(09-09-2018 02:56 PM)bullet Wrote:  My bold prediction:

Nothing for the next 15 years except, some of the MAC/CUSA and Sun Belt schools drop football and those 3 regroup into 2 conferences.

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(09-09-2018 02:56 PM)bullet Wrote:  My bold prediction:

Nothing for the next 15 years except, some of the MAC/CUSA and Sun Belt schools drop football and those 3 regroup into 2 conferences.

And those that drop football go where?

Fuhrer Mickey acquires outright all rights at all tiers to the ACC, SEC, and Big 12. Fuhrer Mickey then reorganizes all three conferences for maximum TV revenue. This means the SEC West plays the Big 12 a LOT more. The ACC South plays the SEC East a LOT more. And all of the broken rivalries (Pitt-WVU, Texas-TAMU, etc etc) are regained. And all of the oddball divisional alignments (Missouri, Auburn, breaking up the NC4, etc) are fixed.

The most realistic and likely ones to me involve lacrosse and ice hockey growth and expansion. The low hanging fruit of predictions.

B1G-PAC will happen. I have to think a thirteenth game happens before CFP expansion, and this extra slot makes it easier for USC and Stanford to swallow.

Stony Brook and James Madison to MAC.

My “out there” one is another Villanova men’s basketball championship gets them some calls from the ACC. This time, it works out, and there’s a real plan to move Nova football to FBS, but the real get is Nova hoops...with Nova and Cuse, ACC takes over the Garden.

2025

ACC - Texas and Notre Dame only play 7 game division. Everyone else plays 8 games,
7 div. 1 other division. 2 Southern teams must play twice a year to make up for
the 2 missing other division games of ND and Texas.
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North
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Boston College
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Louisville
Texas
Virginia
Virginia Tech

South
-----
Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Wake Forest



B1G -
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East
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Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers

West
-----
Illinois
Minnesota
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma



Big 12 -
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Baylor
BYU
Central Florida
Cincinnati
Iowa State
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas Tech
West Virginia



Pac 12 - same
SEC - Same
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2036


B1G - 4-5-1-1,
East plays East, Central and one of each in the North and South.
East plays Central, East and one of each in the North and South.
North plays North, South and one of each in the East and Central.
South plays South, North and one of each in the East and Central.
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East
-----
Duke
Maryland
Penn State
Rutgers
Virginia Tech

Central
-----
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Ohio State

North
-----
Illinois
Minnesota
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin

South
-----
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas



SEC - 4-5-1-1,
South plays South, East and one of each in the Central and West.
East plays East, South and one of each in the Central and West.
Central plays Central, West and one of each in the South and East.
West plays West, Central and one of each in the South and East.
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South
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Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Miami

East
-----
Clemson
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia

Central
-----
Alabama
Auburn
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Vanderbilt

West
------
Arkansas
Kentucky
LSU
Missouri
Texas A&M



Big 20 - 4-5-1-1,
North plays North, Central and one of each in the National and South.
Central plays Central, North and one of each in the National and South.
National plays National South and one of each in the North and Central.
South plays South, National and one of each in the North and Central.
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North
-----
Boston College
Connecticut
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Temple

Central
-----
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
North Carolina State
West Virginia

National
-----
BYU
Central Florida
Iowa State
Kansas State
South Florida

South
-----
Baylor
Houston
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas Tech



Pac 12 - same

(09-09-2018 06:21 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Fuhrer Mickey acquires outright all rights at all tiers to the ACC, SEC, and Big 12. Fuhrer Mickey then reorganizes all three conferences for maximum TV revenue. This means the SEC West plays the Big 12 a LOT more. The ACC South plays the SEC East a LOT more. And all of the broken rivalries (Pitt-WVU, Texas-TAMU, etc etc) are regained. And all of the oddball divisional alignments (Missouri, Auburn, breaking up the NC4, etc) are fixed.

I'm surprised Der Fuhrer Mickey hasn't acquired the Big Ten & the Pac 12 Networks yet, in addition to Notre Dame football rights, from NBC. All of that, combined with what they have now, would make Fuhrer Mickey close to unstoppable, if not unstoppable.

B-12 North
West Va - BYU - Memphis - Conn - Cincinatti
UCF - So Fla - Buffalo - Temple

The only thing I can (hopefully) see is that BYU and Houston go to the Big 12. Sadly I do not think that happens and I don’t think anything else will happen.

