The goal is realignment to fit the landscape and imagined world of my dynasty 40 years in. However, their are major constraints created by the game. (Static bowl line ups, value attributes to winning conference games, FCS opponents in general and "filling" conference games in conferences with less than 8 members.)
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The American is a generally weak conference, especially in the East. There's no benefit to schools to remain in the same conference.
Sun Belt is at parity with C-USA, if not better as a whole, but still has some terrible bottom feeders. Their best assets will combine to form a single stronger conference.
MAC is generally stable.
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Ideally, I'd have the Group of 5 collapse into 4 and several east coast schools (UConn, Umass, ECU, Temple) forced into independence because they have no where to go, in order to suit the narrative of the imagined world. But that's not an option, so I'm looking for the best option within the constraints that's not going to breed unintended consequences (i.e., the 4 bottom-feeding teams that get dropped into C-USA having 9+ wins each season because they are playing 4-5 FCS opponents, leading to higher prestige ratings, leading to siphoning recruits from the group of 4 and Power 5.)
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