OT CFB 20 team super conference. Your pics?
I always get nervous posting a topic as I am afraid that I screwed up some of the unwritten rules here. If so I apologize and I will take my negs like a man! I know this has been discussed before here.
I was thinking about this over the last few days as there is no fb news. I tried to limit it to 20 teams and it is harder that you think to choose imho. Who gets left out?
B1G,SEC best conferences they each got 5 spots
Trying to choose the others was harder besides the obvious teams.
P10 I gave them 5 because I think OVERALL they are better than the other conferences. Yes I know they have not been to the CFB playoff in awhile.
B12 2 spots
ACC 2 spots
ND 1 spot
Clemson Tigers
Florida State Seminoles
Oklahoma Sooners
Texas Longhorns
Colorado Buffaloes
Oregon Ducks
USC Trojans
Stanford Cardinal
Washington Huskies
Michigan Wolverines
Michigan State Spartans
Ohio State Buckeyes
Penn State Nittany Lions
Wisconsin Badgers
Alabama Crimson Tide
Auburn Tigers
Florida Gators
Georgia Bulldogs
LSU Tigers
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
I have no idea how this would work as far as scheduling. Travel would be a b*itch!
Maybe?
2 10 team divisions.
play your 9 opponents in your division and 2 crossover games. 1 non conference game.
Top two teams meet for the championship. What about the other teams not in the championship game? Who would they play in bowls? themselves? Other lower conference teams? Seems that would make the opt outs skyrocket.
I truly don't have the slightest idea what this thought exercise is meant to accomplish. I don't get the hypothetical. No offense, I just don't. However, I do still somehow have something to add.
Fuck Notre Dame. They (automatically) get nothing. To hell with them for always forcing their inclusion because of their archaic entitled nature.
This guy. I like this guy.
Um I can help with that.
This "exercise" was meant to generate a conversation with like-minded fans of Michigan. Given that it was posted in the middle of the night my guess is the OP was up, bored and wanted someone to talk with.
I mean isn't that basically the whole point of this place? And I'll take one of these philosophical discussions anytime over the myriad of "my very important thoughts on things" shitposts that litter the board after any loss (and sometimes win) the football team incurs.
Are you suggesting that my opinions I post here about Michigan athletics have absolutely zero impact on what actually happens in the real world?
Maybe our world is the real world, and the real world is a simulation some teenage alien is playing via console.
I mean, weirder things have been said on this Blog.
here we go: super conference designed by student athlete representatives of non revenue sports. Michigan should go Independent in Football and play whoever they want
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:43 AM ^
"Quit drinking and go to bed" is always good advice.
My 20 team super conference:
- Duke
- Northwestern
- Murray State
- Southwest Texas St
- ITT Tech
- Northern Michigan University
- DePaul
- Detroit Lions
- Manchester United
- Green Day
- Minnesota
- Hawaii
- North Dakota St
- University of Phoenix
- Chicago
- Hard Knocks U
- Winnipeg Jets
- Central Michigan
- Iowa Tractors
- Nebraska tractors
Iowa tractors but no Indiana Combines!?! What an idiot!
Come on man...as a native Hoosier who has now lived in Kansas for 12 years the Kansas Combines would clean the Indiana Combines clocks-no contest.
The Durham Bulls (Nuke on the mound, Crash behind the plate) need to be included in here.
Iowa Tractors and Nebraska Tractors, but no Ukraine Tractors? C'mon.
Yeah, they're in the big leagues. Too good for consideration here.
It's all about money, money, and more money.
Take out Clemson, Stanford, FSU and Michigan State. None are long term money makers.
Add North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Texas A&M. At least they bring their own states. Or in the case of tamu, are in a state big enough for 2 teams.
Nebraska is a conspicuous exclusion, they're considered a blueblood. Miami and Tennessee are the other notable omissions imo.
Not sure about including CU and Stanford. I don't get why the Pac-12 gets 5 spots, they've easily been the weakest P5 conference in the playoff era.
Leaving Texas AM (School with history's greatest recruiting class) out? Jimbo isn't going to like that especially when he sees that the Colorado Buffaloes and Hapless Seminoles and constantly mediocre Auburn, and the tire fire that has been Texas made it in. Let's also not forget that you're leaving the recent "National Camps" UCF out.
There is no perfect 20... teams go hot and cold. Part of what makes College Football great is the upsets and this would kill a lot of that.
Cincy Bearcats instead of Cardinal.
