Superconferences: Which 64 Teams Belong?

Donate To GopherHole

Very interesting article. Thanks for putting it up.
 

That was interesting. I'm curious as to why these guys all seem to imply that a move to "super conferences" has to be for all sports. Football is clearly a unique beast in college athletics. If change is inevitable, why can't they go to one conference allignment for football and leave the rest of the sports alone? That type of setup seemed to work fine for hockey for decades (although with the new Big 10 hockey conference coming on line that might be changing). It's worked fine for the current football independants as well.

As a basketball fan, I would hate to see a traditional basketball rivalry like UNC/Duke turn into a relatively meaningless non-conference matchup played once a year in mid-November just because Duke's football program isn't up to par.
 

Iowa St is cut every time. Wake Forest, Baylor, and Vanderbilt too.

Indiana left out by one guy - ouch.

I really don't see the SEC booting one of its members, so Vandy looks safe to me... Although I could be wrong.

And Boise St is in for all those guys? Don't get me wrong - they deserve it, but which conference would take them? Pac-16 seems the only logical candidate and I don't think they would take them.

So there are four mega conferences: BigTen, Pac-16, SEC, and.... (BigEast, ACC?) Which of those two survives? ACC is stronger now, but my guess is the one who gets the least poached by the BigTen and SEC.
 

HopHead said:
If change is inevitable, why can't they go to one conference allignment for football and leave the rest of the sports alone?
Click to expand...
My guess would be media rights/TV contracts. If the goal of the FB rights deals is to give all your conference members fat paychecks then it doesn't work as well to have FB only members.
 


It's all about TV contracts and a football playoff. I say have three super conferences and two eleven team leagues. The super conference champions are automatically in the playoffs and the two 11 team conference champions playoff for the fourth spot. I don't think major adjustments would need to happen.

Four 18 team conferences as an alternative, not sure there are 72 schools that would qualify though.

Basketball you still have conference tournements.

Sec, Big Ten, and Pac-12 become super conferences.
Big East and ACC settle in at 11 team conferences. I think some of the ACC teams are headed for the SEC anyway.
 



Why not have six 12-team conferences? At least then the idea of conferences still means something. College football conferences above 12 teams really cease to embody the meaning of the word "conference". Plus, it sets things up nicely for a future playoff, wherein you can have the six conference champions and two wild-cards form the field.
 



dpodoll68 said:
Why not have six 12-team conferences? At least then the idea of conferences still means something. College football conferences above 12 teams really cease to embody the meaning of the word "conference". Plus, it sets things up nicely for a future playoff, wherein you can have the six conference champions and two wild-cards form the field.
Click to expand...

Why has no one in a power position proposed this? To me 6 12 team conferences based on regions makes the most sense and still allows for something resembling "todays" college football. Does anyone really get excited about a B1G 16 if it includes Rutgers, Syracuse, UConn, Maryland or other east coast schools? I would suppose there would be more local/regional excitement of IA St Kansas, Kansas St, and Mizzou joining but does that really do anything for the brand?

I like the 6+2 playoff model. It really can be expanded to thinking of it as a 12+2 where the conference champ games are actually the 1st round of the playoffs.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom