So, once again the ESPN shows are talking about a major shuffle in college football. There's talk of both the Big Ten and the Pac-10 boosting their membership up to 12, and maybe even 16 members, and possibly both raiding the Big XII to do it. So, anyhoo, here's my plan for college football. The advantage of this plan is that EVERY conference gets at least 12 members, so everyone gets a championship game. That ought to end all of the realignment for good. So, here's my master plan:
ACC
Atlantic
Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
NC State
Wake Forest
Coastal
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami (FL)
North Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Big Ten
East
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
West
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Big East
North
Connecticut
Cincinnati
Louisville
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
South
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Marshall
UCF
USF
West Virginia
Big 12
North
Colorado
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Nebraska
South
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
C-USA
East
Army
ECU
Memphis
MTSU
Navy
Temple
West
Louisiana Tech
Southern Miss
Troy
Tulane
UAB
Western Kentucky
MAC
East
Akron
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Kent State
Miami (OH)
Ohio
West
Ball State
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois
Toledo
Western Michigan
Mountain West
South
North Texas
SMU
TCU
Tulsa
UL Lafayette
UL Monroe
North
Air Force
BYU
Colorado State
Utah
Utah State
Wyoming
Pac-10
North
Boise State
Idaho
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
South
Arizona
Arizona State
California
Stanford
UCLA
USC
SEC
East
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
West
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
WAC
East
Arkansas State
Houston
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Rice
UTEP
West
Fresno State
Hawaii
Nevada
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV
Here's what happened and why:
First, the ACC, Big 12, and SEC are entirely unchanged. Why not. Second, no more independents. Notre Dame in the Big Ten, as it should have always been. Natural rivalries and all that. The Big East raids the Sun Belt and C-USA for some Florida teams and Marshall, and has a whole bunch of decent natural rivalries. The I-4 rivalry, the Mountain State rivalry, the Miami-schools-nobody-knew-played-football rivalry. The MAC returns to roughly the old MAC (what was Temple doing there anyways). C-USA loses the Texas schools, picks up Army and Navy and some random other schools, again, good natural rivalries. UAB and Troy, MTSU and Memphis, Tulane and La Tech. The Pac-10 picks up a good school in Boise State, and gets Idaho as a drag along to keep that rivalry together (I also considered moving Nevada-Reno and UNLV). The remaining schools get divied up between the Mountain West and the WAC, again keeping natural rivals together. The nice deal is, every conference gets exactly 12 schools, no one needs to worry about anything. The Sun Belt doesn't exist anymore, but then again, did it really ever need to? 10 conferences, 120 schools, 12 in each. Lets do this!
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