What If Conferences Were By Location in CFB? 

What conferences were your favorites? And are there any other ways to make conferences other than by location for a future video?

Giving me ideas for my next conference alignment on ncaa14 😂

the power 6/group 6 is honestly the best option out of a massive CFB relignment. And it can still lead to some very fun and interesting games. As well as a fun and exciting 24 team playoff, where the top 3 from each conference make it. Imagine a 12 game season, then another 48 of the most exciting and important games to end the season. I'm down for it. Sign me up for the realignment committee.

Thank you! I went to WVU when it was a member of the Big East, and that made sense. As students (or alumni) we could drive to away games in 8 hours or less. Our rivals made sense, especially Pitt and Penn State. Now, every team in our conference is on the other side of the Mississippi...CRAZY! I wish the NCAA would stop being more concerned about money, and focus simply on student/athlete education; but it is all about the money.

Do a video on “What if the old Southwest Conference never dissolved”

The second scenario is great. Maybe have an 8 team playoff with the conference champ from P6 plus top two team from G6.

0:01 Introduction 1:25 Alternate Reality 2:50 12 Teams per Conference, with potentially two 6-team divisions within the conference 1:52 WCC (Brown) - The West Coast Conference (California, Oregon, and Washington: Warm and wet weather all year round) 2:14 RMC (Purple) - Rocky Mountain Conference (Utah, it's border states, and Montana) 2:28 GPC (Yellow) - Great Plains Conference (Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, New Mexico) 2:58 Brazos Conference (Orange) - TEXAS 3:18 GLC (Blue) - The Great Lakes Conference (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern Indiana, Illinois) 3:34 ORC (Red) - The Ohio River Conference (Ohio, Southern Indiana, Northeast Kentucky) 3:55 GCC (Aqua) - The Gulf Coast Conference (Arkansas, Louisiana , Mississippi, South Alabama, a small western slice of Tennessee) 4:12 SC (Sandy Sun) - The Sunshine Conference (Florida, Alabama, Southern Georgia) 4:28 MAC (Green) - The Mid-Atlantic Conference (Northern Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia) 4:44 CC (Grey) - The Cumberland Conference (Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia) 5:06 NEC (Black) - New England Conference (Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Maryland, Rhode Island, New York, Long Island, Brooklyn) (I'd prefer East Coast or Northeast) The BIG Conferences 6:48 Pac-12 North and South 7:05 Big 12 North (Not Texas) and South (Texas) 7:18 Big Ten West and East - The Illinois Indiana Split

This is brilliant! Love your Power 6 and group of 6 model. The big wigs of the college football world should take notes.

That was very very well done! I like the first map before you split everything into P6 and G6 or whatever. That actually looked awesome.

I'm using this to rebuild my NCAA 2013 conferences. Thank you

Did you know in 1900-1912 Ohio State was in a conference with only Ohio school so that first use to be correct

Second one (power 6/group of 6) looks great 👍

Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Va Tech, BC, Temple, Rutgers, Maryland, Navy, Army, UConn

I am glad you included my Alma Mater The Jacksonville State Gamecocks. I was on the baseball team for 2 seasons, the Football team for 2 seasons and I almost joined the Basketball team. JSU was a Division 2 program back then and a powerhouse in all the major men’s sports. I have 2 National championships Rings in Baseball 1991,1992 and we lost the National championship game 3-0 in 1991 and won the National championship in 1992. The Basketball program played for the National championship in 1992 but came up just short.

I’ll agree with anything that gets App St out of the Sun Belt

Awesome I have been a fan of this bumping up the top FCS schools and making 72 teams tiers. I would however have a champion for P6 and the G6

The first one would be bonkers. Tennessee would own that conference but never have the strength of schedule to do anything with it. The second one is pretty good, though.

I rarely comment , but I loved this too much not to. The first geographically relevant plan cures my college football OCD! The second plan makes perfect sense!

