🌎BONUS REALIGNMENT🌎 If the Patriot League isn’t your cup of tea: Move Penn State and Pitt to the Central American, Army and Navy to the North Atlantic, Air Force to replace North Dakota State in the Mountain West. Sorry VMI and NDSU, gotta send you back down
There are actually 10 military schools that have NCAA/NAIA football programs. I put them all into one conference when I did my overhaul of the entirety of college football a little while back. In the West division: Air Force, Army, Navy, The Citadel, VMI In the East division: Coast Guard, Mass Maritime, Merchant Marine Academy, Norwich, SUNY Maritime I also kept them entirely separate from any of the four college levels that I created so they would not be subject to promotion and relegation, as I designed for the other college, USFL, XFL, and NFL teams.
I love the Central American conference! As someone who has grown up in the midwest, I always felt like the teams were split. Putting them all in one makes me happy!
While geographic based conferences is a call back that would make a lot of fans happy I think there are more interesting ways to split conferences. Consederations I would have are 1) Number of total conferences, 2) Number of Schools per conference, 3) Historical Conferences, 4) Separation of Blue Bloods, and 5) Possible demotion. So something like the Mississippi or Missouri valley conference, but instead of isolated to the Northern Midwest it is comprised of schools in states that sit on the Mississippi or reforming the SWC with West Texas schools along with the 4 corners schools possibly extending into SoCal with SDSU. Edit: Another interesting conference idea would be to use the FCS Colonial Conference name and have it made up of schools that are in the original colonies.
With about half of the conference being in Texas/Oklahoma I said southern. I could've included they're also a midwestern conference but it slipped my mind
I recently did a realignment of my own, that I’m still in the process of making a video essay of. As I started watching your video, I was worried we may have the same realignment, because we have the same Pacific (I kept that one called the PAC12). Though different from mine, yours ain’t so bad either! Kudos!
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct Will do! It may be a bit. I’ve never done a video essay before, and haven’t done anything PowerPoint related since High School in the late 2000s 😅 Should be a learning experience!
Tennessee would officially like to join the big south conference, or at least rob the Carolina schools. As it stands they would go 7-0 against that schedule every few years, but I doubt I would be enough for a playoff berth. Taking the Carolina schools from the big South would help geographically and allow both conferences to have 11 teams.
Make football great again. 12 teams is a nice even split for conference champions to go straight to a playoff. But different sizes of conferences would affect scheduling and # of non-con games. For the Central American: switch ISU, KU and Mizzou with Indiana, MSU and Northwestern.
I think UConn could beat Rutgers, UMass, BC and Syracuse. We played Pitt when we were both in the Big East football Conference and we had great games. NYU-Buffalo does schedule games and it is competitive. UConn never played Penn State, yet.
Great concept and great ideas, but I’ve got a feeling that more people would be saying that splitting up Duke and UNC is blasphemous. They compete for the victory bell every year in football, and are you accounting for basketball as well?
LSU Fans would HATE that Red River conference. That's basically the old SouthWestCon plus LSU and the 2 Oklahoma schools. Loosing FLA, Auburn and Bama annually would take a lot out of the zest of the season.
I like idea of North Atlantic Conference, it makes sense geographically. Although, for Basketball men's and women's this would have some very interesting results if it were real.
This is just the power 5+1 with some lowers getting thrown in. It’d be the Pacific/Mountain/Central/Big South/Re River +Appalachia getting thrown in. Penn/Pitt/Cincinnati/UCF getting the strength of schedule shaft
It has to be based on ranking to be compatible with the playoff. There needs to be another subdivision with four playoff conferences an the rest of the FBS set aside. No more FCS play, and limited playoff/non-playoff interaction, mostly focused on preserving rivalry games. Then add a relegation system. The conferences themselves can be geographic but the first consideration should be strength. Then the playoff conference champs get automatic top-N playoff bids and the only work for the committee is seeding and picking at-large teams. There will still be complaints but at least we can say "You should have won your conference."
