Realistic Future Conference Re-Alignments?

[Seanzie]

So I'm a realism buff. For my first season in dynasty, I plan on keeping every conference the way it is. However, in my second season, I do plan on moving TCU to the Big East, and Fresno State, Hawai'i and Nevada into the Mountain West.

However, knowing that college football is never static in terms of conference movement, I was also planning on making some changes a little deeper into dynasty mode. For example, I put a lot of thought into what could happen in say, 2018.

I'm going to make Texas an independent. They'll have their own TV network, and I figure they're one school who could do it successfully.

To get the Big 12 back up to 12 teams (after Texas' departure), I was going to add former SWC members SMU, Houston, and Arkansas.

I'll replace Arkansas with Clemson in the SEC, and replace Clemson with West Virginia in the ACC.

In the Big East, I'm going to add UCF and Memphis, and strip the conference of its AQ status.

Other minor ones:

C-USA
Add Temple (from MAC)

Sun Belt
Add Tulane (from C-USA)

WAC
Add North Texas (from Sun Belt)
Add Western Kentucky (from Sun Belt)

Any other cool ideas?

[Redacted01]

Re: Realistic Future Conference Re-Alignments?

Add Western Kentucky (from Sun Belt)

Thank god Hawai'i is gone.

[RebelHog]

Re: Realistic Future Conference Re-Alignments?

So I'm a realism buff. For my first season in dynasty, I plan on keeping every conference the way it is. However, in my second season, I do plan on moving TCU to the Big East, and Fresno State, Hawai'i and Nevada into the Mountain West.

However, knowing that college football is never static in terms of conference movement, I was also planning on making some changes a little deeper into dynasty mode. For example, I put a lot of thought into what could happen in say, 2018.

I'm going to make Texas an independent. They'll have their own TV network, and I figure they're one school who could do it successfully.

To get the Big 12 back up to 12 teams (after Texas' departure), I was going to add former SWC members SMU, Houston, and Arkansas.

I'll replace Arkansas with Clemson in the SEC, and replace Clemson with West Virginia in the ACC.

In the Big East, I'm going to add UCF and Memphis, and strip the conference of its AQ status.

Other minor ones:

C-USA
Add Temple (from MAC)

Sun Belt
Add Tulane (from C-USA)

WAC
Add North Texas (from Sun Belt)
Add Western Kentucky (from Sun Belt)

Any other cool ideas?

Realistically speaking, Arkansas is NEVER leaving the SEC.

[Dr Death]

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Thank god Hawai'i is gone.

Not a Warrior fan???

[blkrptnt819]

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Realistically speaking, Arkansas is NEVER leaving the SEC.

That's not far fetched. I think they thought about it this time around.

[Wildcats302]

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That's not far fetched. I think they thought about it this time around.

I don't think they really did. Maybe for a second and then realized how stupid a move it would be to go to a conference that is blatantly showing favoritism to Texas and kissing their butt.

[RebelHog]

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That's not far fetched. I think they thought about it this time around.

Never even came up, we are not leaving the best conference in collegiate sports. To be screwed by Texas again. No way.

[volstopfan14]

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Has anyone put together a confrence religinment in which Texas,Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State are in the Pac-16? I'm trying to put it together just to see what it would look like but I can't find one that works.

[Wildcats302]

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Has anyone put together a confrence religinment in which Texas,Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State are in the Pac-16? I'm trying to put it together just to see what it would look like but I can't find one that works.

I'd say one division would have:

OK State, TX, TX Tech, OK ST, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado. East Division.

The other:

USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Oregon ST, Washington and Washington State. West Division.

You can't change the name of the conference though, so it will stay the Pac 12, which is silly to me, but just look at the Big XII(-2) and the Big Ten(+2) lol it does happen in real life.

[TDenverFan]

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It's tough to gage conference realignments in 2018... Eastern Michigan or any non-AQ could easily become the next Boise St/TCU/USF

[volstopfan14]

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I'd say one division would have:

OK State, TX, TX Tech, OK ST, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado. East Division.

The other:

USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Oregon ST, Washington and Washington State. West Division.

You can't change the name of the conference though, so it will stay the Pac 12, which is silly to me, but just look at the Big XII(-2) and the Big Ten(+2) lol it does happen in real life.

I guess I didn't explain it well. I'm not really concerned with divisions right now. I'm trying to figure out where to make other confrence changes. If the Pac-16 happened, then the B1G TEN and the SEC would likely want to expand to 16 too. What teams should I give them? What should I do with the Big 12? In a dream scenario, I would send the Big 12 teams to the MWC or the Big East and delete the Big 12 but you can't do that.

[Redacted01]

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Not a Warrior fan???

No, I'm fine with Hawai'i, but would you really want to be WKU or Hawai'i and have to play eachother in the middle of the season? One insane road trip.

[Wildcats302]

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I guess I didn't explain it well. I'm not really concerned with divisions right now. I'm trying to figure out where to make other confrence changes. If the Pac-16 happened, then the B1G TEN and the SEC would likely want to expand to 16 too. What teams should I give them? What should I do with the Big 12? In a dream scenario, I would send the Big 12 teams to the MWC or the Big East and delete the Big 12 but you can't do that.

OK, well I'll just throw out some suggestions for you.

Big Ten: Maybe add, Notre Dame, Missouri(gives Nebraska an old rival from the Big XII), Pittsburgh(Gives Penn State an instate rival), and then maybe throw a bone to West Virginia as your 16th team. Or maybe diss Missouri and add VA Tech to go along with W. Virginia.

SEC: I'd raid the ACC. Give me FSU, Miami, Clemson and GA Tech. Those make the most sense to me although if you wanna throw in VA Tech in place of one of the four I suggested I'd get that.

The Big XII would have 5-6 remaining teams depending on whether or not you sent Missouri to the Big Ten or SEC(if you wanted). So, you could send the rest to the Big East to give it 12 teams or some to the Mountain West, some to Big East, some to ACC...there are a lot of fun ways you can do it. Or you can keep them in the Big XII(what's left of it) and try to raid C-USA teams like Houston, Tulsa, Rice, SMU, etc, to fill it back up.

It's your custom conference so make it how you prefer and as you can see you can do it a lot of fun ways.

[fcboiler87]

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Did we get confirmation that we'd be able to make these type of changes mid dynasty?

[MrRudy]

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Did we get confirmation that we'd be able to make these type of changes mid dynasty?

Yes sir! It's in and I for one, am giddy