RE: Off Season Realignment Scenario
I like the idea of paired 12 team conferences. You get there by the Pac 12/Big 12 combining and parts of ACC combining with Big 10 and SEC.
Big 12 loses WVU but adds BYU, Houston and Colorado St. Pac 12 stays the same-Washington, Washington St., Oregon, Oregon ST., Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Arizona, Arizona St., Utah, Colorado.
Big 12 is Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, Colorado St., BYU, Houston, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Kansas, Kansas St., Iowa St.
Big 10 adds ACC Coastal and ND + UConn and USF
Big 10 is Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan St., Michigan, Ohio St., Rutgers
Big 10 Atlantic is Penn St., Maryland, Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, UConn, USF
SEC adds ACC Atlantic and WVU + UCF and Cincinnati
SEC is Arkansas, Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi St., Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Kentucky
ACC is FSU, Clemson, North Carolina St., Wake Forest, Boston College, Syracuse, Louisville, West Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, UCF, Cincinnati
With this setup, the conferences can play an 8 game conference schedule, either a 5-0-3 or 5-1-2 (5 vs. division, 0 or 1 fixed cross division and 3 or 2 rotating cross division). They get everyone in the conference at least either 2 in 4 years (5-0-3) or 2 in 5 years (5-1-2). They play at least 1 ooc against the partner conference. If they play 2, they can get everyone in the partner conference 2 times in 12 years, similar to what SEC E&W and ACC Atlantic&Coastal do now. You have more conference titles, more division titles, closer ties within the conference and similar ties with the paired conference as you do now in the ACC and SEC.
Another way to split the ACC would be N/S, but the above keeps existing scheduling similar, shares the populous east coast and shares the 3 biggest names (FSU, Clemson, Miami).
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