RE: Premier Football
The third repechage has been completed. Boston College, Wake Forest, Navy, and Rutgers have been elected to the Premier Division.
East Carolina, Army, Duke, UConn, Appalachian State, Marshall, and Buffalo have a last chance.
UMass, Temple, Old Dominion, and James Madison are eliminated from further consideration.
The second repechage has been completed. Louisville beat Purdue to break a first round tie and be elected. But Purdue, along with Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Kentucky finished in the top 4 to be elected to the Premier Division.
Kansas State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa State, Memphis, Kansas, and Northwestern have a last chance.
Vanderbilt, Tulsa, and Middle Tennessee (MTSU) are eliminated from further consideration.
The first repechage has been completed, and Arizona State, California, Arizona, and Boise State have been elected to the Premier Division.
San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado State, and Fresno State will have a last chance.
Air Force Academy, Utah State, Wyoming, New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Hawaii are eliminated from consideration.
57 schools have been elected to the Premier Division.
AAC(1): Navy
ACC(12): Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, Miami(FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech Wake Forest.
B1G(11): Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State (OSU), Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Big 12(7): Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Oklahoma State (OSU), Texas Tech, West Virginia
Independent(1): Notre Dame
MtW(1): Boise State
Pac 12(10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington.
SEC(14): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M.
The following 19 schools remain eligible for the final national selection.
AAC(2): East Carolina (ECU), Memphis
ACC(1): Duke
B1G(3): Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern
B12(3): Iowas State, Kansas, K-State
Independent(2): Army, UConn
MAC(1): Buffalo
MtW(3): Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State.
Pac 12(2): Oregon State, Washington State.
Sun Belt(2): Appalachian State, Marshall
The following schools have qualified for the repechage, that will select 27 from among 60 nationally.
AAC(6): Rice, South Florida (USF), Tulane, Southern Methodist (SMU), UAB, UTSA.
ACC(1): Georgia Tech
B12(2): Central Florida (UCF), TCU.
CUSA(3): Jacksonville State, Louisiana Tech, UTEP,
SEC(1): South Carolina
Sun Belt(2): Louisiana (Lafayette), Southern Miss.
The following schools are excluded from the initial selection.
AAC(5): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic (FAU), North Texas, Temple, Tulsa
CUSA(6): Florida International (FIU), Liberty, Middle Tennessee (MTSU), NMSU, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky (WKU)
Independent(1): UMass
MAC(11): Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan (CMU), Eastern Michigan (EMU), Kent State, Miami(OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan (WMU),
MtW(8): AFA, Hawaii, Nevada (Reno), New Mexico, Utah State, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming.
SEC(1): Vanderbilt
Sun Belt(10): Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison (JMU), Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), Old Dominion (ODU), South Alabama (USA), Texas State, Troy.
Division I football competition will be organized into tiers. The Premier Tier will consist of 72 teams organized into 8 groups/leagues/districts/pools of 9 schools each. Each group will play a round-robin of 8 games.
The Top 2 in each group will advance to the playoffs.
8 losers in the first round will be bowl eligible. 4 losers in the quarterfinal may be paired into two bowls.
The semifinals will be played in NYD bowl games with the finals in mid-January.
Schools will continue to be members of their conferences, and will be responsible for scheduling their other games. It is likely that there will be considerable overlap between the groups and conferences.
Finances:
Television rights for group play will be owned by the home school. They may continue to share media revenue with the schools in their conference.
Media rights for the playoffs will be owned by the NCAA - but with a guarantee that the revenues will be largely distributed to participating teams (95%?).
The 72-schools participating in the Premier Tier each season will get a payment. There might be a mild differentiation based on performance in group play. For example if each school received one share for participation, they might gain 1/8 share for each win. An 8-0 team would get twice as much as a 0-8 team.
Additional shares will be distributed to the schools in the playoffs.
It will be up to each conference to determine how this income is distributed.
There will be similar 1st and 2nd division tiers. The hard division between FBS and FCS will be eliminated. The maximum number of football scholarships would be based on the total number of scholarships (40%?). If a current FCS schools wished to add 2 football scholarships (63+2), they would have to add 3 additional scholarships in other sports.
There might be restrictions on how fast the number of scholarships changes (perhaps five per year). If NDSU wants to compete at the premier level, they could upgrade their scholarships from 63 to 85 over five years.
There could be additional requirements for playing in the Premier Division, such as a 40,000-seat stadium.
The repechage will be organized in 4 regions:
West: WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK.
South: TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC
Midwest: MI, OH, IN, KY, TN, AR, MO, IL, WI, IA, MN, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK
North Atlantic: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, WV, VA, NC
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2022 03:02 PM by jimrtex.)
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