(07-07-2017 09:10 AM)Kruciff Wrote:  SBNation came up with an alternative to the B1G

I think the American should do this. Move to 16 teams, abolish divisions, have 9 conference games, hold the championship game between the two teams with the best records. All existing and budding rivalries could be saved, and every team would play every other team at least twice every 4 years (except for one outlier).

Here's my recommendations for alignments. Apologies to Tulsa, your rivalries don't really make sense.

Code:

UCF      | USF | ECU | Houston |
USF      | UCF | Cinci | UConn |
ECU      | UCF | Temple | Tulsa |
Tulane   | SMU | AFA | Navy |
Temple   | UConn | ECU | Tulsa |
UConn    | USF | Cinci | Temple |
Cinci    | USF | UConn | Memphis |
Memphis  | BYU | Houston | Cinci |
Houston  | Memphis | UCF | SMU |
Tulsa    | ECU | Temple | Boise |
SMU      | Tulane | Navy | Houston |
Navy     | AFA | SMU | Tulane |
BYU      | Boise | CSU | Memphis |
Boise    | BYU | CSU | Tulsa |
CSU      | AFA | BYU | Boise |
AFA      | Navy | Tulane | CSU |

Western adds would be FB only. From there we could decide to invite Olympic sports adds from a pool of maybe Dayton, VCU, and a few others, or stick to 12 in basketball.

This would gut the MWC, consolidate the best of the rest (for the most part) and make a solid case for $10MM / year / school. Not to mention all but locking up the NY6 bid every year. The abolishment of divisions means the best teams will definitely meet in the championship game.