Pac 12 but every team is actually from a Pacific State: Fresno State, SJSU, SDSU, Cal, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Washington State, Oregon State
I have those in my dynasty, but I added UNLV, UN Reno, University of Arizona, and Arizona State to make it a Pac-16 with a North and South divisions of 8 teams each
I created a "Gulf & Western" Conference, Made up of Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Houston, Florida State, Miami, UCF and Tulane. Mainly as think Texas & Florida aren't really that southern to be with the SEC and brining the two largest football state together could become a real challenge to the SEC's dominance. I actually kept the Oklahoma Schools together for Texas to keep rivalries together and added Tulane over SMU and Rice mainly more more geographic diversity for recruiting & to bridge the gap between Florida & Texas.
I Subscribed a few months ago and Love your videos!! You Should make videos about 3 way rivalries: Ex: Florida, Florida State, Miami or Army, Navy, Airforce
I would, but even then, I'm just one guy with his own biases. I get stuff wrong all the time, like forgetting Fresno State exists. If there's enough push for it I'll make another one but I'm mostly just focused on the SEC History for now
@@lukeontheplainsI think the SEC video is the right priority, but man I would rewatch a “Dalukes Perfect Realignment” scenario all the time, especially given how out of wack everything is rn
@@lukeontheplainsdon’t know if just my opinion is viewed as push but I would also love to see ideal conference realignment video from your perspective, I saw where you had posted one and then later took it down and I thought it would have been a good video.
@@manwithnewname The two main ones I’ve had are… 1. Weekly schedule shows some teams playing twice in the same week early in the season. 2. Teams not showing up in correct conference standings after updated realignment.
@@freddyhdickersonjr.1878 happened to me bro i reformed some conferences playing as maryland who i moved back to the acc, somehow oregon and rutgers just dissapeared and dont have a conference, even though they still showup on my schedule
@@___________broom4had that happen to Texas Tech in one of my custom dynasties. They just vanished from the list of teams and played like 4 games all year. I just went ahead and finished my season and the next year they showed up as Independent.
Yeah not only do I end up playing 3 ACC Championship games in my new ACC because the schedule glitches and fills in 2 extra in conference game in the last week, it doesnt get my record right so as a coach I dont get credit if those games are vs ranked teams or ranked higher than me etc… THEN, As the #1 overall undefeated team, I get thrown into the CFP as a 1st round home team, playing the 12th ranked team. It’s happened 3 straight years.
I wish EA let us customize auto-bids for the playoffs. I always reunite the Pac-12 and it would be nice to set them as a P5 auto-bid conference. Probably the only reason I haven't done a Pac-16 realignment yet even though I want to fulfill Texas-Austin's former Pac-12 dreams. As a Memphis fan I've been playing with a lot of alternate expansion scenarios in College FB 25 so it's fun (devastating, heart crushingly devastating) to see what could have been!
Consistently- one of my favorite parts of your videos is the different logos you choose for the schools you use! Adds so much life to an already great watch. My Frogs in an alternate Border could be fun! Definitely a scrappy bunch of schools for sure!
Some of my ideas: 1. The lone star conference (12 of the 13 Texas schools in a single conference). 2. The Academia conference (put the best academic schools like ND, Cal, Stanford, GT, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Rice, Northwestern & the military academies in a single conference) 3. The Appalachian conference (WVU, Pitt, Middle Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Appalachian State, Marshall, Penn State, Kentucky, Virginia Tech, & Tennessee) 4. The Pacific coast conference ( all the west coast schools plus Hawaii in a conference) 5. The Gulf Coast Conference (FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, UAB, Jacksonville State, South Alabama, Troy, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, ULM, ULL) The Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference ( Maryland, Navy, Liberty, James Madison, Virginia, VT, UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, ECU, Appalachian State, South Carolina, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, & West Virginia)
Idea: Promotion and Relegation. Tier 1: 20 Team SEC Tier 2: 20 Team B1G Tier 3: 20 Team XII Tier 4: 20 Team ACC Tier 5: 9 Teams in 6 regional Conferences The conference championships will act as a promotion playoff, with the SEC championship becoming the national championship. Finishing last will get you kicked down a tier for tiers 1-3. The bottom 6 will get kicked out from tier 4.
That's a cool idea! What is your Year 0 Conference Pyramid looking like for each team (current conferences + additions/preseason rankings from a set year/etc.)? You could probably fill out round robin leagues in something like Challonge to keep track.
I would first recreate the Original ACC prior to 1971 with a couple of additions. Clemson, Duke, Maryland, UNC, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and West Virginia. I would put East Carolina, Florida State, Cincinnati, Louisville, Miami (FL), Memphis and Southern Mississippi in Conference USA (Proposed mid 90's Metro Football Conference). Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College, Rutgers and UConn in the American to join the other former Eastern football schools that are currently in that conference now, Army, Navy and Temple. Arizona, Arizona State, California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington back to the Pac. Utah and BYU back to the Mountain West. For the Big 12, my alternate timeline is that in 1994 both the Big Eight and the Southwest conferences merge together as a whole, All of the Big Eight members and all of the SWC members including Arkansas, to create a power super conference for 1996, which I would call the Big Southwest. Also, I would return Tulane and Georgia Tech back to the SEC as they were charter members. Finally a lot of new FBS schools as FBS Independents
I like to do an alignment where their are 7, 10-team power conferences. I call it the Magnificent Seven: B1G and PAC-12: both conferences go back to their 10-team iterations Big 8 (+2): The OG Big 8 + Utah and BYU Big East: Cincinnati, Louisville, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and either Boston College or Notre Dame, with the other being independent. Including BC makes more sense from a tradition standpoint, but including ND gives the conference another big-hitter ACC: Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest, and UCF (who I've team-builder'd to be the Orlando Citronauts) SWC: Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, SMU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, and (controversially) Tulane & (even more controversially) LSU SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss. State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vandy
I matched up a P5 conference with a G5 conference. Last place in P5 gets sent to the G5, and first place in G5 moves up to the P5. So it was ACC/American, SEC/Sun Belt, B1G/MAC, B12/C-USA, Pac12/Mountain West. Left ND as the only Independent - if you get rid of all the Independents you can't update the Sun Belt anymore because it shifts the conferences. Larges conference was the ACC, smallest was Conference USA. Had to make certain executive decisions - all the Florida schools (save for 1) were in the SEC (FIU ended up in the Sun Belt). Georgia went to the ACC, but kept the Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee schools in the SEC so that the smaller ones for those states could go to the Sun Belt. Gives it a little variety, especially early on.
