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** This thread discusses the Content article: College Football Realignment Proposal **

I like Conference Championship Games. The idea that conferences could grow to ten eleven teams and crown a 'conference champion' without each team getting a shot to play every other is terrible. What happens when Iowa doesn't play either Michigan or Ohio State, and they go undefeated while one of these teams do as well? Isn's this a far worse situation than the fact that the NCAA can't decide it's overall champion? Shouldn't a conference be able to at least decide their own championship first?

With that in mind, I've often come up with proposals to get the 6 BCS Conferences to 12 teams each. I also take a shot at making divisions for conferences that don't already have them...



I also assumed Notre Dame will never join a conference, and completely ignored other sports (for example, the Big East has 16 teams in basketball, 8 in football, currently). Some of my moves I tried to think about what sort of reputation the schools have, others are strictly geographic. But without a dramatic re-working the geography is never going to make sense. SEC:

Trades Arkansas for [i]Louisville, and Vanderbilt for [i]Clemson

PAC-12 (my only regret is Cal/Stanford go to opposite geographical divisions, but they could lock as each others annual rival, so no big deal):

North: Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, California, [i]Boise State

South: USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, [i]Hawaii

Big XII:

Trades Iowa State for [i]Arkansas

Little Twelve:

East: Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue, [i]Miami (OH)

West: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, Iowa, [i]Iowa State

ACC (No one knows what division each team is from week-to-week anyways, just sub them out):

Trades Clemson for [i]Vanderbilt

Big Non-West:

North: Connecticut, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, West Virginia, [i]Penn State

South: South Florida, [i]Marshall, Cinncinnati, TCU, Central Florida, Florida Atlantic

Comments, anyone? It's not perfect, but it's what I've got right now. At any rate, you'd at least have more confidence in a conference champion from one of these conferences, as they'd be forced to play the 9th conference game. Plus you give some more of the little guys a shot. I would have liked to find a home for BYU, Utah, SMU, Fresno State, but by the time you add a 7th conference you get in big trouble. The other guys would still have a shot under the Wetzel Plan, which is probably the most "fair" and reasonable propsal I've heard as far as a playoff scenario.



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Anything is better than what we have right now. I like your plan.

I recently wrote about the exact same thing. Thoughts?
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/108046-what-bcs-controversy-new-system-gives-everyone-a-shot-at-title
 
 
 
 
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I assume you've also seen our other proposal? link

But more and more Im advocating little league world series style, where the SEC is 'America' and the other conferences are the 'world'. SEC champ get into the final, period. The other guys duke it out for the right to challenge the mighty. Then once they prove their mettle a little more maybe we can revise. But for now, SEC deserves to be 1/2 the title game until further notice. Big 12 south talked trash, and then went 1-3 in big bowl games.
 
 
 
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I agree hands down. The SEC has now won 3 of the last BCS Championships. I do however think that the SEC was a little down this year. Utah beating Alabama really hurt us but i think if the two teams meet again the out come might be a little different...bama had it's heart ripped out by the Gators and it really showed on the field. Not to take anything away form Utah, There is a reason they are really good and that reason in my opinion is because Whittingham is a disciple of Urban Meyer and his "Plan To Win"

Big 12 Had the high powered offensed but where was the D? I really thought the Gators chances of victory doubled after I watched Texas barely make it by a mediocre Ohio State team. I really hope to see the SEC to rebound and have some strong teams next year.....as much as I love to run through the field, I love to see the rest of the Country try and try to tear down the greatest conference in the College Football World.
 
 
 
 
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