REALIGNING COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONFERENCES 

🌎BONUS REALIGNMENT🌎 If the Patriot League isn’t your cup of tea: Move Penn State and Pitt to the Central American, Army and Navy to the North Atlantic, Air Force to replace North Dakota State in the Mountain West. Sorry VMI and NDSU, gotta send you back down

Having NDSU but not SDSU is disappointing from a rivalry standpoint

Geographically based conferences is the best way.

For your military conference, you could call up The Citadel

I’m hype for ncaa 24 to come out to do this exact thing

I love the Central American conference! As someone who has grown up in the midwest, I always felt like the teams were split. Putting them all in one makes me happy!

While geographic based conferences is a call back that would make a lot of fans happy I think there are more interesting ways to split conferences. Consederations I would have are 1) Number of total conferences, 2) Number of Schools per conference, 3) Historical Conferences, 4) Separation of Blue Bloods, and 5) Possible demotion. So something like the Mississippi or Missouri valley conference, but instead of isolated to the Northern Midwest it is comprised of schools in states that sit on the Mississippi or reforming the SWC with West Texas schools along with the 4 corners schools possibly extending into SoCal with SDSU. Edit: Another interesting conference idea would be to use the FCS Colonial Conference name and have it made up of schools that are in the original colonies.

I sure love geographical conferences. It sits well with me!

Should’ve pit LSU in the big south since their rivals is in it. Bama, Auburn, Florida, ole miss and Mississippi St.

LSU Fans would HATE that Red River conference. That's basically the old SouthWestCon plus LSU and the 2 Oklahoma schools. Loosing FLA, Auburn and Bama annually would take a lot out of the zest of the season.

these are legit some of the worst decisions I have ever seen in a potential conference realignment.

Came back to this video to use it for my dynasty on college football 25

Make football great again. 12 teams is a nice even split for conference champions to go straight to a playoff. But different sizes of conferences would affect scheduling and # of non-con games. For the Central American: switch ISU, KU and Mizzou with Indiana, MSU and Northwestern.

Backyard brawl should 1000% be a conference game. Let’s Go Mountaineers and Eat Shit Pitt.

I like idea of North Atlantic Conference, it makes sense geographically. Although, for Basketball men's and women's this would have some very interesting results if it were real.

You did duke dirty

Major Midwest East Division - Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Pitt and Purdue

Great concept and great ideas, but I’ve got a feeling that more people would be saying that splitting up Duke and UNC is blasphemous. They compete for the victory bell every year in football, and are you accounting for basketball as well?

oregon, usc, ucla, washington, texas, and oklahoma messed it up for everyone else

This is just the power 5+1 with some lowers getting thrown in. It’d be the Pacific/Mountain/Central/Big South/Re River +Appalachia getting thrown in. Penn/Pitt/Cincinnati/UCF getting the strength of schedule shaft

8:50 SWC Getting back together.

as a Michigan fan not having msu and Michigan in the same conference hurts

Personally, I thought Sportsmanlike Misconduct's conference realignment video was excellent. The only change I'd wanna make is to move Duke from the South Atlantic to the Big South. Here's why: 1: I just can't envision a world where the Duke Blue Devils aren't in the same conference as the North Carolina Tar Heels. 2: It might seem like Duke would get killed in the Big South football wise, but remember this: Steve Spurrier was once the head coach at Duke, and had some decent success with the Blue Devs. Spurrier was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 & 1989. 3: If S.M.'s version of the Big South was also a basketball league, Duke would be a major powerhouse in hoops.