On paper this may look good, but in reality no. Texas, A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma and LSU are a better fit with the schools they now are in with, the SEC. These are the big schools in this would-be conference. They would not like to carry the financial water for Tech, TCU, Baylor, Okie State, and Houston
Love the concept, but App. Valley feels like it should just be dissolved and reshuffled in to the surrounding conferences, maybe Patriot League too as it defeats the purpose of cutting down on travel by going regional. N. Atlantic needs some beefing up in membership numbers or strength if the likes of UMass, UConn and Buffalo are being included, so could do with some shuffling
moving up NDSU and not including actual FBS callup Delaware is an odd choice. Though they werent announced at the time if you writing this, the writing on the wall for them moving up has been clear for awhile now. Wouldve loved to see a division with Delaware, JMU, Maryland, Navy, Rutgers, Temple and maybe Virginia and VT. Still a great video! Loved watching it
Was thinking just this, stood out as a bad decision. Duke should be in the Big South. If you need to take a team out the Big South, move Georgia Tech to the Appalachian Valley. Makes some geographic sense, and they'd be a great fit in this competitive conference that is similar to the traditional ACC
I took a different approach. I put together an NFL type format. Two conferences with four divisions of nine in each. Eastern Conference... Atlantic---Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida St, Miami, NC St, No Carolina, So Carolina, UCF. Central---Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan St, Notre Dame, Ohio St. Northeast---Boston College, Maryland, Penn St, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, VA Tech, West Virginia. South---Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, GA Tech, LSU, Miss St, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Wake Forest. Western Conference... Midwest---Illinois, Iowa, Iowa St, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin. Mountain---Arizona, Arizona St, Boise St, BYU, Colorado, Colorado St, Texas Tech, UNLV, Utah. Pacific---Cal, Oregon, Oregon St, San Diego St, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St. Southwest---Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M. Relegated: Kansas, Vanderbilt. Promoted: Boise St, Colorado St, Memphis, San Diego St, UNLV. --A round robin schedule within each division (8 games). --Four division champions and two wildcards qualify for playoffs in each conference (6 teams). --Top two in each conference get a 1st round bye...3rd vs 6th; 4th vs 5th in 1st round. --No team would play more than 16 games.
Some interesting things here. I think this is better than what we currently got, but I think there are some tweaks that could be made. First, I think over 12 teams is too big. So like your Mountain West and Central American can have ten teams extracted and make a Plains conference, so all would have ten teams. For the Plains Conference, it would be Colorado, CSU, Kansas, KSU, Mizzou, Iowa, Iowa State, Nebraska, NDSU and Wyoming. Minnesota might fit better in this league, but then it would unbalance the three leagues with ten. Your Big South is too big, I would give UNC and NCSU to the Appalachian Valley. Your Red River mostly brings the SWC back together with LSU and the Oklahoma schools added in, but I like it.
Putting North Dakota in Mountain West is a crime. Both of the ND college teams are located in the eastern part of the state where the land is completely flat. You can drive on the highway and not see any change in elevation no matter where you look.
Taking Air Force out of the mountain west is criminal. I know they’re a service academy, and don’t get me wrong I HATE Air Force, but I grew up 15 minutes away from the academy and played football in its shadow my entire high school career before I moved to Wyoming for college. I treasure the Wyoming-Air Force rivalry almost as much I prize the Boot and beating the sheep.
How about this for the Major Midwest West Division - Illinois, Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Wisconsin - Note - Nebraska will be in the New Orange Bowl Conference. They will play These Teams - Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas States, The Other Division of the Orange Bowl Conference will be Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech. Quite a Conference.
Personally, I thought Sportsmanlike Misconduct's conference realignment video was excellent. The only change I'd wanna make is to move Duke from the South Atlantic to the Big South. Here's why: 1: I just can't envision a world where the Duke Blue Devils aren't in the same conference as the North Carolina Tar Heels. 2: It might seem like Duke would get killed in the Big South football wise, but remember this: Steve Spurrier was once the head coach at Duke, and had some decent success with the Blue Devs. Spurrier was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 & 1989. 3: If S.M.'s version of the Big South was also a basketball league, Duke would be a major powerhouse in hoops.
