If The SEC & B1G Joined Together in a Whole New College Sports League, What Would It Look Like?

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#51
#51
They would probably just call it the NCFL (National College Football League) and the conferences will keep their names within that league because their brands are worth a lot of money and rebranding would take too much time and effort. It’s the same as the NFC and AFC playing within the NFL.
 
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#54
Yeah, sorry but half of the B1G is south so maybe the Southern Division would come into play, and they'd make new college teams in the south? Now that I think about it a less directional name is likely. Idrk just a random af thought I had
Only to Canada "half of the B1G is south." That's really ridiculous.

 
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#56
#56
Pac12 really got the short end of the stick with realignment. Decades of history and rivalry just thrown under the bus, poof.

Tradition is boring and passe. Now is the era of immediate gratification, of transactional relationships and transactional lives. Everyone is a brand, everything is a commerical product. "Great," say the most ardent and ruthless absolutists, for they never valued those things to begin with. And why would they? They couldn't make any money off them.

Slap a FanDuel logo on a college tshirt? Of course, it makes more money. Sign a deal with the Saudis? Of course, it makes more money. Sell out your brands to television media? Of course. It makes more money.
 
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#59
I'd argue Penn State is a 7-5 or 8-4 team at best in the SEC. They are 2-7 against SEC teams since 2010. The 2 wins were against bottom of the barrell Auburn teams. They do just enough to barely beat bad Big 10 teams and always lose to top 10 teams. Sure they will beat an overrated Iowa or Illinois team here and there. But they have a huge talent advantange over those teams and barely squeak by.

Against similar talent, they are terrible. For example, they were blown out by Ole Miss last bowl season. That's before Ole Miss went to the portal and spent all their money. James Franklin's offenses are usually terrible. They wouldn't keep up in the SEC against teams that can stop basic offenses. They would be like Oklahoma this year. I fully expect SMU to beat them.

This x 1000. The proof has been in the pudding for Franklin's entire time there.

The national media refers to them as a playoff "semifinalist" while omitting that they got the gift draw to end all gift draws in a badly flawed bracket, and now has them in the top 3 going into next year based on the return of ... Drew Allar? I must live in an alternate universe not seeing any of this.
 
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#63
#63
Why devalue the SEC by blending it with an inferior conference like the Big 10. The past few years were flukes. The world will get back to normal again next year.
 
#66
#66
Why devalue the SEC by blending it with an inferior conference like the Big 10.

Very simple answer - $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

The Big 10 controls the big money media markets, and Sankey desperately wanted to get a piece of those markets so he sold out the SEC going into business with ESPN and the Big 10.

The SEC might be the best conference in terms of depth of quality on the field and court, but the Big 10 is king with regard to $$$$$, and in the brave new world of college sports that is really the only thing that matters to the powers that be.
 
#67
#67
4 Conferences. 12 teams each. Conferences could be drafted or assigned geographically. I think a draft makes the most sense honestly.

12 game season. Everyone plays everyone to determine seeding.

Everyone gets in playoffs. Top 4 of each conference gets first round bye. Remaining 8 play first round against another conference's bottom 8. Alternate which conferences are in which side of bracket each year (i.e. SEC vs ACC one year, BIG10 vs SEC the next year).

Put them head to head. Winning conference gets prize money to be split among the members, with 25% total going to the winning school.

Everyone else can go to FCS or do their own thing. Each year, the bottom team in each conference can be relegated to FCS in exchange for an FCS program championship. The conference who performed worst in the playoffs can select their new program first, followed by second worse, etc. Every year, 4 programs would be added, 4 would be dropped, in an attempt to strengthen conferences.
You have a decent idea -- but every one of those 48 teams is going to want at least 7 home games, if not 8.
Maybe 8 sets of 9 (4 home & 4 away in conference)? - leaving 60-ish teams between FBS and FCS...., with 4 games on the schedule for cupcakes and traditional rivals.
 
#70
#70
Why is every other school represented by their mascots, and Tennessee and Alabama are represented by their out of work uncles?

Funny, I was thinking the same thing. If you're not going to have Smokey there, at least show the guy wearing a suede fringe jacket and coonskin cap.
 
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#72
#72
I have been a fan of years of moving the American, Conf USA, Sunbelt, MWC, MAC, etc. down to FCS level. Pac12 is debatable right now (IMO, they should be ineligible for the auto-bye in CFB Playoff - Looking at Boise State).

Just have the 4 leagues ACC, B1G, SEC, and Big12. Force Notre Dame to join one of them or move to FCS.
Air Force is a Mountain West member.

The only FBS independents are Notre Dame, UCon , and UMass.
 
#73
#73
B1G is top heavy. I do think their top teams are good but they often have a win or two that they wouldn't have with a more difficult schedule. Penn State, for example, is probably a 10-2 or 9-3 team in the SEC (unless they get Texas or Texas A&M's schedule lol).

Ohio State would be elite even in the SEC. The issue is the bottom of the B1G just isn't good. Teams like Minnesota, Indiana (traditionally), Illinois, Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers, and Northwestern just don't Oen recruit on par with the elites. Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Nebraska have made noise or have the potential to make noise but even they can rarely be on the same playing field, talent-wise, as Michigan and Ohio State.

The last time a B1G team not named Michigan or Ohio State won a national title was in the 1960s.

The 4 West Coasts teams probably add some depth to the B1G, but UCLA, USC, and Washington came into the B1G on a major down year with coaching/player attritions. Only Oregon was a sold team from that batch and has frankly stepped it up to be the Champion.
Penn State and Oregon would be elite in the SEC.
 
#74
#74
Penn State and Oregon would be elite in the SEC.
If the SEC ever invites a team north of the Mason-Dixon line, it should just go ahead and disband itself. Or at least rename itself the Geographically Challenged Conference. South of the Mason-Dixon, east of the Mississippi would be a simple rule of thumb.
 
#75
#75
Penn State and Oregon would be elite in the SEC.

I have doubts on Penn State. They typically don't handle big-time matchups well. Ironically, they look a lot like Tennessee right now. Had Penn State been more competitive against Michigan or Ohio State, I would agree.

Oregon is another story. Oregon has been good the past couple of years but they weren't that good prior to that. You have to go back to Chip Kelly era.

I don't think either would be slouches and would fall to UK/Vandy levels but I don't see them beating Alabama (with Saban), Georgia, or Texas in the past several years.

Ohio State would be elite, USC under Pete Carroll would be elite, Michigan under Harbaugh would be elite. Ohio State might be the most consistent program since I started watching football in the last 1990s. I don't remember an era of more than 1 season where Ohio State fell of the map and wasn't a B1G contender. I don't think you can say that about any other program in that run. I think their worse season was a 6-6 year before Urban Meyer and after Jim Tressel when they had an interim coach.
 

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