Kittonhead
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RE: Football Conference Maps (2016, 1991, 1956!, 1927!)
When you go back to the 1927 map, all the schools played within a regional cluster.
Colorado for instance shared a conference with Denver and Colorado College. Then egos became involved and they joined the Big 8.
In the 1956 map it shows the start of the metro school move up with Cincinnati and Louisville on the map as independents.
The period from 1975-1985 which isn't represented on the map gives berth to the modern P5/G5 split with schools forced into lower divisions and the NCAA loses control on college football TV rights. By 1990 the rise of the power conference begins.
The next logical move I believe would be the creation of more independents (Hawaii, UNLV, Boise, Memphis, UConn) with the G5's becoming regional 10 team football conferences while the power conferences push on to 16.
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