Yeah, that works out nicely. Essentially, Central American = traditional Big 10, Pacific Coast = traditional Pac 12, Big South = traditional SEC, Appalachian Valley = traditional ACC, Red River = traditional Big 12
If you're working with these 136 teams as your FBS contingent and separating out the 4 military schools, I think it would make a lot more sense to have the same number of teams in all the conferences-132 lends itself well to 11 conferences of 12 teams, perhaps each split into 2 divisions of 6. And if you're doing them purely geographically, ignoring the relative strengths of the various programs, here's where I'd go with it: Pac-12 - North: Cal, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington - South: Fresno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, San Jose State, UCLA, USC Mountain West - North: Boise State, BYU, Utah, Utah State, Washington State, Wyoming - South: Arizona, Arizona State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UNLV, UTEP Big 12 - North: Colorado, Colorado State, North Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech - South: Baylor, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas State, UTSA Great Plains - North: Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Wisconsin - South: Arkansas, Arkansas State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Tulsa Gulf Coast - East: Louisiana, LSU, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy, Tulane - West: Houston, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M South Atlantic - North: Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Southern, South Carolina - South: FIU, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Miami (FL), South Florida, UCF SEC - East: Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, UAB - West: Alabama, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt ACC - East: Coastal Carolina, Duke, East Carolina, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion - West: Appalachian State, Charlotte, Liberty, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Northeast - East: Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UConn, UMass - West: Buffalo, James Madison, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia Ohio Valley - North: Akron, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Michigan, Toledo - South: Cincinnati, Kentucky, Marshall, Miami (OH), Ohio, Ohio State Midwest - North: Central Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Western Michigan - South: Ball State, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Purdue, Western Kentucky Note that for the last two, it would make geographic sense to have the two North divisions be the Great Lakes Conference and the two South divisions to be the Ohio Valley Conference. But I just couldn't bring myself to break up the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry even if it meant teams would have to travel a few miles farther on average to play each other.
First and foremost, this was an outstanding undertaking, and you did an amazing job. Now, for my constructive criticism. First, in my opinion, the eleven conferences (not the Patriot League) should have an equal number of schools, and each of those conferences should have two divisions. The eleven conferences have a total of 132 schools, and 132 divided by 11 is 12. Each of the eleven conferences should have exactly twelve schools: six in one division, and six in another. I think this would make things more fair for all schools involved. Some examples: Pacific Coast Conference, North Division: UW, WSU, UO, Oregon State, Stanford, Cal Pacific Coast Conference, South Division: SJSU, Fresno State, USC, UCLA, SDSU, Hawaii Northeastern Conference, North Division: Buffalo, Syracuse, BC, Penn State, UMass, UConn Northeastern Conference, South Division: Maryland, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, UVA, Va. Tech (For the record, I had to check which school was further south -- Penn State or Rutgers. Rutgers was just a bit further south than Penn State, which meant PSU went in the North Division and Rutgers went in the South.) I had a lot of difficulty finding twelve schools for what I would call the Southeast Conference, because I do NOT want to split up the schools in one state. I grew up in the state of Florida, and I went to the U. of Florida, and there are SEVEN schools in that state: Miami, FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, Florida, and FSU. The state of Georgia gives us UGA and Georgia Tech... the state of Alabama gives us Bama and Auburn... the state of South Carolina gives us Clemson and the Gamecocks... the state of Louisiana gives us LSU, Tulane and Louisiana Tech... how do we determine which school in Florida goes into "the other division", and which state will be split up between this one and another one? Another suggestion: four of your eleven conferences are made up of a majority of (or entirely of) schools in current "Group of Five" conferences (read: not Power Five conferences). I think that if we are throwing out history to realign Division I football, that should include the history of the schools that each school has played, and what conference it's in.
My re-alignment PAC-12 BYU Fresno State New Mexico SDS Utah Utah State All the original members of the conference Big Ten -Rutgers and Maryland, moved to American Conference. -Iowa State and Missouri joins the conference. Big-12 -Arkansas -Colorado -Colorado state -Kentucky -Louisville -Memphis -Oklahoma -Rice -SMU -Texas Texas A&M -Vanderbilt American Conference -Boston College -Cincinnati -Clemson -Duke -East Carolina -Florida -Florida State -Marshall -Miami -North Carolina -North Carolina State -Virginia -Virginia Tech -Wake Forest -West Virginia ACC All rejected American teams Maryland Notre Dame Pittsburgh Rutgers Syracuse SEC -Georgia Tech joins the conference.
let’s be brutally honest, courtesy of former ESPN anchor and Bay Area Sports Reporter Larry Biel, College Football realignment of 2024 is D-U-M-B!!!!!!
Michigan state subbed with Iowa state. Unless they are all playing 7 conference games with 2 protected opponents you’re taking away one of their rivalry games. Also ball state is in Indiana.
Can you explain to me how the big 12 is primarily a southern conference? Sure you have 4 Texas schools but that’s as southern as it gets, WV, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State definitely not southern. Colorado, BYU, Arizona, And Arizona state are at best Southwest but that’s not “Southern”. And don’t get me started on how UCF isn’t actually Southern.
