4 Superconferences with 16 teams, What teams will be in what league?
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dokkenAssuming the Big 12 and Big East implode. Fill in underneath each Conference.
ACC
SEC
Big 10
Pac 10 -
krambman
ACC
North
Boston College
Cincinnati
Pitt
West Virginia
UConn
Louisville
Kansas
Kansas State
South
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
North Carolina State
Duke
Virginia
South Florida
Maryland
SEC
West
Alabama
LSU
Ole Miss
Arkansas
Auburn
Mississippi State
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
East
Florida
Florida State
Miami
Georgia Tech
Clemson
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Big Sixteen (Formerly Big Ten)
West
Ohio State
Penn State
Syracuse
Rutgers
Michigan
Michigan State
Purdue
Indiana
East
Iowa
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Missouri
Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
Northwestern
Big West (formerly Pac-10)
Pacific
Oregon
Oregon State
Standford
USC
Cal
UCLA
Washington State
Desert
Arizona
Arizona State
Texas
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado
I'll go one further because I think that we will end up with one more 16 team super conference.
Mountain West
Mountains
BYU
Utah
Air Force
Wyoming
Boise State
Idaho
Fresno State
Colorado State
Plains
TCU
UNLV
San Diego State
New Mexico
Baylor
Nevada
Houston
Iowa State (or Tulsa or Utah State)
I could keep going because obviously this will force pretty much all of the other conferences out there to realign as well, but I think I'll stop here for now.
Of course, there are a few teams on here I could see ending up in multiple places. For instance, if Notre Dame doesn't end up in the Big Ten then I think they add UConn in their place. I could also see the SEC going after Virginia Tech instead of Clemson.
I'm also going under the assumption that since there are currently 66 teams in BCS automatic qualifying conferences (including Notre Dame) and since this alignment gives us 64 schools in the four new major super conferences, that only teams currently in a BCS conference will end up in one of the new super conferences. So for me Baylor and Iowa State are left out and they end up in the fifth super conference, the Mountain West. I can also see the five remaining WAC schools joining with CUSA and adding Army to form the sixth 16 team super conference.
So, this is pretty much how I see things eventually ending up. -
GOONx19
Your list looks good, but I can't see the Kansas schools going to the ACC at all. -
Ytowngirlinfla
Miami, Florida and Florida State would never be in the same division in a league. I'd say they would all fit in the SEC but Florida doesn't want to play Miami on a regular basis. -
krambman
GOONx19;387524 wrote:Your list looks good, but I can't see the Kansas schools going to the ACC at all.
If the Big Ten adds two teams from the Big East and the SEC adds four from the ACC, then when the Big East and ACC get married that's still only 14 teams. Who else would they go after? Memphis and Central Florida? There are no other current BCS teams that they could go after. I don't think it's the best fit, but I'm not sure who the new ACC could add to get the 16, and I don't think that the Kansas schools would turn them down at that point (I'm going under the assumption that the Pac-10 is the first to 16 teams, the Big Ten second, and the SEC third).
Florida may not want to play Miami every year, but Florida still only has one vote, so if the rest of the conference decided that a pure geographic East/West realignment is what they wanted to do then that is what would happen. It's not like Florida has veto power to prevent it. Votes just have to be a majority (or sometimes a super majority) not unanimous. I could also see them taking one of the Florida school and putting them in the West along with Kentucky and moving the two Tennessee school back to the East to help make the conference more balanced.Ytowngirlinfla;387554 wrote:Miami, Florida and Florida State would never be in the same division in a league. I'd say they would all fit in the SEC but Florida doesn't want to play Miami on a regular basis.