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bukIpower
Head Coach
1. West- 5 pac 12 teams
2. Midwest- Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa and Colorado.
3. Central- Sparty, ttun, Illinois, NW and Indiana
4. East- Ohio State, PSU, Purdue, Rutgers and Maryland.
Play 5 in your division and then at least 4 out of division (have lock games so that OSU/ttun is protected). Top 2 teams go onto the championship (otherwise maybe a final 4??).
Edited: Just for fun it'd be so cool to do this and then have a final 4... imagine a semi final line up of Ohio State v ttun (or Indiana) and then Wisconsin vs USC or Oregon.
Still probably ends up Wisconsin v OSU lol..
I won't lie this is kind of exciting. Even thinking about OSU visiting Washington or Colorado sounds awesome.
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Three divisions would be a nightmare. You're setting it up to have one team bitching every single year.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
But it eliminates the chance that we end up with a 20th ranked conference champ like the PAC did last year. Don't want to leave someone out then do a FF with division champs and highest ranked non-champ as a wild card team.
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MaxBuck
SoCal, Baby!
I'd actually like the B1G to expand to 24, taking most of the Pac-12. And then we could have two 12-team divisions within which most season-long competition would occur. That would remove most of the concern with travel costs for the non-revenue sports.
Bob Bowlsby has the singular distinction of being the only conference commissioner who is more feckless than Kevin Warren.
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Works for me (also adding Notre Dame and Kansas to get to 24)
| Big Ten Atlantic | Big Ten Midwest |
|---|---|
| Rutgers | Indiana |
| Maryland | Purdue |
| Penn State | Notre Dame |
| Ohio State | Illinois |
| Michigan State | Northwestern |
| Michigan | Wisconsin |
| Big Ten Plains | Big Ten Pacific |
| Iowa | USC |
| Minnesota | UCLA |
| Nebraska | Stanford |
| Kansas | California |
| Colorado | Oregon |
| Utah | Washington |
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BuckTwenty
Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
I'll spitball one. <1% chance of happening since a couple of non-AAU members are involved with joining the conference, but **Bosa shrug**
Start by taking schools that the SEC would otherwise. If the PAC 12 ever breaks up, I don't think there's any worry the six PAC 12 schools we have been talking about would ever hold their nose and join the SEC (USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Oregon, & Washington)
North Carolina & Virginia could potentially blow up the ACC if they moved to the B1G. Tell Clemson & Notre Dame that the ACC is dead/dying, and there's big money and an easier road to the playoffs through the B1G than the SEC (whether they join us or not, fuck both of them and let them wallow in their mediocre paydays). Otherwise, take Georgia Tech & Florida State to stay contiguous from Nebraska all the way to Florida through the heart of SEC territory
(remnants of the Big 12 & ACC could start a decent conference together with no real upper tier of teams in college football)
Using ORD's 3 divisions (since we would have 18 teams...)
B1G Plains:
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Northwestern
Illinois
B1G Great Lakes:
Ohio State
TSUN
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame (or Penn State)
B1G Atlantic:
Penn State (or Georgia Tech)
Rutgers
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Clemson (or Florida State)
Play the other 5 teams in your division, plus 2 teams from the other 2 divisions each year to keep our current 9-game conference schedule. Guaranteed you'll play every member of the conference once every 3 years, and have a home/away game against everyone in the conference every 6 years
*OR*
...you can play 3 teams from the other two divisions every year for an 11-game conference schedule. This way, you'd play everyone in the conference once every other year and have a home/away game against everyone in the conference every 4 years (so you'd visit everywhere at least once in your 4-year college career)
In addition, this sets it up perfectly for those six PAC 12 schools. Whenever they would want in, they could immediately make up the new B1G Pacific. 11 game conference schedule, play everyone every 3 years, home/away every 6 years
Start by taking schools that the SEC would otherwise. If the PAC 12 ever breaks up, I don't think there's any worry the six PAC 12 schools we have been talking about would ever hold their nose and join the SEC (USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Oregon, & Washington)
North Carolina & Virginia could potentially blow up the ACC if they moved to the B1G. Tell Clemson & Notre Dame that the ACC is dead/dying, and there's big money and an easier road to the playoffs through the B1G than the SEC (whether they join us or not, fuck both of them and let them wallow in their mediocre paydays). Otherwise, take Georgia Tech & Florida State to stay contiguous from Nebraska all the way to Florida through the heart of SEC territory
(remnants of the Big 12 & ACC could start a decent conference together with no real upper tier of teams in college football)
Using ORD's 3 divisions (since we would have 18 teams...)
B1G Plains:
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Northwestern
Illinois
B1G Great Lakes:
Ohio State
TSUN
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame (or Penn State)
B1G Atlantic:
Penn State (or Georgia Tech)
Rutgers
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Clemson (or Florida State)
Play the other 5 teams in your division, plus 2 teams from the other 2 divisions each year to keep our current 9-game conference schedule. Guaranteed you'll play every member of the conference once every 3 years, and have a home/away game against everyone in the conference every 6 years
*OR*
...you can play 3 teams from the other two divisions every year for an 11-game conference schedule. This way, you'd play everyone in the conference once every other year and have a home/away game against everyone in the conference every 4 years (so you'd visit everywhere at least once in your 4-year college career)
In addition, this sets it up perfectly for those six PAC 12 schools. Whenever they would want in, they could immediately make up the new B1G Pacific. 11 game conference schedule, play everyone every 3 years, home/away every 6 years
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OregonBuckeye
Semper Fi Buckeyes
I propose we go all the way in and expand to 130 teams. We could then split the conference up into 10 divisions based on geographical location
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kanton
Senior
Four 6 team divisions:
East: OSU, Rutgers, Maryland, Ped St, MSU, scUM.
Midwest: Notre Lame, IU, PU, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern.
Plains: Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona St., BYU.
West: USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Washington.
Gets you the: Los Angeles, Bay Area, Seattle, Denver & Phoenix media markets. Plus Notre Dame & BYU’s alumni. I know AAU membership could be a sticking point.
Each team plays 5 division games & then based on where they finished the prior year in their division a game against each other divisional opponent who finished in the same spot. So for example scUM finishes 6th in the East then next year they’d play the 6th place teams from the Midwest, Plains & West. Could also give each team a protected rival so ND could continue to play USC or Cheese vs Minnesota and you’d have 9 conference games. If the playoffs are expanding to 12 I see no reason to have a conference championship game. I’d also be fine substituting BC & Georgia Tech for ND & BYU and readjusting the divisions
for geography.
East: OSU, Rutgers, Maryland, Ped St, MSU, scUM.
Midwest: Notre Lame, IU, PU, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern.
Plains: Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona St., BYU.
West: USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Washington.
Gets you the: Los Angeles, Bay Area, Seattle, Denver & Phoenix media markets. Plus Notre Dame & BYU’s alumni. I know AAU membership could be a sticking point.
Each team plays 5 division games & then based on where they finished the prior year in their division a game against each other divisional opponent who finished in the same spot. So for example scUM finishes 6th in the East then next year they’d play the 6th place teams from the Midwest, Plains & West. Could also give each team a protected rival so ND could continue to play USC or Cheese vs Minnesota and you’d have 9 conference games. If the playoffs are expanding to 12 I see no reason to have a conference championship game. I’d also be fine substituting BC & Georgia Tech for ND & BYU and readjusting the divisions
for geography.
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zincfinger
Gert Frobe-approved
The Manifest Destiny Conference.Why not three divisions. Two highest rated division champs play for the championship.
East becomes B1G--Atlantic. West becomes B1G--Great Lakes. B1G--Pacific: USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Washington, Colorado.
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