7:55 Irony liberty had the best record

First and foremost, this was an outstanding undertaking, and you did an amazing job. Now, for my constructive criticism. First, in my opinion, the eleven conferences (not the Patriot League) should have an equal number of schools, and each of those conferences should have two divisions. The eleven conferences have a total of 132 schools, and 132 divided by 11 is 12. Each of the eleven conferences should have exactly twelve schools: six in one division, and six in another. I think this would make things more fair for all schools involved. Some examples: Pacific Coast Conference, North Division: UW, WSU, UO, Oregon State, Stanford, Cal Pacific Coast Conference, South Division: SJSU, Fresno State, USC, UCLA, SDSU, Hawaii Northeastern Conference, North Division: Buffalo, Syracuse, BC, Penn State, UMass, UConn Northeastern Conference, South Division: Maryland, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, UVA, Va. Tech (For the record, I had to check which school was further south -- Penn State or Rutgers. Rutgers was just a bit further south than Penn State, which meant PSU went in the North Division and Rutgers went in the South.) I had a lot of difficulty finding twelve schools for what I would call the Southeast Conference, because I do NOT want to split up the schools in one state. I grew up in the state of Florida, and I went to the U. of Florida, and there are SEVEN schools in that state: Miami, FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, Florida, and FSU. The state of Georgia gives us UGA and Georgia Tech... the state of Alabama gives us Bama and Auburn... the state of South Carolina gives us Clemson and the Gamecocks... the state of Louisiana gives us LSU, Tulane and Louisiana Tech... how do we determine which school in Florida goes into "the other division", and which state will be split up between this one and another one? Another suggestion: four of your eleven conferences are made up of a majority of (or entirely of) schools in current "Group of Five" conferences (read: not Power Five conferences). I think that if we are throwing out history to realign Division I football, that should include the history of the schools that each school has played, and what conference it's in.

let’s be brutally honest, courtesy of former ESPN anchor and Bay Area Sports Reporter Larry Biel, College Football realignment of 2024 is D-U-M-B!!!!!!

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How about this for the Major Midwest West Division - Illinois, Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Wisconsin - Note - Nebraska will be in the New Orange Bowl Conference. They will play These Teams - Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas States, The Other Division of the Orange Bowl Conference will be Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech. Quite a Conference.

should've kept Notre Dame independent for the meme

Red river is literally half Texan, half miscellaneous

All I want is Pitt and WVU in the Big Ten

Do one with 4 Conferences based on the 4 quarters of the Country

Bro forgot the citidel but called up VMI? WILD

I took a different approach. I put together an NFL type format. Two conferences with four divisions of nine in each. Eastern Conference... Atlantic---Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida St, Miami, NC St, No Carolina, So Carolina, UCF. Central---Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan St, Notre Dame, Ohio St. Northeast---Boston College, Maryland, Penn St, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, VA Tech, West Virginia. South---Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, GA Tech, LSU, Miss St, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Wake Forest. Western Conference... Midwest---Illinois, Iowa, Iowa St, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin. Mountain---Arizona, Arizona St, Boise St, BYU, Colorado, Colorado St, Texas Tech, UNLV, Utah. Pacific---Cal, Oregon, Oregon St, San Diego St, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St. Southwest---Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M. Relegated: Kansas, Vanderbilt. Promoted: Boise St, Colorado St, Memphis, San Diego St, UNLV. --A round robin schedule within each division (8 games). --Four division champions and two wildcards qualify for playoffs in each conference (6 teams). --Top two in each conference get a 1st round bye...3rd vs 6th; 4th vs 5th in 1st round. --No team would play more than 16 games.

I don’t think liberty will have too much trouble in the Appalachian Valley after their season this year

as a lifelong Oregon state Beavers fan I insist this is about baseball.

Citadel in Patriot league

I think this is a great idea but I don’t think you should separate iconic rivals like Bama vs Tenn or Penn vs Michigan

Michigan state subbed with Iowa state. Unless they are all playing 7 conference games with 2 protected opponents you’re taking away one of their rivalry games. Also ball state is in Indiana.

I believe you only made this video to show off the Red River conference😏

You should do fcs

Taking Air Force out of the mountain west is criminal. I know they’re a service academy, and don’t get me wrong I HATE Air Force, but I grew up 15 minutes away from the academy and played football in its shadow my entire high school career before I moved to Wyoming for college. I treasure the Wyoming-Air Force rivalry almost as much I prize the Boot and beating the sheep.

Putting North Dakota in Mountain West is a crime. Both of the ND college teams are located in the eastern part of the state where the land is completely flat. You can drive on the highway and not see any change in elevation no matter where you look.

And this is why not all realignments conferences are great because you get some very lopsided conferences and old rivalry’s ruined

In the military schools you left out The Citadel.

How do we condense this down to 10 conferences?

Dude didn't even include any of the G5 teams in his SEC and Big 10 equivalent conferences.