Miami (they can't stay dead forever) instead of Colorado.
Here's my pic:
Oh, wait, you wanted picks? I'll get back to you.
Just kidding, OP. Good morning post.
I think it would more likely be 4, 5 team divisions which would still allow the teams to play their cupcake games at the beginning of the year (In the SEC the week before rivalry week). As far as included teams I think they are more likely to look at all of history rather than the last 10 years or so. I could see a team like Nebraska jumping in over a team like Michigan State. I could also see Michigan keeping Michigan State on the out of conference schedule similar to how it used to be with Notre Dame.
The one thing we can all agree on is that the NCAA and heads of the conference would find some way to screw it up.
BTW... This was a good post to get my brain started on a Friday morning.
Further professionalization of college football does not strike me as a good direction-certainly not for the players. 18 year old males are still boys-we don't acquire any semblance of emotional and psychological maturity until we reach our mid 20s.
I love parity...work to increase equitability.
I oppose superconferences.
What college football should do is return to the conference structure that we had back in 1990, with a few changes. This restores traditional conference rivalries, which IMHO are the core of college football fandom.
Big Ten: MI, MSU, OSU, ILL, IND, MINN, WISC, PU, NW, IOWA
Big East: Syracuse, VT, Pitt, WVU, Rutgers, BC, Temple, PSU
Big Eight: NEB, Colorado, OK, OSU, KU, KSU, Mizzou, ISU
ACC: Clemson, NC St, GT, VA, UNC, MD, Duke, WF, MIami, FSU
PAC10: UA, ASU, Cal, UW, WSU, OR, OSU, UCLA, Stanford, USC
SEC: UF, AL, TN, GA, MSU, LSU, Vandy, AU, MISS, KY
SWC: AR, Baylor, Houston, SMU, Rice, TCU, TX, TA&M, TT
ND is independent.
Eliminate conference championship games; cut regular season back to 11 games, bowl games with traditional conference matchups as appropriate to be completed no later than Jan. 1.
Top four teams after bowl games form final playoff.
You're taking me back to my childhood. Football can't get here fast enough. Man, I can't wait to hear Keith Jackson calling a mid-October Michigan/Minnesota game again. Head outside at halftime and throw the old pigskin around.
Good times, good times.
I'll play, I get bored at times and create things that will never happen.
I created the Heisman Football League out of fun and complete boredom during the pandemic.
It consisted of 8 divisions with 10 teams per. The league would be a round robin schedule (think of the Big 12) where each team in the division would play each other 1 time and then pin the 2 best teams in the division against each other for a chance at the playoffs.
I feel 80 is a good number of total teams and it would make for an 8 team playoff at the end of the year with division leaders getting the bid. The playoff matchups would come off of the team seedings and home teams would get home field advantage just like in the NFL. The Championship game would be played at neutral location just like the NFL too. You would have to win a total of 13 games for a National Championship, which is less than the 15 you would need currently.
The Logo:
Toss the names in a hat and draw. Isn't going to happen regardless.
There are really only about 70 teams that play or have played top tier football. The future* is 4 x 16 team superconferences. 8 team divisions. Play 7 games plus a crossover or two plus whatever number of home games against the second tier you need to pay for the program. The conference championship game works as the first round of the playoffs, the 4 champs make up the actual playoff. If you want it spicy, include relegation and promotion to/from the second tier.
* and by future I mean this was pulled out of my ass and has about as much chance of actually happening as the OP's superconference.
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:56 PM ^
I like the idea of P5 conferences but each conference has a G5 conference where relegation occurs (B1G linked to MAC, Pac12 linked to Mountain West etc.). Bottom 2 P5 teams drop down (one from each division), top two G5 go up. Expand playoffs to 8 teams.
P5 champs are guaranteed 1-5 seeds. 6-8 are at large and based on a mathematical formula, not human voters.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:27 AM ^
Pics?
These hypothetical posts are lame.
Why did you go through the trouble of typing out each school's mascot?
You're allowed to write bitch, see?
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:52 AM ^
I do like the topic, but I see it going down as the FBS elites breaking off to form a new division in college football due to NIL, political, governance factors and maybe a CBA for a players association. I don't see the traditional model surviving much longer.
For fun purposes only, my guess would be 60-80 teams generating the most revenue and can afford the most to play players and rake in even more money for their programs.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:20 PM ^
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Enjoy my choice of "pic" instead....I do like defense....
