1: Auburn WV Syracuse Virginia Tech Texas A&M Georgia Tech Div 2: Pitt Washington Arkansas Florida Clemson Colorado SEC: Div 1: Navy Miami (OH) UNC Minnesota Michigan State Army Div 2: Wisconsin Missouri California Ole Miss Boston College Utah ACC: Div 1: UVA Rutgers Maryland Oregon Stanford Iowa Div 2: TCU Tulsa Purdue Miami (FL) CMU Illinois XII: Div 1: Vandy Kentucky Arizona Arizona State Cincinnati Fresno State Div 2: South Carolina Kansas Louisiana Tech UCLA Baylor NC State TIER TWO: Spoiler American: UMass Southern Miss Marshall OK State NIU MTSU Texas Tech BYU WKU Ohio Mountain West: WMU Nevada Miss St Oregon St Hawaii BGSU SDSU UL-Lafayette Iowa St Utah St C-USA: Wash St Tulane Wyoming Northwestern Florida State (I know, I was amazed they were down here) Troy Toledo Texas State Akron UConn MAC: KState Colo St N Texas Louisville Duke SMU SJSU New Mexico Indiana Rice Sun Belt: Memphis Idaho EMU Temple Ark St Ball St Wake NMSU ECU Boise St TIER THREE: Spoiler FBS Independents: Air Force Buffalo FIU FAU Georgia St Houston Kent St ODU Southern AL UAB UCF ULM UNLV USF UTEP UTSA I know it's a radical reconstruction of college football, but it's fascinating to see the results. I'm playing as ODU trying to reach the B1G.

This is incredible but a little confused on the regulations.
So, example; (D = Division; # 1&2)
SEC champ moves to B1G (2 league jumps) but if it was SEC D1 vs D2 and D2 wins then SEC D2 moves to B1G D2? And SEC D1 also moves to B1G D2? And then the 3rd ranked team in SEC moves to PAC 12 D2? Then you have a domino effect of teams falling down to make room for promoted teams correct me if I'm wrong?!

Because this is a sweet idea and not only are you fighting for a National title your also fighting for top dog conference.

[FarFromEer]

I'm working on building conferences that maximize the amount of rivalry games. Here's where I am so far. Would love input.

Boston College	ACC
Clemson	ACC
Duke	ACC
Florida State	ACC
Georgia Tech	ACC
Maryland	ACC
Miami	ACC
NC State	ACC
North Carolina	ACC
Old Dominion	ACC
Pittsburgh	ACC
Syracuse	ACC
Virginia	ACC
Virginia Tech	ACC
Wake Forest	ACC
West Virginia	ACC
Air Force	American
Army	American
Buffalo	American
Cincinnati	American
Connecticut	American
FIU - Florida International	American
Florida Atlantic	American
Louisville	American
Navy	American
Rutgers	American
Temple	American
UMass	American
Baylor	Big 12
Iowa State	Big 12
Kansas	Big 12
Kansas State	Big 12
Missouri	Big 12
Nebraska	Big 12
Oklahoma	Big 12
Oklahoma State	Big 12
Texas	Big 12
Texas A&M	Big 12
Texas Christian	Big 12
Texas Tech	Big 12
Illinois	Big Ten
Indiana	Big Ten
Iowa	Big Ten
Michigan	Big Ten
Michigan State	Big Ten
Minnesota	Big Ten
Northwestern	Big Ten
Notre Dame	Big Ten
Ohio state	Big Ten
Penn State	Big Ten
Purdue	Big Ten
Wisconsin	Big Ten
East Carolina	C-USA
Houston	C-USA
Memphis	C-USA
Rice	C-USA
SMU	C-USA
Southern Mississippi	C-USA
Tulane	C-USA
Tulsa	C-USA
UAB	C-USA
UCF - Central Florida	C-USA
USF - South Florida	C-USA
Georgia State	Independents
Akron	MAC
Ball State	MAC
Bowling Green	MAC
Central Michigan	MAC
Eastern Michigan	MAC
Kent State	MAC
Marshall	MAC
Miami (Ohio)	MAC
Northern Illinois	MAC
Ohio	MAC
Toledo	MAC
Western Michigan	MAC
Boise State	Mountain West
Colorado State	Mountain West
Fresno State	Mountain West
Hawaii	Mountain West
Idaho	Mountain West
Nevada	Mountain West
New Mexico	Mountain West
New Mexico State	Mountain West
San Diego State	Mountain West
San Jose State	Mountain West
UNLV	Mountain West
UTEP - Texas - El Paso	Mountain West
Wyoming	Mountain West
Arizona	PAC-12
Arizona State	PAC-12
BYU	PAC-12
California	PAC-12
Colorado	PAC-12
Oregon	PAC-12
Oregon State	PAC-12
Stanford	PAC-12
UCLA	PAC-12
USC	PAC-12
Utah	PAC-12
Utah State	PAC-12
Washington	PAC-12
Washington State	PAC-12
Alabama	SEC
Arkansas	SEC
Auburn	SEC
Florida	SEC
Georgia	SEC
Kentucky	SEC
LSU	SEC
Mississippi State	SEC
Ole Miss	SEC
South Carolina	SEC
Tennessee	SEC
Vanderbilt	SEC
Arkansas State	Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt
Middle Tennessee State	Sun Belt
North Texas	Sun Belt
South Alabama	Sun Belt
Texas State	Sun Belt
Troy	Sun Belt
UL Lafayette	Sun Belt
UL Monroe	Sun Belt
UTSA - Texas - San Antonio	Sun Belt
Western Kentucky	Sun Belt

