Heres the senerio, all of a sudden, all the college football confrences colapse and now all 117 1-A football teams are independent. Your job is to come up with brand new confrences. Everyone can recommend a new confrences, recommend editing a current or proposed confrence or give your vote of confidence to a proposed new confrence. Now the rules:

*All confrences need at least 8 members and can't have more than 14. And yes, you still need 12 members for a championship game for those who care.

*1-AA teams can be included in your confrence proposals, but in general they should have at least 15K in home atendence. Sorry Northern Colorado!

*I will veto any outragious confrences. Don't pull a WAC or Sunbelt and stretch too far geographically or put powerhouse like USC in the same confrences as super creampuff San Jose State.

*I will also override any vetos which dont come with a reason or the reason isn't a serious one.

*Proposals will officially be approved when they have been approved by at least 3 people with a 2:1 approve/veto ratio.

*Once a team is in an officially approved confrence, they can't swich confrences without being approved by 4 people with 3:1 approval ratio.

I'm cureous to see what combinations you come up with and why. Happy aligning!

The Great Plains Conference

Montana
Montana State
Idaho
Idaho State
Wyoming
North Dakota State
South Dakota State
Northern Iowa

The New SEC

Texas
Texas A&M
LSU
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Mississippi

Tennessee
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Florida
North Carolina St.
Virginia Tech
Georgia

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The Bear may be dead but he still hates Tennessee. Roll Damn Tide

New Sec alternative

Miami
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Georgia Tech
South Carolina
Clemson
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee

Whoa, FriarFan, approaching Nirvana in your thinking?
That 10 figure just leaps out... 8-)

Sometimes I think I'm truly gonna adopt the contrarian manifesto:
Pac10, TrueBig10, SEC10, ACC10, BE10, MWC10, BigXII-II (cut Baylor, for one),
all with championships, and great interconference play

The Great Plains Confrence will be vetoed because Montana St, Idaho St., ND St, and SD St don't have enough attendence for 1-A status. Northern Iowa is probably too low too, but I'll let that one slide.

The Metro East Conference

BC
UConn
Rutgers
Syracuse
Temple
Marshall

Pitt
WVU
Penn State
Louisville
Cincinnati
Notre Dame (None of this partial commitment stuff, they'll be a full member, football included.)

Is there a limit on dreaming???

BIG TEN COUNTRY
**EAST**
BC
Syracuse
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan St
Wisconsin

**West**
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota

Could still happen........ :)

Since I just moved to Houston, I'll start with Texas and move out from there:

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
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Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
UTEP
TCU
North Texas
SMU
Baylor
Houston
Rice
Oklahoma
OK State

MOUNTAIN WEST
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New Mexico
New Mexico State
Utah
Utah State
BYU
Colorado
Colorado State
Air Force
Arizona
Arizona State
Nevada
UNLV

12-SOUTH
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LA Tech
Louisiana (Cajuns)
LSU
Tulane
Ole Miss
Miss State
Southern Miss
Alabama
Auburn
UAB
Arkansas
Arkansas State

PAC-12
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Oregon
Oregon State
USC
Stanford
Cal
UCLA
Washington
Washington State
Fresno State
Hawaii
SDSU
SJSU


Someone else feel free to fill in the rest.
SUNSHINE CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE
MAC
BIG TEN

TN and AL MUST be in the same conference. Same for AL-Auburn and FL-GA.

New SEC
Ol' Miss, MS St,AL,Auburn,TN,Memphis,KY,Louiseville


South Coast Conference
Miami(Fl),So FL, Central FL,FL,Fl St,GA,GT,SC,ECU

Mid Atlantic Conference
Clemson,Duke,NC,NC St,VA,VT,Wake,Marshall

North Atlantic Conference
BC,Buffalo,CT,PA St,Pitt,Rutgers,Syracuse,Temple,WV

new SWC
TX,aTm,TT,AR,LSU,Tulane,So Miss,AR St,SMU

new Big 9
same as origional Big 8 plus CO St

new PAC 10
same as old

new Big 10
same as old B4 PA St

FBfan

great proposals coming in! Still waiting on anyone to voice their approval to a proposal so we still have yet to establish an approved confrence.

I'm going to be a little more traditional

New Big 12
Texas
A&M
Texas Tech
Baylor (somebody has to lose!)
LSU
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas St
OK St (I'd rather have Illinois St-but I don't think they hit 15k)

Revived WAC
Hawaii
SDSU
Fresno St.
Boise St.
Nevada
UNLV
BYU
Utah St.
Wyoming
Colorado St.
Air Force
New Mexico

Pac 12
Washington
WSU
Oregon
Oregon St
Cal
UCLA
Arizona
ASU
Utah
Colorado
Stanford
USC

New SWC
Rice
UH
SMU
TCU
UTEP
New Mexico St
La-Lafayette
Tulane
LA Tech
S. Miss
Tulsa
SW Missouri St.

Bucknuts, I really like your dream. In fact, I share it. ;D This line-up would provide a tremendous TV market, would provide ND with the Eastern exposure they want, and IMHO adding the three schools would increase the Big Ten per school financials. Regarding your divisional line-ups, Wisconsin is West of five of the seven Western divisional schools.



I think the divisional alignment is good as is, but I would rename the divisions to the "Playoff to See Who Plays ND in the Championship Game" (East) and "ND's Fast Track to the Championship Game" (West). OK, perhaps a little wordy, but you get the idea and who wouldn't want to see ND play the best of the other division every year in a championship game? Well, I guess that is debatable, but it would be very entertaining to say the least.

Hmm, cybercat, maybe we should acclaim you our official map guy--very nice job (smile). I bet the ACC "contiguity" folks could use your services as well (smile)...

The problem with such dreaming of course is it makes an awful lot of BE folks unhappy. I'm not sure Midwest culture is the same as Eastern culture, and its so nice when conferences have a regional flavor...

And, yes, I know its only a game....
;)