The test for Boise State would be this Saturday when they play Oklahoma State play in Stillwater on ABC. If the ratings are high? Boise State must be more valuable to der Mickey. Could see that They will try and grab the rights for Boise State as an Independent. Some G5 schools are more valuable than some P5.

(09-08-2018 03:18 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 06:39 AM)Curtisc83 Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:48 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  SEC adds OU, OSU
B1G adds UT, KU
PAC adds TT, TCU, KSU, ISU
ACC adds WVU, ND(fb)
AAC adds Baylor, UMass
MWC adds UTSA, BYU, Gonzaga (no fb)
CUSA adds Arkansas St.
MAC adds JMU, Stony Brook
SBC adds Liberty

Liberty isn't going to a conference anytime soon. Our schedules are way better than anything the SBC, MAC or CUSA could provide(MWC is way too far). The flexibility of being an independent seems awesome.

Glad you feel that way, since no G5 conference would add Liberty. Enjoy your "also ran" bowl tie-ins for games on CBSSN.








My prediction:

DavidSt and NoDak is right. For whatever that means.

Plus they already tried to join you. EKU is another option there anyway. I just wonder if Liberty ever got competitive enough, you guys might take them over grooming an FCS.

(09-10-2018 05:21 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:18 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 06:39 AM)Curtisc83 Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:48 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  SEC adds OU, OSU
B1G adds UT, KU
PAC adds TT, TCU, KSU, ISU
ACC adds WVU, ND(fb)
AAC adds Baylor, UMass
MWC adds UTSA, BYU, Gonzaga (no fb)
CUSA adds Arkansas St.
MAC adds JMU, Stony Brook
SBC adds Liberty

Liberty isn't going to a conference anytime soon. Our schedules are way better than anything the SBC, MAC or CUSA could provide(MWC is way too far). The flexibility of being an independent seems awesome.

Glad you feel that way, since no G5 conference would add Liberty. Enjoy your "also ran" bowl tie-ins for games on CBSSN.








My prediction:

DavidSt and NoDak is right. For whatever that means.

Plus they already tried to join you. EKU is another option there anyway. I just wonder if Liberty ever got competitive enough, you guys might take them over grooming an FCS.

No conference added Liberty even when they were waving wads of cash in our faces. It’s conceivable that they could find a home in the future and they probably should over another FCS move up. Liberty fans can also claim that they want to stay independent all they want to, but the second they have a deserving team get snubbed for a bowl game, they’ll be back to looking for a conference home.

(09-10-2018 06:29 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 05:21 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:18 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 06:39 AM)Curtisc83 Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:48 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  SEC adds OU, OSU
B1G adds UT, KU
PAC adds TT, TCU, KSU, ISU
ACC adds WVU, ND(fb)
AAC adds Baylor, UMass
MWC adds UTSA, BYU, Gonzaga (no fb)
CUSA adds Arkansas St.
MAC adds JMU, Stony Brook
SBC adds Liberty

Liberty isn't going to a conference anytime soon. Our schedules are way better than anything the SBC, MAC or CUSA could provide(MWC is way too far). The flexibility of being an independent seems awesome.

Glad you feel that way, since no G5 conference would add Liberty. Enjoy your "also ran" bowl tie-ins for games on CBSSN.








My prediction:

DavidSt and NoDak is right. For whatever that means.

Plus they already tried to join you. EKU is another option there anyway. I just wonder if Liberty ever got competitive enough, you guys might take them over grooming an FCS.

No conference added Liberty even when they were waving wads of cash in our faces. It’s conceivable that they could find a home in the future and they probably should over another FCS move up. Liberty fans can also claim that they want to stay independent all they want to, but the second they have a deserving team get snubbed for a bowl game, they’ll be back to looking for a conference home.

Liberty will buy a bowl game before they look for a conference home. It will cost them less money to do so. There are enough mediocre bowl games out there that will take the sponsorship dollars that Liberty University Online can throw their way with the provision that Liberty would get a bid if they qualify.

- Texas makes a deal with the ACC similar to Notre Dame's (member of all sports but football while football has a scheduling agreement)
- Oklahoma and Kansas join the SEC (Alabama and Auburn move to the East division, Missouri moves to the West Division)
- Big XII adds Houston, Cincinnati and Memphis, but is no longer considered a power conference
- AAC adds Rice.
- C-USA and Sun Belt split to form more geographically-sensible conferences. NMSU is added to the western side.
- UMass drops to FCS.

