NCAA ANNOUNCES MAJOR REALIGNMENT
**As you know I am a big fan of geographical conferences from my New Era thread. I never understood why teams like West Virginia were in the Big 12 with schools from the Midwest/Texas. I also don't understand why the Big Ten would invite Maryland and Rutgers over schools like Notre Dame or Pitt. Why is Texas A&M in the SEC and not the Big 12 against schools like Texas,Texas Tech, TCU ect... So with that said here is the new look...
ACC (12 teams, keeps it's Orange Bowl bid for Champs)
Atlantic-FSU, Miami FL, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Virginia, Boston College
Coastal-Duke,North Carolina, Wake Forest, NC State, Maryland, Clemson
AMERICAN (12 teams, no Automatic Qualifier for Champs)
Division A (need a cool name)-Louisville,Rutgers,Cincinnati, Syracuse, Mid Tenn State, Memphis
Division B (same)-UCF, USF, FIU, FAU, Marshall, ECU
BIG 12 (12 teams, keeps it's Fiesta Bowl for Champ)
Midwest-Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Tulsa
Lone Star-Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, SMU
BIG TEN (14 teams, Champ plays in the Rose Bowl)
Leaders-Ohio State,Notre Dame, Northwestern, Penn State, Pitt, Purdue, Indiana
Legends-Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Illinois
CUSA (12 teams, no qualifier for Champs)
East-Arkansas State, Georgia State, South Alabama, UAB, Tulane, Southern Miss
West-N. Texas, Rice, La Tech, Texas State, UTEP, UTSA,
MAC (Only 10 teams)
N. Illinois
Ohio
Temple
Western Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Central Michigan
UConn
Bowling Green
Akron
Miami OH
MOUNTAIN WEST (Currently 14 teams but will most likely move BSU and someone to the Pac-12 at some point, opening up the possibility for a WAC team to move over as well. No BCS Qualifier for Champs)
Mountain-Boise State, BYU, Utah State, Air Force, Colorado State, Hawaii, Wyoming
West-Fresno State, San Diego State, Nevada, UNLV, San Jose State, New Mexico, *Houston
*Always thought it would be cool to see Houston battle it out with BSU and also have the MWC have a Texas school with TCU leaving, almost moved TCU back and put Houston in the Big 12..
PAC-12 (12 team's Champ goes to the Rose Bowl, will most likely expand to 14 teams at some point.)
North-Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Stanford, Cal
South-USC, UCLA, Colorado, Utah, Arizona State, Arizona.
SEC (14 team, Champ goes to the Sugar Bowl)
East (need a cool name)- Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Florida, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky
West (same)-Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss State, Missouri, Arkansas
WAC (12 teams, no qualifier)
See above post......