The 3 southern areas have completed voting.
15 schools have been selected for the first 45.
ACC: Clemson, Florida State, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee.
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC: East Carolina (ECU), South Florida (USF), Tulane, UAB,
ACC: Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest
B12: Central Florida (UCF)
CUSA: Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU)
SEC: South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Sun Belt: Appalachian State, Louisiana (Lafayette), Old Dominion, Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU)
CUSA: Florida International (FIU), Liberty
Sun Belt: Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), South Alabama (USA), Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
Aren't all the regions done voting? Are you going to add to this post with the other regions?
The 3 southern and 3 western areas have completed voting.
30 schools have been selected for the first 45.
ACC: Clemson, Florida State, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
B1G: Nebraska
Big 12: Baylor, BYU, Houston, Texas Tech.
Pac 12: Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC: East Carolina (ECU), Memphis, Rice, South Florida (USF), Tulane, Tulsa, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC: Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest
B12: Central Florida (UCF), Kansas, K-State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU.
CUSA: Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), New Mexico State (NMSU), UTEP,
MtW: AFA, Boise State, CSU, Fresno State, Hawaii, New Mexico, San Diego State, Utah State, Wyoming.
Pac 12: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon State, Washington State.
SEC: South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Sun Belt: Appalachian State, Louisiana (Lafayette), Old Dominion, Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas.
CUSA: Florida International (FIU), Liberty, NMSU, Sam Houston.
MtW: Nevada (Reno), San Jose State, UNLV.
Sun Belt: Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
(04-29-2022 09:38 AM)cottager Wrote: [ -> ]Aren't all the regions done voting? Are you going to add to this post with the other regions?
There is one region that has not closed yet.
All 9 regions have completed voting.
44* schools have been elected to the Premier Division. Purdue and Louisville tied for fifth in their region. They will have a playoff to determine which is the 45th school.
ACC(9): Clemson, Florida State, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
B1G(9): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Wisconsin
Big 12(5): Baylor, BYU, Houston, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
Pac 12(7): Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(13): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC(11): East Carolina (ECU), Memphis, Navy, Rice, South Florida (USF), Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC(5): Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Wake Forest
B1G(5): Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers,
B12(7): Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, K-State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU.
CUSA(5): Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), New Mexico State (NMSU), UTEP,
Independent(3): Army, UMass, UConn.
MAC(1): Buffalo
MtW(9): AFA, Boise State, CSU, Fresno State, Hawaii, New Mexico, San Diego State, Utah State, Wyoming.
Pac 12(5): Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon State, Washington State.
SEC(3): Kentucky, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(6): Appalachian State, James Madison, Louisiana (Lafayette), Marshall, Old Dominion, Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(3): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas.
CUSA(4): Florida International (FIU), Liberty, NMSU, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky (WKU)
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(3): Nevada (Reno), San Jose State, UNLV.
Sun Belt(8): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The repechage will be organized in 4 regions:
West: WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK.
South: TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC
Midwest: MI, OH, IN, KY, TN, AR, MO, IL, WI, IA, MN, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK
North Atlantic: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, WV, VA, NC
The first repechage has been completed, and Arizona State, California, Arizona, and Boise State have been elected to the Premier Division.
San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado State, and Fresno State will have a last chance.
Air Force Academy, Utah State, Wyoming, New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Hawaii are eliminated from consideration.
48 schools have been elected to the Premier Division.
ACC(9): Clemson, Florida State, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
B1G(9): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Wisconsin
Big 12(5): Baylor, BYU, Houston, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(1): Boise State
Pac 12(10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(13): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 5 schools remain eligible for the final national selection.
MtW(3): Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State.
Pac 12(2): Oregon State, Washington State.
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC(11): East Carolina (ECU), Memphis, Navy, Rice, South Florida (USF), Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC(5): Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Wake Forest
B1G(5): Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers,
B12(7): Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, K-State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU.
CUSA(5): Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), UTEP,
Independent(3): Army, UMass, UConn.
MAC(1): Buffalo
SEC(3): Kentucky, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(6): Appalachian State, James Madison, Louisiana (Lafayette), Marshall, Old Dominion, Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(3): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas.
CUSA(5): Florida International (FIU), Liberty, NMSU, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky (WKU)
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(8): AFA, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
Sun Belt(8): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The repechage will be organized in 4 regions:
West: WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK.
