The Ultimate Division One Conference Alignment

[navscanmaster]

Pacific 16
West
Washington
Washington St.
Oregon
Oregon St.
California-Berkley
California-Los Angeles
Southern California
Stanford
East
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Colorado
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St.
Arizona
Arizona St.

Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
South
Florida St.
Miami
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Clemson
Duke
North
Boston College
Maryland
Virginia Tech
Virginia
North Carolina
North Carolina St.

Southeastern Conference
Western
Kansas
Kansas St.
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Arkansas
Houston
Baylor
Louisiana St.
Eastern
Florida
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Mississippi St.
Mississippi
South Carolina
Georgia

Big 16 Conference
North
Wisconsin
Michigan
Michigan St.
Northwestern
Ohio St.
Ohio
Penn St.
Minnesota
South
Illinois
Indiana
Notre Dame
Iowa
Iowa St.
Purdue
Missouri
Nebraska

Big East Conference
North
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
Army
West Virginia
Marshall
South
Louisville
South Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Central Florida
Navy
East Carolina
Western Kentucky

Mid American Conference (MAC)
East
Akron
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Kent St.
Miami, OH
Temple
West
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Western Michigan
Ball St.
Northern Illinois
Toledo

Mountain West Conference
North
Boise St.
Idaho
Utah
Utah St.
Wyoming
Air Force
BYU
Colorado St.
South
Hawaii
San Diego St.
Fresno St.
San Jose St.
New Mexico
New Mexico St.
Nevada
Nevada-Las Vegas
UTEP

Super South Conference, or Conference USA, or whatever
West
TCU
SMU
Rice
Texas St.
North Texas
Tulsa
Louisiana Tech
Arkansas St.
East
Southern Miss
Louisiana-Monroe
Louisiana-Lafayette
Tulane
Troy
Middle Tennessee St.
Memphis
Alabama-Birmingham

The winners of each conference would play an eight team playoff for all the marbles. The rest of the bowls could fight for the number twos and such.

Comments?

[navscanmaster]

BTW, I put Texas St. in there for football because I think having a "state" college from Texas in division one is long overdue. If they weren't interested in FBS football, I would move UTEP from Mt. West to CUSA to keep them both at 16 schools. As it is, CUSA has 16 there and Mt. West has 17.

[GreenMonster]

I like the idea of keeping the Big 12 and inviting TCU, SMU, and Houston back in and giving Missou the boot. I would also look to ditch Iowa State and try to reel in a replacement for them, although I cannot think who might be interested. I'm all for a Super Conference idea as well in the Big 12 that would include Miami, Florida State, Texas, A&M, TCU, Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma, Okie Light, LSU, Arkansas, Kansas, Kansas State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, and NC State. This would be a very formidable conference in all sports. Of course some of these schools are patsies in one sport or another, but it would still be a great overall conference with an opportunity to win a National Championship in football, basketball, and baseball year in and year out.

[navscanmaster]

I tried a different alignment last night, with Texas, TAMU, Baylor, and Tech going to the SEC, and OU, OSU, Utah, Utah St., and Colorado St. heading to the Pac 10.

Any way it goes, this would probably never happen because of football power alone. Colorado St. would get obliterated by USC or Cal in almost every sport.

I do like the idea of eight conferences with championship games, then those guys playing for the NC.