Up next we have the Cumberland conference 222-0 pretty good

For Power 6, the Big10 east would be a powerhouse. It would be weird having Iowa State with the Big 10. Also, if we went by location, I think Iowa should be in the "Great Lakes Conference" because Iowa has rivalries with Minnesota and Wisconsin. These rivalries date back up to 100 years.

I like your ideas. You evidently know a lot of geography, college football, and universities...

You conference alignments make more sense than anything said on RU-vid, FoxSports, or ESPN

I feel like if the first map was how the NCAA was originally designed, and was kept permanent, it would likely make some teams that are poorer quality a stronger program today. If a team like Sand Diego State was playing USC and UCLA, or if TCU was always playing Texas they could be a stronger program today. The greats today has to come from somewhere, and obviously size of school is a huge factor, but the strength of a team’s conference was likely one as well. There are plenty of smaller schools that have proven themselves to be tough opponents that can’t just be slept on (Norte Dame has 8,000 students)

Its definately interesting. I noticed the B1G in your 2nd scenario was very close to it's original footprint.

I’m sure most think the same way. l would add one other wrinkle to this equation. That there should be a upper tier of teams that average over 30-35k regular home attendance over a prescribed number of years, that they get in (if they choose), or out of the top tier of teams. This again rewards the fans. This will set goals for up and coming programs, and give them a reward for their efforts. It will also punish a few teams who have little fan support, by putting them on notice that they will have to temporarily be dropped to a 2nd tier if they don’t increase attendance. This would rid a team like Alabama or Ohio St from playing in a conference with a school that has a 25k stadium and averages 19k at home.

I like it. Really like the 2nd even more.

The second one is essentially what we had before the big east desovled its football.

WVU and Hawaii are the only 2 division I schools I know of who play all their conference away games in a different time zone.

What happened to your old Vids you were my favorite CFB YT channel 😭

I love these conferences. If they ever were to happen I’d hope the big 12 would call its divisions the Big 12 Texas and the Big 12 USA. That would really make winning the state championship in Texas mean something!!!

Memphis, UCF, Houston and Cincinnati makin the jump nice

I like the power 6 breakdown

I liked the first map. Putting all the Texas schools in one conference makes sense. Also, being from Ohio, The Ohio Valley Conference is an assured victory each year for Ohio State. But I think it would hurt their rankings, because they aren't playing any top teams. Also you took away one of the longest rivalries it College Football, Ohio State vs Michigan.

Becoming just a regional conference is what killed the SWAC causing half of them merge with the big8 to become the big12.

*cries in purdue fan*

As a Chattanooga alumni it would be great to see us play a team that anybody can actually recognize.

This video has only become more relevant in recent years

I might be the only person in America who misses Big East football.

Well, here I am after the Oklahoma and Texas press release.

this aint a hypothetical. this is a retrospective on what used to be

Hawaii, San Diego State, BYU and UNR belongs in a P6. If you do 16? Those 4 would fit. New Mexico State is unwanted. I could see Northern Arizona in their place. Lamar, Jacksonville State, Youngstown State, South Dakota State, Sacramento State, Eastern Kentucky, Towson, Stony Brook, Missouri State, Illinois State, Indiana State, North Carolina A&T, Florida A&M and the likes are good targets. Tennessee State as well. D2's Midwestern State, West Texas A&M (former FBS independent), Central Oklahoma and CSU-Dominguez Hills (have close to 30,000 seat stadium that is on campus that they share with a pro-soccer team which an NFL team used it temp.) Wichita State, Long Beach State, UTRGV, Fullerton State all looking to restart football. North Florida and FGCU are interesting ones looking at starting football. West Florida and North Alabama could be options as well. With the virus that is going around? The schools at the lower levels may make moves were a lot of the small private schools could close for good. D3 could be gone, the larger schools moving up to D1 and the rest would merged what is left of D2, D3 and NAIA. D1 would be broken into 1A and 1AA for all sports which would mean about 180 schools at the FBS levels.

The point of the conferences was playing teams by proximity, because that was before the flew. They took the bus to the games.

I'm actually working on a thing where every conference becomes a Super Conference (16 teams each). Any interest on a video on them idea?

