My revised college football realignment...

[PhilSimms11]

Eastern Conference

Atlantic	Clemson	Duke	Florida	Florida St	Miami (FL)	NC St	North Carolina	South Carolina	UCF
Central	Cincinnati	Indiana	Kentucky	Louisville	Memphis	Michigan	Michigan St	Notre Dame	Ohio St
Northeast	Boston College	Maryland	Penn St	Pitt	Rutgers	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	West Virginia
South	Alabama	Auburn	Georgia	Georgia Tech	LSU	Miss St	Ole Miss	Tennessee	Wake Forest

Western Conference

Midwest	Illinois	Iowa	Iowa St	Minnesota	Missouri	Nebraska	Northwestern	Purdue	Wisconsin
Mountain	Arizona	Arizona St	Boise St	BYU	Colorado	Colorado St	Texas Tech	UNLV	Utah
Pacific	Cal	Oregon	Oregon St	San Diego St	Stanford	UCLA	USC	Washington	Washington St
Southwest	Arkansas	Baylor	Houston	Kansas St	Oklahoma	Oklahoma St	TCU	Texas	Texas A&M

 

[PhilSimms11]

Rivalries would either be rekindled, created, or continue as division games...
Clemson-South Carolina
Florida-Florida St-Miami
North Carolina=South Carolina
Kentucky-Louisville
Michigan-Notre Dame
Notre Dame-Ohio St
Penn St-Pitt-West Virginia
Virginia-Virginia Tech-West Virginia
Georgia-Georgia Tech
Illinois-Missouri
Iowa-Iowa St
BYU-Utah
Colorado-Colorado St
Arkansas-Texas
Oklahoma-Oklahoma St
Texas-Texas A&M

 

[foster4prez]

Need to work on balancing the quality of your divisions. So massive differences.

Any P5 teams get left out?

 

[PhilSimms11]

Any P5 teams get left out?

Kansas, Vanderbilt.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

west virginia should be in the acc.

 

[tabascojet]

@PhilSimms11 annual cfb realignment post is up....who had June 4th in the pool?

 

[PhilSimms11]

Need to work on balancing the quality of your divisions. So massive differences.

Any P5 teams get left out?

Which ones would you alter?

 

[foster4prez]

Which ones would you alter?

I took a run at this years back so the data is a little old but took like a 10 year winning percentage and tried to balance as much as possible while maintaining as many traditional rivalries as possible.

This was a six conference scenario with relegation. 8 team playoffs with round robin conference champs and 2 at-large teams.

