Let's admit it... we are all ready for some actual news or events, so now is a good time for a fluffy little post. Make your team the centerpiece of a custom made conference. In your ideal world, who would be in conference with you? Maybe start with 7 more schools to make an 8 team conference, and keep adding a pair as long as you want.

Kentucky

At 8 schools: Louisville, Indiana, Ohio State, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Tennessee

10: add Georgia and South Carolina

12: add Florida and Alabama

14: add Illinois and Missouri

16: add Mississippi and Arkansas

18: add Michigan and Penn State

20: add Maryland and LSU

Duke basketball is too hated to even make the top 20, and nobody really cares about playing Vandy. They just like to visit Nashville.

For Auburn:

At 8:
Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Florida State, Clemson, South Carolina, Alabama

At 10: Tennessee, Mississippi State

At 12: L.S.U., Vanderbilt

At 14: Ole Miss, Texas A&M

At 16: Arkansas, Missouri

At 18: Kentucky, Oklahoma

At 20: Texas, Tulane (Why? They hold the record on us from the 30's & 40's)

For Carolina:

At 8;
Maryland, UVa, Wake Forest, NC State, Dook, Clemson, and Georgia Tech,

At 10;
add Virginia Tech and South Carolina,

at this point .......I'm done!

For Texas A&M

8: LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, OU, OSU, Texas Tech, and Texas

I'd never want the Longhorns in the SEC, but if the slates were wiped clean they make too much sense as a conference member. Ole Miss was the last add.

10: New Mexico, Alabama

Expanding in both directions keeps A&M in the center, this helps both basketball and football. I'm a fan of New Mexico's potential.

12: Kansas, Missouri

14: Auburn, Miss St.

The last 4 could really be added in any order.

If I were creating my own conference id want all big state schools, no small privates or city "commuter schools" SMU would be a private school that I might consider eventually, and perhaps Rice as well, but we'd have to get to over 20 teams for those.

For Maryland

8: UNC, Duke, NCST, UVA, VT, WVU & PSU

10: Clemson, Florida State

12: GT, Syracuse

I think 14 is stupid so I'd go straight to 16;

16: BC, UConn, Miami and Pitt

No basketball divisions but go with pods for football

1- FSU, Miami, Clemson, GT
2- UNC, NCST, UVA, VT
3- MD, WVU, Pitt, PSU
4- 'Cuse, BC, UConn, Duke (Duke gets a travel subsidy)

And for Missouri:

At eight:

Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Ole Miss, Georgia, and Vandy.

At ten:

Add Florida and Auburn

At twelve:

Add South Carolina and Okie State.


As you all can see, I am pretty happy with the real life set up. lol

(02-15-2014 11:39 AM)XLance Wrote:  For Carolina:

At 8;
Maryland, UVa, Wake Forest, NC State, Dook, Clemson, and Georgia Tech,

At 10;
add Virginia Tech and South Carolina,

at this point .......I'm done!

Talk about regional! UNC is fortunate to have so many big programs surrounding them.

(02-16-2014 06:45 PM)bigblueblindness Wrote:  

(02-15-2014 11:39 AM)XLance Wrote:  For Carolina:

At 8;
Maryland, UVa, Wake Forest, NC State, Dook, Clemson, and Georgia Tech,

At 10;
add Virginia Tech and South Carolina,

at this point .......I'm done!

Talk about regional! UNC is fortunate to have so many big programs surrounding them.

Yep! With this set-up my longest trip to an OOC game is approx. 6 hours by car (Georgia Tech and Maryland, both are about equal distance from my home in Greensboro).

Ten schools:


ND
Navy (Traditional/Fed Ex Field)
Southern Cal (Traditional/West Coast)
Stanford (Traditional/Academics/West Coast)
Arizona State (Southwest)
Texas (Southwest)
Florida State (Florida/Southeast)
Miami (Florida/Southeast)
Pitt (Traditional/Northeast/Heinz Field)
Boston College (Traditional/only other Catholic FBS school/Northeast)



Three school OOC rotation candidates:


Michigan State (Traditional/Midwest)
Oklahoma (Southwest)
Syracuse/Rutgers (Met Life Stadium/New York)
SEC school (Alabama, LSU, Georgia---Southeast)
Georgia Tech (Traditional/Academics/Southeast)
Baylor/Rice (Texas/Southwest/Academics/Neutral site---Dallas, San Antonio)
Army (Traditional/Yankee Stadium)


(I would much prefer for ND to be able to do this as an independent, but that is not the scenario presented by the OP).



Here are ND's schedules for the next three years:



2014 Football Schedule


A30 RICE NBC
S06 MICHIGAN 7:30pm NBC
S13 vs. Purdue (LucasOil) 7:30pm NBC
S27 @ Syracuse (Meadowlands)
O04 STANFORD
O11 NORTH CAROLINA
O18 @ Florida State
N01 @ Navy (Landover, MD)
N08 @ Arizona State
N15 NORTHWESTERN
N22 LOUISVILLE
N29 @ Southern Cal


2015 Football Schedule


S05 TEXAS
S12 @ Virginia
S19 GEORGIA TECH
S26 UMASS
O03 @ Clemson
O10 NAVY
O17 SOUTHERN CAL
O31 @ Temple (LFSF)
N07 @ Pittsburgh
N14 WAKE FOREST
N21 BOSTON COLLEGE (Fenway Pk.)
N28 @ Stanford


2016 Football Schedule


S03 @ Texas
S10 NEVADA
S17 MICHIGAN STATE
S24 DUKE
O01 @ Syracuse (Meadowlands)
O08 @ North Carolina State
O15 STANFORD
O29 MIAMI
N05 @ Navy
N12 ARMY (Alamodome)
N19 VIRGINIA TECH
N26 @ Southern Cal