(05-14-2019 07:32 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-14-2019 05:51 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(05-14-2019 12:43 AM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(05-13-2019 11:18 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(05-13-2019 10:18 AM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  All 3 are still mid major conferences either way so sew what is your point.

I consider them Major conferences, one step below Power conferences, but one step above Mid-Major (MAC, Sun Belt, CAA), and two steps above Small (Southland, Big Sky, Patriot, etc.).

Power: PAC, XII, B1G, SEC, ACC
Major: AAC, BE
Mid-Major: Everyone else

The upper crust of mid major is WCC, MWC, MVC, A10. Same principal applies as in lower tier conferences.

I was referring to ~05 to ~2012.

MVC is not on that level anymore.

They've had a couple of down years. So has the A10. The WCC has long been Gonzaga + 1 or 2 others without much at the bottom. MWC has also had a couple of down years. They were doing pretty well from 2005-2012.

When they restructured the Division I governing body in the mid-90s, they put the CUSA and pre-split WAC on the same level as the P5 and BE. Each got 3 votes. BW and MAC got 1.5 for 27 of the 51 total votes. The other conferences got 1. The AAC is basically CUSA 1.0.

I seem to remember reading that about C-USA and the WAC. They just got screwed out of the Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance.

The monster WAC actually had a tie-in with the Cotton Bowl, albeit briefly. The Cotton had the choice between either the WAC champ or the PAC 10 runner-up to pair with the Big XII runner-up. BYU went one year when they should have made an Alliance appearance.

The 90’s bowl picture is what broke the streak of SEC teams in the Sugar Bowl, Big 8 teams in the Orange, and SWC teams in the Cotton. Of course, the Rose came a little later.