I believe the transfer portal needs some tweeking. First and foremost....student athelites need to be prohibited from entering the portal until AFTER their current team's season is concluded...including bowl games. when these playuers leave earlier...it changes the outcome of these bowl games and ruins it for the fans. Also coaches of these teams should not be allowed to leave these universities for other opportunities until AFTER their current school's schedule is complete...including bowl games.
Just put PSU and Pitt in the Appalachian valley conf. It would still make sense geographically and the competition would make more sense. As much as I love the idea of the patriot league, it would not work because of Air Force. Put them back in the MWC, bump NDSU and VMI back to FCS, and put Army and Navy in the North Atlantic. Lastly, get Cincinnati outta maction, put em in the central American and let Notre Dame be independent just to make everyone angry. Add Marshall to make those conferences even numbers with sensible divisions. I love the ideas that you had for everything else! Also, flip Duke and Liberty.
Unfortunately I would be one of the angry people with Notre Dame😂 I pinned a bonus realignment but it agrees with the PSU/Pitt/and Patriot League teams + NDSU/VMI.
🌎BONUS REALIGNMENT🌎
If the Patriot League isn’t your cup of tea: Move Penn State and Pitt to the Central American, Army and Navy to the North Atlantic, Air Force to replace North Dakota State in the Mountain West.
Sorry VMI and NDSU, gotta send you back down
and yes… I forgot about the Citadel
Consider making a new list where the conferences are between 6-9 teams mainly at 7 like how it was a long time ago
Having NDSU but not SDSU is disappointing from a rivalry standpoint
Exactly, he should have tossed Utah State to FCS cause they don't matter and bring up SDSU cause of NDSU
@@ogbrayz great idea how about we toss them both out and bring it Montana grizzlies
many a good rivalry were busted up here.
Well old traditions dying can lead the way for new traditions
Geographically based conferences is the best way.
Yo mama
okay, say bye-bye to half of the major rivalries.
@@cherrycolareallike who?…
I agree
@@Drew25t you know.. every non-state rivalry???
For your military conference, you could call up The Citadel
Probably better than VMI lol
There are actually 10 military schools that have NCAA/NAIA football programs. I put them all into one conference when I did my overhaul of the entirety of college football a little while back.
In the West division: Air Force, Army, Navy, The Citadel, VMI
In the East division: Coast Guard, Mass Maritime, Merchant Marine Academy, Norwich, SUNY Maritime
I also kept them entirely separate from any of the four college levels that I created so they would not be subject to promotion and relegation, as I designed for the other college, USFL, XFL, and NFL teams.
I mean, the SEC plays them often enough for a September/Pre-Rivalry squash match. Why not?
I’m hype for ncaa 24 to come out to do this exact thing
I love the Central American conference! As someone who has grown up in the midwest, I always felt like the teams were split. Putting them all in one makes me happy!
While geographic based conferences is a call back that would make a lot of fans happy I think there are more interesting ways to split conferences. Consederations I would have are 1) Number of total conferences, 2) Number of Schools per conference, 3) Historical Conferences, 4) Separation of Blue Bloods, and 5) Possible demotion. So something like the Mississippi or Missouri valley conference, but instead of isolated to the Northern Midwest it is comprised of schools in states that sit on the Mississippi or reforming the SWC with West Texas schools along with the 4 corners schools possibly extending into SoCal with SDSU.
Edit: Another interesting conference idea would be to use the FCS Colonial Conference name and have it made up of schools that are in the original colonies.
No shot you just called the Big XII a southern league. Colorado also was a FOUNDING MEMBER of the Big XII
With about half of the conference being in Texas/Oklahoma I said southern. I could've included they're also a midwestern conference but it slipped my mind
I sure love geographical conferences. It sits well with me!
I recently did a realignment of my own, that I’m still in the process of making a video essay of.
As I started watching your video, I was worried we may have the same realignment, because we have the same Pacific (I kept that one called the PAC12).
Though different from mine, yours ain’t so bad either!
Kudos!
Haha thank you. Let me know when yours is out!
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Will do!
It may be a bit. I’ve never done a video essay before, and haven’t done anything PowerPoint related since High School in the late 2000s
😅
Should be a learning experience!
these are legit some of the worst decisions I have ever seen in a potential conference realignment.
Thank you
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@@sportsmanlikemisconduct hey can I get some of that stuff?
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct why like your own comment
@@RandomBulgarianMapperwhy did you like your own comment?