My Pac 12 is all the teams that are on the pacific coast, MW is all of the mountain schools, the American is a Northeastern conference, the ACC has the SC, GA and FL schools, SEC is all AL, TN, KY schools, Sunbelt is all MS, LA, AK, and OK schools, B10 is an Ohio/Michgan conference, MAC is the Midwest schools and the XII is an all Texas conference
I just have created the old pac12 Adding divisions. North and south but label them desert and redwood. Desert is obviously the la schools Arizona schools and what not. Red woods. Oregon and Washington’s schools Old sec with the east being the Magnolia division and west being Plantation division Big 12 is now mostly Texas schools with rice and smu but still has the Oklahoma schools and ksu and ku with ISU With divisions of Metro and Farm. Splitting the big city schools and rural A&M schools All military schools are independents. Super fun
When I was doing a coaching career dynasty I immediately created the magnolia conference. It's probably my favorite conference concept I've learned about.
Uh, that will spice up the race for at large spot. But what did you do with the dozen of teams that made the jump since then, and how did you solve the problem of only 9 conferences in 1990?
Lucas, great job (as always) with your latest video! I enjoyed seeing your custom conference ideas while also learning lots of interesting factoids from you about college football. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next! 👍👍
If we prioritize culture and regionality in the next round of realignment, KSU, KU, Mizzou, NU, ISU, and Iowa should form the core of one of the major conferences/divisions. If six isn't enough add one or more of CU, OSU, OU, Arkansas, Illinois, NW, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
A conference that I thought would be fun is KU, KSU, Mizzou, NU, ISU,Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Northwestern. You could maybe add Colorado for one of those schools. Or add Colorado and Purdue, or OU and Okie St
Thought about this concept and starting with Mizzou and the 8 states that it borders for a conference. Mizzou, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
I'd make a modern Great Lakes Conference from the MAC and B1G, founded by former Nebraska and Ohio coach Frank Solich as a final FU to the B1G. The GLC West would be Wisconsin, NIU, Nebraska, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, and Iowa. The GLC East would be Ohio, Bowling Green, Toledo, Maryland, Indiana, and Rutgers. It could fall into the power conference level where the ACC currently resides and allow additional schools to field playoff contenders that get blanketed by either the MAC's weak status or being overshadowed by the B1G power schools.
I decided to make a MEGA conference and have Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, LSU, Clemson, Miami, Virginia Tech, USC, Tennessee, Utah, and Ole miss
I've been using your videos to recreate a ton of Alt-History and historical conferences. Currently doin a Navy rebuild in the Airplane Conference with realistic recruiting (4-5*s who have a top-3 interest & 3*s- who have a top-10 interest).
Customizing Conferences absolutely ruins the schedules, conference games home and away as well as annual traditions get screwed up when you customize conferences...
Fun one I did was take the Big 12 and split it into two divisions. I had the Big Division with all the Big 8 members and the Southwest Division made up of the SWC members. The conference championship would be played at the Cotton Bowl. Lots of fun.
I used your American Conference except I left VT in the ACC - sent Rutgers there too Made the original Pac 10 Big 12 got SMU TX and OK ACC got Maryland back Big 10 went down to 12 teams. (I like Nebraska there)
I think it would be interesting to make the conf from the recruiting lists, like top academic schools all together, best stadiums, and each recruiting category make a confer with the best of whats left, but start with those ones that don't or hardly change... Acad, athletic fac, campus lifestyle, etc
I have my Pac-12, with the original Pac-10 lineup and rather than having Utah and Colorado, I merged it with most of the MWC i.e Hawaii, Fresno State, SJSU, SDSU, Boise State, and a UNLV to make it an even 16 team. That way I could have North and South division and rather than using the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, I moved it back to the Rose Bowl. Those changes have made it so that the Pac-12 consistently has teams ranked in the Top 25 and their losses count as "acceptable" and don't competely take me out of the running for bowl games or losing a chance at decent recruits
as a Mountain west guy it seems like you don't know ball because Boise state might have one of the best Basketball Programs this season and If you wanted to make a great Basketball Conference then you can with these Additions like Colorado state New Mexico San Diego state and UNLV... I don't really know the about the ACC schools you added to the Pac-12 at the start of the video but the MWC additions you added to the Pac-12 it would be more of a power Basketball conference and maybe it turns to a Football conference with how the Basketball teams do... but other than that keep up the hard work I know how hard it is to make videos especially if you are the one doing all the editing and stuff. Much love!
tried changing around some teams in conferences in my dynasty and all the schools were only playing 4 conference games and the rest of the games were random teams that they would never play in real life and there was no way to revert it. It ruined my dynasty
So I made the ACC a “Coastal Elite” division & a “Big East” division, each with 10 teams. Adds ND to BC, Cuse, LVille, WV, Miami, VTech, Rutgers, Uconn, and Pitt. The other side needed West Coast Elite teams so we have USC, UCLA, Cal, SDSU, and Stanford added to UNC, FSU, Clemson, Virginia, and Maryland. Then throw the dregs from the whats left of the ACC into the American, and set up a relegation system where any time a team finishes in the bottom 2 of the Coastal Elites for 2 straight years, they get replaced with the team that won the mini ACC division of the American. Good luck to Duke, NC state, Wake, & Ga Tech. My Pac 12 is just Hawaii, Army, Air Force, and Navy. The Big 10 is where it gets fun. Two divisions, one is the Original Big Ten and the other is the “Pac Ten”, with both Washington schools, both Oregon schools, both Colorado schools, both Arizona schools, Utah, and Boise (coulda been BYU honestly…might edit). The 10 Big Ten schools unfortunately kick out Northwestern to the American mini ACC, and it’s just UM, MSU, OSU, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. (Yes, Iowa..) The Big 12 is now the Heartland conference, with BYU, Nebraska, the Kansas schools, OK State, Tex Tech, TCU, Houston, Baylor, and Iowa State, and then we ripped Texas and Oklahoma back to where they belong. (This isn’t an SEC house) All the newbies that didn’t make the Big 12 cut are now in the new Conf. USA “Old School” division, where they play by the same relegation/promotion rules as the mini ACC does but with Conf. USA switching teams with our Big 12. What else…Temple and UMass are in the American, some teams were added into the MW, its certainly chaos 😅
If I were to create my version of the Big East, I would put the following 7 “Building Block” teams: Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Boston College, Miami, Marshall, AND…Notre Dame! Everybody forgets about Marshall having a solid football program. And yeah, I know, Notre Dame values their independence, but the Fighting Irish fit the Big East culture perfectly.
