OTish: What would you want "The Alliance" to be?

Michigan

Ohio State

Michigan State

Indiana

Purdue

Illinois

Northwestern

Wisconsin

Minnesota

Iowa

We could call it the Big 10 division or something cool like that.

Keep the conferences as is, get rid of the divisions. Top 2 teams play in the conference championship, plus keep the crossover games for teams not in the championship.

8 B10 games (only 2 protected rivalries per team), 2 ACC games (1 home/1 away), 2 PAC games (1 home/1 away). Don't do home-and-homes, I want to play different ACC/PAC teams every year.

I negged you for the "an Ohio St U", and including Notre Dame.

An alliance? I have no idea what you're talking about...

Big Ten - Michigan, Ohio State, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana

Pac Ten - Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State

Each division plays a round robin to crown a champion. The two champions play in a conference championship game Jan 1 called the Rose Bowl.

ACC - Clemson, Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Maryland, Georgia Tech

Big East - Virginia Tech, Boston College, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Syracuse, Connecticut, Cincinnati, Penn State, Rutger

Each division plays a round robin and crowns a champion. The two champions play in a conference championship game Jan 1 called the Orange Bowl.

Notre Dame can go to hell, join the SEC, or join with the Big XII leftovers, Nebraska, Colorado, and Mountain West/WAC to form their own super conference.

Anyway, this is how I play NCAA 14.

Me, King Kong Bundy, Garth Brooks, Grimmace, my uncle Steve, Elmer Fudd, and the Easter Bunny

Literally keep the leagues intact and guarantee a non conference game against a team from one of the other conferences. Let individual schools decide if their other two ooc games go to tomato cans to sustain the lower levels of division I, an upper echelon d2 school, or the SEC, independents, remains of big xii, etc.

If I were God, then the 2022 college football would mean every major college football team must play their 1982 college football schedule - regardless of what conference affiliation they have today.

You play it where you stand.

Big 10 round robin 9 game schedule, 2 non conf games.

Sorry Nebraska, you're out, and playing your ole Big 8 schedule and opponents including Oklahoma, Iowa State, Kansas, etc. plus your 1982 non.conf road games at Penn State and at Auburn.

Sorry, Maryland, welcome back to your dipshit ACC schedule, including Clemson, UNC and a non-conf. games against Penn State and Miami (FL)

That means Oklahoma at USC, UCLA at Michigan, Florida State at Ohio State.

12th game is at-large team, don't care.

Conf. title games are wiped off.

Just a top 16-team celebrity death match tournament at the end with 10 conf. champions and 6 at-large teams with 9 or 10+ wins.

The rest of the teams with 8, 7 and 6 wins go to Bowl games as consolation prizes for $

How about

• Keep conferences as they are today
• Toss divisions and conference title games. Who cares. Go to 8-9 game conference schedule and everyone gets say 2 protected rivals
• 1 inter-conference game from each league i.e. Michigan plays one ACC and one Pac per year
• 1 freebie game
• Institute 2 pre-season games so everyone can play their tomato cans and get some reps decent game reps in
• Ohio State can no longer offer scholarships but must keep playing football. Going over a .750 win percentage in a season results in 1 year death penalty

I don't see the alliance doing much to dramatically change college football. If anything, it's only setup to out-leverage the SEC when the big schools/conferences break away from the NCAA and form their own league. The smaller schools within the Pac-12, Big Ten and ACC have to use their collective power to keep the SEC from continuing to take whoever they want in their effort to build an approximately NFL-sized super conference. They see what happened to the Big 12 leftovers. (Incidentally, it's hilarious to me that Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas can ride the coattails of the big SEC schools and have a spot in the future of college football when it so uncertain for many other schools).

My impression of this Alliance is just a way to make USC, Michigan, OSU, Penn St, UNC, Clemson, and some other big brand schools feel better about staying within the current conference paradigm and cut off any ideas of joining/forming a super league with the SEC (a la what the big Euro soccer clubs tried to do). 

In the medium term, I think they'll continue to be the big 4 conferences approximately as they are now. The ACC may convince ND to join, and maybe some of the old Big 12 schools get picked up. They might standardize schedules somewhat and guarantee inter-conference games every year (maybe limiting G5/FCS games to one per year). Maybe they negotiate TV contracts together and therefore make more money from ESPN/FOX/CBS (since they won't negotiate against themselves) and possibly share a pool of revenue. 

There is no way I can see them taking the 41 schools and divvying them up this way, breaking historical rivalries (Michigan-Minnesota, among others) and conference affiliations. It's an alliance, not a new super-conference that sheds all ties to the past. 

Finally, any conference formation that has Arizona schools together with Minnesota and Wisconsin is really, really dumb.

I just want it to be the voting block against the SEC. 

Let ND join the Big12 and be the flagship program of a dying conference. If they want to retain their independent status, let them live like BYU and the other independents and stop giving them preferential treatment.

Keep everything as is, schedule OOC games within the alliance. The end.

Yankee 8 - Pitt, Penn St, Syracuse, BC, Rutgers, Maryland, UVA, VT

Virginia...Yankee? Somewhere out there, a bunch of Virginians just shit themselves.

2 mega conferences:

Southern = SEC + Oklahoma, Texas, Ok State, Clemson, FSU, Miami, Va Tech, Arizona, ASU and Colorado

"Big-Pac" (the logo would be a great opportunity for mischief)  = B1G + USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Washington, Notre Dame, UNC, Duke, Georgia Tech and UVA

I am perhaps conceding too much leaving Rutgers in the B1G but have 4 6-team conferences and basically concede that it is an NFL-esque feeder system including conferences and divisions with rotational schedules etc.

Add in B12, move Colorado and Nebraska and ??? to B12.  Have 4 conferences.  9 games in conference, 2 against other Alliance teams, one game against either g5 or a 3 rd Alliance game.  No conference championship games.  Pac-X plays B1G in Rose Bowl, B12 plays Acc somewhere and the winner of those games play in the Alliance championship.  No games against SEC ever.

Virginia in the Yankee 8?  I guess NoVa is more northern than southern.