Tennessee would officially like to join the big south conference, or at least rob the Carolina schools. As it stands they would go 7-0 against that schedule every few years, but I doubt I would be enough for a playoff berth.
Taking the Carolina schools from the big South would help geographically and allow both conferences to have 11 teams.
Of all the fan based realignments I've seen, I like yours the best.
Make football great again.
12 teams is a nice even split for conference champions to go straight to a playoff. But different sizes of conferences would affect scheduling and # of non-con games.
For the Central American: switch ISU, KU and Mizzou with Indiana, MSU and Northwestern.
You’re missing the citadel in the patriot league
So basically, the Red River Conference is the old Southwestern Conference.
i love what you did with the north atlantic conference even tho we’d get destroyed
I think UConn could beat Rutgers, UMass, BC and Syracuse. We played Pitt when we were both in the Big East football Conference and we had great games. NYU-Buffalo does schedule games and it is competitive. UConn never played Penn State, yet.
Backyard brawl should 1000% be a conference game. Let’s Go Mountaineers and Eat Shit Pitt.
keep dreaming unc
7:44 this is where JMU should be. It is literally in the Appalachian Valley
Great concept and great ideas, but I’ve got a feeling that more people would be saying that splitting up Duke and UNC is blasphemous. They compete for the victory bell every year in football, and are you accounting for basketball as well?
Might as well call the Red River conference the Texas and Friends conference 😂😂
LSU Fans would HATE that Red River conference. That's basically the old SouthWestCon plus LSU and the 2 Oklahoma schools. Loosing FLA, Auburn and Bama annually would take a lot out of the zest of the season.
I like idea of North Atlantic Conference, it makes sense geographically. Although, for Basketball men's and women's this would have some very interesting results if it were real.
This is just the power 5+1 with some lowers getting thrown in. It’d be the Pacific/Mountain/Central/Big South/Re River +Appalachia getting thrown in. Penn/Pitt/Cincinnati/UCF getting the strength of schedule shaft
I was more-so aiming for geography over competition. Tried to get the best of both worlds, but couldn’t quite capture that
should've kept Notre Dame independent for the meme
Came back to this video to use it for my dynasty on college football 25
@@dylangraham1377 I just plugged it into mine. I’d recommend using the pinned comment instead 🤝
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct you should make a video on how to plug this realignment into cfb 25. i'm sitting here thinking how and where i'd put teams.
@ I have a video of me doing a 10 year simulation with it in CFB 25. I go over the conferences at the beginning
Toledo and Ohio could absolutely give Cincy a run in that MAC
For the Patriot Conference you could also add Coast Guard Academy and Merchant Marine Academy
It has to be based on ranking to be compatible with the playoff. There needs to be another subdivision with four playoff conferences an the rest of the FBS set aside. No more FCS play, and limited playoff/non-playoff interaction, mostly focused on preserving rivalry games. Then add a relegation system.
The conferences themselves can be geographic but the first consideration should be strength.
Then the playoff conference champs get automatic top-N playoff bids and the only work for the committee is seeding and picking at-large teams. There will still be complaints but at least we can say "You should have won your conference."
On paper this may look good, but in reality no.
Texas, A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma and LSU are a better fit with the schools they now are in with, the SEC.
These are the big schools in this would-be conference. They would not like to carry the financial water for Tech, TCU, Baylor, Okie State, and Houston
8:50 SWC Getting back together.
Right? The only thing that changed was Rice being exchanged for Houston.
Love the concept, but App. Valley feels like it should just be dissolved and reshuffled in to the surrounding conferences, maybe Patriot League too as it defeats the purpose of cutting down on travel by going regional. N. Atlantic needs some beefing up in membership numbers or strength if the likes of UMass, UConn and Buffalo are being included, so could do with some shuffling
as a Michigan fan not having msu and Michigan in the same conference hurts
I don’t think liberty will have too much trouble in the Appalachian Valley after their season this year
Yooo why he laughed at UCONN and UMASS
moving up NDSU and not including actual FBS callup Delaware is an odd choice. Though they werent announced at the time if you writing this, the writing on the wall for them moving up has been clear for awhile now. Wouldve loved to see a division with Delaware, JMU, Maryland, Navy, Rutgers, Temple and maybe Virginia and VT. Still a great video! Loved watching it
You did duke dirty
Yeah, DUKE would go to the IVY before this.
