RE: What if: Ohio St never joins the B10, starts its own conference
Here's a possible present day P5 for this timeline, with some admittedly unrealistic parallelism:
ACC (9-game conference schedule, 2 protected crossovers per team)
Atlantic: Clemson (UGA/GT), South Carolina (UGA/GT), Miami-FL (UF/FSU), Wake Forest (FSU/Duke), NC State (Duke/UNC), Virginia (UNC/UF)
Coastal: Georgia (Clemson/SC), Georgia Tech (Clemson/SC), Florida (UVA/Miami), Florida State (Miami/WF), Duke (WF/NCSU), North Carolina (NCSU/UVA)
Big 12 (8-game conference schedule, no protected crossovers)
East: Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin
West: Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska
EAC (9-game conference schedule, 2 protected crossovers per team)
North: Boston College (UMD/Rutgers), Syracuse (Rutgers/PSU), Pittsburgh (PSU/WVU), Notre Dame (WVU/VT), Michigan (VT/OSU), Michigan State (OSU/UMD)
South: Maryland (MSU/BC), Rutgers (BC/Syracuse), Penn State (Syracuse/Pitt), West Virginia (Pitt/ND), Virginia Tech (ND/UM), Ohio State (UM/MSU)
Pac-12 (9-game conference schedule, 2 protected crossovers per team)
Pacific: Arizona (ASU/Utah), Colorado (ASU/Utah), California (Stanford/USC), UCLA (Stanford/USC), Oregon (OSU/WSU), Washington (OSU/WSU)
Western: Arizona State (UA/CU), Utah (UA/CU), Stanford (Cal/UCLA), USC (Cal/UCLA), Oregon State (UO/UW), Washington State (UO/UW)
SEC (8-game conference schedule, no protected crossovers)
East: Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee
West: Arkansas, LSU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M
(This post was last modified: 05-18-2019 07:45 PM by Nerdlinger.)
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