Friday, June 11, 2010
The New College Football Conferences....COMPLETELY REDONE!
There are currently 11 different conferences in FBS Division-1A football.  Counting Army, Navy, and Notre Dame, who are independents, there are a total of 120 Division-1A teams.  The mathematical breakdown of a new conference alignment is easy to determine.  Creating 10 conferences of 12 teams each would make perfect sense, and within each conference creating two separate divisions.  This would require every conference to have a championship game between the two division winners, thus crowning 10 official conference champs each year to participate in a National Championship tournament.  Sponsors of the BCS bowls may frown upon this, but they can sponsor rounds or individual games, and because the tournament will require more games to crown an eventual national champion, they will get plenty of air time.  Put it into the college basketball tournament perspective.  Fans and the media live, eat, and breathe the tournament from mid-March to early April.  The same would happen with a college football tournament, but it would probably generate even more interest than basketball.  The potential is enormous, and with a forced conference realignment, the pieces would be there.  Determining the teams in each conference is another story, but below are my suggestions.  I justified each division based on school size, competition, geography, and basically match-ups I think would be cool to see every year.
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