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60 Team Football Super Conference & 8 Team Playoff (Coming Soon!)

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Imagine all of the exciting games during the year. No more Savannah State or Langston University games. OSU's three non-divisional games could be rivalry games with teams like Missouri, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Texas, etc. each year.

LEAGUE RULES
* teams only get to play 12 games per year (9 in division + 3 other divisions)
* teams must play 3 games from another division (2 games to begin the season and 1 to end the season) and these could be established rivalry games or computer calculated games based on previous year wins
* automatic playoff bid if a team wins their division (but must be ranked in the top 15)
* the top 8 teams are selected and seeded based on the old BCS system (to remove the current committee bias)
* first round of playoffs start Christmas weekend with top 4 teams getting home field advantage
* semifinal round played on New Year's Day
* championship game played the first full week after the New Year on a Saturday

LEAGUE SETUP
- create a new NCAA division with 1 conference of 60 teams (no more cupcake games)
- negotiate a massive TV contract for the new conference for all 60 teams (larger payouts than NFL deal plus their own network)
- 6 regions with 10 teams in each keeping most rivalries intact
- teams play 12 regular season games total (schedules must be 6 home + 6 away)
- of those 12 regular season games, teams will play 3 teams from other divisions (some years it will be 2 home + 1 away and some years it will be 1 home + 2 away), but a teams overall schedule MUST stay balanced with only 6 home games (no more stacking 7-9 home games on a schedule)
- for the 3 games outside of their division, if teams don't already have an existing or natural rivalry, a computer will match similar strength teams (like the NFL does) based on wins from the previous year (with some preference given to geographical proximity):
+ pool A teams with 12-9 wins previous year (only for teams without a rivalry game in another division)
+ pool B teams with 8-5 wins previous year (only for teams without a rivalry game in another division)
+ pool C teams with 4-1 wins previous year (only for teams without a rivalry game in another division)

POTENTIAL TWIST
- at the end of each year, the lowest rated team from each division are evaluated (based on average wins over the past 3 years) and 2 teams must move down to a lower division and are replaced by the current top 2 teams from the lower levels and similar geographical location will be considered during placement (like the European professional soccer leagues). However, certain blue blood programs would be protected from this (with probably between 20-25 teams protected). All of the other division 1 teams not in this new league would create another 60 team league with new additions from some lower level schools to round out the other league
- use old BCS formulas to rank teams after 3 weeks of games
- first 2 games and the last game of the year are non division games / possible rivalry games
- each of the 6 division winners get an automatic playoff birth if ranked in top 15, but if divisions do not have a team meeting this criteria they do not get a representative
- the last 2 teams for the 8 team playoff are the highest ranked BCS teams available (like a wildcard spot regardless of division)
- the top 4 teams play a home game to start the first round of the playoffs

Who would your 60 teams be? Here's my stab at the new 60 team NCAA division, conference, and league. All teams in RED are fringe schools and could be replaced by other RED fringe schools. This would be my personal favorite with the best "name" schools, history of the service academies, and geographical locations taken into consideration.

NORTHWEST
Oregon
Oregon State
USC
UCLA
Stanford
California
Washington
Washington State
Utah
Boise State (ID)

SOUTHWEST
OU
Oklahoma State
Nebraska
Arizona
Arizona State
TCU
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Colorado
BYU (UT)

SOUTH CENTRAL
Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Arkansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Memphis (TN)

SOUTHEAST
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Florida
Florida State
Miami
South Carolina
North Carolina
NC State (NC)

NORTHEAST
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Clemson
West Virginia
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Syracuse
Kentucky
Louisville (KY)

NORTH CENTRAL
Notre Dame
Michigan
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Illinois
Indiana
Purdue (IN)

FRINGE SCHOOLS (RED)
Air Force (CO)
Army (NY)
Navy (MD)
Houston (TX)
Maryland (MD)
UCF (FL)

Vanderbilt (TN)
Northwestern (IL)
Cincinnati (OH)
Boston College (MA)
Wake Forest (NC)
Colorado State (CO)
Fresno State (CA)
SMU (TX)
South Florida (FL)
UNLV (NV)
Louisiana Tech (LA)
Louisiana Raging Cajuns (LA)
Southern Mississippi (MS)
Hawaii (HI)
San Diego State (CA)
Utah State (UT)
Duke (NC) - consideration due to basketball
Kansas (KS) - consideration due to basketball
Connecticut (CT) - consideration due to basketball


BASKETBALL TWIST
Do NOT allow the following 3 schools into the above Super Conference. Instead, these 3 schools go independent in basketball and create their own basketball schedules each year.
1) Duke (NC)
2) Kansas (KS)
3) Connecticut (CT)
 
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If this realignment does happen, I'd also like to see some changes to college & professional football. These changes would make the game safer (fewer violent collisions from players running an opposite directions), more exciting (never have to rely on a kicker or a punter to determine a game, just your best players), and speed the game up (with less stoppages for special teams and utilizing a 30 minute running clock per quarter until the last 2 minutes of each quarter).

