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College Football Conference Realignment - A Hypothetical Discussion

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Okay, with 120 Bowl Subdivision teams... it makes it easy to divide into ten 12-team conferences...

Here is a quick summary of the changes, and I tried to mitigate as much "switching" as possible... and other moves seem to make sense, although not it may not be everyone's "ideal" situation...

The summary...

* ACC, SEC, Big 12 remain the same...

* Notre Dame moves to the Big 10...

* The MAC remains the same, except for Temple...

* The Big East adds Temple, Houston, Memphis, & Tulane

* The Pac 10 adds Fresno State & Colorado State

* Conference USA gets Army, Navy, Air Force, New Mexico State, & Utah State; but loses UAB, Rice, Houston, Memphis, & Tulane

* The Mountain West gets Boise State, Idaho, San Jose State, Hawaii, & Nevada; but loses Air Force & Colorado State

* The Sun Belt gets UAB, Louisiana Tech, & Rice.

* The WAC is dissolved.

So, from 11 conferences we now have these 10:

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[tr]

[td]Atlantic[/td]

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[td]Great Plains[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Midwestern[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Southeastern[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Eastern[/td]

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[tr]

[td]Atlantic Division[br]

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Coastal Division[br]

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[td]          [/td]

[td]North Division[br]

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South  Division[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/b12/tx.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]West Division[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/b10/wi.gif[br]

East Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/b10/mi.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/b10/ms.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/b10/os.gif[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/ind/nd.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]West Division[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sec/mi.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sec/ms.gif[br]

East Division[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sec/tn.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sec/va.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]North Division[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/te.gif[br]

South Division[br]

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[tr]

[td]Mid-American[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Conference USA[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Pacific[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Western[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]Sun Belt[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]East Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/ak.gif[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/mi.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/oh.gif[br]

West Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/bs.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/cm.gif[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/to.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mac/wm.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]East Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/cf.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ec.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ma.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/so.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/ind/ar.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/ind/nv.gif[br]

West Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/af.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ep.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/nm.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/sm.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ts.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/ut.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]North Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/ca.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/or.gif[br]

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[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/st.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/wa.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/ws.gif[br]

South Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/as.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/az.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/cs.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/fs.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/la.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/p10/sc.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]North Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/bs.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/by.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/id.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/ut.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/wy.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/sj.gif[br]

South Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/ha.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/nv.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/lv.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/nm.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/sd.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/mwt/tc.gif[/td]

[td]          [/td]

[td]East Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ab.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/as.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/fa.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/fi.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/mt.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/tr.gif[br]

West Division[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/nt.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/ind/wk.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/ll.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/sun/lm.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/wac/lt.gif[br]

[img width=50 height=50]http://www.newtestdomain.com/teams/usa/ri.gif[/td][/tr]

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Hypothetical indeed, unless there was some sort of an NCAA mandate, it is hard imagine, but my thoughts on your alignment:

Memphis and Tulane are always interesting for Big East expansion due to population/media market (and Tulane would make a great road trip!), but Houston (while a wonderful media market) seems too far west (I think I read in recent thread you said that about TCU).  Maybe one of the service academies instead, or both and forget about Temple.

It is just semantics, but dissolve the Mountain West instead of the WAC.  The MWC was just recently formed and the WAC has 45 years of history.  If I’m not mistaken many of the current MWC teams were in the WAC at one time anyway.

While some say the Sun Belt is catching C-USA, the biggest loser in this seems to be UAB.

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Switch Houston for TCU and im all for it. 

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