Following up with yesterday’s article regarding college football realignment, here’s a ranking of the American Athletic Conference members that will be attractive to the Big 12. Spend $500, Pocket $200 Fast with This Top Card, Get Paid $200 by Signing Up for This New Card (Yeah, Seriously), © Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, © Sam Greene via Imagn Content Services, LLC, © Albert Cesare / The Enquirer via Imagn Content Services, LLC, © Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman via Imagn Content Services, LLC. The Group of Five schools are officially joining the Big 12 and leaving Group of Five. What could also happen under this realignment is under performing programs of the past who have wallowed in mediocrity in conferences full of other mediocre teams may now feel the pressure to improve and stay relevant. This could lend itself to more parity as programs try to avoid embarrassment. The Big 12 owns the naming rights to Big 14/16/18…through Big 20 something, so there’s that. While Utah took a major step up in conference affiliation, Colorado has suffered a bit from the lack of exposure and watched as the Big 12 began doling out more money to their members. Mississippi St. A revelatory account based on the authors' unprecedented access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its high-powered system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing, ... Vanderbilt sa_width = "300"; Arizona led the charge in order to be included in the west's best conference that was chocked full of high academic universities. This allowed the league to split into two divisions (the infamous "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions before coming to their senses and just going by geography in 2014) and hold a conference championship game.At the time, Nebraska was an amazing get. While this may upset some, claiming this wouldn’t necessarily include the best teams every year. None of it was about football or any other sport for that matter.Rutgers has gone 10-51 in conference play since joining the Big Ten and has been downright embarrassing at times. I placed teams in each sides of the conference based on my recollection of their recent historical performance in college football. I will continue this article after the tables showing the realigned conferences with the meat and potatoes of how this proposal will improve college football to levels never before seen. Louisville Enough with the flying solo. The NCAA puts their foot down on a lot of things when it comes to college football but continue to get pushed around on other very important things. Tell Notre Dame the gig is up and that if you want any shot at playing for a national title, you have to take your conference assignment. Yes, I propose that the NCAA become Nazis with regard to this. They also need to say the same to Army and Navy. Everyone’s in a conference. That’s as fair as fair can get. In what many people point to as the big move that triggered 1990s realignment, Penn State ... a proud independent football program ... joined the Big Ten in 1990 (they began play in 1993). sa_linkcolor = "001EB5"; Miami (FL) UCF is a school that has been trying to earn their seat at the table for years but seem to never be given the chance. Considering the buyers remorse at Nebraska and Arkansas, along with rumors of an exodus in the PAC (Arizona, Arizona, State, Utah, and Colorado, and at least 1 school in California), the B12 is poised to gain the most in the next round of expansion/realignment. See also: List of NCAA Division I conference realignments (1928–2000) National Collegiate Athletic Association logo. In just their second year in the Big Ten, the Nittany Lions went 12-0 but finished #2 in the final rankings, behind Nebraska. Florida St. BYU leaves their independent status for a ticket at the Power 5 table. Western Michigan. Northwestern The way it is now, they can be absolutely mediocre and still be rewarded. Under current head coach James Franklin, Penn State is still one of the top programs in the conference and nationally. Lets take a look and the newest rumors. It’s regionally compact, includes plenty of members, and is stacked with competitive programs. Mid-American Conference: #14 Missouri defeats Iowa You could have 6 SEC teams in the Top 10. With 120 Division I-A teams, this is the perfect time and perfect number for something like this to be done. With 120 teams, it is now possible to have 10 college conference consisting of 12 teams.  This allows every conference to have a championship game. Just the very thought of that should excite every college football fan as well as the teams, players and coaches. Dave Wannstedt has some surprising predictions on possible conference realignment moves. When news broke out about Texas and Oklahoma were leaving the Big 12 for the SEC it created a firestorm that has fans and administrators wondering what the domino effect will be. It wasn’t a prediction and I didn’t expect this topic to be truly relevant for another couple of years. If you play it off on the field, best team doesn’t always get in or win. To maintain the regional accuracy of the SEC, I chose to add 3 more schools from Texas and 1 more from Tennessee. To many on the outside, this was a very sore issue in regards to conference realignment. The league was hit hard by member schools being sanctioned by the NCAA -- most notably SMU football receiving the "Death Penalty" in 1987 and 1988 -- that hurt those programs and the rest of the league. After the 2012 season, the WAC ... who once housed 1984 national champion BYU ... stopped sponsoring football.While the proud WAC and Big West are no longer sponsoring football, the Mountain West is still going strong. Dan Wetzel and Pete Thamel dive into the minutia of the proposed 12-team college football playoff. This book is designed for current and future sports business leaders as well as those interested in the inner-workings of the industry. East Division Boston College was also a defendant in a lawsuit by fellow members of the Big East but was taken off when they were left at the alter (the Big East offered to add BC to the list of plaintiffs). Just over a month ago, I wrote an article about college football’s conference realignment. So we have an 8 team playoff without the 2nd, 5th, 7th and 8th best teams in the country? They went after Arkansas, Texas, and Texas A&M to expand the league's footprint and to add more brand strength to the conference. 