WE KEPT #MACTION

Ball State is in Indiana

Isn’t Virginia/ Virginia tech kinda military school? Could’ve added them

The only thing I would do is add Idaho back to the Mountain west, like they were before

Can you put this in NCAA 14 revamped and sim a couple of years?

They are really good but the North Atlantic conference 😬

Cool!

Appalachian valley needs to add Appalachian St, Wake Forest, Clemson, Cincinnati East Division, East of Mountain: Appalachian St, Clemson, Liberty, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. West of Appalachian Mountains: Cincinnati, Kentucky, Louisville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, West Virginia. Current and potential Rivals. Current: West Virginia vs Virginia Tech, Cincinnati vs Louisville, Kentucky vs Louisville, Virginia vs Virginia Tech, Kentucky vs Tennessee, Kentucky vs Vanderbilt, Cincinnati vs West Virginia, West Virginia vs Louisville. New one, West Virginia vs Tennessee, Battle on the Mountain/Country Road Trophy. Clemson vs Tennessee Moon Orange Bowl, Kentucky vs West Virginia HvM trophy, Louisville vs Vanderbilt Music City Brawl, Appalachian St vs Wake Forest (need some game name, Louisville vs Virginia acc Division Rivalry.

On paper this may look good, but in reality no. Texas, A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma and LSU are a better fit with the schools they now are in with, the SEC. These are the big schools in this would-be conference. They would not like to carry the financial water for Tech, TCU, Baylor, Okie State, and Houston

Can you explain to me how the big 12 is primarily a southern conference? Sure you have 4 Texas schools but that’s as southern as it gets, WV, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State definitely not southern. Colorado, BYU, Arizona, And Arizona state are at best Southwest but that’s not “Southern”. And don’t get me started on how UCF isn’t actually Southern.

Just put PSU and Pitt in the Appalachian valley conf. It would still make sense geographically and the competition would make more sense. As much as I love the idea of the patriot league, it would not work because of Air Force. Put them back in the MWC, bump NDSU and VMI back to FCS, and put Army and Navy in the North Atlantic. Lastly, get Cincinnati outta maction, put em in the central American and let Notre Dame be independent just to make everyone angry. Add Marshall to make those conferences even numbers with sensible divisions. I love the ideas that you had for everything else! Also, flip Duke and Liberty.

This is the only way tk save college football 😅

Gotta add Delaware now

North atlantic works out because the Cum Bowl will actually be relevant

Duke is gonna win thier division every year

Bro really said fuck one the back yard brawl and claims this to be geographical

No

No way

I think some of your conferences are wacky, like having Duke in the South Atlantic, which is dumb for so many reasons. Why is Penn State in the North Atlantic and Cincinnati in the MAC, while LSU is not in the Big South? If anything, you should have moved Duke and Wake Forest to the Appalachian Valley Conference, transferred LSU to the Big South, and shifted SMU to the Red River to recreate the old Southwest Conference.

Move duke to big south and wake forest to south Atlantic.

134 kennesaw state

8:22 where is OU? Oklahoma Sooners?

Did I miss NC State?

Power 7: ACC: Clemson Duke Florida State Georgia Tech Maryland North Carolina NC State UCF Virginia Wake Forest Big East: Boston College Cincinnati Louisville Miami Pitt Rutgers Syracuse Virginia Tech West Virginia Great Lakes: Illinois Iowa Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Wisconsin Great Plains: BYU Colorado Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma Oklahoma State Utah PAC-10: Arizona Arizona State Cal Oregon Oregon State Stanford UCLA USC Washington Washington State SEC: Alabama Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky LSU Mississippi State Ole Miss South Carolina Tennessee SWC: Arkansas Baylor Houston Memphis SMU TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Independent: Notre Dame Group of 6: American: Buffalo Delaware James Madison Marshall Liberty Old Dominion Temple UConn UMass Western Kentucky Lone Star: Arkansas State New Mexico New Mexico State North Texas Rice Sam Houston State Texas State Tulsa UTEP UTSA MAC: Akron Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Kent State Miami OH Ohio Toledo Western Michigan Mountain West: Boise State Colorado State Fresno State Hawaii Nevada San Diego State San Jose State UNLV Utah State Wyoming Sun Belt: Jacksonville State Louisiana Tech Middle Tennessee South Alabama Southern Miss Troy Tulane UAB UL Lafayette UL Monroe South Atlantic: Appalachian State Charlotte Coastal Carolina East Carolina Florida Atlantic Florida International Georgia Southern Georgia State Kennesaw State South Florida Independents: Air Force Army Indiana Missouri State Navy Northern Illinois Vanderbilt

