(11-21-2020 04:05 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I like it—but I don’t see Memphis jumping USF in line.

USF goes to the Big 12 (who interestingly enough actually has 12 members)

Big 12 East: USF, WVU, Cincinnati, Louisville, Iowa St, Kansas St
Big 12 West: TCU, Baylor, Houston, Utah, BYU, Boise St

The Big question is does this conglomerate gain autobid status in the CFP? My guess is that the Sugar Bowl makes a push to be SEC vs ACC.

C-USA East: Marshall, ECU, UCF, UAB, USM, Memphis
C-USA: West: Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Rice, UTSA, UTEP
(By heart says LA Tech to replace Houston but my head says they go for the big Texas market of San Antonio)

MWC: same as now—12 was necessary for a CCG at the time

MAC: has Temple and UMass as fb affiliates

SBC East: FAU, FIU, Troy, USA, MTSU, WKU
SBC West: Ark St, ULM, ULL, LA Tech, UNT, Texas St
(LA Tech has to take a huge helping of humble pie and accept that the WAC is dead)

Indy: Navy, Army, NMSU
FCS: Idaho

Curious question—does the WAC get disassembled fast enough that it can’t even attempt to rebuild? Any chance they can admit some of the FCS schools wanting to come up?—JMU, Liberty, ODU, Charlotte, App St, CCU, GA St, GA South That’s a nice 8 team league—maybe toss in Jacksonville St too.

If Boise is in the Big 12, the MWC can't be the same as now. I had CUSA pick up LA Tech because they were available in 2011 and UTSA was not. I think LA Tech goes FB independent if they can't get into CUSA. The WAC is not going to rebuild from east coast schools. You can't promote a whole conference's worth of FCS schools to FBS, as they wouldn't be able to meet the scheduling requirements playing each other.