RE: FBS if teams that dropped to FCS stayed down or never upgraded
If the NCAA would have gotten what they wanted this would have been 1A
ACC (8): Clemson, Duke, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech
Big 8: Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
Big 10: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin
Pac-10: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State
SEC (10): Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
SWC (9): Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Rice, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech
WAC (9): Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Hawaii, New Mexico, San Diego State, Utah, UTEP, Wyoming
Independent (20): Army, Boston College, East Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Memphis, Miami-FL, Navy, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Carolina, Southern Miss, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
Possible (9) - would be indy or have to find new conference: Fresno State, Pacific, UNLV, Utah State, New Mexico State, Tulsa, Wichita State, Central Michigan, Toledo
The Big West and the MAC weren't supposed to make it. Big West added UNLV before the test to stay was applied so they were OK with the 50% of the conference exception. The MAC schools that didn't qualify fought back. Doing so allowed the conference to come back as it was prior to the forced reclassification
Assuming all 9 of the now conference less teams wanted to stay 1AA I think you have enough for 2 new conferences:
Big East and CUSA
Without upgrades you would have a few NMSU'S that were homeless against their will
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2021 07:19 PM by solohawks.)
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