South: TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC
Midwest: MI, OH, IN, KY, TN, AR, MO, IL, WI, IA, MN, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK
North Atlantic: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, WV, VA, NC
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The first repechage has been completed, and Arizona State, California, Arizona, and Boise State have been elected to the Premier Division.
San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado State, and Fresno State will have a last chance.
Air Force Academy, Utah State, Wyoming, New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Hawaii are eliminated from consideration.
The second repechage has been completed. Louisville beat Purdue to break a first round tie and be elected. But Purdue, along with Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Kentucky finished in the top 4 to be elected to the Premier Division.
Kansas State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa State, Memphis, Kansas, and Northwestern have a last chance.
Vanderbilt, Tulsa, and Middle Tennessee (MTSU) are eliminated from further consideration.
53 schools have been elected to the Premier Division.
ACC(10): Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech.
B1G(10): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
Big 12(7): Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Oklahoma State (OSU), Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(1): Boise State
Pac 12(10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(14): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 12 schools remain eligible for the final national selection.
AAC(1): Memphis
B1G(3): Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern
B12(3): Iowas State, Kansas, K-State
MtW(3): Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State.
Pac 12(2): Oregon State, Washington State.
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC(9): East Carolina (ECU), Navy, Rice, South Florida (USF), Temple, Tulane, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC(4): Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest
B1G(1): Rutgers,
B12(2): Central Florida (UCF), TCU.
CUSA(3): Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, UTEP,
Independent(3): Army, UMass, UConn.
MAC(1): Buffalo
SEC(1): South Carolina
Sun Belt(6): Appalachian State, James Madison, Louisiana (Lafayette), Marshall, Old Dominion, Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(4): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Tulsa
CUSA(6): Florida International (FIU), Liberty, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky (WKU)
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(8): AFA, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(8): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The repechage will be organized in 4 regions:
West: WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK.
South: TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC
Midwest: MI, OH, IN, KY, TN, AR, MO, IL, WI, IA, MN, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK
North Atlantic: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, WV, VA, NC
The third repechage has been completed. Boston College, Wake Forest, Navy, and Rutgers have been elected to the Premier Division.
East Carolina, Army, Duke, UConn, Appalachian State, Marshall, and Buffalo have a last chance.
UMass, Temple, Old Dominion, and James Madison are eliminated from further consideration.
The second repechage has been completed. Louisville beat Purdue to break a first round tie and be elected. But Purdue, along with Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Kentucky finished in the top 4 to be elected to the Premier Division.
Kansas State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa State, Memphis, Kansas, and Northwestern have a last chance.
Vanderbilt, Tulsa, and Middle Tennessee (MTSU) are eliminated from further consideration.
The first repechage has been completed, and Arizona State, California, Arizona, and Boise State have been elected to the Premier Division.
San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado State, and Fresno State will have a last chance.
Air Force Academy, Utah State, Wyoming, New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Hawaii are eliminated from consideration.
57 schools have been elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(1): Navy
ACC(12): Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech Wake Forest.
B1G(11): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(7): Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Oklahoma State (OSU), Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(1): Boise State
Pac 12(10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(14): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 19 schools remain eligible for the final national selection.
AAC(2): East Carolina (ECU), Memphis
ACC(1): Duke
B1G(3): Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern
B12(3): Iowas State, Kansas, K-State
Independent(2): Army, UConn
MAC(1): Buffalo
MtW(3): Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State.
Pac 12(2): Oregon State, Washington State.
Sun Belt(2): Appalachian State, Marshall
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC(6): Rice, South Florida (USF), Tulane, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC(1): Georgia Tech
B12(2): Central Florida (UCF), TCU.
CUSA(3): Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, UTEP,
SEC(1): South Carolina
Sun Belt(2): Louisiana (Lafayette), Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(5): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Temple, Tulsa
CUSA(6): Florida International (FIU), Liberty, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(1): UMass
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(8): AFA, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(10): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The repechage will be organized in 4 regions:
West: WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK.
South: TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC
Midwest: MI, OH, IN, KY, TN, AR, MO, IL, WI, IA, MN, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK
North Atlantic: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, WV, VA, NC
You put Navy as an independent, is there a reason for this? I see that you’re including schools in their future conferences is Navy going independent in the near future? Or is it just a mistake?