Was thinking just this, stood out as a bad decision. Duke should be in the Big South. If you need to take a team out the Big South, move Georgia Tech to the Appalachian Valley. Makes some geographic sense, and they'd be a great fit in this competitive conference that is similar to the traditional ACC
I took a different approach. I put together an NFL type format. Two conferences with four divisions of nine in each.
Eastern Conference...
Atlantic---Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida St, Miami, NC St, No Carolina, So Carolina, UCF.
Central---Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan St, Notre Dame, Ohio St.
Northeast---Boston College, Maryland, Penn St, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, VA Tech, West Virginia.
South---Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, GA Tech, LSU, Miss St, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Wake Forest.
Western Conference...
Midwest---Illinois, Iowa, Iowa St, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin.
Mountain---Arizona, Arizona St, Boise St, BYU, Colorado, Colorado St, Texas Tech, UNLV, Utah.
Pacific---Cal, Oregon, Oregon St, San Diego St, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St.
Southwest---Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M.
Relegated: Kansas, Vanderbilt.
Promoted: Boise St, Colorado St, Memphis, San Diego St, UNLV.
--A round robin schedule within each division (8 games).
--Four division champions and two wildcards qualify for playoffs in each conference (6 teams).
--Top two in each conference get a 1st round bye...3rd vs 6th; 4th vs 5th in 1st round.
--No team would play more than 16 games.
Some interesting things here. I think this is better than what we currently got, but I think there are some tweaks that could be made. First, I think over 12 teams is too big. So like your Mountain West and Central American can have ten teams extracted and make a Plains conference, so all would have ten teams. For the Plains Conference, it would be Colorado, CSU, Kansas, KSU, Mizzou, Iowa, Iowa State, Nebraska, NDSU and Wyoming. Minnesota might fit better in this league, but then it would unbalance the three leagues with ten.
Your Big South is too big, I would give UNC and NCSU to the Appalachian Valley. Your Red River mostly brings the SWC back together with LSU and the Oklahoma schools added in, but I like it.
oregon, usc, ucla, washington, texas, and oklahoma messed it up for everyone else
as a lifelong Oregon state Beavers fan I insist this is about baseball.
I believe you only made this video to show off the Red River conference😏
They were absolutely one of my favorite lol
Major Midwest East Division - Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Pitt and Purdue
Putting North Dakota in Mountain West is a crime. Both of the ND college teams are located in the eastern part of the state where the land is completely flat. You can drive on the highway and not see any change in elevation no matter where you look.
Taking Air Force out of the mountain west is criminal. I know they’re a service academy, and don’t get me wrong I HATE Air Force, but I grew up 15 minutes away from the academy and played football in its shadow my entire high school career before I moved to Wyoming for college. I treasure the Wyoming-Air Force rivalry almost as much I prize the Boot and beating the sheep.
How about this for the Major Midwest West Division - Illinois, Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Wisconsin - Note - Nebraska will be in the New Orange Bowl Conference. They will play These Teams - Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas States, The Other Division of the Orange Bowl Conference will be Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech. Quite a Conference.
Personally, I thought Sportsmanlike Misconduct's conference realignment video was excellent. The only change I'd wanna make is to move Duke from the South Atlantic to the Big South. Here's why:
1: I just can't envision a world where the Duke Blue Devils aren't in the same conference as the North Carolina Tar Heels.
2: It might seem like Duke would get killed in the Big South football wise, but remember this: Steve Spurrier was once the head coach at Duke, and had some decent success with the Blue Devs. Spurrier was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 & 1989.
3: If S.M.'s version of the Big South was also a basketball league, Duke would be a major powerhouse in hoops.
So the Power 5 in this scenario is Central American, Pacific Coast, Big South, Appalachian Valley, and Red River.
