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NMSU (alum)

Top of the Mountain Conference or Four Corners Conference

South
NMSU
UNM
UTEP
ASU
UofA
NAU
SUU
Dixie St


North
CSU
AFA
USU
UofU
Weber St
BYU
UVU

Cheesestake Conference
Delaware (Grad degree)
Delaware St
Rider
Villanova
St Joe's
LaSalle
Drexel
Penn
Leheigh
Lafayette
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RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s)
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.
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(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 love it. Imagine a football conference with Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU, and Florida (and if Florida State gets their act together, them) as well as a basketball conference with Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisville, and Virginia.
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RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s)
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
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UCF, FSU, UF, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Clemson, South Carolina, Navy, Alabama, Auburn, Pitt, Penn St

This would get a ton of great rivalries in 1 conference. Gets the 3 most relevant Florida programs in, sorry Miami but you've done nothing since you left the Big East. Also is it really a dream conference if Notre Dame isn't a full member?
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RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s)
A-10 of the Midwest...

Saint Louis
Northern Ill.
Illinois-Chicago
Milwaukee
Western Mich.
Central Mich.
IUPUI
Ball St.
Eastern Mich
Toledo
BGSU
Kent St.
Ohio
Miami

10 in FB to split the pie less ways but 14 in basketball to dominate the Midwest corridor.
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(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.
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(02-13-2020 08:40 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  I'm not a fan of any of these teams, but it'd be neat to see a greater Northeast conference like this:

North: Boston College, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse
South: Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, West Virginia

Two protected annual crossovers per team preserve important FB rivalries like Michigan/OSU, PSU/Pitt, and Pitt/WVU.

Also, coupled with this, a stacked ACC:

Atlantic: Clemson, Miami-FL, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest
Coastal: Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina

Similarly, 2 protected crossovers per team maintain key annual matchups such as Clemson/GT, FSU/Miami, NC State/UNC, and UNC/UVA.
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(02-13-2020 07:19 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Northeastern Athletic Conference the NAC!

North: Rutgers, Cuse, BC, UMass, UConn, Temple, PSU, Army (FB Only)

South: Pitt, WVU, VT, Cincy, Louisville, Maryland, UVA, Navy (FB Only)

Army/Navy play every year in a OOC match up. The game doesn't count towards conference standings so it wont interfere with the CCG. I believe Wake played one of the other ACC NC schools in OOC one year so it's not unprecedented.

FB Championship in Giants Stadium, BBall tourny at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly.

Thats Orange Bowl contract worthy team and a tough top 3 BBall conference especially if UConn can ever get its act together again.

Deep South Conference:

North- Clemson, USC, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU

South- UF, FSU, UCF, USF, Miami, UGA, GT

FB Championship/BBall Tourny in Atlanta

Big 10 (12):

East- OSU, UM, MSU, ND, UI, Purdue

West- Wisc, Minny, Iowa, Iowa St, Ill, NW

FB Championship Indy & BBall Tourny Chicago

Pac-14:

North- UW, WSU, OU, OSU, Boise, Nev, UNLV

South- USC, UCLA, SD St, Fresno, Stanford, Cal, Hawaii

FB Championship & BBall Tourny Vegas

Big 16:

North- Neb, KU, KSU, OU, OSU, Tulsa, Arkansas, Mizz

South- Texas, A&M, Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston, SMU, Rice

FB Championship Dallas & BBall Tourny St Louis

Mountain West:

East- CU, CSU, Air Force, Wyoming, New Mexico St, UTEP

West- BYU, Utah, Utah St, ASU, UA, New Mexico

FB Championship & BBall Tourny Denver

ACC:

East- UNC, Duke, NC St, Wake, ECU, Charolette

West- UK, Tenn, Vandy, Memphis, WKU, Midd Tenn

FB Championship Nashville & BBall Tourny Charolette
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(02-13-2020 07:19 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Northeastern Athletic Conference the NAC!

North: Rutgers, Cuse, BC, UMass, UConn, Temple, PSU, Army (FB Only)

South: Pitt, WVU, VT, Cincy, Louisville, Maryland, UVA, Navy (FB Only)

Army/Navy play every year in a OOC match up. The game doesn't count towards conference standings so it wont interfere with the CCG. I believe Wake played one of the other ACC NC schools in OOC one year so it's not unprecedented.

FB Championship in Giants Stadium, BBall tourny at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly.

Thats Orange Bowl contract worthy team and a tough top 3 BBall conference especially if UConn can ever get its act together again.

I like it! The only quarrel I have is I would substitute/drop UMass.
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PAC, AAC, MAC, and MWC are fine.

Great Plains Conference: TCU, Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa State.

Big 14: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College.

ACC: Miami, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, West Virginia, Maryland, Navy, Rutgers

SEC: LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, FSU, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson

Sun Belt: NMSU, UTEP, UTSA, Rice, North Texas, Texas State, ULL, ULM, La Tech, Arkansas State, USM, South Alabama

CUSA: UAB, Troy, Middle Tennessee, WKU, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, FAU, FIU, App State, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Old Dominion, Marshall, JMU/Liberty

Did I forget anybody?
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RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s)
I started out designing my dream ACC. Then, it grew from there. I decided to realign the entire FBS with a premise that every conference should contain either 9, 10 or 12 members to facilitate uniform 8 game conference schedules. This became my new ACC. The members are listed in order of their 10 year average Sagarin rating. In parentheses are the FBS ranking for each team based on those averages.

Clemson (3)
Georgia (7)
Florida State (12)
Florida (19)
Penn State (21)
Virginia Tech (31)
Georgia Tech (41)
North Carolina (43)
NC State (46)
Virginia (69)

The average Sagarin rating (not ranking) for this new ACC was 79. When I finished realigning, I still had a clearly defined P5, though with fewer teams than we have now because of the limits on conference size. My new SEC had the second highest rating of the P5 at 78. They were followed by the XII (also at 78 due to rounding), the PAC at 77 and the B1G at 77.

I was mildly surprised at the competitive balance among the five conferences. None of them had fewer than four teams ranked among the Top 25 in ten year average. If there were an eight team CFP that included only the highest ranked conference champions and independents, each of the P5 conferences would very likely produce a tournament worthy representative every year.

The only schools not in one of my P5 conferences who were ranked in the Top 25 were Notre Dame (13), Baylor (24) and Boise State (25). This is the rest of my new P5, listed in order of their Sagarin rating.

SEC: Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Miami, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Central Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and South Florida.

XII: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas.

PAC: Oregon, Stanford, Washington, Southern Cal, Utah, Arizona State, UCLA, Arizona, Washington State, California, Oregon State and Colorado.

B1G: Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, Indiana, Purdue and Illinois.

Note that this alignment restores the B1G to its configuration prior to adding Penn State. The XII is almost back to its original configuration, minus Colorado who went to the PAC and Baylor (just because). They were replaced by TCU and Arkansas. The PAC remains as it is presently configured.

The remainder of the current ACC becomes part of a restored Big East, which includes: West Virginia, Louisville, Pitt, Cincinnati, Boston College, Duke, Syracuse, Maryland, Wake Forest and Rutgers. Their average Sagarin rating is 71, which makes them a tweener conference, along with a new Gulf Coast Conference at 66, made up of Baylor plus regional teams from the AAC and CUSA, and the MWC with a 63 rating.
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(02-14-2020 08:42 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  
(02-13-2020 07:19 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Northeastern Athletic Conference the NAC!

North: Rutgers, Cuse, BC, UMass, UConn, Temple, PSU, Army (FB Only)

South: Pitt, WVU, VT, Cincy, Louisville, Maryland, UVA, Navy (FB Only)

Army/Navy play every year in a OOC match up. The game doesn't count towards conference standings so it wont interfere with the CCG. I believe Wake played one of the other ACC NC schools in OOC one year so it's not unprecedented.

FB Championship in Giants Stadium, BBall tourny at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly.

Thats Orange Bowl contract worthy team and a tough top 3 BBall conference especially if UConn can ever get its act together again.

I like it! The only quarrel I have is I would substitute/drop UMass.

No don't. Keep us. It's good as is and you won't need to worry about UCONN trying to make up a rivalry.
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"The Conference"

North
1) Ohio State (Undergrad)
2) Michigan
3) Penn State
4) Cincinnati (Hometown)
5) Louisville
6) Kentucky
7) Notre Dame

South
1) West Virginia
2) North Carolina
3) Tennessee
4) Georgia
5) Alabama
6) Memphis
7) LSU
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Old Dominion
Marshall
WKU
ECU
JMU
Liberty

Coastal Carolina
Charlotte
App State
Southern Miss
UAB
Ga Southern
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(02-13-2020 04:40 PM)schmolik Wrote:  
(02-13-2020 04:24 PM)Baylorbears11 Wrote:  The Big 16

SWC Division:
Arkansas
Baylor
TCU
SMU
Tech
Rice
Texas
Texas A&M

Big 8 Division:
Nebraska
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado

What, you have something against Houston?