New Game Structure
- no kickoff or punt returns. This would put a greater emphasis on player safety and put the games in the hands of the players we actually paid to see and not a kicker or punter
- the field would be 80 yards (the 40 yard line is midfield) with 20 yard end zones (to help with scoring)
- if an 80 yard field is used with no kickers, each team gets to pick where their offense starts as long as it is beyond midfield (40 yard line). Based on where a team starts is how many points that drive is worth. For example, if they start on the 40 (midfield) they could earn 4 points for a TD. However, if they start on their own 30 they could earn 5 points for a TD (50 yard drive), if they start on their own 20 they could earn 6 points for TD (60 yard drive), and if they start on their own 10 they could earn 7 points for a TD (70 yard drive). However, if a team really wants to be risky they could start on their own 5 yard line and a TD would be worth 8 points (75 yard drive) or if they start in their own endzone a TD would be worth 9 points (80 yard drive)
- a regular 100 yard field could still be used and so could kickers, but some modifications to the rules above would be needed. For example, teams could start anywhere beyond the 50 yard line, which would be worth 5 points for a TD. A field goal could still be kicked anywhere for 3 points and after a TD teams could still go for a 1 or 2 point conversion. However, a team could even start on their own 10 yard line and drive 90 yards for a TD worth 9 points, or the 5 yard line for 10 points (95 yards), or even their own endzone and have to go 100 yards for 11 points (plus the extra point conversions)
- when there's a turnover or turnover-on-downs the other team would have the choice of where they want to place the ball to start their drive OR they can try to score from the spot of the ball where their opponent turned the ball over (for the same amount of points their opponent was trying to score)
- for overtime games (1st, 2nd, and 3rd overtimes) each team takes turns by starting at their choice of field position. If a team scores from that starting position they can receive the following points:
10 yard line = 1 point
20 yard line = 2 points
30 yard line = 3 points
- if there is a 4th overtime each team gets 1 play to score from any of the following locations:
1 yard line = 1 point
2 yard line = 2 points
3 yard line = 3 points
 
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Kirk Herbstreit makes prediction on future of college football. He says if an alliance doesn’t materialize, it’s possible that the 4 conferences could simply depart the NCAA altogether. “It feels like we’re headed to 4 premiere, huge, 16-team conferences, and it feels like those 4 conferences maybe will pull away one day from the NCAA, go out and hire a commissioner, whoever that might be, and just kind of create their own world,” ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit said during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday.

 
NIL money will completely change college football. Look for some major shifts in 2022 and 2023 regarding NIL money.

Something I've heard discussed is when these +60 teams break away from the NCAA, they could set up different rules including CAPS for NIL money or some type of salary cap for each college team (like the NFL). If something like this isn't done soon, this will ruin college football.

There are many fans like myself who watch college football because it is an amateur sport, not because they play better football. I'm tired of professional athletes whining about more money to play a sport most of us would love to do for a living. And I can't wrap my mind around their financial numbers. Most of us will not never come close to making this kind of money. The average person in the United States as of 2020 made $63,593. If you made this salary for 15 years, you still wouldn't make $1,000,000.

$63,593 x 15 years = $953,895
 


As of 08/04/23 we learned the Pac-12 is no more. Washington and Oregon to the Big 10. Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joining Colorado in the Big 12. It's only a matter of time before there is a break away and a new division created. The good news is geographical rivalries will come back, each team will be paid way more than they could have imagined, and there will not be any non-conference cupcakes.
 
I do think a new league will form in the next 5-10 years and take the top 40 to 60 teams. However, I'd honestly love to take 120 teams and make a conference with 60 teams and another 60 team lower level conference and implement relegation.

 
The new 12 team playoff starts in 2024, which is just one step closer to a breakaway super conference. Once this super conference happens, there would be no crappy games against lower division teams and because of this the TV revenues would dwarf the NFL package.
 
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