If you're working with these 136 teams as your FBS contingent and separating out the 4 military schools, I think it would make a lot more sense to have the same number of teams in all the conferences-132 lends itself well to 11 conferences of 12 teams, perhaps each split into 2 divisions of 6. And if you're doing them purely geographically, ignoring the relative strengths of the various programs, here's where I'd go with it: Pac-12 - North: Cal, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington - South: Fresno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, San Jose State, UCLA, USC Mountain West - North: Boise State, BYU, Utah, Utah State, Washington State, Wyoming - South: Arizona, Arizona State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UNLV, UTEP Big 12 - North: Colorado, Colorado State, North Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech - South: Baylor, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas State, UTSA Great Plains - North: Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Wisconsin - South: Arkansas, Arkansas State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Tulsa Gulf Coast - East: Louisiana, LSU, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy, Tulane - West: Houston, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M South Atlantic - North: Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Southern, South Carolina - South: FIU, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Miami (FL), South Florida, UCF SEC - East: Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, UAB - West: Alabama, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt ACC - East: Coastal Carolina, Duke, East Carolina, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion - West: Appalachian State, Charlotte, Liberty, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Northeast - East: Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UConn, UMass - West: Buffalo, James Madison, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia Ohio Valley - North: Akron, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Michigan, Toledo - South: Cincinnati, Kentucky, Marshall, Miami (OH), Ohio, Ohio State Midwest - North: Central Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Western Michigan - South: Ball State, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Purdue, Western Kentucky Note that for the last two, it would make geographic sense to have the two North divisions be the Great Lakes Conference and the two South divisions to be the Ohio Valley Conference. But I just couldn't bring myself to break up the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry even if it meant teams would have to travel a few miles farther on average to play each other.

These are WAY too unbalanced.

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No shot you just called the Big XII a southern league. Colorado also was a FOUNDING MEMBER of the Big XII

Tennessee would officially like to join the big south conference, or at least rob the Carolina schools. As it stands they would go 7-0 against that schedule every few years, but I doubt I would be enough for a playoff berth. Taking the Carolina schools from the big South would help geographically and allow both conferences to have 11 teams.

So basically, the Red River Conference is the old Southwestern Conference.

Yooo why he laughed at UCONN and UMASS

I would switch NC State and Duke

I recently did a realignment of my own, that I’m still in the process of making a video essay of. As I started watching your video, I was worried we may have the same realignment, because we have the same Pacific (I kept that one called the PAC12). Though different from mine, yours ain’t so bad either! Kudos!

Toledo and Ohio could absolutely give Cincy a run in that MAC

Might as well call the Red River conference the Texas and Friends conference 😂😂

Red River and the Big South would run CFB

I think you forgot Vermont, Maine and NH.. lol.. Man, the maine black bears are the best

You really put Cincinnati in with a bunch of MAC schools??? 😂🤡

Should’ve put UTEP in the mountain west. We’re tired of being stuck with these goofy cusa teams

Amazing vid but I think app state should’ve been in the Appalachian valley because they can hang with power 5 and I know that for a fact

I don’t like how you separated, the in-state rivalries in divisions

You should’ve moved up South Dakota.

i love what you did with the north atlantic conference even tho we’d get destroyed

Isn't the minimum number of teams 8?

Big 12 is a southern conference? It's mostly a great plains or central conference

Swap Wake Forest and Duke

The bayou conference is the best

Forgot The Citadel💔💔

i wanna use this in ncaa14

Ball St is Indiana

Where sac state :(

Love the concept, but App. Valley feels like it should just be dissolved and reshuffled in to the surrounding conferences, maybe Patriot League too as it defeats the purpose of cutting down on travel by going regional. N. Atlantic needs some beefing up in membership numbers or strength if the likes of UMass, UConn and Buffalo are being included, so could do with some shuffling