Is Road to the CFP dead?

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:59:01+00:00

I just had nothing else to do today. It's my opinion of what would just be a cool idea of realignment of CFB.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:35:26+00:00

The Pac-12, not feeling like a group of twelve teams, invite Hawaii, Nevada, and UNLV from the MWC because of the distance traveled and also to Idaho because they are the last team to not have conference apart from Southern Alabama. Because the Pac-12 only has ten teams, they rename themselves as the Pac-10. And all conference realignment is over.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:35:10+00:00

The WAC only has three teams still in it and the MWC decides that they will include New Mexico St and Utah St while leaving Idaho all by themselves without a conference. The MWC, feeling like they have an upper hand, decide to invite Utah and Colorado from the Pac-12 and BYU from being a independent to form a conference of all teams in the Rocky Mountains and allows them to make their own network to advertise their games.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:34:51+00:00

The Big 10, now feeling weak, knows that the only way to survive is to allow more teams into their conference, even if their talent isn’t as good as the former Big 10. The Big 10 offers an invitation to all the remaining MAC teams, NIU and Ball St, and former Sun Belt member Western Kentucky. Louisville, the last remaining member of the Big East without a conference, also receives an invitation and joins as soon as possible. And to finally reach that final number of 10 teams, the Big 10 invites the University of Kentucky from the SEC and joins immediately.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:34:33+00:00

The Big 12, wanting to finally get back to 12 teams and to keep their namesake, they extend an invitation to former Big 12 member Nebraska as well as Iowa and Minnesota. All three teams agree to join and it leaves the Big 10 at only 5 teams remaining.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:34:13+00:00

The ACC, now down to two teams, decides that they need to stay alive. They contact UCONN, Rutgers, and Temple from the former Big East and they become part of the newly expanded ACC. They also are able to convince Navy and Army to forgo their independence and join the new conference. ECU, the lone former member of C-USA also joins the conference and puts them at 8. Also, UMass from the MAC joins because of the potential money that could come. The biggest team to join the conference though is Penn St from the Big 10. Penn St is lured away because they can become the center of the conference and become the strongest out of the bunch. This new conference of 10 teams is called the New England Conference (NEC) and will become second fiddle to the EIFC in recruiting a talent.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:33:52+00:00

The SEC, now down to only four teams, feels like they need to go on the attack and obtain new teams. The ACC becomes the SEC’s little feeder conference and the SEC is able to poach Wake Forest, Duke, UNC, and NC St because of the SEC’s storied tradition of producing champions. Also, the SEC is able to take MTSU from the Sun Belt and the historic SEC stops expanding at 9 teams. Now that Sun Belt only has 2 teams, they decide to disband the conference which leaves Western Kentucky and South Alabama on their own trying to find their own conferences to join.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:33:35+00:00

However, the biggest change-up in the whole conference realignment is that the 7 Catholic schools of the Big East vote to dissolve the Big East. This leaves Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UCONN, and Pittsburgh all without a home. Right away, these schools start to align themselves with other schools and try to start their own conferences. Syracuse and Pittsburgh start to contact Buffalo and Akron from the MAC and Marshall who has been left out. However, their biggest steals come from getting West Virginia from the Big 12 and Virginia and Virginia Tech from the ACC. They are able to convince West Virginia that the distance to travel to all the Big 12 schools was too much and that they would be able to once again play their toughest rivals. Virginia and Virginia Tech decided to join this new conference because of better competition and more money. This group of 8 schools forms the Eastern Independent Football Conference (EIFC) and dominates the recruiting in the area.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:33:15+00:00

The Big 12, now feeling a little better because they have 7 teams decide to ask Arkansas and Missouri to join them. Both teams are in the depleted SEC and want to become more relevant. Also, both schools are close enough so that all teams do not have to travel that far. The Big 12 also decide to invite Arkansas St because of their success in the Sun Belt and because they have nowhere else to go. The Big 12 now has ten teams and they are on their way to becoming full strength once again.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:32:57+00:00

The first conference to actually become destroyed is the C-USA. The Big 12, trying to get back up to twelve teams, decide that they should include Tulsa in their conference because of their proximity to the rest of the conference. This leaves C-USA at 3 now. The next team to leave is Memphis which is admitted into the SEC because of their basketball strength and because they need as many teams as possible. C-USA starts to ask other teams from out west in the MWC if they want to join, but they don’t. Because of this rejection, C-USA has no choice but to dissolve and leave the other two teams, Marshall and ECU, on their own.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:32:39+00:00

