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In an Alternate Universe, the conference expansion of 1991 and beyond never happened

1990 was a great year in football. It was the year that Joe Paterno's dream of the East Coast Alliance formed. Since then pretty much everyone that has joined FBS has been an independent except for a few.

TV revenue is not a big issue with the NCAA Equal Revenue Act of 1994, where revenue is split based on wins and difficulty of schedule, not by conference.


ACC: Clemson, North Carolina, Maryland, NC State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Virginia

Big West: UNLV, San Jose State, Utah State, Nevada, Boise State, Fresno State, New Mexico State

Big 8: Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa State

Big 10: Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Iowa, Minnesota


East Coast Alliance: Penn State, Syracuse, Pittsburg, West Virginia, Rutgers, Temple, Boston College


SWC: Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Texas, SMU, Houston, Baylor, Rice, Arkansas

MAC East: Miami (OH), Buffalo, Troy, Kent State, UMass, Ohio, Bowling Green, Akron

MAC West: Western Michigan, Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Toledo, Cincinnati, Central Michigan, Western Kentucky, Ball State

WAC: Air Force, San Diego State, BYU, Utah, Wyoming, UTEP, Hawai'i, Colorado State, New Mexico,

Pac 10: USC, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Washington State, Arizona, Arizona State

SEC: Vanderbilt, Tennessee, LSU, Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi State, Kentucky


Everyone else is an independent.