Posted on 12/06/2014 8:50:06 PM PST by re_nortex
It’ll be interesting to see how it shakes out. I see a B12 SEC merger with ISU, KU, and KSU going to the B10.
I think I have a very workable system.
Divide 84 teams into 4 conferences.
This is how I have the new conferences:
SEC
1 Florida
2 Georgia
3 Alabama
4 Auburn
5 South Carolina
6 LSU
7 Ole Miss
8 Mississippi State
9 Tulane
10 Arkansas
11 Missouri
12 Tennessee
13 Kentucky
14 Vanderbilt
15 Texas A&M
16 Texas
17 TCU
18 Baylor
19 Texas Tech
20 Houston
21 Memphis
ACC
1 FSU
2 Georgia Tech
3 North Carolina
4 NC State
5 Duke
6 Wake Forest
7 Virginia
8 Virginia Tech
9 Pitt
10 Syracuse
11 Miami
12 Louisville
13 Boston College
14 Notre Dame
15 Army
16 Navy
17 Temple
18 Central Florida
19 South Florida
20 Georgia Southern
21 Clemson
Big Ten
1 Ohio State
2 Cincinnati
3 Michigan
4 Michigan State
5 Illinois
6 Northwestern
7 Purdue
8 Indiana
9 Wisconsin
10 Minnesota
11 Nebraska
12 Iowa
13 Iowa State
14 Kansas
15 Kansas State
16 Rutgers
17 Maryland
18 Penn State
19 UConn
20 West Virginia
21 Marshall
PAC 12
1 Oregon
2 Oregon State
3 USC
4 UCLA
5 Stanford
6 Cal
7 Washington
8 Washington State
9 Arizona
10 Arizona State
11 Utah
12 Utah State
13 BYU
14 Colorado
15 Oklahoma
16 Oklahoma State
17 Air Force
18 Colorado State
19 Boise State
20 New Mexico
21 Hawaii
So now you have 21 teams in each conference.
Put those 21 teams in three divisions. My thought is to weigh each team and equally distribute the teams into the divisions so that each division is fairly weighed against the other.
Then have each team in a division play the other, plus a few additional games against conference teams in the other divisions.
Then take your three Division winners, plus the best runner up and play the conference semi final games at the home stadium of the higher-seeded team, then the Conference Championship game at the neutral site as it is now. Then those Four Conference Champions go to the playoffs.
There’s your 16-Team playoff!
Okstate and OU depends too heavily on recruiting players who Longhorns don’t want. For that, they need to play Texas every year.
Thanks for the ping btw.
I hadn’t seen GT play all year.
It was refreshing to see a team that ran the ball often and well.
Throwback time for sure.
Interesting thought.
But the BIG10 tv network deal is huge...the member schools are ecstatic over the dough from that deal...
You could still have some of the traditional non-conference matchups.
Baylor has the biggest motivation to make a move at this point; they really think they got the short end of the stick this time. Either the B12 has to man up and put Texas in its place, or it will follow in the footsteps of the SWC. Even Notre Dame has seen the handwriting on the wall although it is half -in/half out with the ACC at this point.
Unless there is a major change to the system, ND will have to go all in at some point.
I am going to laugh the day Texas gets assimilated into The Borg of the SEC.
I can see OU, OKST, or Baylor being a fit with the SEC. TT probably should aim for the PAC, and the northern schools for the B10. But for geography, TCU would fit with the ACC (and possibly even Baylor). But I can’t see anyone wanting Texas given the baggage that they have. Perhaps the new AD could try to be an influence on the program, but he’s not going to be able to change the alumni.
Four 16 team superconferences should be enough for the top division.
I read that every team in the SEC is making more off their tv deal than Texas is off their crappy LNW. Vandy is making more than Texas. The B12 really messed up.
“I am going to laugh the day Texas gets assimilated into The Borg of the SEC.”
Yah, that would be funny for sure. The downward spiral began when the Soutwest Conference leadership refused to guarantee Arkansas a place at the table in the upcoming Big Twelve. Now, A&M has jumped ship. Texas and Oklahoma are the glue holding the Big Twelve together now. If/when they decide to jump the Big Twelve is dead. Btw, the Texas TV deal and Osborn’s visceral hatred of all things Texas is what caused Nebraska to jump to the Big Ten, a big mistake as Nebraska is a duck out of water in the Big Ten. Anyway..... appears to me there’s a new round of realignments looming on the horizon.
The game is a good one so far, and although I doubt my team will have a chance to prevail, I am proud of the fact that despite all of the negatives surrounding their program due to injuries and coaching weakness, I still am of the belief that they match up well with any SEC team, regardless of the outcome of this game.
Your Verdict? :)
Uhhhhhh, no.
No argument here-Ohio State truly deserves the National Championship. Amazing performance not only by individual players, but a great team effort also. Such a young team, too...
Guess we learned the difference between having a playoff and the old BCS setup.
OSU doesn’t even sniff the Championship Game under the old system.
No sniffs for Ohio State at the National Championship under the BCS system? Sorry to disagree. BCS was the system for the seasons 1998-2013. The Buckeyes won the Championship game for the 2002 season, and were invited to the Championship game but lost in the 2006 and 2007 seasons. I count that as 3 sniffs, and 1 was successful.
Did I misunderstand?
I meant this season. If the old system were in place.
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