I started a new dynasty just to customize the conferences. I wanted to make the old school conferences like rebuilding the old Pac-10, Big-12 (Big 8), Big-10, WAC, ACC, SEC, Big East and the military schools independent with Notre Dame the way they used to be. Unfortunately I realized the game doesn't allow you to create new conferences, just realign the ones that already exist. Very disappointed.
Question for you. Maybe I missed something but how long do you think before Oregon State and Washington State join the Mountain West? I know OSU is playing a MWC schedule but how long do you think it’ll be before it actually happens?
For the PAC-12, I went Cal, Stanford, UCLA, Washington, Utah, Utah State, Fresno State, Boise State, Oregon State, Washington State, San Jose State and San Diego State
What I did in my conference is was the power 5 conferences would have 16 teams each (80 Power 5 teams) and the group of five would have 10 teams each (50 G5 teams). Air Force, Notre Dame, Army, and Navy would be Independents. Also, you sound a little congested.
This is pretty similar to something I was working on although I think I had it more as 14 teams in P5 and 12/13 in G5 and they were all sorted regionally with G5 as feeders for P5 in a pro/rel type of setup. Could have fixed the imbalance with MAC having more teams than the other G5 conferences if I moved Notre Dame into indies with the military academies and moved one of the MAC teams up to B1G in their place but I like the idea of military academies only as indies. Does dynasty let you schedule games for Week 0? I feel like ND vs Air Force in Week 0 and Army-Navy to end the season would be pretty cool indies only season bookends for your setup.
I remade the Pac12 with Hawaii and UNLV there instead of Utah/Colorado. (UH/UNLV both have Power 5 worthy stadiums). I also remade the Big East but put them in CUSA and put CUSA teams in American. My new Big East added Army and Navy to even things out. I played as West Virginia and don’t like the American conference logo so I used CUSA. I also made all conference championship games played at neutral venues.
my Big16 is exactly the old southwest and big8, pac10 i rebuild instantly, sec and acc is back to what is was before bonkers tv deals, big east is revived. and im currently thinking to split the mac into two groups with james madison, liberty, marshall, old dominion, buffalo, umass, akron and toledo becoming the eastern part
I don't have the game. I was going to get Maxium Football but I'm a fan of classic wrestling (NWA, AWA and Jim Crockett Wrestling) I would do conferences like the old wrestling territories
I created a alphabet NCAA for a sim dynasty. I put all the teams in alphabetical order of school name and then went in alphabetical order to build the conference. Each conference is half teams from the start of the alphabet and the end. So the American has teams like Alabama in the same conference as Wyoming. My favorite might be Conference USA. It's Georgia Georgia Southern Georgia State Georgia Tech Hawaii South Florida Southern Miss Stanford Syracuse TCU
Doesn’t this screw up schedules royally though? I made custom conferences in order to revive the Pac12 and Oregon ended up playing a grand total of 1 conference game in a season, playing three fcs schools.
UNM has a better market and better opportunities for growth than USU or Fresno. Also I didn't want to put too many California teams in the new PAC because it'd be less fun for me. The cool thing about CFB25 though is that if you want those schools in there, you put them in there
Fresno state is way better than colorado state, unlv, san diego state, new mexico and you dont move them into the pac 12? They are in the central valley of California and also have 4 mountain west championships. Boise only has more with 5.
Two things here, since I've seen it a lot from Bulldog fans. 1. Fresno State just doesn't provide enough, either from a money perspective or a fan perspective. From the Fresno Bee: "Institutional support *spiked* in 2021-22 to $18.1 million, pushing athletics revenues to $54.1 million. But over the past five years not impacted by COVID-19, Fresno State has averaged around $50.1 million in revenue. In the Mountain West, that trails Air Force, *San Diego State, UNLV, and Colorado State.*" During that same period, Air Force is military, UNLV was bad for all but last year, and Colorado State is Colorado State. Not exactly a huge boon, and it doesn't really match the level of success Fresno has had.. Combine that with the fact that CSUF is actually losing fan interest in football right now according to viewership numbers in the Valley, the only sport that matters in realignment, despite doing very well, kind of sends the message to conferences that even as a successful team in a good market, CSUF is really the 8th or 9th best brand in the state. But no, I do agree with you, Wyoming and UTEP over them is criminal if you're looking solely for success. If you're looking for fun, add the teams you like, and I like UTEP and Wyoming, personally. That and those two teams were WAC schools back when the WAC was close to a power conference.
I made mine 100% regional... Except with relegation conferences. American was made up of the 12 bowl playoff teams. Conference USA was made to bottom tier league... Last place in each conference each year had to go to conference usa and 4 places in CUSA also stayed in CUSA. Then all regional conf were split in half with big and little sides. Like sunbelt was all FL, GA, and AL teams; florida was in the big division with Ala, and Ga anf miami, fsu, etc. while FAU FIU, GSU, Kenn St, etc were in little side... Top 2 teams overall record, only playing your side of the division and non-conf schedule, would play for conf championship. So it was almost like the conferences were back down to 8-12 members again just doubled
I thought this was going to be alright until you put Tulane in the Pac-12. It doesn't fix what a lot of people see is the issue of Conference Realignment. Oregon State & Washington State are over 2,000 Miles from New Orleans. It's still just as bad as Oregon having to travel all the way to Pennsylvania or New Jersey
Who else would they add? San Jose State? Utah State? Regionality doesn't matter anymore. Tulane is close enough to Rice (Houston) and SMU (Dallas) that a divisional structure would ease travel significantly. The American features Tulsa to Temple (19 hr drive). The Sun Belt has Texas State to Old Dominion (23 hr drive). Regionality isn't just dead for the Power 5, it's dead for everyone.
If Fresno wasn't seriously considered for either the Pac 12 or Big 12 and teams like New Mexico, Wyoming, and UNLV were, I'm not sure I can really vouch for them. I'd have to look at the numbers.
