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RE: If 24 teams is a megaconference, what would you call this?
(02-17-2015 12:17 PM)ken d Wrote: Here are my 72 teams. They are divided into eight 9-team divisions. They are listed in order of each schools average attendance over the past 4 years. The average attendance for each proposed division is in parentheses after the division name.
Pacific (49,315)
USC, Washington, UCLA, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, Oregon St, San Diego St, Washington St
Southwest (50,661)
Oklahoma, BYU, Texas Tech, Arizona St, Oklahoma St, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Boise St
Prairie (57,014)
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Iowa St, Kansas State, Illinois. Minnesota, Kansas, Northwestern
East (66,842)
Michigan, Ohio St, Penn State, Michigan St, Purdue, Rutgers, Indiana, Maryland, UConn
Northeast (44,466)
Notre Dame, Kentucky, Louisville, Cincy, West Virginia, Pitt, Syracuse, BC, Wake Forest
Atlantic (52,623)
Clemson, FSU, Va Tech, NC State, UNC, Miami, Ga Tech, Virginia, Duke
Southeast (73,658)
Alabama, Tenn, Georgia, Florida, Auburn, S. Carolina, ECU, UCF, Vanderbilt
Central (66,991)
Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, Miss St, Ole Miss, Baylor, TCU
Here is where I disagree with you.
Conferences will want to save some sense of pride and tradition. So why not simply break up into 7 team divisions along conference divisions lines? In other words, B1G West, B1G East, etc.
I think retaining some semblance of that conference tradition will trump trying to package the divisions as geographically neatly as possible.
Each PAC division could add one more and each XII division could add two more. One of those adds obviously has to be Notre Dame. But from there, those last five spots will be an intense battle.
Each team in a particular division plays all six of its division mates (3/3 home/away). Then do something clever with the remaining six games (play a team in another division that finished the same division rank last year, cross-division rivalry games, etc.)
Of course, I can guarantee that the rest of the G5 teams that are left out of this sweet deal will come charging headlong with a fat lawsuit. There are still plenty of G5 teams left that can get their senator's ear. So you might have to include the entire G5 in the party.
(This post was last modified: 02-18-2015 05:10 PM by MplsBison.)
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