P5 Alignment - post NCAA Membership

[SFBadger96]

BYU will never get in because of politics.

Their only chance is is the private schools all ditch the bureaucracy, and form their own conference.

That could be a pretty solid conference:
USC
Notre Dame
Miami
Stanford
TCU
Baylor
BYU
Northwestern
Boston College
Vanderbilt
Duke
Wake Forest
With the three helmets at the top and a healthy handful more that make regular appearances in the top 25--and every conference has cellar dwellers. I'm looking at you, Indiana.
I'm sure I'm leaving a school or two out, but that's a pretty good start. And it provides a nice national platform for these schools.

[847badgerfan]

All of the original Big East teams were "saved" except Temple.

In all these rounds of realignment, the only net change regarding P5/G5 status is that Temple was demoted, while Louisville, Utah and TCU were promoted.

Well, that all depends on what you call "original" because Temple was added for football well after the conference was established (along with Miami, Rutgers, VT, WVU), and was voted out in 2004 or so. They were not saved.

Cincy, Louisville, and USF were added out of desperation, and only Louisville was saved (out of ACC desperation). TCU and Boise were invited, accepted and later declined. I think maybe SDSU and even Navy too. Then they had UCF, Houston, SMU and Memphis join. None were saved.

UCon was also not saved, and was an original member in basketball and later took on football.

Very much a cluster F**k that could have been saved by one vote in 1982.

[847badgerfan]

That could be a pretty solid conference:
USC
Notre Dame
Miami
Stanford
TCU
Baylor
BYU
Northwestern
Boston College
Vanderbilt
Duke
Wake Forest
With the three helmets at the top and a healthy handful more that make regular appearances in the top 25--and every conference has cellar dwellers. I'm looking at you, Indiana.
I'm sure I'm leaving a school or two out, but that's a pretty good start. And it provides a nice national platform for these schools.

Not Baylor (obviously).

[Brutus Buckeye]

Good point. 

I meant the original Football Conference. 

[847badgerfan]

Good point.

I meant the original Football Conference.

10/4. And then you would be correct. 

Thinking about all the schools that were Big East members is mind-numbing.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Technically the Big East Conferences first year of football coincided with SWC's final year.

So that season was probably the ultimate Conference alignment ever. 

Not to mention the WAC still had it's glory line up. 

UConn has hit a lot of realignment jackpots over the years. They got promoted from 1AA straight to the Big East, not based on performance but just because their Basketball team was there. Then their crappy Hockey team got to join Hockey East, just because Notre Dame had a cup of tea in that conference and they needed another member to make it an even number. 

[847badgerfan]

UCon as a major player, in anything, is probably done. 

[FearlessF]

SEC:

This is pretty clean, taking away expansion schools Arkansas, South Carolina and Missouri. Texas A&M stays put in this scenario.

the Aggies don't belong, they can have Houston's spot taken from Baylor, because neither Baylor nor Houston deserve a spot
Leave the GameCocks in the SEC

[847badgerfan]

Leaving usc in the SEC has ripple affects on the ACC and on the Eastern Conference, but I'll look at that. It could open up some spots for schools like Temple, UCon, Cincy and the two Florida directional schools.

[FearlessF]

 It could open up some spots for schools like Temple, UCon, Cincy and the two Florida directional schools.

I don't think the big boys want or need any on that list
whats the number you are arriving at?  6 conferences with 11 teams = 66?
77?  a couple conferences with 10 teams and 4 non-con games?

[847badgerfan]

66 at 11/each. 

[847badgerfan]

Keep in mind that the "big boys" set the standard on what size a conference has to be, which is why the Big East took Temple back and promoted UCon as soon as it could, to stay at the mandated 8 schools, and keep that BCS bid.

[ELA]

I'm not convinced 6x11 is best, but if that's the framework, that's what I'll try.  I'm going to erase the last 15 years.  Go back to 2003, the year before the ACC raided the Big East.  You had 6 BCS conferences: ACC (9), Big East (8), Big Ten (11), Big 12 (12, woah), Pac 10 (10) and SEC (12).  That gives you 62.  So what 4 do we add to that.  Notre Dame is obvious.  I think BYU is too.  TCU, Louisville and Utah make the next most sense.  That gets you to 67...but Temple was still in the Big East at that point.  So they are gone.  There are your 66.

I'm also ignoring tv networks and "footprints," and trying to change as little as possible

1.) I don't really want to break up Utah and BYU, and the Pac Ten pairings make so much sense, that I'll still send Colorado out west first.  Pac 10 is done.

2.) Big 12 now has 11.  But there really is nowhere else to put Utah and BYU.  TCU for that matter.  So I need to drop 3 there to make room for them.  I can't find 3 that make sense.  I can find 2.  Missouri wants out, and Iowa State has a natural rival in the Big Ten.  We'll deal with TCU later.  Big 12 is set.

3.) I don't want to boot Penn State, but the Eastern thing always made more sense.  They'll take Notre Dame with them, and that opens up Iowa State's slot

4.) SEC sends South Carolina to the ACC to be with Clemson, and sends Vandy, in that Vandy is a better academic fit.  They release Kentucky to be with Louisville, and go play in a basketball conference.  That gives them room to add both TCU and Missouri.

5.) Big East (after dropping Temple) sheds the Big LEast label by adding a football helmet duo (ND & PSU) and a basketball blue blood duo (UK and UL)

ACC

Clemson

Duke

Florida State

Georgia Tech

Maryland

NC State

North Carolina

South Carolina

Vanderbilt

Virginia

Wake Forest

-

BIG EAST

Boston College

Kentucky

Louisville

Miami

Notre Dame

Penn State

Pittsburgh

Rutgers

Syracuse

Virginia Tech

West Virginia

-

BIG TEN

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Iowa State

Michigan

Michigan State

Minnesota

Northwestern

Ohio State

Purdue

Wisconsin

-

BIG 12

Baylor

BYU

Kansas

Kansas State

Nebraska

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Texas

Texas A&M

Texas Tech

Utah

-

PAC TEN

Arizona

Arizona State

California

Colorado

Oregon

Oregon State

Stanford

UCLA

USC

Washington

Washington State

-

SEC

Alabama

Arkansas

Auburn

Florida

Georgia

LSU

Mississippi State

Missouri

Ole Miss

TCU

Tennessee

[847badgerfan]

No Baylor...

Swap ISU for Nebraska and I could mostly get behind that lineup.