I don't have the game but was thinking about 16 geographic conferences or 8 super-conferences if you want to combine them. Still workshopping the names, trophies, and alignment. Feedback welcome. 1. Pacific Conference - Washington Washington State Oregon Oregon State California Stanford UCLA USC - Cool Cascade Trophy 2. Mountain Conference - Boise State Nevada UNLV Utah Utah State BYU Arizona Arizona State - Ol Rockytop Trophy 3. Oasis Conference - Fresno State San Diego State San Jose State Hawaii Wyoming Colorado Colorado State Air Force - Silver Surfer Trophy 4. Sombrero Conference - New Mexico New Mexico State North Texas Rice Sam Houston Texas State UTEP UTSA - Grand Pecos Trophy 5. Red River Conference - Baylor Houston Oklahoma Oklahoma State SMU TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech - Hot Tamale Trophy 6. Grain Conference - Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Wisconsin - Hard Earned Husk Trophy 7. Motor Conference - Cincinnati Illinois Indiana Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio State Purdue - Sapphire Soapbox Trophy 8. Diamond Conference - Arkansas State Jacksonville State Louisiana Lafayette Louisiana Tech Louisiana-Monroe South Alabama Southern Miss Troy Tulsa UAB - Mighty Mineral Trophy 9. Magnolia Conference - Alabama Arkansas Auburn LSU Mississippi State Ole Miss Tennessee Tulane - Purple Pelican Trophy 10. Palm Conference - Clemson Florida Florida State Georgia Georgia Tech Miami (FL) South Carolina South Florida UCF - Emerald Isle Trophy 11. Appalachian Conference - Coastal Carolina FIU Florida Atlantic Georgia Southern Georgia State Kennesaw State Memphis Middle Tennessee Vanderbilt - Smokey Mountain Trophy 12. Whirlwind Conference - Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Northern Illinois Toledo Western Kentucky Western Michigan - Winner's Windmill Trophy 13. Bluegrass Conference - Akron Kent State Kentucky Louisville Marshall Miami (OH) Ohio West Virginia - Grand Guitar Trophy 14. Capital Conference - Appalachian State Charlotte East Carolina James Madison Liberty Navy Old Dominion Temple - Victory Bell Trophy 15. Tidewater Conference - Duke Maryland NC State North Carolina Rutgers Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest - All Mighty Admiral Trophy 16. Rust Conference - Army Boston College Buffalo Penn State Pittsburgh Syracuse UConn UMass - Ruby Ring Trophy Super-conference pairings 1+2 for Pac 12, 3+4 for Mountain West, 5+8 for a Big 12, 6+7 for a BIG 10, 9+10 for SEC, 11+12 for MAC/Sunbelt, 13+16 for Big East/American, 14+15 for ACC
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I wish you could make actual custom conferences like Team Builder Teams.
And get rid of Confrence title games
@someperson3883 you can turn conference championships off in conference settings
@@WindmillGuy I can’t unless a Confrence has 12 or more teams
You can just divide the conference (acc as a example) and make it has divisions and you can change their name.
@@user-bh7pj4fz1w but it effects the playoffs with 2 confrences in one
Pac 12 but every team is actually from a Pacific State: Fresno State, SJSU, SDSU, Cal, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Washington State, Oregon State
This is the exact Pac-12 I'm running in my Beavers Dynasty.
This is also my exact Pac 12 conference as well lol
yep, that's the exact group I went with
I have those in my dynasty, but I added UNLV, UN Reno, University of Arizona, and Arizona State to make it a Pac-16 with a North and South divisions of 8 teams each
Same thing I did 😂
I wish you could change conference names and use classic badges from old conferences. It’d be awesome
I created a "Gulf & Western" Conference, Made up of Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Houston, Florida State, Miami, UCF and Tulane. Mainly as think Texas & Florida aren't really that southern to be with the SEC and brining the two largest football state together could become a real challenge to the SEC's dominance. I actually kept the Oklahoma Schools together for Texas to keep rivalries together and added Tulane over SMU and Rice mainly more more geographic diversity for recruiting & to bridge the gap between Florida & Texas.
I Subscribed a few months ago and Love your videos!! You Should make videos about 3 way rivalries: Ex: Florida, Florida State, Miami or Army, Navy, Airforce
unc, duke, nc state too
@@AbsoluteMalarkey yeah
@@AbsoluteMalarkey Wake Forest: 😢
New Mexico, New Mexico State, and UTEP
Texas, Arkansas, Texas A&M
First thing you need to do is forget about the PAC 12 and go back to the OG PAC 10. Can’t believe they rocking with the 2 Pac in college football.
you should make a video of your ideal conferences. All 134 teams in their "correct" conferences according to a guy who knows his stuff.
I would, but even then, I'm just one guy with his own biases. I get stuff wrong all the time, like forgetting Fresno State exists. If there's enough push for it I'll make another one but I'm mostly just focused on the SEC History for now
would need like 2 or 3 extra conferences for them to be perfect
@@lukeontheplainsI think the SEC video is the right priority, but man I would rewatch a “Dalukes Perfect Realignment” scenario all the time, especially given how out of wack everything is rn
@@lukeontheplainsdon’t know if just my opinion is viewed as push but I would also love to see ideal conference realignment video from your perspective, I saw where you had posted one and then later took it down and I thought it would have been a good video.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the thing I hate about custom conferences is it makes dynasty buggier- even after the updates.
what kind of bugs?
@@manwithnewname The two main ones I’ve had are…
1. Weekly schedule shows some teams playing twice in the same week early in the season.
2. Teams not showing up in correct conference standings after updated realignment.
@@freddyhdickersonjr.1878 happened to me bro i reformed some conferences playing as maryland who i moved back to the acc, somehow oregon and rutgers just dissapeared and dont have a conference, even though they still showup on my schedule
@@___________broom4had that happen to Texas Tech in one of my custom dynasties. They just vanished from the list of teams and played like 4 games all year. I just went ahead and finished my season and the next year they showed up as Independent.
Yeah not only do I end up playing 3 ACC Championship games in my new ACC because the schedule glitches and fills in 2 extra in conference game in the last week, it doesnt get my record right so as a coach I dont get credit if those games are vs ranked teams or ranked higher than me etc…
THEN, As the #1 overall undefeated team, I get thrown into the CFP as a 1st round home team, playing the 12th ranked team. It’s happened 3 straight years.
Bro Tulane in the PAC 12 is devious work 😭😂
Cal is in the ACC so anything can happen
I wish EA let us customize auto-bids for the playoffs. I always reunite the Pac-12 and it would be nice to set them as a P5 auto-bid conference. Probably the only reason I haven't done a Pac-16 realignment yet even though I want to fulfill Texas-Austin's former Pac-12 dreams.
As a Memphis fan I've been playing with a lot of alternate expansion scenarios in College FB 25 so it's fun (devastating, heart crushingly devastating) to see what could have been!
I mean technically the entire P5 doesn't get an autobid. it's just 5 highest ranked conference winners regardless
I'm all in on promotion and relegation in my dynasty. It's really fun to see you goes where
Consistently- one of my favorite parts of your videos is the different logos you choose for the schools you use! Adds so much life to an already great watch.
My Frogs in an alternate Border could be fun! Definitely a scrappy bunch of schools for sure!