The reasons we have conferences is grouping schools by stadium size, attendance, fan base and that usually correlates with performance. I would like to see more Independents. I’d like to see teams that can’t compete in the entirety of these conferences be given an offer as an Affiliated Independent where they may retain 3-5 games including their rivals - Vanderbilt, Duke, Wake Forest, Boston College, Rutgers, Northwestern. Blowup the American and those teams Independents. And the team with the highest ranking plays Notre Dame for the Independent Championship in St. Louis.

when this video was made before the Jeff Traylor dynasty at UTSA and it shows

I was gonna say that UTEP being so close to both New Mexico schools but New Mexico and New Mexico State playing in the same conference as both Iowa Schools would be way out there lol

Flash forward 2 years. One of the two teams you elevated from the FCS has actually made the jump to FBS. JMU has, while NDSU has been unable to. I wonder what the next realignment holds for them

Love the video concept mate! Quality content!

How about type of location? NCAA is all state-wide schools. PCFC is Private College Football and runs off of private institutions football clubs. Finally there is the CDF or City Division Football which has your single city areas like Portland, Boise and Sand Deigo.

This is where ncaa needs to grow a pair and jump in and save college football

All 5 Wake Forest Fans are fuming at being left out of a conference with their Tobacco Road rivals. I guess that's what they get for relocating from Wake Forest to Winston-Salem

Atlantic Seaboard Conference: Boston College, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, F_U, Georgia Southern, Miami, Navy, NC State, Old Dominion, Rutgers and South Carolina

I’m fine as a die hard Troy fan playing MTSU from the battle of the palladium and bringing back the rivalry against Jacksonville State

I think it was a great idea to put North Dakota State in the FBS

If you were going to move the AAC's geographic locale back to the northeast, you should have just renamed it the Big East like it used to be. Also, wouldn't an East/West division setup make more sense for the Northwestern Conference? It wouldn't be perfect either, but there's a clear space between the 7 western schools and 5 eastern ones, as opposed to awkwardly linking Colorado and Wyoming with Iowa and Illinois.

What about Rutgers and USC being in the same conference now?

What schools would you look at elevating from D2 to D1 if any? Or conference alignment for D2 schools

the rocky mtn would be no better than a group of 5 conference

It is overall great except for Michigan not being with Ohio state

tThe expanded Atlantic Coast Conference Boston college UMass UConn Syracuse, Army , Navy , Pitt Temple , Rutgers , Penn State, Maryland call it North South Clemson , NC State, Unc , Duke, Georgia Tech, FS U , U of Miami, U of Virginia, Virginia Tech, W Virginia Louisville Each division plays it traditional rivals Northern schools play mostly northern South vs south then division winners play in a true North South conference Championship You would own the east coast TV major markets in NE , New York Penn DC down to Fla The rivalry would be what people want and care about travel time would be reduced fans could go to more games etc

the first map went against what you were trying to do. Having North Dakota St. in the same conference with New Mexico defeats the purpose of having close rivals. the 2nd map makes so much sense that it will never happen good job on that. What happens to Navy?

Why is App State elevated to the higher level? WVU does not want to play little App State in a conference. BYU is a major program. Top 20 in attendance.

Once upon a time, conferences were based on geography.

I love my new conference

I would put New Mexico in the Rocky Mountain conference because the mountains do go to New Mexico then I would add South Dakota State and South Dakota or South Dakota State and Missouri State

By putting Texas and Oklahoma in different divisions of the same conference you are doing away with a 114 year old rivalry, or forcing them to play the same conference opponent in a non-conference type game each year, or doing that stupid thing the SEC does where you only play certain teams from the other division in your conference. Just put them in the same division!

