I'm new here and I just discovered this website a few days ago. I liked what I read, so I've been visiting the past couple of days. I had mostly been reading about Conference Invitation threads b/c I have been trying to take some non-BCS powerhouses like, TCU-Boise St.-BYU-Utah-Navy-Notre Dame (not really a powerhouse), and put them into BCS conferences to make the competition more fair. BTW, I have NCAA 09 for PS2.
But, doing this got me thinking. I don't think it would happen, but I was wondering if NCAA 09 would ever allow you to preset the conferences. This idea lead me to thinking of my own little idea about how to scratch the BCS entirely. So, here is my idea. I want to preface this by saying that I came up with this rather quickly.
You have 4 Super Conferences (16 teams in each, divided into 4 divisions of 4 teams). Each team plays the three other teams in its division and then one team from each division in its super conference, for a total of 6 games. The top 2 from each division advance to the playoff portion and each super conference then has an 8 team playoff. The winners of each super conference then have a 4 team playoff to determine national champ. The teams that do not advance can have a consolation playoff of some sort to get more than 6 games in and maybe the losers of the teams that move on can have consolation games or bowl games of some sort so that each team is guaranteed a minimum number of games. Also, I think there should be some sort of rule that says that if a team goes 0-6 or performs poorly over a certain length of time (i.e. 4 years), then they can be dropped down and another team can take their place (ECU and UCF are teams that could possibly replace one of these guys).
I am not as certain what the rules would be but I enjoyed trying to relocate teams:
BIG WEST
North-----West ------East ------South
Oregon----USC -------Boise St--Arizona
Oregon St-UCLA ------Utah -----Arizona St
Wash------Fresno St--BYU -----California
Wash St---Hawaii -----Stanford-Nevada
BIG EAST
North--------West-----East---South
UGA---------Alabama---VT-----Florida
GT----------Tennessee-UNC---Miami
S. Carolina--Auburn-----NC St--USF
Clemson-----Louisville---Wake--FSU
BIG SOUTH
North-----Central-----East------South
Nebraska--Oklahoma--LSU-------Texas
Iowa------Ok St------Ole Miss--Texas Tech
Iowa St---Missouri----Arkansas--Texas A&M
Colorado--Kansas-----Miss St.---TCU
BIG NORTH
West--------Central-West--Central-East--East
Notre Dame--Michigan------Penn St-------BC
Wisconsin----Michigan St---Ohio St-------Navy
Minnesota----Pitt----------Rutgers-------WVU
Illinois-------Cincinnati-----Toledo--------Maryland
1) If you have any suggestions as far as switching teams around, please let me know.
2) If you feel that I have left out a team, please let me know and which team you wish them to replace.
3) Any other suggestions are welcome.
But, doing this got me thinking. I don't think it would happen, but I was wondering if NCAA 09 would ever allow you to preset the conferences. This idea lead me to thinking of my own little idea about how to scratch the BCS entirely. So, here is my idea. I want to preface this by saying that I came up with this rather quickly.
You have 4 Super Conferences (16 teams in each, divided into 4 divisions of 4 teams). Each team plays the three other teams in its division and then one team from each division in its super conference, for a total of 6 games. The top 2 from each division advance to the playoff portion and each super conference then has an 8 team playoff. The winners of each super conference then have a 4 team playoff to determine national champ. The teams that do not advance can have a consolation playoff of some sort to get more than 6 games in and maybe the losers of the teams that move on can have consolation games or bowl games of some sort so that each team is guaranteed a minimum number of games. Also, I think there should be some sort of rule that says that if a team goes 0-6 or performs poorly over a certain length of time (i.e. 4 years), then they can be dropped down and another team can take their place (ECU and UCF are teams that could possibly replace one of these guys).
I am not as certain what the rules would be but I enjoyed trying to relocate teams:
BIG WEST
North-----West ------East ------South
Oregon----USC -------Boise St--Arizona
Oregon St-UCLA ------Utah -----Arizona St
Wash------Fresno St--BYU -----California
Wash St---Hawaii -----Stanford-Nevada
BIG EAST
North--------West-----East---South
UGA---------Alabama---VT-----Florida
GT----------Tennessee-UNC---Miami
S. Carolina--Auburn-----NC St--USF
Clemson-----Louisville---Wake--FSU
BIG SOUTH
North-----Central-----East------South
Nebraska--Oklahoma--LSU-------Texas
Iowa------Ok St------Ole Miss--Texas Tech
Iowa St---Missouri----Arkansas--Texas A&M
Colorado--Kansas-----Miss St.---TCU
BIG NORTH
West--------Central-West--Central-East--East
Notre Dame--Michigan------Penn St-------BC
Wisconsin----Michigan St---Ohio St-------Navy
Minnesota----Pitt----------Rutgers-------WVU
Illinois-------Cincinnati-----Toledo--------Maryland
1) If you have any suggestions as far as switching teams around, please let me know.
2) If you feel that I have left out a team, please let me know and which team you wish them to replace.
3) Any other suggestions are welcome.
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