Create Your Own Conference

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LCL

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With all the conference movement, I thought it'd be fun to come up with our own conferences, 16 team max, 10 team minimum. Can be FBS, FCS, D2, D3, NAIA.

Some knd of Northern Midwest Conference

NORTH DIVISION
Minnesota
Michigan Tech
Wisconsin
Northern Michigan
North Dakota State
Grand Valley State
Toledo
Western Michigan

SOUTH DIVISION
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Otterbein
Capital
Ohio Dominican
Wayne State
Eastern Michigan
 
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Oh boy, here we go lol.

I'd take the current D3 Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and add Wittenberg and Wooster. Play some weird rotating schedule in football or figure out how to schedule a league open date the final week of the regular season to play a league championship game with everyone else picking up a crossover. With divisions I'd go:

West Division
Ohio Northern
Heidelberg
Otterbein
Capital
Wilmington
Wittenberg

East Division
John Carroll
Baldwin-Wallace
Mount Union
Wooster
Muskingum
Marrietta
 
Conferences is what you meant right? :D

Five conferences of 16 teams each (85 scholarships per team) consisting of 80 teams.

Each conference gets 2 automatic bids in the playoff (10 all together) along with 6 at large bids for a 16 team playoff. Bowls can still match non-conference foes with winning records who did not make the playoff against one another.

ACC
Syracuse
Rutgers
Boston College
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Liberty
N. Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
Duke
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Florida State
Miami (FL)
S. Florida

SEC
Georgia
Georgia Tech
S. Carolina
Vandy
Florida
Alabama
Auburn
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Tulane
West Virginia
UCF

BIG10
Penn State
Pitt
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Nebraska

BIG12
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas Tech
Kansas
Kansas State
Mizzou
Texas A&M
Colorado
Houston
Baylor
Colorado State
SMU
Rice
Tulsa

PAC12
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
California
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
SDSU
Fresno State
Utah
BYU
Utah State
Boise State

You can poke holes in anything but this is my dream. I love regional football with 1 or 2 pre-league cross-overs between conferences and a 16 team season ending playoff (4 weeks).

Everyone else goes to the FCS D-IAA (65 Scholarships).

Some current FCS teams bump to DII (40 Scholarships).

DIII (non-scholarship).
 
It’ll never happen but I wonder if a proper NE conference would help grow college football in that region.

Army
Boston College
Delaware
Navy
New Hampshire
Rutgers
UConn
UMass
Temple
Villanova
 
irish_buffalo said:
Conferences is what you meant right? :D

Five conferences of 16 teams each (85 scholarships per team) consisting of 80 teams.

Each conference gets 2 automatic bids in the playoff (10 all together) along with 6 at large bids for a 16 team playoff. Bowls can still match non-conference foes with winning records who did not make the playoff against one another.

ACC
Syracuse
Rutgers
Boston College
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Liberty
N. Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
Duke
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Florida State
Miami (FL)
S. Florida

SEC
Georgia
Georgia Tech
S. Carolina
Vandy
Florida
Alabama
Auburn
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Tulane
West Virginia
UCF

BIG10
Penn State
Pitt
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Nebraska

BIG12
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas Tech
Kansas
Kansas State
Mizzou
Texas A&M
Colorado
Houston
Baylor
Colorado State
SMU
Rice
Tulsa

PAC12
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
California
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
SDSU
Fresno State
Utah
BYU
Utah State
Boise State

You can poke holes in anything but this is my dream. I love regional football with 1 or 2 pre-league cross-overs between conferences and a 16 team season ending playoff (4 weeks).

Everyone else goes to the FCS D-IAA (65 Scholarships).

Some current FCS teams bump to DII (40 Scholarships).

DIII (non-scholarship).
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That looks great!
 
irish_buffalo said:
Conferences is what you meant right? :D

Five conferences of 16 teams each (85 scholarships per team) consisting of 80 teams.

Each conference gets 2 automatic bids in the playoff (10 all together) along with 6 at large bids for a 16 team playoff. Bowls can still match non-conference foes with winning records who did not make the playoff against one another.