I’m really enjoying this exercise by the way. Thanks for doing the leg work on this.
(05-04-2022 02:59 PM)cottager Wrote: [ -> ]You put Navy as an independent, is there a reason for this? I see that you’re including schools in their future conferences is Navy going independent in the near future? Or is it just a mistake?
I’m really enjoying this exercise by the way. Thanks for doing the leg work on this.
The reason is I was careless.
This group had UConn, UMass, and Army in it, and I sometimes get mixed up on Army and Navy since they in the Patriot League for most sports, but they are different for football.
The reason that I am using future conferences is that I had (have) an idea to start the existing (in 2023/2025) conferences as the initial leagues. The Top 6/7 each season would remain in the Premier Division. The others would be in playoffs with each other along with the FCS conference champions.
The playoff teams from the SEC, B1G, etc. would shred CUSA, Sun Belt so that they would have less than 9 schools and force to move into other groups. It would be a sort of evolution over a few years.
The fourth and final repechage has been completed. South Carolina, Georgia Tech, TCU, and UCF have been selected.
Southern Methodist (SMU), Louisiana (Lafayette), South Florida (USF), Southern Mississippi (USM), and UAB have a last chance.
UTSA, Tulane, Jacksonville State, Rice, Louisiana Tech, and UTEP are eliminated.
The third repechage has been completed. Boston College, Wake Forest, Navy, and Rutgers have been elected to the Premier Division.
East Carolina, Army, Duke, UConn, Appalachian State, Marshall, and Buffalo have a last chance.
UMass, Temple, Old Dominion, and James Madison are eliminated from further consideration.
The second repechage has been completed. Louisville beat Purdue to break a first round tie and be elected. But Purdue, along with Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Kentucky finished in the top 4 to be elected to the Premier Division.
Kansas State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa State, Memphis, Kansas, and Northwestern have a last chance.
Vanderbilt, Tulsa, and Middle Tennessee (MTSU) are eliminated from further consideration.
The first repechage has been completed, and Arizona State, California, Arizona, and Boise State have been elected to the Premier Division.
San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado State, and Fresno State will have a last chance.
Air Force Academy, Utah State, Wyoming, New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Hawaii are eliminated from consideration.
61 schools have been elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(1): Navy
ACC(13): Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
B1G(11): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(9): Baylor, BYU, Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Houston, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(1): Boise State
Pac 12(10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(15): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 24 schools remain eligible for the final national selection.
AAC(5): East Carolina (ECU), Memphis, South Florida (USF), Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB
ACC(1): Duke
B1G(3): Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern
B12(3): Iowa State, Kansas, K-State
Independent(2): Army, UConn
MAC(1): Buffalo
MtW(3): Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State.
Pac 12(2): Oregon State, Washington State.
Sun Belt(4): Appalachian State, Louisiana (Lafayette), Marshall, Southern Mississippi (USM)
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(8): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Rice, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UTSA,
CUSA(9): Florida International (FIU), Jacksonville State (AL), Liberty, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, UTEP, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(1): UMass
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(8): AFA, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(10): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Summary of Selection:
There are 133 FBS schools. 61 have been elected. 48 have been eliminated.
24 have a chance for selection in a final national contest.
Four of the P5 conferences have a chance for all to be selected:
ACC: 13 of 14 selected, 1 alive.
B1G: 11 of 14 selected, 3 alive.
B12: 9 of 12 selected, 3 alive.
P12: 10 of 12 selected, 2 alive.
SEC is the only P5 conference to have a school eliminated, Vanderbilt.
SEC: 15 of 16 selected, 1 eliminated.
Three other schools have been selected: Boise State, Navy, and Notre Dame.
G5 conference status:
AAC(14 total) Navy elected, 5 alive, 8 eliminated.
CUSA(9 total) All 9 eliminated.
MAC(12 total) 1 alive, 11 eliminated.
MtW(12 total) Boise State elected, 3 alive, 8 eliminated.
Sun Belt(14 total) 4 alive, 10 eliminated.
Independents(4) Notre Dame elected, 2 alive, 1 eliminated.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The final 11 have been selected.