11/19 Conference Championship Game Found inside“ESPN Obscures Its Own Role in the Conference Realignment Mess. ... The Fifty-Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of ... 8/27 FAU * Wilson is a former college football player for the University of Miami (92-94) and Long Beach St. (â90-â91) and played briefly for the Seattle Seahawks (â95). From hilarious stories of brawling high school referees and making awkward small talk with George Lucas and Darth Vader at the Rose Bowl to the heart-tugging story of young sons in the stands on a Saturday as a stream profanity-laden ... East Carolina The remaining football programs formed the AAC with some of the other better schools from the Conference USA. When Oklahoma and Texas stunned the college football world by announcing they'd be moving to the SEC (more on that in a bit), the Big 12 was on the verge of collapse. Kansas While it was hosted on another domain, 4/30/01 was the launch of the first dedicated news site and fan community to cover the wild ride that is NCAA Conference Realignment. Michigan Division Texas leveraged the Pac-10's overture into a better deal back with the Big 12, and the other four schools stuck with the Longhorns. The wild-horse addition to this conference would be Cincinnati. Found inside – Page 148Also, this whole conference realignment discussion really had everyone ... like THIS and this: So in the end, cooler heads and greed saved college football. UCLA South Florida. Troy, South Division What was once a compilation of east coast basketball programs now became a loose partnership where the basketball schools felt as if the football schools were making all the league's decisions. Members BYU, Utah, Air Force, Colorado State, and Wyoming met in Denver and decided to break away from the WAC to form their own league (they would invite New Mexico, San Diego State, and UNLV to join them). The Big East wasn't immune to it -- a basketball power conference that had several members (Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Boston College) surveying the landscape for a football landing spot.To appease them, the Big East decided to form a football conference, and in doing so added Miami as a full member and Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia as football-only members. I had to break up the list, it was too long: Northeastern Conference Western Conference: #2 Oregon defeats #4 Stanford. Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. Stanford Maryland was slashing athletic programs while Rutgers was hemorrhaging money and living in the volatile Big East, and both wanted in on the money that the Big Ten's television contracts would provide. Filled with insightful analysis and compelling arguments, this book considers the influence of sports on popular culture and spotlights the fascinating ways in which sports culture and American culture intersect. The conference was too big -- both in member size and geographically -- to function. BYU Will the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac-12 start taking shots at each other? Black. I love it n it sounds like a fair way to get a honest National Champion? Not to mention the Oklahoma-Texas rivalry would now be in-house.The new Big 12 would split into North and South divisions and would continue to be a power nationally. As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football We don’t know how this round of realignment will work. The problem remains that the current ‘Power 5’ conferences of the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, PAC 12, and Big 12, are completely lopsided in terms of competition and number of members. Great Lakes Division Praise for The Fifty-Year Seduction: "As there have been Kremlinologists, so Keith Dunnavant must be the first certified NCAA-ologist. The work is thoroughly researched, carefully told, and absolutely brimming with fools and villains. North Division Not very clever, I know, but maybe their marketing department can work on that. Virginia Tech became a full member in 2000. Competition and $$$ breed rule breaking. Ohio St. Pacific Coast Conference 1-1-0, 54th East. The conference now becomes a 16-team behemoth in college football. A subforum concentrating on college sports and conference realignment as it affects the Power 5 conferences. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. The Horned Frogs won at least 11 games in six of their seven seasons in the Mountain West, including an undefeated season in 2010. But as we learned from 2009-12, every college football realignment shift causes ripple effects in neighboring leagues. You do not need to regionalize the playoffs because you have already set that up for the regular season. Texas is one of the biggest brands in college athletics and Oklahoma has been dominating the Big 12 for a decade and filling the NFL with quarterbacks. The league formed two non-geographical divisions (the "Atlantic" and "Coastal") and was finally able to host a league championship game.The Big East needed to replace the three schools and would invite five schools to join their league. In 1996, the Cardinals left independence to join Conference USA. Will an arms race begin among the power five leagues? Found inside... almost every major shift in the landscape has been a byproduct of decisions made regarding college football. Conference realignment confirms that fact. By having two 13-team divisions, you avoid playing the same teams over and over again. Cincinnati The SEC went nearly 60 years before expanding. When the ACC voted to invite Boston College as the 12th member of their conference, the Big East put the Eagles back on the lawsuit as a defendant.Due to the five months-long gap between the Miami and Virginia Tech invites and Boston College's, the Eagles would have to wait a year to enter the ACC. Texas While typically a solid program, their marriage to the Big 12 came more out of convenience than anything else. Found insideWhy Sports Morally Matter is a deeply critical examination of pressing ethical issues in sports – and in society as a whole. UAB. Say Alabama is #1 at 11-0, Auburn is #4 at 10-1 and Ole Miss is #15 at 8-3 but wins their division. 