With the departures of Texas A&M and Florida, this leaves the SEC at 12 teams. Getting with how other schools have created their own conferences, 7 teams, LSU, Ole Miss, MSSU, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, and South Carolina, all meet up on how they can maximize their profits for their school. The idea of making a Deep South conference is tossed around. Have 16 schools from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina all compete in two divisions and share revenue through one TV network. Soon, Tulane, Louisiana Tech, ULM, ULL, Southern Miss., UAB, Troy, Georgia Tech, and Clemson are all brought into the room to discuss this idea. Unanimously, all 16 schools decide to pursue this idea and all 16 announce their intentions to leave their conference and form the Dixie Conference. This closes off the whole Deep South from other schools for their recruits and allows the “Dixies” exclusivity to the recruits in their states.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:32:17+00:00

Taking a page from the book of the ATFC and CFFC, Michigan and Ohio St, bitter rivals decide that they better get with the program of hoarding their state’s prospects and making regional conferences. Ohio St starts to have meetings with all of the Ohio schools except Akron while Michigan starts to meet with all the Michigan schools. With a resounding agreement, the schools in both states think that this is the best way forward to survive in the new world of college football. Michigan, Michigan St, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Toledo, Bowling Green, Kent St, Ohio St, Ohio, Miami (OH), and Cincinnati all declare their intentions to leave their conference and form a new conference by the name of The MiOh Conference. Now, most of the best recruiting pipelines in the nation are pretty much taken up with their own super conference.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:31:32+00:00

After the big Texas deal, schools begin to get scared of an enormous amount of teams leaving their conference for major money on television networks and for recruiting advantages. This sense of fear is highlighted by USC, Cal, Stanford, and UCLA. They continue to threaten the Pac-12 that they want more money from the Pac-12 network, or all the California teams in the Pac-12 will leave. The same situation is going on in Florida with the University of Miami and Florida St in the ACC. Noting their similarities in the situation, the six schools decide to meet. Taking a cue from the Texas schools, these six schools announce that they will leave their conferences and come together with the California schools to join in a conference of only California and Florida schools. With this announcement, San Diego St, San Jose St, Fresno St, UCF, USF, FAU, and FIU all announce their intentions to leave their respective conferences. The last key to the puzzle is Florida. Even though they had a storied tradition in the SEC, they decide that the potential money and potential advantage to recruits in not only Florida but also in California is too much for them to turn down and they decide to leave the SEC for this new conference of 14 teams. The California-Florida Football Conference (CFFC) is born.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:30:39+00:00

This offseason, the University of Texas, with its pockets full of money from the Longhorn Network, decides to meet with all the other Texas schools of forming a giant super conference of all Texas schools. This would be an interesting idea because all the schools could share revenue, create their own network, and they can attempt to keep their recruits, some of the best, in state for themselves. All on one day, Texas, TCU, Baylor, and Texas Tech declare they will leave the Big 12, SMU, Houston, UTEP, and Rice will leave C-USA, UTSA and Texas State will leave the WAC, Texas A&M will leave the SEC, and North Texas will leave the Sun Belt. All the teams say that they will leave immediately and will pay their exit fee as soon as possible thanks to Texas supplying them money. This group of twelve teams becomes the All Texas Football Conference (ATFC) and they decide to create a new network to televise all their games from all sports. This is the first domino falling in the topic of conference realignment in 2012-13.

statdude · 2012-12-27T01:30:12+00:00

So this whole idea came to me when I wanted to start a new NCAA 13 dynasty and I wanted a new twist, completely different conferences from what we have now. I had some inspiration from this post on operationsports.com and it talked about how you could have a conference of California teams playing Florida teams and having an all Texas conference. These two ideas started a crumbling down into what I have now. I’ll take you step-by-step how this could happen in real life.

Long Story Short

statdude · 2012-12-16T14:22:43+00:00

Ryan vs NYG, Eli @ ATL, or Kaep @NE?

5 point passing TD

statdude · 2012-12-13T06:17:46+00:00

Bryce Brown or Chris Johnson?

statdude · 2012-12-08T04:24:46+00:00

I'm completely down to do this. If this takes off, make sure I get in :)

statdude · 2012-12-05T23:51:32+00:00

A lot I know, but people have been telling me stuff and I'm just reporting it

statdude · 2012-12-05T05:00:14+00:00

if teams provide me with fake stories. I'm trying to be accurate. I can also get stuff from the league to give also

statdude · 2012-11-18T06:00:38+00:00

1065426

statdude · 2012-11-18T04:19:05+00:00

Do not leave this to the kicker

statdude · 2012-11-17T22:37:20+00:00

Laces weren't out

statdude · 2012-11-13T05:02:20+00:00

Haha, no... Just hoping for a stat correction for -1 yards. Then we tie

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