(09-10-2018 07:48 AM)whittx Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 06:29 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 05:21 AM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 03:18 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(09-08-2018 06:39 AM)Curtisc83 Wrote:  Liberty isn't going to a conference anytime soon. Our schedules are way better than anything the SBC, MAC or CUSA could provide(MWC is way too far). The flexibility of being an independent seems awesome.

Glad you feel that way, since no G5 conference would add Liberty. Enjoy your "also ran" bowl tie-ins for games on CBSSN.








My prediction:

DavidSt and NoDak is right. For whatever that means.

Plus they already tried to join you. EKU is another option there anyway. I just wonder if Liberty ever got competitive enough, you guys might take them over grooming an FCS.

No conference added Liberty even when they were waving wads of cash in our faces. It’s conceivable that they could find a home in the future and they probably should over another FCS move up. Liberty fans can also claim that they want to stay independent all they want to, but the second they have a deserving team get snubbed for a bowl game, they’ll be back to looking for a conference home.

Liberty will buy a bowl game before they look for a conference home. It will cost them less money to do so. There are enough mediocre bowl games out there that will take the sponsorship dollars that Liberty University Online can throw their way with the provision that Liberty would get a bid if they qualify.

There's already a Liberty bowl so I guess Liberty would have to fall back on their secondary sponsorship title and use "the MAGA bowl," and instead of a band performing at halftime because that's sacrilege, President Trump can give a campaign speech.

(09-09-2018 05:47 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  

(09-09-2018 02:56 PM)bullet Wrote:  My bold prediction:

Nothing for the next 15 years except, some of the MAC/CUSA and Sun Belt schools drop football and those 3 regroup into 2 conferences.

And those that drop football go where?

MVC, Horizon, Atlantic Sun, Southern, perhaps they group together if they leave en masse.

(09-09-2018 06:21 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Fuhrer Mickey acquires outright all rights at all tiers to the ACC, SEC, and Big 12. Fuhrer Mickey then reorganizes all three conferences for maximum TV revenue. This means the SEC West plays the Big 12 a LOT more. The ACC South plays the SEC East a LOT more. And all of the broken rivalries (Pitt-WVU, Texas-TAMU, etc etc) are regained. And all of the oddball divisional alignments (Missouri, Auburn, breaking up the NC4, etc) are fixed.

Not particularly far fetched.

(09-10-2018 08:00 AM)zibby Wrote:  - UMass drops to FCS.

They hitched their wagon to Temple when they moved up, and then Temple ran off back to the Big East/AAC. I don't think being an independent in this landscape is as bad as it was when they first entered that territory, but the feasibility over time is still one to question.

I am worried a little bit about Temple. Gone is the president that was for pushing the OCS. But, worse for the institution was the Fox School MBA stat "sham" where they lied about their prestige. I think, institutionally, things get a little crazy for the school on Broad, and I have to wonder if those really bad years of Temple football are back upon us...just when one thought they had turned a corner. Temple isn't likely to face the kind of vitriol they did in the Big East, and there are far worse schools in the AAC who don't show up as Temple didn't do within the Big East...I just question whether the AAC and Temple athletics on the whole are mutually viable. But, where else would they go?

G5 take:

New Regional Conference (16 teams):

North:
UMass
Old Dominion
JMU
Marshall
App State
Charlotte
WKU
MTSU

South:
Coastal Carolina
Ga State
Ga Southern
FAU
FIU
Southern Miss
UAB
Troy

(09-09-2018 06:21 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Fuhrer Mickey acquires outright all rights at all tiers to the ACC, SEC, and Big 12. Fuhrer Mickey then reorganizes all three conferences for maximum TV revenue. This means the SEC West plays the Big 12 a LOT more. The ACC South plays the SEC East a LOT more. And all of the broken rivalries (Pitt-WVU, Texas-TAMU, etc etc) are regained. And all of the oddball divisional alignments (Missouri, Auburn, breaking up the NC4, etc) are fixed.

Fuhrer Mickey....

That's hilarious.

Based on that, I was thinking it would be more like

Mickey of Borg..... "You will be assimilated; resistance is futile".....

That the SEC chooses not to expand