Changing the landscape of CFB and it’s P5 conferences

[IrishEyes1013]

My idea is to eliminate all of the conferences and create two divisions. A Power 12(84 total teams) and a Group of 6(48 total teams). These divisions are made up into regions that are geographically correct. The P12 regions have 7 teams in each. They will play a 6 game round robin against their regional opponents every season. Each team will have 6 games remaining to complete their schedules. 4 of those 6 must be played against the other 77 P12 teams.

Instead of 5 conference championship games and a 4 team playoff(3 games) the playoff committee will decide on an 8 team playoff(7 games). The last regular season game will always be Army v Navy. The first round will be played in the first week of December. The semis and championship game will stay status quo.

Here are the regions:
*- current Group of 5 teams
(-) number of states represented

• South(5)

Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Miss St
Arkansas
*Memphis

• Floridacademies(3)

Florida
Florida St
Miami
*UCF
*USF
*Army
*Navy

• Southeast(4)

Georgia
Clemson
South Carolina
Georgia Tech
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
*App State/ECU

• Atlantic(3)

Maryland
Virginia
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
NC State
Duke
Wake Forest

• Northeast(6)

Notre Dame
Penn St
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Boston College
Syracuse
Rutgers

• Midwest(4)

Ohio St
Michigan
Michigan St
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisville
*Cincinnati

• North(5)

Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa St
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue

• Plains(4)

Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St
Kansas
Kansas St
Missouri
*Tulsa

• Lone Star(1)

Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor
*Houston
*SMU

• Mountain(3)

Arizona
Arizona St
Colorado
Utah
*BYU
*Colorado St
*Air Force

• Pacific(2)

USC
UCLA
Stanford
California
*Fresno St
*San Diego St
*Hawaii

• Northwest(5)

Oregon
Oregon St
Washington
Washington St
*Boise St
*Nevada
*Wyoming

The Northeast is the old Big East(minus Miami, Va Tech and Temple while adding ND and PSU). The Plains is 6 of the former Big 8(minus Colorado and Iowa St).

This format would provide balance and the scheduling would create a ton of competition to schedule other out of region powers.

This would also bring back some great rivalries that aren’t played on a every year basis anymore. Like the Backyard Brawl(Pitt v WVU), OU v Nebraska and Texas v Texas A&M. You would have some obvious every year cross over games for a few teams such as ND v USC/Navy, OU v Texas, Florida v Georgia/LSU/Tennessee, Bama v Tennessee, FSU v Clemson and Purdue v Indiana.

Thoughts... Maybe a good idea for an offseason podcast? @Lou Somogyi & @AndrewMentock

 

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