If football went to 4 twenty team conferences, it would be an 80 team playoff. Each conference would have a championship game and that would be the quarterfinals.

The Ohio State AD said we are going to end up playing 15 games and would not want to play more. By having a 4 conference playoff set up, the most games a team would play is 15.

By going to 80 teams, another 15 teams would be in the hunt for the national championship.

Bowl relationships are maintained. B1G plays Pac 12 in the Rose Bowl in one semifinal and the SEC plays the ACC/Big12 in the Sugar Bowl in the other semifinal.

I would like to see the B1G add Kansas, KSU, Oklahoma, Ok. State., Virginia and U. Conn or Temple.

20 team conferences made up a 4 pods of 5 make for easy scheduling and maintains regional rivalries. For example, one pod could be OU, Ok. State, Kansas, KSU and Nebraska. They would play each other every year.

I always thought this was the best thing. 4 Conferences, 20 Teams, 4 Divisions of 5 Teams.
Do what the NFL Does.

SEC Wild Card 1
vs.
SEC North
Winner plays wither SEC South or SEC West

SEC Wild Card 2
vs.
SEC East
Winner plays wither SEC South or SEC West

Do this for all four conferences.
So 24 teams make the playoffs with the four conference champs going on to play for the final four. At most 17 games (if you start in wild car and go to National Championship). Most teams in the national championship would play 16 games just one extra game than now.

(01-19-2015 11:22 AM)Hawkeye Fan Wrote:  If football went to 4 twenty team conferences, it would be an 80 team playoff. Each conference would have a championship game and that would be the quarterfinals.

The Ohio State AD said we are going to end up playing 15 games and would not want to play more. By having a 4 conference playoff set up, the most games a team would play is 15.

By going to 80 teams, another 15 teams would be in the hunt for the national championship.

Bowl relationships are maintained. B1G plays Pac 12 in the Rose Bowl in one semifinal and the SEC plays the ACC/Big12 in the Sugar Bowl in the other semifinal.

I would like to see the B1G add Kansas, KSU, Oklahoma, Ok. State., Virginia and U. Conn or Temple.

20 team conferences made up a 4 pods of 5 make for easy scheduling and maintains regional rivalries. For example, one pod could be OU, Ok. State, Kansas, KSU and Nebraska. They would play each other every year.

I prefer a Thunderdome system.

80 team FBS. 4 Conferences. One True Champion.
24 Team playoff each conference gets two Wild Cards (At-Larges). Conference Championship, Final Four, and National Championship all on neutral sites. (Three rounds just like NCAA tournament) Gives you 7 host cities / bowls.

The Big 80

Pac
USC, UCLA, Stan, Cal, Ore., Wash, Ariz, Ariz St, Utah, Col.

Mountain
Ore. St, Wash St., BYU, Boise, Col. St., SDSU, Fresno, Hawaii, New Mexico, Tx Tech

Central
Texas, Ok, Ok St, Kan, Kan St, Neb, Iowa St., Baylor, Mizzou, Arky

South
Miss St, Memphis, Cincy, Vandy, TCU, UCF, USF, Houston, SMU, Tulane

Southeast
Fla, S. Car., Ga, auburn, Bama, Tenn, Ky, Tx A&M, LSU, Ole Miss

Atlantic
Fla St, Miami, Clemson, GT, UNC, NCSU, Duke, Wake, Va, Va Tech

East
Penn St, Pitt, MD, Rut, WV, SYR, BC, UConn, ND, Lou

North
Ohio St, Mich, Mich St, Indy, Pur, ILL, NW, Wisc, Minn, Iowa

I like it. But, I cannot see the Conferences working together on this.
JMHO

All of these proposals always go awry because they assume that college football is one big joint entity when in fact, what it really is is a bunch of competing entities.

The Big Ten does not want the SEC to succeed and vice versa. I think that is very shortsighted but that is definitely the mentality. All of these P5 commissioners would slit their peers' throats in a heartbeat if they thought it would mean five more dollars for their conference.

That is the core problem here and that is what needs to be overcome for college football to move forward in a peaceful, strategic manner. There almost needs to be a central commissioner and league office, as it were.

However, to do that, guys like Slive and Delany would have to cede some of their carefully cultivated and well protected power. Does anyone really think that is remotely a possibility? Because I see that as about as likely as OJ finding the real killers and the tooth fairy having dinner with me next Thursday.

At some point, these conferences might decide its better to merge together instead of competing against each other. The ACC, B10 & B12 may have some mutually beneficial reasons to merge, then split into 4 geographic divisions in 1 conference.

Why stop at 80? There are 128 teams in FBS - a perfect number for a seven-round playoff.