LOL not really. Just had to drop one for even divisions and preferred having Arkansas back. Houston bs. Rice was the toss-up and I sided with Rice just based on history. Houston being a relative late comer to the SWC and now has spent more of its history in a conference with Memphis than it did as a member of the SWC. I like UH and their programs, but in a “dream conference” situation they got the boot because someone had to.
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RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s)
Here's one I thought of a few years ago:

Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Clemson
South Carolina
Florida
Florida State
Miami (FL)
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(02-14-2020 08:39 AM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Northeastern Athletic Conference the NAC!

North: Rutgers, Cuse, BC, UMass, UConn, Buffalo, PSU, Army (FB Only)

South: Pitt, WVU, VT, Cincy, Louisville, Maryland, Temple, Navy (FB Only)

Army/Navy play every year in a OOC match up. The game doesn't count towards conference standings so it wont interfere with the CCG. I believe Wake played one of the other ACC NC schools in OOC one year so it's not unprecedented.

FB Championship in Giants Stadium, BBall tourny at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly.

Thats Orange Bowl contract worthy team and a tough top 3 BBall conference especially if UConn can ever get its act together again.

Deep South Conference:

North- Clemson, USC, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU

South- UF, FSU, UCF, USF, Miami, UGA, GT

FB Championship/BBall Tourny in Atlanta

Big 10 (12):

East- OSU, UM, MSU, ND, UI, Purdue

West- Wisc, Minny, Iowa, Iowa St, Ill, NW

FB Championship Indy & BBall Tourny Chicago

Pac-14:

North- UW, WSU, OU, OSU, Boise, Nev, UNLV

South- USC, UCLA, SD St, Fresno, Stanford, Cal, Hawaii

FB Championship & BBall Tourny Vegas

Big 16:

North- Neb, KU, KSU, OU, OSU, Tulsa, Arkansas, Mizz

South- Texas, A&M, Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston, SMU, Rice

FB Championship Dallas & BBall Tourny St Louis

Mountain West:

East- CU, CSU, Air Force, Wyoming, New Mexico St, UTEP

West- BYU, Utah, Utah St, ASU, UA, New Mexico

FB Championship & BBall Tourny Denver

ACC:

East- UNC, Duke, NC St, Wake, ECU, UVA

West- UK, Tenn, Vandy, Memphis, WKU, Midd Tenn

FB Championship Nashville & BBall Tourny Charolette

Okay I made a bit of a change. UVA rejoins its NC rivals and I added Buffalo to the Northeast
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The TRUE ACC

NORTH
Maryland
Navy^
West Virginia
Marshall
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Old Dominion
Liberty
Richmond*
Georgetown*
VCU*


SOUTH
Wake Forest
NC State
UNC
Duke
ECU
Appalachian State
Clemson
South Carolina
Davidson*
College of Charleston*

ACC Championship Football:
Charlotte

ACC Basketball Tournament:
Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, D.C.

ACC Baseball Championship
Durham, Charlotte, Richmond

Thanksgiving Day Games
Maryland vs. Navy
West Virginia vs. Marshall
Virginia vs. Virginia Tech
Liberty vs. Old Dominion
Appalachian State vs. Wake Forest
UNC vs. Duke
NC State vs. ECU
Clemson vs. South Carolina
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(02-14-2020 01:41 PM)Inkblot Wrote:  Here's one I thought of a few years ago:

Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Clemson
South Carolina
Florida
Florida State
Miami (FL)

Above is the SEC

Flowing out of this with the 10-school conference model (utilizing independents):

ACC

Kentucky
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina St
Duke
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Maryland
West Virginia

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SWC

Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Baylor
TCU
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi St
Vanderbilt

---

PAC

Washington
Washington St
Oregon
Oregon St
California
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona St

---

X

Utah
BYU
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa St
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas St
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St

---

B1G

Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Indiana
Purdue
Michigan
Michigan St
Ohio St

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METRO

Tulsa
SMU
Houston
Rice
Tulane
Memphis
Cincinnati
East Carolina
Central Florida
South Florida

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MWC

Hawaii
San Diego St
Fresno St
Nevada
UNLV
Boise St
Utah St
Wyoming
Colorado St
New Mexico

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GULF

UTEP
UTSA
North Texas
Louisiana Tech
UL Lafayette
Arkansas St
Southern Miss
UAB
Troy
South Alabama

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SBC

Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Georgia St
Georgia Southern
Coastal Carolina
Appalachian St
Charlotte
Old Dominion
Middle Tennessee St
Western Kentucky

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MAC

Northern Illinois
Ball St
Western Michigan
Central Michigan
Toledo
Bowling Green St
Ohio
Miami OH
Kent St
Marshall

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

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IND or to FCS: Liberty, New Mexico St, Connecticut, Massachusetts, San Jose St, Akron, Eastern Michigan, Texas St, UL Monroe
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