I gotta admit I kinda like Nebraska's logo in all black.
Some of my ideas:
1. The lone star conference (12 of the 13 Texas schools in a single conference).
2. The Academia conference (put the best academic schools like ND, Cal, Stanford, GT, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Rice, Northwestern & the military academies in a single conference)
3. The Appalachian conference (WVU, Pitt, Middle Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Appalachian State, Marshall, Penn State, Kentucky, Virginia Tech, & Tennessee)
4. The Pacific coast conference ( all the west coast schools plus Hawaii in a conference)
5. The Gulf Coast Conference (FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, UAB, Jacksonville State, South Alabama, Troy, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, ULM, ULL)
The Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference ( Maryland, Navy, Liberty, James Madison, Virginia, VT, UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, ECU, Appalachian State, South Carolina, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, & West Virginia)
Idea: Promotion and Relegation.
Tier 1: 20 Team SEC
Tier 2: 20 Team B1G
Tier 3: 20 Team XII
Tier 4: 20 Team ACC
Tier 5: 9 Teams in 6 regional Conferences
The conference championships will act as a promotion playoff, with the SEC championship becoming the national championship. Finishing last will get you kicked down a tier for tiers 1-3. The bottom 6 will get kicked out from tier 4.
I would love to do something like this, unfortunately the game only lets you make up to 16-team conferences.
That's a cool idea! What is your Year 0 Conference Pyramid looking like for each team (current conferences + additions/preseason rankings from a set year/etc.)? You could probably fill out round robin leagues in something like Challonge to keep track.
@@Dreded100the big ten has 18 teams and can allow for two teams to be added though
@@jar8639I put the preseason top 20 in the SEC, and teams 21-25 in the big ten
@@CanyonBerry ah I must have miscounted the number of rows
I would first recreate the Original ACC prior to 1971 with a couple of additions. Clemson, Duke, Maryland, UNC, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and West Virginia. I would put East Carolina, Florida State, Cincinnati, Louisville, Miami (FL), Memphis and Southern Mississippi in Conference USA (Proposed mid 90's Metro Football Conference). Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College, Rutgers and UConn in the American to join the other former Eastern football schools that are currently in that conference now, Army, Navy and Temple. Arizona, Arizona State, California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington back to the Pac. Utah and BYU back to the Mountain West. For the Big 12, my alternate timeline is that in 1994 both the Big Eight and the Southwest conferences merge together as a whole, All of the Big Eight members and all of the SWC members including Arkansas, to create a power super conference for 1996, which I would call the Big Southwest. Also, I would return Tulane and Georgia Tech back to the SEC as they were charter members. Finally a lot of new FBS schools as FBS Independents
I like to do an alignment where their are 7, 10-team power conferences. I call it the Magnificent Seven:
B1G and PAC-12: both conferences go back to their 10-team iterations
Big 8 (+2): The OG Big 8 + Utah and BYU
Big East: Cincinnati, Louisville, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and either Boston College or Notre Dame, with the other being independent. Including BC makes more sense from a tradition standpoint, but including ND gives the conference another big-hitter
ACC: Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest, and UCF (who I've team-builder'd to be the Orlando Citronauts)
SWC: Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, SMU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, and (controversially) Tulane & (even more controversially) LSU
SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss. State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vandy
Then I realign the G5 to fit as nicely as I can into the other three conferences, with the service academies + ND or BC as independents
As a niu fan i would've loved the huskies joining the big12
i did a northeast/southeast power coastal conference in ncaa 14. brought UM, OSU, ND and PSU to the ACC. might do something like that again
I matched up a P5 conference with a G5 conference. Last place in P5 gets sent to the G5, and first place in G5 moves up to the P5.
So it was ACC/American, SEC/Sun Belt, B1G/MAC, B12/C-USA, Pac12/Mountain West. Left ND as the only Independent - if you get rid of all the Independents you can't update the Sun Belt anymore because it shifts the conferences. Larges conference was the ACC, smallest was Conference USA. Had to make certain executive decisions - all the Florida schools (save for 1) were in the SEC (FIU ended up in the Sun Belt). Georgia went to the ACC, but kept the Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee schools in the SEC so that the smaller ones for those states could go to the Sun Belt.
Gives it a little variety, especially early on.
Shit I might try a relegation play through some time, that sounds likea fun idea
I think they patched that Sun Belt bug
Smu in pac 12 makes the same amount of sense as it in the acc.
Leaving out the best mountain west team of the last 7 years is crazy work
My Pac 12 is all the teams that are on the pacific coast, MW is all of the mountain schools, the American is a Northeastern conference, the ACC has the SC, GA and FL schools, SEC is all AL, TN, KY schools, Sunbelt is all MS, LA, AK, and OK schools, B10 is an Ohio/Michgan conference, MAC is the Midwest schools and the XII is an all Texas conference
I just have created the old pac12
Adding divisions. North and south but label them desert and redwood. Desert is obviously the la schools Arizona schools and what not. Red woods. Oregon and Washington’s schools
Old sec with the east being the Magnolia division and west being Plantation division
Big 12 is now mostly Texas schools with rice and smu but still has the Oklahoma schools and ksu and ku with ISU
With divisions of Metro and Farm. Splitting the big city schools and rural A&M schools
All military schools are independents. Super fun
When I was doing a coaching career dynasty I immediately created the magnolia conference. It's probably my favorite conference concept I've learned about.
I used the 1990 season conferences I put teams like FSU Penn st and Miami back in the independent.
Uh, that will spice up the race for at large spot.
But what did you do with the dozen of teams that made the jump since then, and how did you solve the problem of only 9 conferences in 1990?
I grew up in Syracuse. Used to love the Syracuse-Penn State rivalry. Which no longer exists
Man, I love this channel!!
Lucas, great job (as always) with your latest video! I enjoyed seeing your custom conference ideas while also learning lots of interesting factoids from you about college football. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next! 👍👍
If we prioritize culture and regionality in the next round of realignment, KSU, KU, Mizzou, NU, ISU, and Iowa should form the core of one of the major conferences/divisions. If six isn't enough add one or more of CU, OSU, OU, Arkansas, Illinois, NW, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa need to stick together imo
A conference that I thought would be fun is KU, KSU, Mizzou, NU, ISU,Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Northwestern. You could maybe add Colorado for one of those schools. Or add Colorado and Purdue, or OU and Okie St
Thought about this concept and starting with Mizzou and the 8 states that it borders for a conference. Mizzou, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
In my UNT dynasty I remade the PAC 10 and reset all the Power 5 conferences to before 2005 and it’s been fun and had me playing for hours
I'd make a modern Great Lakes Conference from the MAC and B1G, founded by former Nebraska and Ohio coach Frank Solich as a final FU to the B1G.