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Was playing around with this idea yesterday. Came up with 8 10-team conferences pretty similar to a few of the above posts. Have true round robins in football and basketball. Keeps natural rivals together. No CCG's, but have tie-breakers. 16 team playoff with 8 conference winners and 8 at-large. It's a pipe dream and will never happen, but being a UConn fan I would love an East conference something like BC, louisville, notre dame, penn st, Pitt, Rutgers, syracuse, uconn, Virginia Tech, West Virginia.

I agree with the Dr.

The other problem I see is that conference strength, even individual school strength, is cyclic. Even if those 4 conferences were balanced today, the strength would shift in a year or two. A few years later it would shift again. When the SEC was on its championship run, there were many years when they would have deserved 2 teams in an 8 team field.

(01-19-2015 11:46 AM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 11:22 AM)Hawkeye Fan Wrote:  If football went to 4 twenty team conferences, it would be an 80 team playoff. Each conference would have a championship game and that would be the quarterfinals.

The Ohio State AD said we are going to end up playing 15 games and would not want to play more. By having a 4 conference playoff set up, the most games a team would play is 15.

By going to 80 teams, another 15 teams would be in the hunt for the national championship.

Bowl relationships are maintained. B1G plays Pac 12 in the Rose Bowl in one semifinal and the SEC plays the ACC/Big12 in the Sugar Bowl in the other semifinal.

I would like to see the B1G add Kansas, KSU, Oklahoma, Ok. State., Virginia and U. Conn or Temple.

20 team conferences made up a 4 pods of 5 make for easy scheduling and maintains regional rivalries. For example, one pod could be OU, Ok. State, Kansas, KSU and Nebraska. They would play each other every year.

I prefer a Thunderdome system.

I like that option!

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(01-19-2015 02:55 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  All of these proposals always go awry because they assume that college football is one big joint entity when in fact, what it really is is a bunch of competing entities.

The Big Ten does not want the SEC to succeed and vice versa. I think that is very shortsighted but that is definitely the mentality. All of these P5 commissioners would slit their peers' throats in a heartbeat if they thought it would mean five more dollars for their conference.

That is the core problem here and that is what needs to be overcome for college football to move forward in a peaceful, strategic manner. There almost needs to be a central commissioner and league office, as it were.

However, to do that, guys like Slive and Delany would have to cede some of their carefully cultivated and well protected power. Does anyone really think that is remotely a possibility? Because I see that as about as likely as OJ finding the real killers and the tooth fairy having dinner with me next Thursday.

I have to disagree because the PAC 12, SEC, and B10 could have sunk the B12 after A$M and MIZZOU abandoned ship. OU and OSU swam to the Pacific without a lifeboat, which Scott could have provided in order to watch the B12 sink further into despair and disrepair. The B10 could have easily sent a rescue party to get MIZZOU (before it paddled to the SEC) and KU. The SEC could have provided land for any sinking B12 school that it wanted. Consequently, the P4 could/should exist already if the other power conferences had/have such disdain for each other….

I think it should be whatever the smallest number of teams it can be that also includes NIU. :-)

The College Football Playoff was a fantastic success. The money generated this year will be off the charts. The 5 major conferences will realize that it makes more sense to work together and consolidate to 4 conferences. It was like the NFL and the AFL in the 1960's. They merged because that led to more money. The New York Giants were not wanting to help the New York Jets but a richer NFL helped the New York Giants.

Playing 9 conference games will result in better football. Just like most of the college basketball teams think they have a shot to make the NCAA's, more college teams will think they have a shot to make it to the college football playoffs if they just have to win their Division within their Conference to make it to the College Football Playoffs Quarterfinals.

I would think with Ohio State winning the College Football Playoff and Michigan signing Harbaugh, the next B1G TV contract will be huge. I would guess the 14 B1G teams will make almost twice as much as the Big 12 teams.

College football is about to go a major split between the have's and have not's.

The only bad part about consolidation is that there are already 65 in the cartel - since no one wants to be left without a chair, the P4 have to expand. Could 17-team conferences be the answer?

ACC (15) - adds Iowa State, Kansas State, Baylor, Cincinnati
Pac (12) - adds - Texas*, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Rice
SEC - adds TCU, West Virginia*, North Carolina State
B1G - adds Kansas*, Virginia, Connecticut

Texas, West Virginia, and Kansas join Notre Dame as partial members in their conferences for football. Texas is allowed to keep the LHN, but plays 5 Pac-12 games per year, guaranteeing they always play Oklahoma. Kansas and West Virginia take part in their conference's networks and play 6 B1G/SEC games per year; both sign agreements to play Texas.