1 of 20 1971: South Carolina leaves the ACC sa_protocol = ("https:"==document.location.protocol)? The era of realignment within the conferences that make up the largest football-playing division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association can be traced to one event. It wasn't the tight-knit atmosphere of the 1980s as the Big East turned too ... well ... big.When the ACC began their raid of the Big East in the mid-2000s, the Big East countered by adding Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida as members (as well as DePaul and Marquette as non-football members) and UConn's young football program (Temple was kicked out). There is still a conference called the SWAC; it’s a FCS conference. Quite simply, the ACC made this move in order to be taken seriously as a football league. As Nebraska was set to leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten, the Pac-10 saw an opportunity to strike. With six teams on each side of each conference, every team will have five conference division games. I am then proposing that we take a page out of the NFL book and make the out of conference games pit one conference against another. So, for instance, Florida St. would play conference division members Miami, Georgia Tech, FAU, UCF and FIU equaling five games and then have another six games against the members of one side of the Southwest Conference.  So for example they would play Texas A&M, Texas, Houston, SMU, N. Texas and Arkansas St.. That would give them 11 and everyone else 11 games. Every program will also have a 12th game which would be used for rivalry games, historical games, interesting matchups etc.  So for example, Texas Tech, who is no longer in a conference with Texas can have their last game be against Texas if the two schools want to preserve some type of rivalry. The ACC threw a lifeline to the school to extend their reach further south. Not BCS. In the recent past, conference realignment decisions were largely made around media deals that would bring in more viewership due to media markets (Ex. Because how can we currently consider these conferences D1 if they don’t even have a chance to compete for the championship? 9/03 Georgia Tech * Geographically it made no sense, but both sides needed to link up to survive. But What About the Loss of Conference Rivalries? For college athletics, particularly college football, more opportunities usually leads to realignment among conferences and, sometimes, expansion. Found inside – Page 22The Making of College Football's Most Dominant Conference Ray Glier. football and conference realignment and schools looking for the best deal? It hasn't stayed that way, however, as the program has struggled with its identity since switching leagues. Miami (OH) Iowa Here’s what the playoff bracket would look like based on my hypothetical conference championship winners: Before anyone says anything like, after all that we still have the same two teams playing for the championship. Well, that only happened because I did the simple thing of having the higher ranked team win each matchup so of course we would end up with the same matchup the BCS has produced. However, I think we all know that there would undoubtedly be upsets especially with the potential of a lower ranked team being better than a higher ranked team with the faulty measures used to do rankings. Found inside... do not write anything in ink about college football conferences, ... The day-to-day changes in college conference realignment are baffling to the ... After years of wooing the Big Ten, Penn State's attractiveness as an eastern public school and a great research university (that also had a really good football program) the Nittany Lions were in.The addition of Penn State has been wildly successful, though there have been some low points. In the first of a 2-part series, a look at the winners of conference realignment. Conference realignment is a wild world. Texas and Oklahoma formally voted to join the SEC after that league’s members voted unanimously to invite the two schools. But as Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said when acknowledging the departure of Texas and Oklahoma, the reality of college football is changing rapidly. Wilsonâs oldest son Quincy plays in the NFL for the New York Giants and his younger son plays cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals. Keeping track of every move during the conference realignment process. Florida International Dave Wannstedt has some surprising predictions on possible conference realignment moves. Wisconsin, South Division Cincinnati athletics got screwed in the 2013 mass exodus of teams to different conferences. 12/03 Regional Quarter Final Central Florida LSU It was a wild time as many independent schools were looking at joining conferences for the first time. Found inside – Page 40The realignment process could have profound effects on the landscape of college sports, possibly resulting in a contraction of conferences into a few super ... The Great Realignment of College Football With recent reports that Oklahoma and Texas have “inquired” about ditching the Big 12 for the SEC, I figure that now is as good a time as any to perfectly align college football conferences. Utah No!!! Oregon St. College Football Future Conference Realignment. 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