4 Super Conferences

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Now I know I'll probably get bashed a little but I searched for a realignment and super conference thread and couldn't find a good one. I've been looking a lot at the possibility of the 4 super conferences, and it looks like all the experts believe that is what will eventually happen to college football so I just wanted ideas on what the conferences would look like(if it happens) in all the Vol's fans' opinions. This is all assuming the Big 12 and Big East both collapse and I am not saying this will all happen but just kind of a fun way to look at the possible future of college football. Also I included the newly popular "pod" system which looks effective. My outlook would be like this:

Pac 16
North
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Central
UCLA
USC
California
Stanford
South
Arizona
Arizona State
Texas
Texas Tech
Midwest
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado
Utah
Big
North
Minnesota
Michigan State
Michigan
Wisconsin
East
Connecticut
Penn State
Notre Dame
Indiana
Central
Ohio State
Northwestern
Illinois
Purdue
West
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Iowa
ACC
North
Boston College
Rutgers
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Central
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Maryland
Wake Forest
Carolinas
Duke
North Carolina
N.C. State
Clemson
South
Florida State
Miami
South Florida
Georgia Tech
SEC
Southwest
Texas A&M
LSU
Arkansas
TCU
North
West Virginia
Kentucky
Missouri
Tennessee
Central
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Auburn
Alabama
East
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Vanderbilt
Remaining Conference
West
BYU
Boise State
Baylor
Iowa State
Houston
Air Force
East
Louisville
Cincinnati
Army
Navy
Temple
UCF

I think that if this was implemented then you have a 4 team playoff for all the pod winners in their conference. The 4 conference winners and two AT-Large teams play in a six team playoff with the top two seeds getting a bye. The bowls could remain and the Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, and Orange bowls would still be used in the playoff with one of them hosting the National Championship like before. I know people will say Notre Dame will not join a conference, but in this scenario to have a real shot at a title they would, and the collapse of the Big East will force them to give there other sports a conference too. Thanks guys. I know its long. Opinions?
 
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That looks pretty good. I don't know about TCU and WVU to the SEC though. There would be other schools that the SEC would look at first IMO.
 
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TrueOrange said:
That's presuming VT would even want to leave the ACC though
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Yeah I dont think they would leave the ACC and TCU will probably be left out. So....the two best teams remaining that also made sense geographically were WVU and TCU. TCU gives the SEC more pull in Texas and WVU expands us closer to the DC markets.
 
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I am on record that I don't think we will see four 16-team super conferences in the near future, if ever. I think it's just a very wild assumption that caught fire in the summer of 2010, and seemingly everyone has picked it up. It gives sports radio hosts (and us message board posters) something to talk about. It's the never-ending topic that allows everyone to be creative.
 
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It also assumes that all the individual super conferences will just divy up all the schools evenly. Schools can apply to conferences but that doesnt mean they'll take them. Currently the conferences are the bond between the schools and they choose who they want in their club. No team has ever been forced into a conference. The size of the conference is up to the conference.
 
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govols182 said:
Knoxville is more east than nashville.
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Well yes...but a division with USC, UGA, FLA, and UT doesnt make much sense now does it? That would also put Vandy and UK in the same pod so....I think that an exception could be made.
 
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If this happens, Division 1a should work like the premiere league where teams fall out of the league and 1aa teams join the league depending on performance.
 
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Section KK said:
If this happens, Division 1a should work like the premiere league where teams fall out of the league and 1aa teams join the league depending on performance.
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so while your proposal would be fun to see who drops and who rises its fails when reality sets in.

The average stadium size of the FCS schools is 15,664 seats Take out the schools that use non school fields ie TSU who uses LP field and the avg size is 14,530. Now what's the chance that some team, say UT Martin who's stadium seats 8,500 would be able to travel half of the time to their new conference games as well as out of conference games that are even farther away. This would bust not only their football budget but the overall athletic budget. On the other side, what's the chance of a Notre Dame, who is nationally known as well has having a national tv contract, a Michigan, or even a Tennessee would survive considering that week after week the likes of Tenn Tech, Coastal Carolina, or Southwest Missouri State came to town. The chances of filling those 90-100,000 seat stadiums to see them are nil. 50,000 is a reach. Then when those teams traveled, the visitors would outnumber the number of seats in their stadium. Fans interest would diminish.

Nope, they'd never vote for that.
 
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You could get a decent conference if you could pull in the religious based schools along with the service academies. Would look something like:

Notre Dame
BYU
Baylor
Wake Forest
Vandy
Temple
Boston College
Army
Navy
Air Force
 
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Ttucke11 said:
Now I know I'll probably get bashed a little but I searched for a realignment and super conference thread and couldn't find a good one. I've been looking a lot at the possibility of the 4 super conferences, and it looks like all the experts believe that is what will eventually happen to college football so I just wanted ideas on what the conferences would look like(if it happens) in all the Vol's fans' opinions. This is all assuming the Big 12 and Big East both collapse and I am not saying this will all happen but just kind of a fun way to look at the possible future of college football. Also I included the newly popular "pod" system which looks effective. My outlook would be like this:

Pac 16
North
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Central
UCLA
USC
California
Stanford
South
Arizona
Arizona State
Texas
Texas Tech
Midwest
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado
Utah
Big
North
Minnesota
Michigan State
Michigan
Wisconsin
East
Connecticut
Penn State
Notre Dame
Indiana
Central
Ohio State
Northwestern
Illinois
Purdue
West
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Iowa
ACC
North
Boston College
Rutgers
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Central
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Maryland
Wake Forest
Carolinas
Duke
North Carolina
N.C. State
Clemson
South
Florida State
Miami
South Florida
Georgia Tech
SEC
Southwest
Texas A&M
LSU
Arkansas
TCU
North
West Virginia
Kentucky
Missouri
Tennessee
Central
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Auburn
Alabama
East
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Vanderbilt
Remaining Conference
West
BYU
Boise State
Baylor
Iowa State
Houston
Air Force
East
Louisville
Cincinnati
Army
Navy
Temple
UCF

I think that if this was implemented then you have a 4 team playoff for all the pod winners in their conference. The 4 conference winners and two AT-Large teams play in a six team playoff with the top two seeds getting a bye. The bowls could remain and the Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, and Orange bowls would still be used in the playoff with one of them hosting the National Championship like before. I know people will say Notre Dame will not join a conference, but in this scenario to have a real shot at a title they would, and the collapse of the Big East will force them to give there other sports a conference too. Thanks guys. I know its long. Opinions?
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Conferences?? Might as well call the "regions."
 
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Ttucke11 said:
I was off on some of the conferences a good bit, but the general idea seems to be taking shape 10 years later.
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Was Connecticut worthy of anything remotely close to power 5 10 years ago? Lol Now I couldn't imagine them being in the conversation. Good basketball programs, but a dump of a football program
 
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UTK said:
Was Connecticut worthy of anything remotely close to power 5 10 years ago? Lol Now I couldn't imagine them being in the conversation. Good basketball programs, but a dump of a football program
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Had to check. Prior to this post, they were coming off 4 straight bowl games and a loss in the Fiesta. Then Edsall left, and they've been a dumpster fire since (even though he is now back).
 
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