AAC MWC Response to Title Game Deregulation
If the P5 pass title game deregulation then the Mountain West and AAC should merge and form 3 divisions of 8. The 2 top rated division winners would meet in the Championship Game for a spot in the Access Bowl. Such an arrangement would virtually guarentee the league a defacto spot in all years and if both teams are rated highly enough might sneak them into the National Championship Playoff. Teams would play a 9 game schedule of all teams in division and 1 team from the other two eight.
The three eight would be geographically compact which also helps travel and build rivalries. In basketball, they would play home and home within division and 1 away and one home in the other eight. Top 4 within each division plus the 4 highest RPI from the remaining 12 go to a 16 team conference tournament rotating between Atlantic City, New Orleans and Vegas.
The three eight would be:
West: Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, San Jose Sate, UNLV, Nevada, Utah State, Hawaii
Mountain Plains: Colorado State, Wyoming, Air Force, New Mexico, Tulsa, SMU, Houston, Memphis/Tulane
East: UCF, UConn, Cincinatti, USF, Temple, ECU, Navy, Memphis/Tulane
Last year would have seen: Boise State, Colorado State and UCF as division champs. The two highest rated champs would have played for the access spot. This group of 24 would virtually own the access spot with two of the three almost always in position to win.
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2015 02:36 PM by Sactowndog.)
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