(02-13-2020 04:28 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Marshall
Old Dominion
East Carolina
App State
UNCC
Coastal Carolina
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Troy
UAB
South Alabama
Southern Miss

You'd rather have UNCC and Coastal than JMU??? What are you, scurred?

(02-14-2020 02:32 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  ---

IND: Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Penn St, Syracuse, Rutgers, Boston College, Temple, Buffalo, Army, Navy, Air Force

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You've got a Big East conference sitting right there.

Big East
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Army
Boston College
Connecticut
Navy
Notre Dame
Penn St
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
Temple

And since Army and Navy would be football only, that leaves 8 basketball schools which they could pair up with 8 of the current Big East basketball schools and get the gang back together.

P.S. otherwise, I like what you did.

(02-13-2020 10:52 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  My "basketball schools" league (comprising the programs I both root for and that I would like to have included based on their history with the schools I like and geographic factors):

North Division:

Butler
Cincinnati
Dayton
DePaul
Georgetown
Indiana
Marquette
Saint Louis

South Division

Belmont
Georgia Tech
Memphis
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina State
UAB
Vanderbilt

Switch out College of Charleston for Belmont, since any league won't put 2 teams in Nashville, and this works.

(02-14-2020 04:02 PM)whittx Wrote:  Switch out College of Charleston for Belmont, since any league won't put 2 teams in Nashville, and this works.

You forgot there are no rules here, anything goes.

(02-14-2020 03:50 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(02-14-2020 02:32 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  ---

IND: Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Penn St, Syracuse, Rutgers, Boston College, Temple, Buffalo, Army, Navy, Air Force

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You've got a Big East conference sitting right there.

Big East
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Army
Boston College
Connecticut
Navy
Notre Dame
Penn St
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
Temple

And since Army and Navy would be football only, that leaves 8 basketball schools which they could pair up with 8 of the current Big East basketball schools and get the gang back together.

P.S. otherwise, I like what you did.

I missed the obvious! Good catch! To include that Big East lineup, I would not have Air Force be independent. They rejoin the MWC and Hawaii goes independent to maintain the 10-school model.

AAC
East
Liberty
Temple
Cincinnati
ECU
USF
UCF
CCU
ODU
West
Houston
SMU
Memphis
Tulane
Navy
Army
Air Force
Georgia St.

Dream Conference
North
Liberty
Va. Tech
Louisville
Kentucky
Notre Dame
BYU
WVU
Tennessee
South
Vandy
UNC
Duke
Florida St.
Miami
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Alabama

THE SOUTH
UCF
FSU
UF
MIAMI
GA
GA TECH
ALABAMA
AUBURN
CLEMSON
SOUTH CAROLINA

ALL SPORTS
ODU
LIBERTY
Appalachian
Charlotte
Marshall

Coastal Carolina
Georgia St
Georgia Southern
FAU
FIA

NON FOOTBALL
George Mason
VCU
Charleston
Florida Gulf Coast U.

(02-14-2020 07:57 PM)MidknightWhiskey Wrote:  THE SOUTH
UCF
FSU
UF
MIAMI
GA
GA TECH
ALABAMA
AUBURN
CLEMSON
SOUTH CAROLINA

Close to mine (no UCF or 'Bama), the South Atlantic Football Alliance:
SOUTH
Florida, Auburn, Georiga, South Carolina
ATLANTIC
FSU, Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson

Only 5 conference games and a contract to play 3 or 4 games each against the teams' legacy conferences.

(02-14-2020 04:02 PM)whittx Wrote:  

(02-13-2020 10:52 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  My "basketball schools" league (comprising the programs I both root for and that I would like to have included based on their history with the schools I like and geographic factors):

North Division:

Butler
Cincinnati
Dayton
DePaul
Georgetown
Indiana
Marquette
Saint Louis

South Division

Belmont
Georgia Tech
Memphis
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina State
UAB
Vanderbilt

Switch out College of Charleston for Belmont, since any league won't put 2 teams in Nashville, and this works.

As I noted ... this is an insane hypothetical based on schools I root for. Though I have a passion for Vanderbilt, I also strongly support Belmont.

(02-14-2020 08:13 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(02-13-2020 06:37 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  North:

Georgia
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Georgia Southern
Clemson
South Carolina

South:
UCF
USF
FSU
Miami
FAU
Florida

Sorry FIU... numbers don’t work out

This conference would be wild. I'm all in.

Could add Coastal Carolina to the North and FIU to the South too.

Marshall
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Virginia Tech
Louisville
Ohio State
Ohio
ODU
WKU
App

(02-13-2020 10:19 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Take all the teams from the SEC and ACC and have 2 conferences. One for relegation and one for promotions. Every year the bottom 3 of the champions league get relegated to the minor league and the 3 best teams from the minor league get promoted to the champions league. Do the same thing for football and basketball.

I like the relegation model best but if you can't have that. Have 4 power conferences that represent almost every state and have a final 4.

Football - Big 10 champ plays Pac 16 champ in Rose bowl. SEC Champ plays the ACC champ in Eastern Championship game hosted by the rotating BCS bowls (Orange, Cotton, and Sugar). Rose bowl champ plays eastern champ in the BCS National championship game rotated between Orange, Cotton, and Sugar bowls. Other BCS games not hosting the Eastern Championship take the remaining highest ranked teams in the BCS standings from any conference.

Basketball - Play every team in your division home and away and 4 teams from the other division. ACC uses 2 permanent cross division rivals and rotates the other 2 games among the 6 remaining schools.


