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RE: Alternate History and Future College Sports Realignment Scenarios
(10-19-2018 09:03 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: (03-21-2018 09:14 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote: Revisiting a successful Texoma gambit by the Pac in 2010. Here the ACC and Big 12 are gutted. The remnants band together with Notre Dame, TCU, and a few BE football schools to survive as a power conference. Baylor is left out in the cold.
ACC/Big 16
East: Boston College, Florida State, Miami-FL, Syracuse
North: Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, West Virginia
South: Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest
West: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, TCU
Big Ten
East: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State
North: Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue
South: Maryland, North Carolina, Rutgers, Virginia
West: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin
Pac-16
East: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech
North: Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State
South: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah
West: California, Stanford, UCLA, USC
SEC
East: Florida, Georgia, NC State, South Carolina
North: Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech
South: Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
West: Arkansas, LSU, Missouri, Texas A&M
Re-revisiting this successful Texoma-to-Pac scenario. In reality, if the current Big 12 survives the expiration of its GoR intact and renews for a decade or so, this scenario could actually come to pass in the 2030s when the ACC GoR expires (assuming the market mantra still holds sway in conference expansion decisions).
In any case, for fun, I developed schedules for the P4 conferences. The ACC/Big 16 and SEC have 8-game schedules, with the 4-team pods rotating between two 8-team divisions in a 3-year cycle. Each year, a team plays its division plus 1 interdivision crossover. Each team has a protected crossover for the 2 years out of 3 in which they're not in the same division, as well as an alternate crossover for the 1 year they share a division with the protected crossover. It takes 3 years to play every team once and 6 years to play every team home and away. In that 6-year time span, a team plays their division mates and protected crossover 6 times, their alternate crossover 4 times, and all other teams twice. Here are the crossovers for each team:
Team: Protected Crossover, Alternate Crossover
ACC/Big 16
East
Boston College: Duke, Iowa State
Florida State: Clemson, Kansas State
Miami-FL: Notre Dame, Georgia Tech
Syracuse: Pittsburgh, Wake Forest
North
Louisville: Iowa State, Duke
West Virginia: Kansas State, Clemson
Notre Dame: Miami-FL, TCU
Pittsburgh: Syracuse, Kansas
South
Duke: Boston College, Louisville
Clemson: Florida State, West Virginia
Georgia Tech: TCU, Miami-FL
Wake Forest: Kansas, Syracuse
West
Iowa State: Louisville, Boston College
Kansas State: West Virginia, Florida State
TCU: Georgia Tech, Notre Dame
Kansas: Wake Forest, Pittsburgh
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SEC
East
Florida: LSU, Tennessee
Georgia: Auburn, Texas A&M
NC State: Mississippi State, Missouri
South Carolina: Arkansas, Vanderbilt
North
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida
Virginia Tech: Texas A&M, Auburn
Kentucky: Missouri, Mississippi State
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss, South Carolina
South
Alabama: Tennessee, LSU
Auburn: Georgia, Virginia Tech
Mississippi State: NC State, Kentucky
Ole Miss: Vanderbilt, Arkansas
West
LSU: Florida, Alabama
Texas A&M: Virginia Tech, Georgia
Missouri: Kentucky, NC State
Arkansas: South Carolina, Ole Miss
The Big Ten and Pac-16 have 9-game conference schedules with no protected crossovers. Their pods also cycle between divisions, but the North and South never share a division, nor do the East and West. For two years, there are Northeast and Southwest Divisions, and for the next two years, there are Northwest and Southeast Divisions. For each team in the Big Ten, the 2 interdivision crossovers per year are only against teams in the "opposite" pod (i.e., North vs. South, East vs. West). This results in each Big Ten team playing all other teams at least twice in 4 years. The Pac-16 has a skewed schedule wherein the interdivision crossovers are against a team in each of the 2 pods that constitute the other division. Consequently, in an 8-year span, a team plays each of its pod mates 8 times, each team in the opposite pod twice, and each team in the other 2 pods an average of 5 times (either 4 or 6). This allows the North and South schools greater access to California (and incidentally Texas) than they would have had with the Big Ten's schedule structure.
Any thoughts? I can share the schedule grids if anyone's interested.
Made some tweaks to the alignments and crossovers. Schedule structures are still the same.
ACC/Big 16
East: Boston College, Miami-FL, Notre Dame, Wake Forest
North: Syracuse, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Louisville
South: Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Duke
West: TCU, Kansas State, Iowa State, Kansas
Big Ten
East: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State
North: Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue
South: Maryland, North Carolina, Rutgers, Virginia
West: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin
Pac-16
East: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech
North: Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State
South: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah
West: California, Stanford, UCLA, USC
SEC
East: Florida, Georgia, NC State, South Carolina
North: Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Vanderbilt
South: Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
West: LSU, Texas A&M, Missouri, Arkansas
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Team: Protected crossover (play annually), Alternate crossover (play 2 out of 3 years)
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ACC/Big 16
East
Boston College: Syracuse, Clemson
Miami-FL: Florida State, West Virginia
Notre Dame: Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech
Wake Forest: Duke, Louisville
North
Syracuse: Boston College, TCU
West Virginia: Kansas State, Miami-FL
Pittsburgh: Notre Dame, Iowa State
Louisville: Kansas, Wake Forest
South
Clemson: TCU, Boston College
Florida State: Miami-FL, Kansas State
Georgia Tech: Iowa State, Notre Dame
Duke: Wake Forest, Kansas
West
TCU: Clemson, Syracuse
Kansas State: West Virginia, Florida State
Iowa State: Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh
Kansas: Louisville, Duke
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SEC
East
Florida: LSU, Tennessee
Georgia: Auburn, Virginia Tech
NC State: Mississippi State, Kentucky
South Carolina: Arkansas, Vanderbilt
North
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida
Virginia Tech: Texas A&M, Georgia
Kentucky: Missouri, NC State
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss, South Carolina
South
Alabama: Tennessee, LSU
Auburn: Georgia, Texas A&M
Mississippi State: NC State, Missouri
Ole Miss: Vanderbilt, Arkansas
West
LSU: Florida, Alabama
Texas A&M: Virginia Tech, Auburn
Missouri: Kentucky, Mississippi State
Arkansas: South Carolina, Ole Miss
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2019 08:26 PM by Nerdlinger.)
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