Yeah, that works out nicely. Essentially, Central American = traditional Big 10, Pacific Coast = traditional Pac 12, Big South = traditional SEC, Appalachian Valley = traditional ACC, Red River = traditional Big 12
marshall is not in virginia bro
@@zBradie13 my bad forgot to add the west before lol
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct u good great video
GOSH I LOVE MACTION
And this is why not all realignments conferences are great because you get some very lopsided conferences and old rivalry’s ruined
If you're working with these 136 teams as your FBS contingent and separating out the 4 military schools, I think it would make a lot more sense to have the same number of teams in all the conferences-132 lends itself well to 11 conferences of 12 teams, perhaps each split into 2 divisions of 6. And if you're doing them purely geographically, ignoring the relative strengths of the various programs, here's where I'd go with it:
Pac-12
- North: Cal, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington
- South: Fresno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, San Jose State, UCLA, USC
Mountain West
- North: Boise State, BYU, Utah, Utah State, Washington State, Wyoming
- South: Arizona, Arizona State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UNLV, UTEP
Big 12
- North: Colorado, Colorado State, North Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech
- South: Baylor, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas State, UTSA
Great Plains
- North: Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Wisconsin
- South: Arkansas, Arkansas State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Tulsa
Gulf Coast
- East: Louisiana, LSU, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy, Tulane
- West: Houston, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M
South Atlantic
- North: Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Southern, South Carolina
- South: FIU, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Miami (FL), South Florida, UCF
SEC
- East: Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, UAB
- West: Alabama, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt
ACC
- East: Coastal Carolina, Duke, East Carolina, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion
- West: Appalachian State, Charlotte, Liberty, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
Northeast
- East: Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UConn, UMass
- West: Buffalo, James Madison, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia
Ohio Valley
- North: Akron, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Michigan, Toledo
- South: Cincinnati, Kentucky, Marshall, Miami (OH), Ohio, Ohio State
Midwest
- North: Central Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Western Michigan
- South: Ball State, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Purdue, Western Kentucky
Note that for the last two, it would make geographic sense to have the two North divisions be the Great Lakes Conference and the two South divisions to be the Ohio Valley Conference. But I just couldn't bring myself to break up the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry even if it meant teams would have to travel a few miles farther on average to play each other.
Red River and the Big South would run CFB
First and foremost, this was an outstanding undertaking, and you did an amazing job.
Now, for my constructive criticism.
First, in my opinion, the eleven conferences (not the Patriot League) should have an equal number of schools, and each of those conferences should have two divisions.
The eleven conferences have a total of 132 schools, and 132 divided by 11 is 12. Each of the eleven conferences should have exactly twelve schools: six in one division, and six in another.
I think this would make things more fair for all schools involved. Some examples:
Pacific Coast Conference, North Division: UW, WSU, UO, Oregon State, Stanford, Cal
Pacific Coast Conference, South Division: SJSU, Fresno State, USC, UCLA, SDSU, Hawaii
Northeastern Conference, North Division: Buffalo, Syracuse, BC, Penn State, UMass, UConn
Northeastern Conference, South Division: Maryland, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, UVA, Va. Tech
(For the record, I had to check which school was further south -- Penn State or Rutgers. Rutgers was just a bit further south than Penn State, which meant PSU went in the North Division and Rutgers went in the South.)
I had a lot of difficulty finding twelve schools for what I would call the Southeast Conference, because I do NOT want to split up the schools in one state. I grew up in the state of Florida, and I went to the U. of Florida, and there are SEVEN schools in that state: Miami, FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, Florida, and FSU. The state of Georgia gives us UGA and Georgia Tech... the state of Alabama gives us Bama and Auburn... the state of South Carolina gives us Clemson and the Gamecocks... the state of Louisiana gives us LSU, Tulane and Louisiana Tech... how do we determine which school in Florida goes into "the other division", and which state will be split up between this one and another one?
Another suggestion: four of your eleven conferences are made up of a majority of (or entirely of) schools in current "Group of Five" conferences (read: not Power Five conferences).
I think that if we are throwing out history to realign Division I football, that should include the history of the schools that each school has played, and what conference it's in.
7:55 Irony liberty had the best record
My re-alignment
PAC-12
BYU
Fresno State
New Mexico
SDS
Utah
Utah State
All the original members of the conference
Big Ten
-Rutgers and Maryland, moved to American Conference.
-Iowa State and Missouri joins the conference.
Big-12
-Arkansas
-Colorado
-Colorado state
-Kentucky
-Louisville
-Memphis
-Oklahoma
-Rice
-SMU
-Texas
Texas A&M
-Vanderbilt
American Conference
-Boston College
-Cincinnati
-Clemson
-Duke
-East Carolina
-Florida
-Florida State
-Marshall
-Miami
-North Carolina
-North Carolina State
-Virginia
-Virginia Tech
-Wake Forest
-West Virginia
ACC
All rejected American teams
Maryland
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
SEC
-Georgia Tech joins the conference.
Duke needs to be with North Carolina. They’re less than 20 minutes from each other
Do one with 4 Conferences based on the 4 quarters of the Country
let’s be brutally honest, courtesy of former ESPN anchor and Bay Area Sports Reporter Larry Biel, College Football realignment of 2024 is D-U-M-B!!!!!!