Indiana, Iowa State, Northwestern, Kansas State, Illinois, San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Memphis, Kansas, and Duke.
Just missing are Southern Methodist, Appalachian State, and East Carolina.
The 72 schools elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(2): Memphis, Navy
ACC(14): Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
B1G(14): Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(12): Baylor, BYU, Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(2): Boise State, San Diego State
Pac 12(12): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
SEC(15): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 61 schools form the Championship Division (borrowing English soccer nomenclature the Divisions are: Premier, Championship, 1st, and 2nd). 11 top performing schools from FCS will be added.
AAC(12): Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Rice, South Florida (USF), Southern Methodist (SMU), Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTSA,
CUSA(9): Florida International (FIU), Jacksonville State (AL), Liberty, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, UTEP, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(3): Army, UConn, UMass
MAC(12): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(10): AFA, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(14): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana (Lafayette),
Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Marshall, Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Southern Mississippi (USM), Texas State, Troy.
Summary of Selection:
There are 133 FBS schools. 72 have been elected. 61 have been eliminated.
Of the 68 P5 schools, all but Vanderbilt(SEC) were selected.
In addition, one independent, Notre Dame; two AAC, Memphis and Navy; and two MtW, Boise State and San Diego State were elected.
AAC(14 total) Memphis and Navy elected, 12 eliminated.
CUSA(9 total) All 9 eliminated.
MAC(12 total) All 12 eliminated.
MtW(12 total) Boise State and San Diego State elected, 10 eliminated.
Sun Belt(14 total) All 14 eliminated.
Independents(4) Notre Dame elected, 3 eliminated.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 30,000-seat stadium.
(05-10-2022 12:47 PM)jimrtex Wrote: [ -> ]The final 11 have been selected.
Indiana, Iowa State, Northwestern, Kansas State, Illinois, San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Memphis, Kansas, and Duke.
Just missing are Southern Methodist, Appalachian State, and East Carolina.
The 72 schools elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(2): Memphis, Navy
ACC(14): Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
B1G(14): Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(12): Baylor, BYU, Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(2): Boise State, San Diego State
Pac 12(12): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
SEC(15): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 61 schools form the Championship Division (borrowing English soccer nomenclature the Divisions are: Premier, Championship, 1st, and 2nd). 11 top performing schools from FCS will be added.
AAC(12): Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Rice, South Florida (USF), Southern Methodist (SMU), Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTSA,
CUSA(9): Florida International (FIU), Jacksonville State (AL), Liberty, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, UTEP, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(3): Army, UConn, UMass
MAC(12): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(10): AFA, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(14): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana (Lafayette),
Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Marshall, Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Southern Mississippi (USM), Texas State, Troy.
Summary of Selection:
There are 133 FBS schools. 72 have been elected. 61 have been eliminated.
Of the 68 P5 schools, all but Vanderbilt(SEC) were selected.
In addition, one independent, Notre Dame; two AAC, Memphis and Navy; and two MtW, Boise State and San Diego State were elected.
AAC(14 total) Memphis and Navy elected, 12 eliminated.
CUSA(9 total) All 9 eliminated.
MAC(12 total) All 12 eliminated.
MtW(12 total) Boise State and San Diego State elected, 10 eliminated.
Sun Belt(14 total) All 14 eliminated.
Independents(4) Notre Dame elected, 3 eliminated.
The voting of almost all P5 schools at the expense of some G5 schools that I think are more committed to quality football is a bit disappointing, but it sounds like you're planning some sort of promotion/relegation for this model, so the cream will rise over the course of a few years.
I'm excited to see the rest of what you propose, especially what the plan would be for 61 remaining FBS schools and the top FCS schools. Would there be just the two tiers or would you make a third tier of the bottom FCS schools?
(05-10-2022 03:03 PM)cottager Wrote: [ -> ] (05-10-2022 12:47 PM)jimrtex Wrote: [ -> ]The final 11 have been selected.
Indiana, Iowa State, Northwestern, Kansas State, Illinois, San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Memphis, Kansas, and Duke.
Just missing are Southern Methodist, Appalachian State, and East Carolina.
The 72 schools elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(2): Memphis, Navy
ACC(14): Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.