[esayem]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cards_King70

ACC (added Vanderbilt and Temple) North Carolina North Carolina State Wake Forest Duke Maryland Virginia Clemson Vanderbilt Temple B1G Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Purdue Illinois Wisconsin Northwestern Minnesota Northwestern Big 12 (Big 8 plus Iowa) Oklahoma Oklahoma State Missouri Kansas Kansas State Nebraska Iowa Iowa State Colorado SEC Kentucky Tennessee Florida Georgia Alabama Auburn LSU Ole Miss Miss State AAC (Metro) Louisville Memphis Cincinnati Virginia Tech Florida State South Carolina Tulane Southern Mississippi Georgia Tech MWC (WAC) BYU Utah San Diego State Hawaii UTEP Wyoming New Mexico Colorado State Air Force PAC 10 (PCC) UCLA USC Oregon Oregon State Washington Washington State Stanford California Idaho CUSA (SWC) Texas Texas Tech Rice Houston SMU TCU Arkansas Texas A&M Baylor MAC (Ohio/Michigan) Bowling Green State Toledo Miami (OH) Ohio Western Michigan Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Kent State Akron Sun Belt WKU Louisiana Tech Old Dominion Georgia State UAB USF South Alabama UCF Rest of them will go to Independent. Btw, Georgia Tech is one of 6 teams founded Metro even though they joined ACC 4 years later because they want all sports.

True, but Georgia Tech and Tulane also founded the SEC. GT was never in the Metro with VT, Southern Miss, and SC.

[esayem]

Quote: Originally Posted by PocketScout

esayem the last week I have been setting up a dynasty very close to what you came up with. It is setup as an 1991 alternate universe. Full breakdown here of how and why each conference was formed. It looks at real events that took place (like the Raycom Super-conference study for the Metro) and what could have happened in the second wave of realignment (first being in the late 70's) if things had been slightly different. Conference Alignment ACC Big 10 Big 8 (MWC) Big East Clemson Illinois Colorado Boston College Duke Indiana Iowa State Miami Florida State Iowa Kansas Pittsburgh Georgia Tech Michigan Kansas State Rutgers Maryland Michigan State Missouri Syracuse NC State Minnesota Nebraska Penn State North Carolina Northwestern Oklahoma Virginia Tech Virginia Ohio State Oklahoma State West Virginia Wake Forest Purdue BYU Notre Dame South Carolina Wisconsin Louisville UConn Pac 10 (Pac-12) SEC SWC (Big 12) Arizona Alabama Arkansas Arizona State Auburn Baylor Cal Florida Houston Oregon Georgia Rice Oregon State Kentucky SMU Stanford LSU TCU UCLA Mississippi State Texas USC Ole Miss Texas A&M Washington Tennessee Texas Tech Washington State Vanderbilt New Mexico WAC (C-USA) MAC Sun Belt Indep Big West East Southland Fresno St Old Dominion Arkansas St Army SJSU Temple ULM Navy Utah St UMass ULL Ga. State UNLV Buffalo North Texas FAU NM State Akron La Tech FIU Boise St Kent State Texas State MTSU Nevada Ohio UTSA USA Idaho Bowling Green Troy Marshall WAC WEST METRO Hawaii EMU Cincinnati SDSU CMU Tulane Air Force WMU UAB Utah Miami Memphis Wyoming Toledo Southern Miss UTEP Ball St South Florida Colorado St N.Illinois ECU Tulsa WKU UCF

That's awesome!

I've decided in year two I'm going to make a few changes. In year one I noticed Clemson and SC aren't playing and I think it is because the ACC only has 8 teams and it screwed up the schedules. So next season:

American
Boston College
Maryland
Penn State
Pitt
Rutgers
Syracuse
Temple
UConn
West Virginia

ACC
North
Duke
North Carolina
NC State
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

South
Clemson
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
South Carolina
Tulane

[horrormaster]

Did my conferences based mostly on geographical location. Each conference has 12 teams divided into two 6 team divisions. The 6 leftover schools make up Independents. Should make for some different results, recruiting, etc. Bowl qualifiers are determined by perceived conference quality.

