RE: The Great Realignment War Game Simulation Thread
So here’s where we are. I’m taking some liberties with the non BCS leagues since I didn’t actually simulate them.
Big Ten North: Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northwestern, Michigan, Michigan St
Big Ten South: Penn St, Pittsburgh, Ohio St, Indiana, Purdue, Illinois
SEC East: Georgia, Florida, Florida St, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
SEC West: Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU, Arkansas
ACC North: BC, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, UNC, Duke
ACC South: NC St, WF, Clemson, SC, GT, Miami
Big 12 North: Iowa St, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas St, Colorado
Big 12 South: BYU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech
PAC 10: Wash, WSU, Ore, OSU, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Ariz, ASU
Metro North: Syracuse*, Rutgers, Temple, WVU, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis
Metro South: USM, Tulane, Rice, Houston, Baylor, SMU, TCU
WAC East: UTEP, UNM, Air Force, Colorado St, Wyoming, Utah
WAC West: UNLV, Nevada, San Jose St, Fresno St, San Diego St, Hawaii
MAC: Kent St, Akron, Ohio, Miami, Bowling Green, Toledo, EMU, CMU, WMU, Ball St
I then see the American South being the catch all conference for all the other Independents left out there:
American South: Utah St*, NMSU, Tulsa*, UNT, Ark St, LA Tech, ULL, ULM*, UAB*, UCF*, ECU*
+ non fb: Lamar, UNO, & UTPA (2 yrs away from dropping out)
American South makes the shrewd move to grab NMSU and recent returnee to DI-A UNT as full members. The Big West is out of the football business and Idaho and Boise St have no where to move up to.
Indy: ND, Army, Navy, NIU (will move to MAC in 1997 along with Marshall, Buffalo to follow in 1998)
In the Big East, they are down to 7, so they raid the MCC for ND, DePaul, and Marquette.
In 2005, I see a new FBS league coming on the scene with some recent move ups and a few schools who were previously American South affiliates:
USF*, UCF, FIU, FAU, Troy, UAB*, MTSU, ECU (I see USF and UAB retaining their Sunbelt membership for other sports).
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