B1G(14): Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(12): Baylor, BYU, Central Florida (UCF), Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State (OSU), TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(2): Boise State, San Diego State
Pac 12(12): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
SEC(15): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 61 schools form the Championship Division (borrowing English soccer nomenclature the Divisions are: Premier, Championship, 1st, and 2nd). 11 top performing schools from FCS will be added.
AAC(12): Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Rice, South Florida (USF), Southern Methodist (SMU), Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTSA,
CUSA(9): Florida International (FIU), Jacksonville State (AL), Liberty, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, UTEP, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(3): Army, UConn, UMass
MAC(12): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(10): AFA, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(14): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana (Lafayette),
Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Marshall, Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Southern Mississippi (USM), Texas State, Troy.
Summary of Selection:
There are 133 FBS schools. 72 have been elected. 61 have been eliminated.
Of the 68 P5 schools, all but Vanderbilt(SEC) were selected.
In addition, one independent, Notre Dame; two AAC, Memphis and Navy; and two MtW, Boise State and San Diego State were elected.
AAC(14 total) Memphis and Navy elected, 12 eliminated.
CUSA(9 total) All 9 eliminated.
MAC(12 total) All 12 eliminated.
MtW(12 total) Boise State and San Diego State elected, 10 eliminated.
Sun Belt(14 total) All 14 eliminated.
Independents(4) Notre Dame elected, 3 eliminated.
The voting of almost all P5 schools at the expense of some G5 schools that I think are more committed to quality football is a bit disappointing, but it sounds like you're planning some sort of promotion/relegation for this model, so the cream will rise over the course of a few years.
I'm excited to see the rest of what you propose, especially what the plan would be for 61 remaining FBS schools and the top FCS schools. Would there be just the two tiers or would you make a third tier of the bottom FCS schools?
The remaining FCS schools would form two tiers.
This could conceptually be extended to DII (5th and 6th tiers) and DIII (7th through 9th tiers). Mary Hardin-Baylor might play Baylor for the national championship in the 2030's. Baylor would forget about that school down the Brazos or the other one down I-35.
The main difference between FCS and FBS is the number of scholarships. The squad sizes are the same, the rules are the same. It is not like if you had to decide whether to play 12-man or 11-man or have to have two feet in.
I'd completely wipe out the distinction between FBS and FCS. DI schools would be limited to some percentage (35% to 40%?) of their total scholarship count. Conferences might continue to have stricter limits - but since the main football competition would be outside conference play, schools could essentially compete as independents in football (this is in a sense what the MVFC and Pioneer League and Patriot League do now).
With a percentage value, schools wanting to offer more football scholarships would generally add more sports.
I have decided on a 30,000 minimum capacity to participate in the Premier Division. Temporary waivers would be granted to Oregon State while they are renovating their stadium, and San Diego State while they are building their new stadium (San Diego State could theoretically use SoFi Stadium, the Coliseum, or Rose Bowl).
A 40,000 minimum would cut out Wake Forest, Washington State, Navy, and Boise State.
Wake Forest and Navy could probably find an alternate stadium for their four home games, but WSU and Boise State would need to expand their stadiums. Playing in Seattle (for WSU) or Salt Lake (for Boise State) is likely out of the question.
The numbers after each school are the Sagarin Ratings, and the schools are ordered by that rating. I hope to do a simulation similar to Crayton's, but this at least show potential standings. Oregon and UCLA would qualify for the playoffs, while Stanford and Arizona would be subject to possible relegation.
Pacific Group
Code:
Oregon 79.96
UCLA 78.93
Arizona State 76.68
Oregon State 74.68
California 71.55
Southern California 70.30
Washington 70.27
Stanford 65.75
Arizona 59.13
I had considered placing San Diego State and Washington State in this group which would place all 9 schools in the three Pacific states in this group, but I decided to place more emphasis on keeping conference schools together. It might even be possible for conferences to dictate which schools participate in "their" groups. So Colorado and Utah were kept out. Rather than splitting the Arizona Schools, I split off WSU which is the only other interior school, and is somewhat close to Boise State and BYU.
Western Group
Code:
Utah 85.61
Iowa State 83.48
Kansas State 79.16
Boise State 78.94
BYU 77.38
Washington State 74.58
San Diego State 73.74
Colorado 65.64
Kansas 55.51
Starting with the Utah and Colorado, WSU, San Diego State, Boise State and BYU, I then added three Big 12 schools near to Colorado. Iowa State was placed here rather than Nebraska, so that there are four Big 12 schools, and Nebraska is not isolated from the rest of the B1G.
