ACC
Atlantic
Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
Coastal
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami FL
North Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
*No changes necessary at the moment. Even though BC is an odd fit with the other schools geographically, they still bring a lot to the table.
Big East
North
*Army
Connecticut
*Penn State
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
South
Cincinnati
Louisville
*Memphis
*Navy
South Florida
West Virginia
*Penn State makes the jump to a conference that makes much more sense georgraphically than the Big Ten. Bringing in the two military academies makes geographical sense as well as bringing in nationally established fanbases and tv markets. Memphis is one of the fastest rising programs out there, and the BE gets a foothold into the Memphis tv market. With the rise of WVU and the resurgence of Penn State combined with the rise of other smaller programs brings the Big East back into the limelight as a deserving BCS conference.
Big Ten
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Northwestern
*Notre Dame
Ohio State
Purdue
Wisconsin
*Notre Dame takes the place of Penn State and fits perfectly into a group of schools with similar location and academic prowess. Doubtful move, but if ever ND decided to join a conference, the Big Ten makes the most sense.
Big XII
North
Colorado
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Nebraska
South
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
*No changes necessary at the moment.
Conference USA
East
East Carolina
*Louisiana Tech
Marshall
Southern Miss
UAB
UCF
West
Houston
Rice
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
UTEP
*With Memphis making the jump to the Big East, Louisiana Tech makes a move that has been anticipated for some time and jumps ship in the WAC to join a conference that makes much, much more sense for them geographically and at the same time, making a jump up in quality of competition.
MAC
East
Akron
Bowling Green
Kent State
Miami OH
Ohio
Toledo
West
Ball State
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois
*Southern Illinois
Western Michigan
*The MAC dumps Buffalo, which drops back down to 1-AA after years of futility at the 1-A level. Southern Illinois is in one of the best positions of any 1-AA level school to make the jump to 1-A. SIU instantly becomes a rival for NIU and makes the MAC much more competitive in a couple of years. Toledo makes the jump to the Eastern division to make room for SIU, which makes sense for Toledo as the two other Ohio schools are in the East also.
Mountain West
Mountain
Air Force
*Boise State
Brigham Young
Colorado State
Utah
Wyoming
Pacific
*Fresno State
*Nevada
New Mexico
San Diego State
TCU
UNLV
*The MWC raids the top three schools from the WAC in Boise State, Fresno State and Nevada. Each of these three schools are very solid competition that instantly push the MWC to at least the same level as CUSA and possibly maybe even a little higher. Fresno State and SDSU are reunited as rivals in the same conference, as are Nevada and UNLV. TCU is still an oddball in the conference geographically-speaking, but they are still an elite team in the conference and have ties to many of these teams from their days in the WAC when it was a 16-team super-conference back in the mid-late 1990's.
Pac-10
Arizona
Arizona State
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Southern California
Stanford
UCLA
Washington
Washington State
*No changes necessary at this moment.
SEC
East
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
West
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
*No changes necessary at this moment.
Sun Belt
Arkansas State
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
*Missouri State
Middle Tennessee
North Texas
Troy
*Western Kentucky
*The Sun Belt adds two more schools to get their number up to ten schools. Missouri State and Western Kentucky have strong up and coming programs at the 1-AA level, and can be expected to become competitive in the Sun Belt in a few years.
WAC
Idaho
*Montana
*Montana State
New Mexico State
*Northern Arizona
*Sacramento State
San Jose State
Utah State
*The WAC takes another major hit and loses another four schools. As a result, they raid the Big Sky conference and grab both Montana and Montana State, who bring two of the best programs in 1-AA and give the WAC a much bigger identity in the western mountain region of the country. Sacramento State becomes another strong addition and complements SJSU. Northern Arizona couples very well with NMSU as well. The overall look and geography of this once-jumbled conference improves dramatically.
Independent
*Hawai'i
*Temple drops back down to 1-AA and Hawaii leaves the WAC to once again become an independent. Although the WAC makes the most sense for this school conference-wise, they are still not a good general fit for conference football at all. Their remote location can become a financial burden for their other conference members. By becoming an independent once more, they are free to schedule as many marquee games as they like with whoever they want, without having to worry about the annual gripes of conference members over travel costs and the long trips to and from the islands.
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