SEC
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East
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Alabama
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
North Carolina State
Tennessee
Virginia Tech football/Vanderbilt all other sports

West
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Arkansas
Kansas
LSU
Mississippi
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M



ACC
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Coastal - permanent cross division football partners
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Duke - Wake
Kentucky - Georgia Tech
Louisville - Miami
North Carolina - Clemson
Pittsburgh - West Virginia
Syracuse - Connecticut
Vanderbilt football/Virginia Tech all other sports - Boston College
Virginia - Maryland

Atlantic- Permanent cross division basketball partners.
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Boston College - Louisville, Syracuse
Connecticut - Syracuse, Virginia
Georgia Tech - Pittsburgh, Kentucky
Maryland - Virginia, Virginia Tech
Miami - Kentucky, Louisville
South Carolina - North Carolina, Duke
Wake Forest - Duke, North Carolina
West Virginia- Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech



Big 10
-----
East
-----
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers

West
-----
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas State
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Oklahoma State
Wisconsin



Pac 16
West
-----
Arizona State
California
Oregon
San Diego State
Southern Cal
Stanford
UCLA
Washington

East
-----
Boise State
Colorado
Houston
Nevada-Las Vegas
Nevada-Reno
New Mexico
Texas Tech
Utah

Mine would be the Southern Conference that was only the "University of _______" schools (I have learned not to use the term "flagship" in my time here if I want to avoid a fight!). This excludes incredible southern schools and programs that often outpace many of the schools listed below (Auburn, FSU, TAMU, etc.), but this is my dream, and we would still play them OOC. Without further ado:

University of Alabama
University of Arkansas
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Kentucky
Louisiana State University (OK, I get one cheat)
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri (the Midwest doesn't seem to claim you, so you are welcome to stay!)
University of North Carolina
University of Oklahoma
University of South Carolina
University of Tennessee
University of Texas
University of Virginia

Regionally Balanced:

Northwest Conference (B1G)
Iowa, MN, Wisc, NW, IL, IU, PU, MSU, UM, OSU, PSU, RU, MD, UNC, Duke, UVA, ND.

Southeast Conference (SEC)
GT, VT, NCSt, Clem, FSU, Miami, SC, UGA, FL, Aub, Ala, MSU, Miss, LSU, Vandy, TN.

Southwest:
West: UW, UO, Cal, Furd, USC, UCLA, ASU, UU.
East: CU, Neb, KU, Mizzou, OU, UT, A&M, Ark.

AAC:
West: WSU, OSU, SDSU, AZ, BYU, FrSU, UNLV, UNM.
Central: TCU, TTU, Baylor, CSU, LSU, ISU, OSU, HOU.
East: UConn, Cinci, Pitt, WVU, BC, Wake, UCF, USF.

Pod 1
Clemson
South Carolina
Georgia
Georgia Tech

Pod 2
Virginia Tech
Tennessee
North Carolina
NC State

Pod 3
Auburn
Alabama
Ole Miss
Miss State

Pod 4
LSU
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M

South (West) - Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Houston, TCU, Baylor, Arkansas, LSU

South (East) - Ole Miss, Mississippi St, Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Florida St

Midwest (West) - Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas St, Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa St, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern

Midwest (East) - Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan St, Ohio St, Penn St, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College

East (West) - Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Memphis, Kentucky, Louisville, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, NC State, Wake Forest

East (East) - Miami, USF, UCF, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, Maryland, Temple, Rutgers, UConn

Pac-12 could expand or stay at 12... Tulsa, SMU, Tulane, ECU can reload from C-USA/Sunbelt, and Navy goes back to independence.

(02-15-2020 07:11 PM)IR4CU Wrote:  Pod 1
Clemson
South Carolina
Georgia
Georgia Tech

Pod 2
Virginia Tech
Tennessee
North Carolina
NC State

Pod 3
Auburn
Alabama
Ole Miss
Miss State

Pod 4
LSU
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M

Add Florida to Pod 1, Kentucky to Pod 2, Florida State to Pod 3, and Arkansas to Pod 4, and I think you've got something!

(02-15-2020 02:13 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(02-13-2020 10:19 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Take all the teams from the SEC and ACC and have 2 conferences. One for relegation and one for promotions. Every year the bottom 3 of the champions league get relegated to the minor league and the 3 best teams from the minor league get promoted to the champions league. Do the same thing for football and basketball.

I like the relegation model best but if you can't have that. Have 4 power conferences that represent almost every state and have a final 4.

Split FBS 30-50-50 (named "A", "B", and "C"), each into 5 regional divisions/conferences (Pacific, Southwest, Southeast, Atlantic, and Midwest). The champion/bottom team from each division is promoted/relegated. Relegation is always based off of a team's average 4-year regular season computer ranking.

The top 10 non-champions in both the B5 and C5 are paired in 10 bowls, the winners of these are also promoted, replacing the 5 bottom teams (again, 4-year average ranking) in the A5 and the B5; unless, those replaced teams are bowl eligible, in which case they'll also play in these promotion/relegation bowls.

The playoffs consist of the winners of 6 play-in games (on Championship Saturday), which feature the 5 A5 champions and the top 7 at-large teams (not necessarily only A5 teams). 1 spot is given to the top B5 champion, and the 8th and final spot is given to an at-large team (perhaps a loser of a play-in, another B5 team or theoretically even the best C5 champ).

Teams may be promoted to the B5 and then to the A5 in back-to-back years, but after being relegated to the B5, teams are immune from relegation to the C5 for 4 years. At setup, the current P5 teams will be slotted in the A5 and B5 (along with 15 current G5 teams) yet therefore be immune from relegation to the C5 for the first 4 years.

Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
VMI
Richmond
William & Mary
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Duke
NC State
Clemson
South Carolina