If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
Here's a great way it could be done. Six 12 team "major" conferences with guaranteed bids. The other two BCS bids would go (one each) to the WAC and the MAC, which would essentially be 22 team conferences (each with two self contained divisions of 11 teams). This would be the 8 playoff slots. The 7th and 8th seeds would be reserved for the MAC and WAC winners and a panel would seed the other 6 conference champions. From there, its a straight 3 game playoff to a national champion. The beauty of this is that it puts every single Division 1 school in a BCS conference and sets up nicely for a playoff. Yes, its never going to happen but its fun to speculate what a rational alignment scheme might look like. Even without a playoff system, this setup would work well by making every team BCS eligilbe...right down to lowly Louisiana Monroe!
Thoughts?
Big Ten (12 Teams)
West
Iowa
Michigan
Nebraska
Minnesota
Michigan State
Wisconsin
East
Penn State
Ohio State
Purdue
Indiana
Illinois
Northwestern
Big 12 (12 Teams)
South
Oklahoma
Texas
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Baylor
North
Kansas
Kansas State
Iowa State
Missouri
BYU
Louisville
Big East (14 Teams - Old Big East + Conf USA remnants)
Northeast
Pittsburgh
Connecticut
Notre Dame
Syracuse
Boston College
Rutgers
Southeast
West Virginia
UAB
Maryland
UCF
South Florida
Southern Miss
ACC(12 Teams)
North
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Virginia
Duke
East Carolina
South
Florida State
Miami
Georgia Tech
Clemson
Florida Atlantic
Wake Forest
SEC (12 Teams)
East
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
South Carolina
West
Arkansas
Alabama
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Auburn
Pac 10 (12 Teams)
North
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Stanford
Utah
South
California
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
WAC (22 Teams) (Winner of championship game gets BCS bid)
Mountain West (self contained division)
Boise State
Nevada
UNLV
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado State
San Diego State
Utah State
Fresno State
San Jose State
Hawaii
Southwest (self contained division)
UTEP
TCU
North Texas
Houston
New Mexico State
Rice
SMU
Troy
Louisiana Lafayette
Tulane
New Mexico
MAC (22 Teams) (Winner of Championship game gets BCS bid)
Northeast (self contained division)
Akron
Ball State
Buffalo
Central Michigan
Western Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Navy
Army
Air Force
Toledo
Cincinnati
Mideast (self contained division)
Bowling Green
Kent State
Miami (oh)
Ohio
Temple
Western Kentucky
Louisiana Monroe
Louisiana Tech
Arkansas State
Northern Illinois
Memphis
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
Lots of problems with this, starting with you left out Colorado.
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
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Originally Posted by
Mesaclone1 
ACC(12 Teams)
North
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Virginia
Duke
East Carolina
South
Florida State
Miami
Georgia Tech
Clemson
Florida Atlantic
Wake Forest
Why don't you just leave the ACC divisions like they are currently?
Atlantic Division:
BC, Clemson, FSU, Maryland, NC State, Wake Forest
Coastal Division:
Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Miama, UVA, UNC, Duke
And I don't see any reason why Boston College or Maryland would allow themselves to be forced out of the ACC. And I also don't understand why the ACC would allow the loss of Boston College and Maryland (a founding ACC member by the way) to be replaced by Florida Atlantic and ECU.
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
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Originally Posted by
nrg4isu Lots of problems with this, starting with you left out Colorado.
Fixed the Colorado omission.
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
I would imagine that if the Big 12 went back to 12 teams that they would probably split up Texass and OK between the divisions. Otherwise the power is really weighted to the south with the Bugeaters now gone.
Also, distance would be a problem with Louisville and BYU together in the same conference. Louisville to Salt Lake City is a 25 hour drive according to Google Maps. I don't see that happening for Olympic Sports purposes.
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
If the NCAA were to align conferences??? The NCAA has no power at all to do this. They are only the governing body and nothing more.
The NCAA is worried about Mega Conferences forming and dumping the NCAA and starting their own "League"
Re: If the NCAA were to align the conferences...setup for a playoff system.
Do you also sketch out the plans for the house that you and Scarlett Johannssen will buy, and the names of your five kids together?
