Reorganizing the Group of Five Conferences | G5 | AAC | CUSA | MAC | MWC | SBC | Realignment 

How would you reorganize the G5 conferences? Here are my reorganized versions of the three overlapping G5 conferences (actual conferences in parentheses): AAC App St (SBC) Army (will join AAC) Charlotte (AAC) Coastal (SBC) Delaware (will join CUSA) ECU (AAC) JMU (SBC) Liberty (CUSA) ODU (SBC) Marshall (SBC) Navy (AAC) Temple (AAC) Sun Belt Arkansas St. (SBC) FAU (AAC) FIU (CUSA) GA ST (SBC) GA So (SBC) JSU (CUSA) Kennesaw St (will join CUSA) Memphis (AAC) MTSU (CUSA) So Alabama (SBC) Troy (SBC) UAB (AAC) USF (AAC) WKU (CUSA) CUSA LA Tech (CUSA) Missouri St. (will join CUSA) Rice (AAC) SHSU (CUSA) So. Miss (SBC) Tulane (AAC) Tulsa (AAC) TXST (SBC) UL (SBC) ULM (SBC) UNT (AAC) UTSA (AAC)

As an ECU alum I like this. Keep our core rivals of Marshall, App State, Old Dominion, Charlotte, Navy and establishing ones with Coastal, James Madison and Liberty. Great job!

As a Liberty alum, I'd be in favor of this. JMU would be a conference game for us and we'd also get to play App and Coastal.

Great vid! As you mentioned though some of these schools weren't FBS when CUSA was desperately reaching for a life line. It would've been interesting to see what it looked like with only the schools that were FBS at the time. As a TXST fan the thought of being in a conference with SHSU is gross and most other TX G5s would feel the same lol

I do like your proposed new SunBelt conference. I am a WKU aluminum. I don't want them in MAC. They belong in South. It would be great to be playing Memphis, South Florida, Florida Atlantic, Middle Tennessee, Arkansas State, South Alabama and Georgia State. The will better in football and basketball. Wow an awesome baseball conference. With regional conferences hopefully would put more fans in seats and money for schools. I hope this can happen in the couple of years.

App st and Georgia Southern have been playing each other since the 70s

A list of what schools that are in each conference would be very nice. Maybe put it as a pinned comment.

Funny note about adding UConn to the MAC: I believe that is the most realistic option for UConn if they plan on keeping their football program. I know they're holding out hope for a Big XII invite, but I think that is just a fantasy at this point. They're hanging on for their basketball programs, which are top notch, but basketball alone doesn't drive the economic bus. Football does, so until they can improve their football program, I don't see why UConn should be invited to the Big XII. The MAC is better suited for UConn football.

Missouri State... go Bears

An interesting thought experiment. I am a contrarian, so I usually poke holes in such things, but I will be nice. I don't think that it will happen, but within your parameters, it makes a great deal of sense, I don't think that breaking up USM-USA is a big deal under the circumstances. All in all my evaluation is it makes sense, but I don't see it happening.

The MWC and AAC should take their best teams and combine. I think this is a semi realistic scenario but not likely. Each conference would want to be one that got each others teams, though. That's why I kind of thought the pac 2 teams left forming a G5 super conference may work. But it doesn't look like that Scenario is gonna play out, although we have another year for it to pissibly happen. I don't think the purpose of forming a superconference is just to add a bunch of teams, It's to add the elite teams from each conference. The AAC of 3 years ago may have had the clout to try and poach but not so much now. Because you've got everybody out there trying to survive, I doubt anybody can get everybody to work together to form a superconference, and the team's not invited would strongly oppose it. I think the top team's left would benefit from getting together in being in the same conference, rather than the current setup. However, I will change my opinion. If the playoff committee, does what it did last year and picks the team with the best record and not the best G5 team. There is the theory that the P4 won't pick the best team on purpose, so the group of 5 gets embarrassed like it did thia year, and won't get included in the next round of playoff expansion. So if the committee is simply going to pick the team with the best record, it doesn't make sense to form a superconference for anybody, Because that team will have more losses than a team for a weaker G5 conference. I will be interested to see how the committee handles next year.

Sure it is a fun thought exercise but a G5 shake up is not here yet. Its coming for sure but everything is hinging on what happens with the ACC. I can see a future where all conferences are between 22 and 24 football teams per conference. The ACC breakup will likely happen sooner than we think and once it does the B1G, SEC and B12 will pick it apart. Depending on how many teams are left, they may rebuild the conference by taking teams like Oregon State, Washington State, San Diego, Tulane, etc. The current ACC has a flare of being academic elitists and how much of that remains after the breakup will determine if teams like Boise State and Fresno State get an invite. Main concerns will be to bolster their numbers to match their "peers" at 22 - 24, get the best brands they can to maintain a P4 status, and fill in the gaps geographically coast to coast. After all that is when the "fun" begins of the G5 picking up the pieces. It is anyone's guess on how all that shakes out but they would probably follow along and realize there is strength in numbers and start cannibalizing each other until they are also at 22 - 24 football teams per conference. Therefore they would be the G4 or maybe even the G3.

There are some FCS schools waiting for the call as well. Tarleton State had close to 19,000 last year, and they are very new to D1. That is very impressive and is turning heads. UCA or Central Arkansas, Tennessee State, North Dakota State, North Carolina A&T, Chattanooga, Austin Peay State and some others talked about FBS. AAC schools would not do it because They are in a conference that is making more money than other conferences.

It’s definitely an interesting thought, but would never happen. It’s not at all about what makes sense, it’s about what makes money. Conference realignment is voted on by University Presidents, they vote for the universities they prefer to be aligned with academically and athletically.

Very few people care about G5 conferences. You may not care about views (and more power to you if that's the case), but this probably isn't going to be popular. Decent thought experiment, though (I wrote that before I read terryfox's comment).