Ok, this entire thing is just to get a glimpse of what 4×18 might look like so don't shoot me if you don't like who I put in your conference. Drum roll please.........
ACC North- B1G West- PAC North- SEC West-
B.C.------------- Baylor--------- UW--------------Kansas
Syracuse------Oklahoma----WSU-----------Texas A&M
Pitt---------------Nebraska-----Oregon--------TCU
WVU------------ Iowa------------Oregon St.---Oklahoma St.
Cinci.----------- Iowa St.-------BYU------------ Arkansas
N.D.--------------Minnesota---Utah------------LSU
ACC Central- B1G Central- PAC South- SEC Central-
Louisville----- Wisconsin-----California----Missouri
Memphis------Illinois-----------Stanford------Vanderbilt
Virginia-------- NW--------------- USC-------------Ole Miss
Va Tech--------Purdue----------UCLA-----------Miss St.
UNC--------------Indiana---------Arizona--------Alabama
Duke-------------MSU-------------ASU--------------Auburn
ACC South- B1G East- PAC East- SEC East-
N.C. St.-------- Michigan-----Colorado------Kentucky
Wake F.---------Ohio St.-------Kansas St.----Tenn
GTech-----------Penn St.------Texas------------ECU
Clemson-------UCONN------New Mexico---Georgia
Florida St.-----Rutgers------Texas Tech----South Car.
Miami-----------Maryland----Houston--------Florida
And there we have it. So in my super hypothetical alignments every conference has to eat a little bit of the g5 burger to get to 72. But along with the g5's they also all received some high value programs as well. Let me know what you think.
Also let the record reflect that there is only so many g5's that would be considered for this kind of realignment, i chose to include Cincinnati, Memphis, UCONN, BYU, New Mexico, Houston, and ECU, I'm sure you could convince me to include different one's. Other's that would probably take some consideration would be in no particular order, Boise State, UNLV, Colorado State, Rice, Tulane, UCF, and USF. IMO beyond these g programs it gets pretty hard to make a case for inclusion.