The GLC West would be Wisconsin, NIU, Nebraska, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, and Iowa. The GLC East would be Ohio, Bowling Green, Toledo, Maryland, Indiana, and Rutgers.
It could fall into the power conference level where the ACC currently resides and allow additional schools to field playoff contenders that get blanketed by either the MAC's weak status or being overshadowed by the B1G power schools.
I decided to make a MEGA conference and have Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, LSU, Clemson, Miami, Virginia Tech, USC, Tennessee, Utah, and Ole miss
I was wondering if I was the only one who has done this.
@jackson711247 I like the challenge. I do this, slowest xp settings, heisman and try to put a bad pipeline.
this is sadly what college football is heading towards
This guy just doesn’t miss on videos
Baylor in the Border conference, is in Waco, between DFW and Austin.
I've been using your videos to recreate a ton of Alt-History and historical conferences. Currently doin a Navy rebuild in the Airplane Conference with realistic recruiting (4-5*s who have a top-3 interest & 3*s- who have a top-10 interest).
Customizing Conferences absolutely ruins the schedules, conference games home and away as well as annual traditions get screwed up when you customize conferences...
Fun one I did was take the Big 12 and split it into two divisions. I had the Big Division with all the Big 8 members and the Southwest Division made up of the SWC members. The conference championship would be played at the Cotton Bowl. Lots of fun.
I used your American Conference except I left VT in the ACC - sent Rutgers there too
Made the original Pac 10
Big 12 got SMU TX and OK
ACC got Maryland back
Big 10 went down to 12 teams. (I like Nebraska there)
I think it would be interesting to make the conf from the recruiting lists, like top academic schools all together, best stadiums, and each recruiting category make a confer with the best of whats left, but start with those ones that don't or hardly change... Acad, athletic fac, campus lifestyle, etc
I have my Pac-12, with the original Pac-10 lineup and rather than having Utah and Colorado, I merged it with most of the MWC i.e Hawaii, Fresno State, SJSU, SDSU, Boise State, and a UNLV to make it an even 16 team.
That way I could have North and South division and rather than using the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, I moved it back to the Rose Bowl.
Those changes have made it so that the Pac-12 consistently has teams ranked in the Top 25 and their losses count as "acceptable" and don't competely take me out of the running for bowl games or losing a chance at decent recruits
Would love to see a part 2 of this with ideas with team builder
Schools and what schools to replace
This is a very cool video. Thanks for the extra ideas!!
I've been doing a relegation dynasty and that's been soooo fun
as a Mountain west guy it seems like you don't know ball because Boise state might have one of the best Basketball Programs this season and If you wanted to make a great Basketball Conference then you can with these Additions like Colorado state New Mexico San Diego state and UNLV... I don't really know the about the ACC schools you added to the Pac-12 at the start of the video but the MWC additions you added to the Pac-12 it would be more of a power Basketball conference and maybe it turns to a Football conference with how the Basketball teams do... but other than that keep up the hard work I know how hard it is to make videos especially if you are the one doing all the editing and stuff. Much love!
0-10 in the NCAA tournament and has spent a grand total of 0 weeks ranked in the polls
I wish dynasty would have automated custom conferences as well as the ability to manually do it
I made the American the OG Big East, the PAC-12 the PAC-10, the Big 12, SEC, Big 10 and ACC the way they all used to be pre-2004.
tried changing around some teams in conferences in my dynasty and all the schools were only playing 4 conference games and the rest of the games were random teams that they would never play in real life and there was no way to revert it. It ruined my dynasty
So I made the ACC a “Coastal Elite” division & a “Big East” division, each with 10 teams. Adds ND to BC, Cuse, LVille, WV, Miami, VTech, Rutgers, Uconn, and Pitt.
The other side needed West Coast Elite teams so we have USC, UCLA, Cal, SDSU, and Stanford added to UNC, FSU, Clemson, Virginia, and Maryland.
Then throw the dregs from the whats left of the ACC into the American, and set up a relegation system where any time a team finishes in the bottom 2 of the Coastal Elites for 2 straight years, they get replaced with the team that won the mini ACC division of the American. Good luck to Duke, NC state, Wake, & Ga Tech.
My Pac 12 is just Hawaii, Army, Air Force, and Navy.
The Big 10 is where it gets fun. Two divisions, one is the Original Big Ten and the other is the “Pac Ten”, with both Washington schools, both Oregon schools, both Colorado schools, both Arizona schools, Utah, and Boise (coulda been BYU honestly…might edit). The 10 Big Ten schools unfortunately kick out Northwestern to the American mini ACC, and it’s just UM, MSU, OSU, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. (Yes, Iowa..)
The Big 12 is now the Heartland conference, with BYU, Nebraska, the Kansas schools, OK State, Tex Tech, TCU, Houston, Baylor, and Iowa State, and then we ripped Texas and Oklahoma back to where they belong. (This isn’t an SEC house)
All the newbies that didn’t make the Big 12 cut are now in the new Conf. USA “Old School” division, where they play by the same relegation/promotion rules as the mini ACC does but with Conf. USA switching teams with our Big 12.
What else…Temple and UMass are in the American, some teams were added into the MW, its certainly chaos 😅
That's so chaotic. I'm using this
My Big 16 is just the OG Big 8 and the Southwest combined into one conference. Rice, SMU and Arkansas included
If I were to create my version of the Big East, I would put the following 7 “Building Block” teams: Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Boston College, Miami, Marshall, AND…Notre Dame! Everybody forgets about Marshall having a solid football program. And yeah, I know, Notre Dame values their independence, but the Fighting Irish fit the Big East culture perfectly.
I started a new dynasty just to customize the conferences. I wanted to make the old school conferences like rebuilding the old Pac-10, Big-12 (Big 8), Big-10, WAC, ACC, SEC, Big East and the military schools independent with Notre Dame the way they used to be. Unfortunately I realized the game doesn't allow you to create new conferences, just realign the ones that already exist. Very disappointed.
All of these are crazy.
Question for you. Maybe I missed something but how long do you think before Oregon State and Washington State join the Mountain West? I know OSU is playing a MWC schedule but how long do you think it’ll be before it actually happens?
The all Texas conference is always a good one
I made a bunch of old conferences like bringing back the old SWC as a division in the Big 12
For the PAC-12, I went Cal, Stanford, UCLA, Washington, Utah, Utah State, Fresno State, Boise State, Oregon State, Washington State, San Jose State and San Diego State
What I did in my conference is was the power 5 conferences would have 16 teams each (80 Power 5 teams) and the group of five would have 10 teams each (50 G5 teams). Air Force, Notre Dame, Army, and Navy would be Independents. Also, you sound a little congested.