Midwest Group
Code:
Wisconsin 84.44
Minnesota 80.53
Purdue 80.53
Iowa 80.43
Nebraska 74.17
Louisville 73.75
Illinois 69.71
Indiana 64.91
Northwestern 63.64
The B1G may prefer this 8-6 split since it avoids having to divide Purdue and Indiana. The original configuration had Missouri, but the SEC did not want them to be isolated. Louisville is outside the ACC footprint, and is across the river from Indiana.
Northeast Group
Code:
Ohio State 93.55
Michigan 90.00
Notre Dame 87.99
Pittsburgh 82.57
Penn State 81.68
Michigan State 81.27
Maryland 72.19
Rutgers 66.35
Navy 64.38
This includes the 6 other B1G schools along with independent Notre Dame and G5 Navy. Pittsburgh is selected as the ACC representative because it is in the footprint of the other schools (between Penn State and Ohio State).
Southwest Group
Code:
Oklahoma State 88.37
Oklahoma 88.01
Baylor 86.26
Texas A&M 83.16
Texas 77.83
Houston 77.13
LSU 76.74
Texas Tech 74.88
TCU 70.75
This includes the 5 Big 12 and 3 SEC schools in Texas and Oklahoma. I had originally included Arkansas based on its past experience in the Southwest Conference and geographical nearness to Oklahoma. But I switched LSU in so that Arkansas and Missouri would be in the same group with other northern SEC schools (Kentucky and Tennessee). LSU has played Texas A&M 60 times, more for the Aggies than any non-Southwest Conference school, and more the Tigers than any non-SEC school except Tulane.
Central Group
Code:
Cincinnati 86.26
Mississippi 83.85
Kentucky 80.88
Arkansas 80.49
Tennessee 77.45
Mississippi State 75.63
West Virginia 74.14
Missouri 69.50
Memphis 67.38
This is somewhat of a tweener group. Cincinnati and West Virginia are both in the Big 12. Memphis clearly fits in a group with Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi schools. I played around with Louisville and/or Pitt in this group, but ultimately the deciding factor was to bring Missouri in with 5 other SEC schools (even though Missouri is not southeastern).
Southeast Group
Code:
Georgia 99.62
Alabama 96.10
Auburn 78.51
Miami-Florida 76.21
Florida 74.82
Central Florida(UCF) 73.32
South Carolina 72.15
Florida State 71.74
Georgia Tech 64.44
States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. South Carolina is picked over Clemson because it keeps the SEC schools in three groups. Besides the battle between Georgia and Alabama for the #1 national seed, you have the possibility of FSU relegating.
Atlantic Group
Code:
Clemson 86.36
NC State 82.25
Wake Forest 80.62
North Carolina 72.82
Virginia 71.61
Boston College 69.19
Virginia Tech 68.85
Syracuse 67.85
Duke 55.15
An all ACC group that includes BC and Syracuse, skipping Pitt which ended up in the Northeast Group.
Pac 12 is split 9 and 3.
SEC is split 4, 6, and 5 (Vanderbilt not in Premier Division).
B1G is split 8 and 6.
B12 is split 5, 4, 2, and 1 (with Cincinnati-West Virginia and UCF isolated)
ACC is split 3, 9, 1, and 1 (with Louisville and Pitt isolated).
Switch Louisville and Missouri. Missouri doesn't belong in the SEC anyway.
(05-11-2022 10:49 AM)BatonRougeEscapee Wrote: [ -> ]Switch Louisville and Missouri. Missouri doesn't belong in the SEC anyway.
My model assumes that conferences could have some control over where their schools play, and that the SEC chose to have Missouri with their other schools.
The ACC and Louisville really didn't have the option since Louisville is relatively isolated. If you consider the location of the universities rather than the states it also makes sense. Louisville is just over 100 miles from Bloomington, Indiana.
The groups are dynamic so schools on the edges may change groups from year to year.
It really doesn't make sense. Louisville has history with teams in Missouri's spot and vice versa. They are both outliers where you placed them. But this is your baby, so you do what you want. Somehow Rutgers got voted in on first ballot so this entire exercise is suspect. Enjoyable, but suspect.
