Dream Conferences - using current alignment, breaking some "rules," and hitting the trends of super-conferences
PAC-18 Northwest Division: Washington, Washington St, Oregon, Oregon St, Stanford, California Southwest Division: USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona St, Utah, Colorado Central Division: Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas St, Iowa St, Colorado St
*I know I'll probably get some heat for Iowa St and Colorado St *Only adds 2 more AAU schools in Texas and Iowa St
BIG "TEN" Great Plains Division: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas Midwest Division: Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan St Eastern Division: Maryland, North Carolina, Rutgers, Ohio St, Penn St, Virginia
*Adds 4 more AAU schools in Missouri, Kansas, North Carolina, and Virginia *I hate splitting Mich and tOSU, but see scheduling section after conferences
SEC Southwest Division: Arkansas, LSU, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt South Division: Ole Miss, Mississippi St, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Kentucky Atlantic Division: Virginia Tech, North Carolina St, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Miami FL
*I understand U of Florida blocks all other schools from their state, but I feel in order for this to work, Florida must allow at least 1 in and Miami FL brings a strong history and is on the opposite side of the state from U of Florida *Putting Vandy in the Southwest Division was the only option I saw unless you split up the Mississippi schools which I felt would not happen
ACC North Division: Boston College, Connecticut, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Temple, West Virginia South Division: Louisville, Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, Clemson, Florida St, Memphis, South Florida
*This conference is a little bit of a mess, but is solid in basketball and would fare decently in football *Obviously this means ND would give up independence
Mountain West Pacific Division: Hawaii, Fresno St, San Jose St, San Diego St, Nevada, UNLV Mountain Division: Idaho, Boise St, Utah St, BYU, Air Force, Wyoming West Division: UTEP, SMU, Houston, Baylor, New Mexico, Tulsa
*Using Mountain and West as division names seems corny, but it works-ish *Baylor was "dropped" to a "lower" conference, but I feel they fit in better football and basketball-wise
MAC Southwest Division: Ball St, Marshall, Miami OH, Middle Tennessee St, Northern Illinois, Western Kentucky Midwest Division: Bowling Green St, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Toledo, Ohio Northeast Division: Buffalo, Army, Navy, Massachusetts, Akron, Kent St
*Army and Navy must drop independence, but I feel they would fare well in the MAC *Southwest Division is a little more spread out than I would like
"Unnamed Regional Conference A" Arkansas St, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Tulane, North Texas, Rice, UTSA, Texas St, New Mexico St
"Unnamed Regional Conference B" Southern Miss, UAB, Troy, South Alabama, Georgia St, FIU, FAU, UCF, Old Dominion, Charlotte, East Carolina
*I struggled with creating "Regional Unnamed Conferences," because not all the teams are sub-par *I didn't know if these conferences should be 1 "mega-conference" or 2 "regional conferences" or 1 stronger/1 weaker conference, but I went with regional
Scheduling Conferences with 3 divisions of 6: Play every team in your division, plus 2 teams from each of the other 2 divisions in your conference (9 games) Split rivalries (ex. Michigan and Ohio St) may either choose to add a 10th conference game and play each other or the league may protect that rivalry as 1 of the 2 cross-division games (ex. Michigan plays Ohio St every year plus 1 other team from Ohio St's division) Conferences with 2 divisions of 8: Play every team in your division, plus 2 teams from the other division in your conference (9 games) Conferences with 10 teams: Play every team in your conference (9 games) Conferences with 11 teams: Play 9 of the other 10 teams in your conference (9 games)
All teams play 3 nonconference games (FBS only) unless protected rivalry game is counted as "nonconference" (see Michigan/Ohio St example)
Conference Championships (only for conferences with divisions) Conferences with 2 divisions of 8: Winner from each division Conferences with 3 divisions of 6: Winner of the division with best total record against non-division conference opponents + next best division winner ^reasoning: rewards the toughest division within a conference
Thoughts, criticisms, changes are all welcome! I had a lot of fun making this and I love this website
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