This gonna be really drawn out but here's my idea. 18 team conferences with geographically aligned "feeder" conferences where teams can be promoted or demoted based on performance. (ex. Tulane currently in the "SEC," but they could be replaced by someone else if they struggle consistently.) - Atlantic SuperConference : (All southern states that directly border the Atlantic) North Wake Forest North Liberty North North Carolina North North Carolina State North Maryland North Duke North Appalachian State North Virginia North Virginia Tech * South Georgia South Clemson South Central Florida South Florida State South Coastal Carolina South South Carolina South Florida South Florida Miami South Georgia Tech - BIG 12 : (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Dakotas) Texas Christian Texas Baylor Texas San Antonio Texas Tech Wyoming Houston Texas A&M Southern Methodist Texas El Paso North Texas Colorado - Gulf SuperConference : (All gulf bordering states with exception of Florida.. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska) East Tennessee East Alabama East Ole Miss East Kentucky East Louisville East Mississippi State East Memphis East Auburn East West Virginia * West Kansas State West Louisiana State West Oklahoma State West Tulane West Oklahoma West Arkansas West Kansas West Missouri West Nebraska - North SuperConference : (All northern atlantic states, and pretty much all the same teams as before) East Ohio State East Michigan East Pennsylvania State East Syracuse East Cincinnati East Pittsburgh East Rutgers East Michigan State East Boston College * West Illinois West Purdue West Notre Dame West Minnesota West Wisconsin West Iowa West Iowa State West Indiana West Northwestern - Pacific SuperConference : (Pacific bordering states, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada) North Utah North Oregon North Oregon State North Washington North Boise State North Washington State North Brigham Young North Nevada Las Vegas North Nevada * South Southern California South California Los Angeles South Arizona South San Jose State South Fresno State South Stanford South California Berkeley South San Diego State South Arizona State

What if they had a group of 5 playoff champ vs power 5 playoff champ 🤔

Can you do videos for these realignment options? (Each team sets beside their assumed local rival.) POWER 4 16 TEAMS EACH NORTHEAST (ACC) | DC RUSTBELT DIVISION BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Penn St, Ohio St, ND, Mich, Mich St. WOODS DIVISION Maryland, WV, Virginia, VT, Duke, Wake, NC State, UNC SOUTHEAST (SEC) | ATLANTA HILLS DIVISION Clemson, SC, Georgia, GT, Tenn, Vandy, Louisville, UK GULF DIVISION Florida, Miami, Florida St, LSU, Auburn, Bama MSST, Ole Miss CENTRAL (Big 16) | KC FARMLAND DIVISION Indiana, PUR, Illinois, NW, Minn, Wisc, Iowa, ISU HEARTLAND DIVISION ARK, Mizzou, OU, OK State, Kansas, KSU, Colorado, NEB WESTERN (Pac) | PHOENIX SOUTHWEST DIVISION A&M, Texas, Baylor, TCU, TTU, Utah, Arizona, ASU PACIFIC DIVISION UCLA, USC, CAL, Stanford, Oregon, ORST, Wash, WSU -------------- GROUP 5 14 TEAMS EACH Mid West Conf | INDIANAPOLIS EAST DIVISION Akron, Kent St, Cincinnati, Ohio BG, Toledo, Miami-Oh WEST DIVISION NDSU, SDSU, CMU, EMU, NIU, WMU, Ball St East Coast Conf | DC NORTH DIVISION Army, Buffalo, UConn, Umass, Rutgers, Temple, Navy SOUTH DIVISION APP, Charlotte, Coastal, ECU, JMU, Liberty, Old Dominion Old South Conf | ATLANTA EAST DIVISION FAU, FIU, UCF, USF, GAST, Kennesaw, Georgia Southern WEST DIVISION Marshall, WKU, Memphis, MTSU, UAB, South Ala Troy Mid South Conf | DALLAS EAST DIVISION Ark St, USM, LA Tech, ULM Tulane, ULL, Tulsa WEST DIVISION Houston, Rice, UTSA, Texas St, UNT, UTEP, SMU Mountain Top Conf | PHOENIX EAST DIVISION Air Force, CSU, BYU, Utah St, New Mex, NMST, Wyoming WEST DIVISION Nevada, UNLV, Fresno, SJST, Hawaii, SDST, Boise St