AMERICAN (A.Q.)
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisville
NIU
Northwestern
Western Kentucky
Arkansas
Arkansas State
Mississippi State
Missouri
Ole Miss
Southern Miss

ACC (A.Q.)
Duke
Marshall
Old Dominion
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Clemson
East Carolina
North Carolina
NC State
South Carolina
Wake Forest

BIG 12 (A.Q.)
Baylor
North Texas
SMU
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Houston
Rice
Texas State
Texas Tech
UTEP
UTSA

BIG 10
Akron
Bowling Green
Kent State
Miami (OH)
Ohio State
Toledo
Ball State
Cincinnati
Indiana
Notre Dame
Ohio
Purdue

MID-AMERICAN (A.Q.)
Air Force
Colorado
Colorado State
Iowa
Iowa State
Minnesota
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Oklahoma
OK State
Tulsa

MOUNTAIN WEST
Boise State
BYU
Idaho
Utah
Utah State
Wyoming
Arizona
Arizona State
Nevada
New Mexico
New Mexico State
UNLV

PAC 12 (A.Q.)
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
Washington
Washington State
Fresno State
Hawaii
SD State
SJ State
UCLA
USC

SEC (A.Q.)
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Mid Tenn
Memphis
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia State
South Alabama
Troy
UAB

SUN BELT (A.Q.)
Florida State
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
Louisiana Tech
LSU
Tulane
Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Miami (FL)
South Florida
UCF

C-USA (A.Q.)
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Western Michigan
Wisconsin
Army
Buffalo
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Temple

INDEPENDENTS
Boston College
UConn
Maryland
UMass
Navy
Rutgers

[richmondn96]

Based on rivalries and geography. Only one independent (Army) since it is a requirement. 8 out of 10 conferences have championship games.

Spoiler

ACC
-North-
1.Boston College
2.Maryland
3.Notre Dame
4.Syracuse
5.Virginia
6.Virginia Tech
7.Wake Forest
-South-
1.Clemson
2.Duke
3.Florida State
4.Georgia Tech
5.Miami
6.NC State
7.North Carolina
Championship: Charlotte, NC

AMERICAN
1.Central Florida
2.Cincinnati
3.Connecticut
4.East Carolina
5.Houston
6.Memphis
7.Middle Tennessee
8.Navy
9.South Florida
10.Western Kentucky

BIG 12
-NORTH-
1.BYU
2.Kansas
3.Kansas State
4.Louisville
5.Nebraska
6.West Virginia
-SOUTH-
1.Baylor
2.Oklahoma
3.Oklahoma State
4.TCU
5.Texas
6.Texas Tech
Championship: Dallas, TX

BIG TEN
-EAST-
1.Indiana
2.Michigan
3.Michigan State
4.Ohio State
5.Penn State
6.Pittsburgh
7****tgers
-WEST-
1.Illinois
2.Iowa
3.Iowa State
4.Minnesota
5.Northwestern
6.Purdue
7.Wisconsin
Championship: Indianapolis, IN

C-USA
-EAST-
1.Louisiana–Lafayette
2.Louisiana–Monroe
3.Louisiana Tech
4.Southern Miss
5.Tulane
6.Arkansas State
-WEST-
1.North Texas
2.Rice
3.SMU
4.Tulsa
5.UTEP
6.UTSA
Championship: Houston, TX

INDEPENDENTS
1.Army

MID-AMERICAN
-EAST-
1.Akron
2.Bowling Green
3.Buffalo
4.Kent State
5.Marshall
6.Ohio
7.Temple
-WEST-
1.Ball State
2.Central Michigan
3.Eastern Michigan
4.Miami (OH)
5.Northern Illinois
6.Toledo
7.Western Michigan
Championship: Chicago, IL

MOUNTAIN WEST
-MOUNTAIN-
1.Air Force
2.Boise State
3.Colorado State
4.New Mexico
5.New Mexico State
6.Utah State
7.Wyoming
-PACIFIC-
1.Fresno State
2.Hawai'i
3.Idaho
4.Nevada
5.San Diego State
6.San José State
7.UNLV
Championship: Denver, CO

PAC-12
-NORTH-
1.California
2.Stanford
3.Oregon
4.Oregon State
5.Washington
6.Washington State
-SOUTH-
1.Arizona
2.Arizona State
3.Colorado
4.UCLA
5.USC
6.Utah
Championship: San Fransisco, CA

SEC
-Eastern-
1.Florida
2.Georgia
3.Kentucky
4.Missouri
5.South Carolina
6.Tennessee
7.Vanderbilt
-Western-
1.Alabama
2.Arkansas
3.Auburn
4.LSU
5.Mississippi State
6.Ole Miss
7.Texas A&M
Championship: Atlanta, GA

SUN BELT
1.Appalachian State
3.UNC-Charlotte
4.Georgia Southern
4.Florida Atlantic
5.Florida International
6.Old Dominion
7.South Alabama
8.Texas State
9.Troy

TEAM BUILDER
Appalachian State --> UAB (or UAB to Sun Belt)
Georgia Southern--> Georgia State (or GSU to Sun Belt)
UNC-Charlotte --> Massachusetts (or Mass to American)