This is pretty similar to something I was working on although I think I had it more as 14 teams in P5 and 12/13 in G5 and they were all sorted regionally with G5 as feeders for P5 in a pro/rel type of setup. Could have fixed the imbalance with MAC having more teams than the other G5 conferences if I moved Notre Dame into indies with the military academies and moved one of the MAC teams up to B1G in their place but I like the idea of military academies only as indies.
Does dynasty let you schedule games for Week 0? I feel like ND vs Air Force in Week 0 and Army-Navy to end the season would be pretty cool indies only season bookends for your setup.
I remade the Pac12 with Hawaii and UNLV there instead of Utah/Colorado. (UH/UNLV both have Power 5 worthy stadiums).
I also remade the Big East but put them in CUSA and put CUSA teams in American. My new Big East added Army and Navy to even things out. I played as West Virginia and don’t like the American conference logo so I used CUSA. I also made all conference championship games played at neutral venues.
my Big16 is exactly the old southwest and big8, pac10 i rebuild instantly, sec and acc is back to what is was before bonkers tv deals, big east is revived.
and im currently thinking to split the mac into two groups with james madison, liberty, marshall, old dominion, buffalo, umass, akron and toledo becoming the eastern part
I’m doing a New Mexico dynasty for my TH-cam and i just put them in the big 12 conference you have that has northern Illinois 😂
One conference I like is an all Florida school and all California school conference and an all texas conference
I would live Miami in the Magnolia Conference. They would dominate that conference and live in the playoffs yearly.
I prefer to use the actual 2015 NCAA conferences and the only exception there is Maryland is an ACC team.
The current ACC is completely insane
I want a video of the NEW Pac 12 and all the new teams in there, and just overall best realignment
I don't have the game. I was going to get Maxium Football but I'm a fan of classic wrestling (NWA, AWA and Jim Crockett Wrestling) I would do conferences like the old wrestling territories
I created a alphabet NCAA for a sim dynasty. I put all the teams in alphabetical order of school name and then went in alphabetical order to build the conference. Each conference is half teams from the start of the alphabet and the end. So the American has teams like Alabama in the same conference as Wyoming. My favorite might be Conference USA. It's
Georgia
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Hawaii
South Florida
Southern Miss
Stanford
Syracuse
TCU
6:11 Tulane was in the SEC
would be nice to import without replacing teams... like give us 12 teams we can import before we need to replace.
I split American conference and imported Big East schools that don't actually have a team like Creighton and Marquette
I need you to make team builder teams with these logos you’re finding. Seriously where are you finding these logos
Did you ever hear about Florida A&M joining the FBS for a year but had to leave because they wasn’t as ready as they thought they werre
Yes! Talked about it in my Sun Belt video.
Airplane conference I might do that later 👀🔥🔥
I put FSU/ Clemson in SEC and Memphis/ Tulane in ACC
Doesn’t this screw up schedules royally though? I made custom conferences in order to revive the Pac12 and Oregon ended up playing a grand total of 1 conference game in a season, playing three fcs schools.
I actually bring back The Big East! And the WAC conference! Like play more then 12 game schedule like 16 like the NFL or play every one my conference!
These are some interesting conferences.
5:43 I’m doing Southern Miss, so I should maybe do this conference sometimes
So I made conferences using your video as a base and here’s what I got for y’all. 7 14 team and 3 12 team conferences.
Magnolia Conference (AAC)
Atlantic Coast: Duke, GT, JMU, UNC, Virginia, Vandy, Wake
Gulf Coast: Houston, Rice, SMU, Tulane, UAB, USF, Miami
Big East Conference (ACC)
North: Army, BC, Penn St, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UConn
South: ECU, Maryland, NCST, Navy, Pitt, VT, WV
Big 10 Conference
Interior: Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, NIU, Northwestern, Norte Dame, Purdue
Exterior: Cinci, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan St, Minnesota, Ohio St, Wisconsin
Big 12 Conference
Central: Arkansas, Kansas, K State, Memphis, Mizzou, Oklahoma, Ok St
Northwest: BYU, Colorado, Colorado St, Iowa St, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah
PAC 12 Conference
Pacific: Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon St, Washington, Washington St, UCLA
Southwest: Arizona, Arizona St, Baylor, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, USC
SEC Conference
Gulf Coast: Florida, FSU, LSU, Miss St, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, UCF
Southeast: Bama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Kentucky, SCAR, Tennessee
Sunbelt Conference
App St, Coastal, Charlotte, FAU, FIU, GA Southern, GA St, Jax St, Kennesaw St, Liberty, Marshall, Old Dom, USA, Troy
Conference USA
Arkansas St, LA Tech, Middle Tenn, UNT, Sam Houston, Southern Miss, Texas St, Tulsa, ULL, ULM, UTSA, WKU
MAC Conference
Akron, Ball St, Bowling Green, Buffalo, C. Mich, E. Mich, W. Mich, Kent St, Miami(OH), Ohio, Toledo, UMass
MWC Conference
Air Force, Boise St, Fresno St, Hawaii, Nevada, NMSU, SDSU, SJSU, UNLV, UTEP, Utah St, Wyoming.
Hope y’all enjoy!
Oklahoma should definitely be in the same conference as Texas
Considering jerra went to Arkansas and the big 12 champ is played in jerra world I wonder why he wanted Arkansas in the big 12
Boise State has a pretty competitive basketball team. If only they could actually win a tourney game.
For big 12 , I added big 8 and southwest Conference together
Hey will you make a video on the history of the SEC
working on it but I really hate the SEC lol
Why would New Mexico be in the Pac 12 over Fresno State or Utah State?
UNM has a better market and better opportunities for growth than USU or Fresno. Also I didn't want to put too many California teams in the new PAC because it'd be less fun for me. The cool thing about CFB25 though is that if you want those schools in there, you put them in there
Fresno state is more competitive than all the options other than boise. What a snub bro
And then the schedule is bugged for the remainder of your dynasty.
Fresno state is way better than colorado state, unlv, san diego state, new mexico and you dont move them into the pac 12? They are in the central valley of California and also have 4 mountain west championships. Boise only has more with 5.
Dude has never heard of Fresno State in his life apparently, Colorado St UNLV and Tulane over them in the Pac12 is just disgusting work
Two things here, since I've seen it a lot from Bulldog fans.