Custom CFB conferences Power 6: (12 teams each) ACC: Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami-FL, NC State, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. Big Ten: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin. Big XII: Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech. EAC: Boston College, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UCF, USF, West Virginia. Pac-12: Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State. SEC: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt. Group of 5: (14 teams each) AAC: Boise State, Colorado State, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Portland State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Utah State, Wyoming. C-USA: Army, Appalachian State, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, FAU, FIU, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Liberty, Massachusetts, Navy, Old Dominion. MAC: Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Marshall, Miami-OH, Northern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan. MWC: Air Force, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, New Mexico State, North Texas, San Diego State, San Jose State, SMU, Texas State, UNLV, UTEP, UTSA. Sun Belt: Arkansas State, Central Arkansas, Houston, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Rice, South Alabama, Southern Mississippi, Troy, Tulane, Tulsa, Western Kentucky.

Yeah WVU would have a fit and a half if they ever had to share a conference with us known as "Little Brother" in Marshall.

The "Gulf Coast Conference " where 7 of the 12 teams are not on the coast.

Georgia Tech and Clemson must join S.E.C for me to me happy during College Football season as full members.

I like the G6 and P6 scenario

Personally I love the jumbled mess of the Conferences. It keeps it all quirky and not just about the elite teams.

Why not put Ga. State in the Mid Atlantic and move App State to the Cumberland? That seems to be a closer to your map outline. Other than that, this looks pretty good. Of course, the same 5 or 6 teams would always be in the playoffs.😒

This, but give Missouri and Iowa state back to the Big12, move A&M and UH to the SEC, and Cincinnati to the big 10

Fun episode!

rewatching this a year later and I think the Group of 6 and power 6 ways are the best for realignment but with the Playoff committee going from 4 to 12 teams relatively soon I dont think realignment will happen for another 10 years maybe to be completely honest, because it always feels like realignment happens every 10 years to begin with.

Rutgers and USC are going to be in the same conference, soon

Organizing conferences geographically makes sense, but creating 12 conferences doesn't. Create 8 super conferences with 16-18 teams each, with 2, 8-9 team divisions each. The winner of each division within the conferences play for the conference championship. Those 8 conference champions play for the CFP national championship. That format would create more parity in recruiting and would finally allow the CFP championship to be decided on the field instead of by coaches, sportswriters, or computer polls.

Do you mean fbs?

That would be bad for Liberty. They were 17th ranked last year and get stuck with 2 FCS schools and Old Dominion?

I like this a lot.

Why is Appalachian State in the AAC but no Marshall

I agree with you

You think that the college football season is gonna get delayed due to the coronavirus

James Madison is a great idea for the FBS

What would be the point spread on Ohio St vs Bowling Green?

Awesome work.

Can’t wait for UGA and ECU to be an annual game

Florida State would only have one real team to compete against Alabama. We could win a national championship. 🤯

I like it!

App State gets demoted but Charlotte makes it in?

Like the second group of six other then I would a 6 more FCS schools. Eastern Kentucky, Sam Houston State, Villanova, VMI, The Citadel and Youngstown State, Missouri State (Maybe) and Delaware (Maybe) been wanting to make the Jump. I think it would be cool to pull the server Academy and bring up VMI and the Citadel and add a couple close fcs School to make a Service Academy Group of Five Coference so the commander-in -chief Trophy is always live and I can See VMI vs Navy become another major Rivalry. Plus there group of Five would be granted the rights to the Armed Forces Bowl, Military Bowl and Independence Bowl and possibly College football Play off. Also the SEC second group might go as the falling. SEC North(River Division) Kentucky (LSU) (Battle for the Burbon Barrel) Louisville (Auburn)(had a fun kick off game when Lamar was a freshman) Memphis (Mississippi State) Missouri (Arkansas) Tennessee (Alabama) Vanderbilt (Old Miss)

Hmm. Put Southern Miss with the LA schools; La Tech, ULL, ULM & Tulane. Then maybe you would have a great idea for your Group of 6

Hey can you do every college football locations

West Virginia University should be in whatever conference Virginia is in!!!

8:50 West and east divisions seem more logical I think.

So basically mid atlantic and sunshine are the only good ones