To be honest, I don't quite understand the adherence to conferences considering how experimental this already is. Voting was conducted purely geographically, so I assumed conference placement would be conducted purely geographically as well. But, I suppose it's not a big difference either way.
There were 72 FBS schools in the first tier, leaving 61 to be placed in the second tier. We need 11 FCS schools to complete the second tier. We choose those schools who have had the best performance in the FCS playoffs over the last 10 seasons (2012-2021*). The Spring 2021 playoffs were fair enough to be included. The teams are ranked by games played. Teams receiving a first-round bye are credited with a game played. In addition the champion is given one more win.
An 11th place tie between Villanova and Kennesaw State was broken in favor of Villanova on the basis of more recent performance. Were we doing this for real, we would have continued compiling results through the 2024 season.
Code:
School Games/Seasons
North Dakota State 54/10
South Dakota State 28/10
Eastern Washington 23/7
Montana State 15/5
Northern Iowa 13/6
New Hampshire 15/6
Montana 12/5
Weber State 12/5
Wofford 12/5
Villanova 10/5
Not surprisingly, there are 4 MVFC, 4 Big Sky, and 2 CAA teams, with Wofford representing the SoCon.
Southwest Group
Code:
Air Force 75.76
Fresno State 73.81
Utah State 73.31
Nevada 72.12
Hawai'i 63.46
Colorado State 61.69
San Jose State 60.42
Weber State 59.44
UNLV 58.41
This is mostly Mountain West schools plus Weber State.
Great Northern Group
Code:
North Dakota State 76.27
South Dakota State 70.63
Wyoming 66.90
Montana 65.38
Montana State 65.13
Northern Illinois 65.06
Eastern Washington 64.86
Northern Iowa 63.86
Illinois State 49.97
7 FCS schools joined by Wyoming and Northern Illinois.
New Tex-Mex Group
Code:
SMU 73.83
UTSA 71.75
Sam Houston State 64.31
North Texas 59.71
UTEP 57.52
Rice 51.87
New Mexico 51.43
Texas State 51.14
New Mexico State 44.62
All the Texas and New Mexico schools. Sam Houston would be competitive.
Northeast Group
Code:
Army West Point 71.30
Kent State 61.22
Villanova 59.56
Buffalo 57.52
Temple 47.39
Akron 44.80
Connecticut 42.52
New Hampshire 39.88
Massachusetts 37.03
Three most eastern MAC schools and schools in the northeastern. UConn and UMass would be battling to avoid relegation to the third tier (FCS schools).
Mid-American Group
Code:
Central Michigan 70.84
Western Michigan 70.60
Toledo 68.45
Marshall 67.78
Miami-Ohio 66.37
Ball State 62.96
Eastern Michigan 61.37
Ohio 56.31
Bowling Green 51.39
Michigan and Ohio members of the MAC plus Marshall.
South Atlantic Group
Code:
Appalachian State 74.34
Coastal Carolina 72.65
Liberty 72.15
James Madison 71.20
East Carolina 68.37
Georgia State 67.02
Old Dominion 59.33
Charlotte 52.53
Wofford 37.45
Virginia, Carolina's, and Atlanta.
Southeast Group
Code:
UAB 71.54
Florida Atlantic 59.89
Troy 58.63
South Florida 56.74
South Alabama 56.18
Georgia Southern 55.33
Southern Miss 50.97
Jacksonville State 48.19
Fla. International 41.17
Alabama, Florida, plus USM and Georgia Southern
South Central Group
Code:
Louisiana 76.32
Western Kentucky 74.58
Tulsa 69.37
Middle Tennessee 63.84
Tulane 62.08
Louisiana Tech 55.77
Vanderbilt 53.31
Arkansas State 52.56
LouisianaMonroe(ULM) 52.43
Louisiana and Oklahoma to Tennessee-Kentucky
There is an alternate grouping that would rotate the following pairs clockwise:
AFA-CSU to Great Northern
Illinois State-Northern Illinois to Mid American
Ohio-Marshall to South Atlantic
Wofford-Georgia State to Southeast
Tulsa-Arkansas State to Texas
New Mexico-NMSU to Southwest