1. Fresno State just doesn't provide enough, either from a money perspective or a fan perspective. From the Fresno Bee:
"Institutional support *spiked* in 2021-22 to $18.1 million, pushing athletics revenues to $54.1 million. But over the past five years not impacted by COVID-19, Fresno State has averaged around $50.1 million in revenue. In the Mountain West, that trails Air Force, *San Diego State, UNLV, and Colorado State.*"
During that same period, Air Force is military, UNLV was bad for all but last year, and Colorado State is Colorado State. Not exactly a huge boon, and it doesn't really match the level of success Fresno has had.. Combine that with the fact that CSUF is actually losing fan interest in football right now according to viewership numbers in the Valley, the only sport that matters in realignment, despite doing very well, kind of sends the message to conferences that even as a successful team in a good market, CSUF is really the 8th or 9th best brand in the state.
But no, I do agree with you, Wyoming and UTEP over them is criminal if you're looking solely for success. If you're looking for fun, add the teams you like, and I like UTEP and Wyoming, personally. That and those two teams were WAC schools back when the WAC was close to a power conference.
@@lukeontheplains I say keep Wyoming and take UTEP out so Fresno State can join
Tulane being in Louisiana also just makes it weird as a pac 12 conference team lol
I mean shit, ACC just added Cal and Stanford to their conference 🤷
You Memphis in there twice. What happens to sec and UCF?
Tulane in the Pac 12? Nah you lost me there, school from Louisiana with no connections to any of those schools exempt SMU
I love this video ...
You remember that Texas A&M was in the Big XII with Texas, right? How about that?
I made mine 100% regional... Except with relegation conferences. American was made up of the 12 bowl playoff teams. Conference USA was made to bottom tier league... Last place in each conference each year had to go to conference usa and 4 places in CUSA also stayed in CUSA. Then all regional conf were split in half with big and little sides. Like sunbelt was all FL, GA, and AL teams; florida was in the big division with Ala, and Ga anf miami, fsu, etc. while FAU FIU, GSU, Kenn St, etc were in little side... Top 2 teams overall record, only playing your side of the division and non-conf schedule, would play for conf championship. So it was almost like the conferences were back down to 8-12 members again just doubled
My other conf were ACC: N Carolina, S. Carolina, VA, and MD schools.
Big Ten: Ohio schools and to the East... Would be renamed Big East if possible
Ohio, PA, NY, Mass, Conn, & WV schools
Big 12: all Texas teams.
MAC: MI west to Mississippi River area.
MI, Minn, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
MWC: Rocky mountain teams west, not on the coast.
Az, Col, Iowa, Kansas, Utah, wyo, NM, Nebraska
I thought this was going to be alright until you put Tulane in the Pac-12. It doesn't fix what a lot of people see is the issue of Conference Realignment. Oregon State & Washington State are over 2,000 Miles from New Orleans. It's still just as bad as Oregon having to travel all the way to Pennsylvania or New Jersey
Who else would they add? San Jose State? Utah State? Regionality doesn't matter anymore. Tulane is close enough to Rice (Houston) and SMU (Dallas) that a divisional structure would ease travel significantly.
The American features Tulsa to Temple (19 hr drive). The Sun Belt has Texas State to Old Dominion (23 hr drive). Regionality isn't just dead for the Power 5, it's dead for everyone.
Who else would they add ? 😞 My god bro REALLY has never heard of Fresno State before 😭
If Fresno wasn't seriously considered for either the Pac 12 or Big 12 and teams like New Mexico, Wyoming, and UNLV were, I'm not sure I can really vouch for them. I'd have to look at the numbers.
I always make an all Texas conference
I don't have the game but was thinking about 16 geographic conferences or 8 super-conferences if you want to combine them. Still workshopping the names, trophies, and alignment. Feedback welcome.
1. Pacific Conference - Washington Washington State Oregon Oregon State California Stanford UCLA USC - Cool Cascade Trophy
2. Mountain Conference - Boise State Nevada UNLV Utah Utah State BYU Arizona Arizona State - Ol Rockytop Trophy
3. Oasis Conference - Fresno State San Diego State San Jose State Hawaii Wyoming Colorado Colorado State Air Force - Silver Surfer Trophy
4. Sombrero Conference - New Mexico New Mexico State North Texas Rice Sam Houston Texas State UTEP UTSA - Grand Pecos Trophy
5. Red River Conference - Baylor Houston Oklahoma Oklahoma State SMU TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech - Hot Tamale Trophy
6. Grain Conference - Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Wisconsin - Hard Earned Husk Trophy
7. Motor Conference - Cincinnati Illinois Indiana Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio State Purdue - Sapphire Soapbox Trophy
8. Diamond Conference - Arkansas State Jacksonville State Louisiana Lafayette Louisiana Tech Louisiana-Monroe South Alabama Southern Miss Troy Tulsa UAB - Mighty Mineral Trophy
9. Magnolia Conference - Alabama Arkansas Auburn LSU Mississippi State Ole Miss Tennessee Tulane - Purple Pelican Trophy
10. Palm Conference - Clemson Florida Florida State Georgia Georgia Tech Miami (FL) South Carolina South Florida UCF - Emerald Isle Trophy
11. Appalachian Conference - Coastal Carolina FIU Florida Atlantic Georgia Southern Georgia State Kennesaw State Memphis Middle Tennessee Vanderbilt - Smokey Mountain Trophy
12. Whirlwind Conference - Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Northern Illinois Toledo Western Kentucky Western Michigan - Winner's Windmill Trophy
13. Bluegrass Conference - Akron Kent State Kentucky Louisville Marshall Miami (OH) Ohio West Virginia - Grand Guitar Trophy
14. Capital Conference - Appalachian State Charlotte East Carolina James Madison Liberty Navy Old Dominion Temple - Victory Bell Trophy
15. Tidewater Conference - Duke Maryland NC State North Carolina Rutgers Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest - All Mighty Admiral Trophy
16. Rust Conference - Army Boston College Buffalo Penn State Pittsburgh Syracuse UConn UMass - Ruby Ring Trophy
Super-conference pairings 1+2 for Pac 12, 3+4 for Mountain West, 5+8 for a Big 12, 6+7 for a BIG 10, 9+10 for SEC, 11+12 for MAC/Sunbelt, 13+16 for Big East/American, 14+15 for ACC
I made every conference 13 teams with remaining teams being independent
Imma make that super big 12 but to make it more cursed imma replace NIU with a DeVry teambuilder team.
Why is the pac 12 still around if there only two teams are they growning next year
Guy loves the Lobos
I have no reason to, but I do