re: How would you build conferences?

The groupings are ok for soorts like tennis and golf. But I don't want to be in any conference called the Sun Belt.

G5 needs their own national championship game

6 or 8 12 team conferences.

8 team playoff where conference champs all get a birth. Regionality and traditional rivalries would be sacrosanct. Post season would be based not on seedings or polls but on conference bowl tie-ins.

PAC 12, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, ACC, SEC, Mountain West, Sunbelt/American

Pac 12: Wazzou, Wash, Oregon, Oregon St, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Zona, Ariz St, BYU, Utah

Big 12: Colorado, Kansas, K-St, Mizzou, Nebraska, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor, OU, Okie St, Iowa St

SEC: LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, Alabama, Auburn, Tenn, Kentucky, Vandy, S.Car, Florida, Georgia

ACC: Ga Tech, Fl St, Miami, UNC, NC St, Wake, Duke, Clemson, V-Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Boston College

Big 10: Iowa, Michigan, Mich St, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio St, Penn St

Big East: Syracuse, West Virginia, Pitt, Army, Navy, Cincinnati, Louisville, Temple, Connecticut, Marshal, UCF, USF

Mountain West: Hawaii, San Diego St, Fresno St, Boise St, New Mexico St, Nevada, UNLV, Wyoming, Colorado St, Air Force, UTEP, Utah St

American: Memphis, Tulane, So Miss, La Tech, UAB, Co Car, App St, TCU, SMU, ECU, Houston, ULL

Rose Bowl plays PAC 12 vs Big 10

Orange Bowl: ACC vs American

Sugar Bowl: SEC vs Big 12

Fiesta: Mountain West vs Big East

Playoffs seeded after the bowls with 4 major bowl game winners and (maybe) top 4 teams. Next two rounds are at home stadium of higher “ranked” team.

Honestly I quarter the country. SEC gets the bottom right, Big10 gets the top right, PAC12 gets the bottom left, something else gets the top left (Mountain West, Big 12, call it whatever you want).

Keep it geographical to help with travel load and rivalries. Each quadrant has at least one or two schools that are nationally relevant. Make 'em 16 schools each.

Have another 5 or 8 conferences for the schools that don't make the cut for the Big 4.

I think college football will eventually consist of two superconfrences of 30+ teams in each, obviously these would be divided into east/west divisions.

FBS North would basically the Big 10 plus Notre Dame, Iowa St, Kansas, K-State, Cal, Stanford, Oregon St, Washington St, West Virginia, Utah, BYU and the northern ACC teams like Boston College, Stanford, Pitt, Virginia, and Virginia Tech.

FBS South would be the SEC, southern ACC teams (Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida St, Miami, UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State and Duke) and remaining BIG XII teams.

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How would you build conferences?

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From the bottom up, and from the middle out. Not the top down.

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Top down, too.

As in, don't do like the SEC or Big 10, and hoard all the power teams in 1 conference. Penn State needs a separate conference, as does USC, and Oklamoma.

I want to build towards an exciting playoff, not grind through a rough conference schedule and then face off against App State in the first round.

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BCS algorithm

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I like the use of the term algorithm here as if it was created by NASA or MIT or something

The BCS “algorithm” was 2/3 human pills, 1 that was made up of mostly retired coaches/media after the AP asked to not be included and the coaches poll which is mostly done by some assistant in the AD and is subject to conflict of interest and some computer polls made up by basically some fan who’s good with computer models with zero transparency since there were proprietary.

The Committee has picked what the BCS would have anyway and is at least transparent,