I feel like Tulane should be in the big bayou I mean Tulane university is located in New Orleans which is situated next to a Bayou
Red river is literally half Texan, half miscellaneous
I think this is a great idea but I don’t think you should separate iconic rivals like Bama vs Tenn or Penn vs Michigan
Amazing vid but I think app state should’ve been in the Appalachian valley because they can hang with power 5 and I know that for a fact
I don’t like how you separated, the in-state rivalries in divisions
All I want is Pitt and WVU in the Big Ten
Building this on NCAA 14 Rn
Forgot The Citadel💔💔
How do we condense this down to 10 conferences?
Isn’t Virginia/ Virginia tech kinda military school? Could’ve added them
Bro forgot the citidel but called up VMI? WILD
Adams St and NM Highlands would be great pac 10 teams
Michigan state subbed with Iowa state. Unless they are all playing 7 conference games with 2 protected opponents you’re taking away one of their rivalry games. Also ball state is in Indiana.
In the military schools you left out The Citadel.
Can you explain to me how the big 12 is primarily a southern conference? Sure you have 4 Texas schools but that’s as southern as it gets, WV, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State definitely not southern. Colorado, BYU, Arizona, And Arizona state are at best Southwest but that’s not “Southern”. And don’t get me started on how UCF isn’t actually Southern.
Pre-pac 12 crumbling. Focused on the Texas/Oklahoma schools. Should said mid-western as well
The only thing I would do is add Idaho back to the Mountain west, like they were before
Big 12 is a southern conference? It's mostly a great plains or central conference
Yeah I suppose I should’ve found the difference between southern-ish located states like texas and Oklahoma than the other states in the southeast
Citadel in Patriot league
Can you put this in NCAA 14 revamped and sim a couple of years?
When the new NCAA football game comes out I’m hoping I can do it in there. My PC is too shitty to run Revamped right now 😂
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct sounds great, I’ll be looking forward to it!
I believe the transfer portal needs some tweeking. First and foremost....student athelites need to be prohibited from entering the portal until AFTER their current team's season is concluded...including bowl games. when these playuers leave earlier...it changes the outcome of these bowl games and ruins it for the fans.
Also coaches of these teams should not be allowed to leave these universities for other opportunities until AFTER their current school's schedule is complete...including bowl games.
No
Ball St is Indiana
Isn't the minimum number of teams 8?
I’m down for this! Can we bring the big east back
Dude didn't even include any of the G5 teams in his SEC and Big 10 equivalent conferences.
I would switch NC State and Duke
Should’ve put UTEP in the mountain west. We’re tired of being stuck with these goofy cusa teams
Where sac state :(
LSU with an auto playoff bid every year 😈
here before 1k subs
You qualify as an OG now
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct i fw the videos. You deserve a silver plaque
I appreciate that. Maybe we'll get there some day
i wanna use this in ncaa14
You should do fcs
8:22 where is OU? Oklahoma Sooners?
8:43
@@sportsmanlikemisconduct OK sorry. I just saw Oklahoma at 8:22 but there was no Oklahoma till 8:43
They are really good but the North Atlantic conference 😬
Yeahhh… if you peep the Bonus Realignment comment I pinned then you’ll see a better realignment lol
Gotta add Delaware now
Cool!
WE KEPT #MACTION
Just put PSU and Pitt in the Appalachian valley conf. It would still make sense geographically and the competition would make more sense. As much as I love the idea of the patriot league, it would not work because of Air Force. Put them back in the MWC, bump NDSU and VMI back to FCS, and put Army and Navy in the North Atlantic. Lastly, get Cincinnati outta maction, put em in the central American and let Notre Dame be independent just to make everyone angry. Add Marshall to make those conferences even numbers with sensible divisions. I love the ideas that you had for everything else! Also, flip Duke and Liberty.
Unfortunately I would be one of the angry people with Notre Dame😂 I pinned a bonus realignment but it agrees with the PSU/Pitt/and Patriot League teams + NDSU/VMI.
@@sportsmanlikemisconductwell hey at least you didn't disagree with the rest of my comment yet so I'm heading in the right direction 😂
Did I miss NC State?
@@taylorwickham they’re in the big south
I think you forgot Vermont, Maine and NH.. lol.. Man, the maine black bears are the best
Bro really said fuck one the back yard brawl and claims this to be geographical