Big East			Atlantic Coast			SEC			Big 10			Big 12			Pac 10
Major Division			Major Division			Major Division			Major Division			Major Division			Major Division
Virginia Tech	0.6815	92	Clemson	0.7427	101	Alabama	0.8571	114	Ohio State	0.8250	99	Oklahoma	0.7820	104	Oregon	0.7727	102
Penn State	0.6744	87	Florida State	0.7402	94	Louisiana State	0.7539	98	Wisconsin	0.7239	97	Texas Christian	0.7364	95	Southern Cal	0.7176	94
Cincinnati	0.6667	86	South Carolina	0.6047	78	Georgia	0.6966	101	Michigan State	0.6818	90	Oklahoma State	0.7154	93	Stanford	0.7099	93
West Virginia	0.6512	84	Georgia Tech	0.5909	78	Florida	0.6947	91	Nebraska	0.6515	86	Missouri	0.6489	85	Utah	0.6875	88
Louisville	0.6142	78	Central Florida	0.5769	75	Auburn	0.6308	82	Iowa	0.6202	80	Texas	0.6328	81	Arizona State	0.5512	70
Notre Dame	0.5906	75	Miami	0.5748	73	Mississippi State	0.5703	73	Michigan	0.5906	75	Kansas State	0.5984	76	Arizona	0.5313	68
Pittsburgh	0.5659	73	North Carolina	0.5221	59	Arkansas	0.5591	71	Northwestern	0.5748	73	Texas A&M	0.5969	77	UCLA	0.5271	68
Boston College	0.5039	65	North Carolina State	0.5118	65	Tennessee	0.5354	68	Minnesota	0.4488	57	Baylor	0.5906	75	Washington	0.5077	66
Maryland	0.4286	54	Kentucky	0.4320	54	Mississippi	0.5238	66	Illinois	0.4113	51	Texas Tech	0.5827	74	Oregon State	0.4880	61
Syracuse	0.3902	48	Wake Forest	0.4274	53	Vanderbilt	0.4240	53	Purdue	0.3496	43	Iowa State	0.3252	40	California	0.4640	58
	5.7670			5.7234			6.2456			5.8774			6.2092			5.9570
Minor Division			Minor Division			Minor Division			Minor Division			Minor Division			Minor Division
Virginia	0.3771	46	Appalachian State	0.7368	28	Arkansas State	0.5635	71	Northern Illinois	0.6343	85	Brigham Young	0.7000	91	Boise State	0.8333	110
Navy	0.6489	85	Georgia Southern	0.6216	23	Louisiana Tech	0.5512	70	Toledo	0.5920	74	Houston	0.6641	87	Air Force	0.5923	77
Old Dominion	0.5676	21	East Carolina	0.5504	71	Middle Tennessee State	0.5200	65	Ohio	0.5769	75	Tulsa	0.5846	76	San Diego State	0.5659	73
Temple	0.5360	67	South Florida	0.5238	66	Troy	0.5161	64	Bowling Green	0.5271	68	Utah State	0.4646	59	Nevada	0.5504	71
Rutgers	0.5313	68	Western Kentucky	0.5079	64	Louisiana-Lafayette	0.5120	64	Western Michigan	0.5238	66	Rice	0.4480	56	Fresno State	0.5116	66
Marshall	0.5276	67	Duke	0.4240	53	Southern Miss	0.4729	61	Central Michigan	0.5194	67	Wyoming	0.4032	50	Hawaii	0.4504	59
Connecticut	0.4560	57	Florida Atlantic	0.3525	43	Memphis	0.4160	52	Ball State	0.4960	62	UTEP	0.3689	45	Colorado State	0.4365	55
Buffalo	0.3853	47	Florida International	0.3361	41	Louisiana-Monroe	0.4016	49	Kent	0.3719	45	SMU	0.3600	45	San Jose State	0.3984	49
*Army	0.3279	40	Charlotte	0.2500	6	South Alabama	0.3968	25	Indiana	0.3659	45	Texas State	0.3667	22	Washington State	0.3468	43
UMass	0.1667	10	Georgia State	0.1892	7	UAB	0.3021	29	Akron	0.3141	38	Kansas	0.3197	39	Colorado	0.3440	43
	4.3574			4.4923			4.6522			4.9214			4.4223			5.0296
Tier III			Tier III			Tier III			Tier III			Tier III			Tier III
			Coastal Carolina	DNE	-	Louisiana	DNE	-	Miami-Ohio	0.3065	38	Idaho	0.2869	35	New Mexico	0.3468	43
									Eastern Michigan	0.2397	29	North Texas	0.2951	36	UNLV	0.2742	34
												Tulane	0.2787	34	New Mexico State	0.2195	27
												UT San Antonio	DNE	-

 

[belcherboy]

Which ones would you alter?

I think you could easily move Georgia from the South to the Atlantic. The state touches the Atlantic Ocean, so it wouldn't be a stretch. I don't know who you would trade them with. I wouldn't call anyone in that South division their rival expect GT and maybe Auburn. Florida (who is in the Atlantic) is really probably their biggest rival and more of a rival to Georgia than Alabama or LSU (of which they only play during the regular season about once every 5 years).

 

[belcherboy]

Eastern Conference

Atlantic	Clemson	Duke	Florida	Florida St	Miami (FL)	NC St	North Carolina	South Carolina	UCF
Central	Cincinnati	Indiana	Kentucky	Louisville	Memphis	Michigan	Michigan St	Notre Dame	Ohio St
Northeast	Boston College	Maryland	Penn St	Pitt	Rutgers	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	West Virginia
South	Alabama	Auburn	Georgia	Georgia Tech	LSU	Miss St	Ole Miss	Tennessee	Wake Forest

Western Conference

Midwest	Illinois	Iowa	Iowa St	Minnesota	Missouri	Nebraska	Northwestern	Purdue	Wisconsin
Mountain	Arizona	Arizona St	Boise St	BYU	Colorado	Colorado St	Texas Tech	UNLV	Utah
Pacific	Cal	Oregon	Oregon St	San Diego St	Stanford	UCLA	USC	Washington	Washington St
Southwest	Arkansas	Baylor	Houston	Kansas St	Oklahoma	Oklahoma St	TCU	Texas	Texas A&M

I like that it is geographically split up, but in my opinion:

* The Northeast is awful.
* The Mountain is awful.
* The South is overloaded with good teams.
* The Midwest is pretty bad.

I think it may look better to split it into 12 groups, rather than 8. Although you may still have the same problem until you branch out a little bit outside of geographic location when determining placement.

 

[PhilSimms11]

Eastern Conference

Atlantic	Clemson	Duke	Florida	Florida St	Miami (FL)	NC St	No Carolina	So Carolina	UCF
Central	Cincinnati	Indiana	Kentucky	Louisville	Michigan	Michigan St	Notre Dame	Ohio St	Purdue
Northeast	Boston College	Maryland	Penn St	Pitt	Rutgers	Syracuse	VA Tech	Virginia	West Virginia
South	Alabama	Auburn	Georgia	GA Tech	LSU	Miss St	Ole Miss	Tennessee	Wake Forest

Western Conference

Midwest	Illinois	Iowa	Iowa St	Kansas	Kansas St	Minnesota	Nebraska	Northwestern	Wisconsin
Mountain	Arizona	Arizona St	Boise St	BYU	Colorado	Colorado St	Texas Tech	UNLV	Utah
Pacific	Cal	Oregon	Oregon St	San Diego St	Stanford	UCLA	USC	Washington	Washington St
Southwest	Arkansas	Baylor	Houston	Missouri	Oklahoma	Oklahoma St	TCU	Texas	Texas A&M

Wow...that's a hell of an idea.

 

[PhilSimms11]

Read this on USA Today...today.
"The idea is back in the news, however, as the slide deck for the proposed league was leaked to the media earlier this week. It includes its new structure for the sport: regional conferences. You know, how college football used to look before billionaire executives wanted to sign larger television contracts."

>>West (10)--Arizona, Arizona St, Cal, Oregon, Oregon St, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St
"So, in essence, just bringing back the Pac-12. This thought will be expanded later on in the piece, but the existence of clear, regional conferences would be fantastic news for the sport. Getting to that point is the challenge, especially breaking away from the NCAA. But fans of college football should hope that a 10-school Western division exists in the new model."

>>Southwest (10)--Arkansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech
"Bringing back most of the old Southwest Conference, which folded in 1996. It would keep top rivals together plus re-start the in-state rivalries between Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor. Again, this would be a positive development."

>>Plains (10)--BYU, Colorado, Iowa, Iowa St, Kansas, Kansas St, Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah, Wisconsin
"The ‘Plains’ name would take getting used to. The conference importantly includes Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. Iowa State, Kansas, Utah and Kansas State would be seamless fits. I wouldn’t be quite sure about Colorado and BYU.
There’s no perfect model. But at least Wisconsin would return to playing programs with similar geography instead of programs like Oregon and USC."

>>Midwest (10)--Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan St, Missouri, Northwestern, Ohio St, Purdue
"The best part about these proposals is how clear today’s insane structure looks. Missouri would fit in well with other Midwest schools, as well as programs like Iowa State. Making the sport more geographic-based is only a good thing."

>>Northeast (10)--Boston College, Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn St, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, VA Tech, West Virginia
"Some of these proposed conferences would only have a few power programs each. But if that means the high-stakes games don’t come until after conference play, I’m all for it. This conference might be the weakest of the seven — which makes sense given most of the recruiting talent doesn’t reside in the northeast."

>>Southeast (10)--Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Miami, NC State, No Carolina, So Carolina, UCF, Wake Forest
"This conference would be quite the sight as half of the conference battles to recruit the state of Florida every season anyway. Joining the state of Florida into one conference would be the best thing any new league could do."

>>South (10)--Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, GA Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Miss State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
"As always, I kind of feel bad for Vanderbilt in this football environment. But if the sport gets shaken up, the South can still form the country’s most dominant conference. We just wouldn’t have to also punish programs elsewhere by making them play in it."

>>Under Division League (10)--Boise St, James Madison, Liberty, Miami (OH), New Mex St, Toledo, Troy, Tulane, UNLV, UTSA
(Note: This division would consist of 10 teams rotating annually with a promotion and relegation model)

"Not only would most programs across the country get a chance at relevance, but there would be added drama at this level to see which program stayed on the top tier. Again, lot of work to do before any new shift in the sport. But a movement to this 70-team structure would be welcome."