ACC
Syracuse
Rutgers
Boston College
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Liberty
N. Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
Duke
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Florida State
Miami (FL)
S. Florida

SEC
Georgia
Georgia Tech
S. Carolina
Vandy
Florida
Alabama
Auburn
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Tulane
West Virginia
UCF

BIG10
Penn State
Pitt
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Nebraska

BIG12
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas Tech
Kansas
Kansas State
Mizzou
Texas A&M
Colorado
Houston
Baylor
Colorado State
SMU
Rice
Tulsa

PAC12
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
California
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
SDSU
Fresno State
Utah
BYU
Utah State
Boise State

You can poke holes in anything but this is my dream. I love regional football with 1 or 2 pre-league cross-overs between conferences and a 16 team season ending playoff (4 weeks).

Everyone else goes to the FCS D-IAA (65 Scholarships).

Some current FCS teams bump to DII (40 Scholarships).

DIII (non-scholarship).
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I would cut the divisions in about half, actually 48 teams would be just about right. 4- 12 team divisions, 11 games, you play everyone in your division, the winner of that division goes to a playoff.

This would do alot of things...

  • Create ALOT of competition in weeks 1-11, you can add a bye week if you want. Season would be no longer than 13 games for the national champion
  • Weed out the teams that have ZERO chance to compete for the title. If you want to "re-structure" every 5 years ok, but 48 teams is a good number.
  • You give up some national type non-conference matchups, but there would be no shortage of great matchups week to week.
  • blue chip players would compete against blue chip players, nearly every week. The ability to really scout for pro teams would be much, much easier.
 
NCAA D2 version of OAC

Ashland
Notre Dame
Walsh
Lake Erie
Ohio Dominican
Tiffin
Findlay
Central State
 
The Great Midwest Conference:
East: TOSU, Cincy, MSU, TTUN, PSU and Pitt
West: Whisky, Notre Dame, Iowa, ISU, Nebraska and KSU

Champion gets a spot with 1 loss, guarantee
 
irish_buffalo said:
Conferences is what you meant right? :D

Five conferences of 16 teams each (85 scholarships per team) consisting of 80 teams.

Each conference gets 2 automatic bids in the playoff (10 all together) along with 6 at large bids for a 16 team playoff. Bowls can still match non-conference foes with winning records who did not make the playoff against one another.

ACC
Syracuse
Rutgers
Boston College
Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Liberty
N. Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
Duke
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Florida State
Miami (FL)
S. Florida

SEC
Georgia
Georgia Tech
S. Carolina
Vandy
Florida
Alabama
Auburn
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Tulane
West Virginia
UCF

BIG10
Penn State
Pitt
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Nebraska

BIG12
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas Tech
Kansas
Kansas State
Mizzou
Texas A&M
Colorado
Houston
Baylor
Colorado State
SMU
Rice
Tulsa

PAC12
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
California
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
SDSU
Fresno State
Utah
BYU
Utah State
Boise State

You can poke holes in anything but this is my dream. I love regional football with 1 or 2 pre-league cross-overs between conferences and a 16 team season ending playoff (4 weeks).

Everyone else goes to the FCS D-IAA (65 Scholarships).

Some current FCS teams bump to DII (40 Scholarships).

DIII (non-scholarship).
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Love your Big 10
 
ACC North

Cincinnati*
UofL*
Pitt*
WVU*
VaTech*
UVa*
Syracuse
Boston College

ACC South

UNC*
NC State*
Duke*
Wake*
Clemson*
Georgia Tech*
Florida State
Miami

*Easy travel for away games....
 
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Crusaders said:
It’ll never happen but I wonder if a proper NE conference would help grow college football in that region.

Army
Boston College
Delaware
Navy
New Hampshire
Rutgers
UConn
UMass
Temple
Villanova
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No. It’s cultural. Nobody really cares. In most of the east coast big cities I would venture the most popular college football team is Notre Dame.
 
What the B1G should have been:

East

Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue

West

Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Wisconsin

I left out ND. Their identity is being an independent. They should remain that way.
 
Appalachian Outlaws

East
Penn State
Maryland
Temple
James Madison
Virginia
Va Tech
App State

West
Pitt
WVU
Ohio
Marshall
Kentucky
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Obviously, this would never happen but geographically it's beautiful. Some of the schools are outside of what I'd consider "Appalachia" but they are all at least near the edges... It'd be fun!
 
The BIG MAC!

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NEW Conference USA
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