I was dreaming up a cool conference landscape. Take the Power 5 teams plus Notre Dame. I had to drop one to get down to 64; and I choose Vanderbilt. Split the teams up to regional conferences. Each team will play the other 7 teams in their region. Then they get seeded 1-8 in a mini tourney. The 8 winners get seeded in an eight team tourney. Each team will play a minimum of 8 total games. They could play as many as 13. Obviously this will never happen, but it would be fun to simulate it.

Pacific West
California
Oregon
Oregon St
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Washington
Washington St

Midwest East
Kentucky
Louisville
Michigan
Michigan St
Notre Dame
Ohio St
Pitt
Purdue

Midwest West
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Iowa St
Minnesota
Missouri
Northwestern
Wisconsin

Atlantic North
BC
Maryland
Penn St
Rutgers
Syracuse
Va Tech
Virginia
WVU

Atlantic South
Clemson
Duke
Georgia
NC State
North Carolina
S. Carolina
Tennessee
Wake Forest

Gulf Coast East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Florida St
Georgia Tech
Miami
Miss St
Ole Miss

Gulf Coast West
Arkansas
Baylor
LSU
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M

What a waste of time cluttering up this board....any way where is Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State.......

Delete button is you friend.

He didn't even include Notre Dame in his final groupings!

(08-13-2020 01:42 PM)texoma Wrote:  What a waste of time cluttering up this board....any way where is Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State.......

Delete button is you friend.

There were only seven divisions listed, obviously the Nebraska/Kansas division is the 8th.

Slightly modernized old-school conferences:

(10) PAC 10: Wash, Wash St, Oregon, Oregon St, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Ariz, Ariz St

(10) Big 8: Iowa St, Missouri, Kansas, K St, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Okla St, Colorado, Utah, BYU

(10) SWC: Arkansas, SMU, TCU, Baylor, TTU, Texas, TAMU, Houston, Rice, Tulane

(10) SEC: LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, UK

(10) Big Ten: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Ohio St, Michigan, Mich St

(10) ACC: Florida St, GT, S.C., Clemson, UNC, NC St, Duke, WF, UVA, Maryland

(10) Big East: BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Temple, Pitt, Penn St, WVU, VT, Miami, Louisville

8 team playoff—7 Champs plus an at large. Seeds 1-4 get to pick the bowl that will host.

(08-13-2020 04:19 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Slightly modernized old-school conferences:

(10) PAC 10: Wash, Wash St, Oregon, Oregon St, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Ariz, Ariz St

(10) Big 8: Iowa St, Missouri, Kansas, K St, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Okla St, Colorado, Utah, BYU

(10) SWC: Arkansas, SMU, TCU, Baylor, TTU, Texas, TAMU, Houston, Rice, Tulane

(10) SEC: LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, UK

(10) Big Ten: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Ohio St, Michigan, Mich St

(10) ACC: Florida St, GT, S.C., Clemson, UNC, NC St, Duke, WF, UVA, Maryland

(10) Big East: BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Temple, Pitt, Penn St, WVU, VT, Miami, Louisville

8 team playoff—7 Champs plus an at large. Seeds 1-4 get to pick the bowl that will host.

I really like this concept because the old conferences were mostly geographically tight. A few little changes would make it stronger and get rid of the Arkansas, Miami, and Louisville "islands". Boise St, Air Force/Wichita St, and Cincinnati would make better additions than SMU, Rice, and Tulane. Then I'll try to put something together something that makes sense for Memphis/UCF.

Pac-10: Same

Big 8: minus Oklahoma, Oklahoma St; plus Boise St, Air Force/Wichita St

SWC: minus SMU, Rice, Tulane; plus Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, LSU
Oklahoma/Oklahoma St bridge the gap from Arkansas to TCU.

SEC: minus LSU; plus South Carolina
Opens up a spot in the ACC for Miami.

Big Ten: Same

ACC: minus South Carolina; plus Miami
Gets rid of the Miami "island" in the Big East

Big East: minus Miami; plus Cincinnati
Cincinnati bridges the gap from Louisville to WVU.

8-team playoff with the P7 champs getting auto-bids and the highest ranked G5/Independent getting the remaining spot.

The remains of the AAC are too spread out - Memphis and UCF can anchor the next best conference along with ECU (they'll get out of their funk eventually) and USF. They'll basically be SEC Lite. So they leave Tulsa, SMU, and Tulane behind, who will form SWC Lite.

AAC (10): Memphis, Southern Miss, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, UAB, App St, ECU, Georgia Southern, UCF, USF

MW (10): Minus Boise St & Air Force

MAC (12): Same

The remains of the AAC/C-USA/Sun Belt have a pretty clear geographic divide - AAC took all Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi schools. So they use that as the divide for C-USA (West) and Sun Belt (East).

C-USA (12): Tulsa, UTEP, North Texas, SMU, Texas St, UTSA, Rice, Arkansas St, Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Lafayette, Tulane

Sun Belt (10): Troy, South Alabama, Marshall, James Madison?, Old Dominion, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Georgia St, FAU, FIU

Independents: Notre Dame, Navy, Army, New Mexico St, Liberty, UConn, UMass

(08-13-2020 01:45 PM)Merrick Wrote:  He didn't even include Notre Dame in his final groupings!

Notre Dame is in it. They are in the same group as Michigan.