With four D1 conferences, it’s about time we finally get the 8 team playoff system we deserve. Each team plays every team in their division.
These 11-game seasons would manage to maintain rivalries that would have otherwise been lost from the conference realignment, while also removing cup-cake games against lower-level opponents in weaker conferences that would no longer be considered D1. However, because there would be so much potential for lost rivalries from this massive conference realignment, each team would be allowed 1 cross-division rivalry game as we as a non-conference rivalry game. Because how can we currently consider these conferences D1 if they don’t even have a chance to compete for the championship?īecause each conference would be comprised of a whopping 18 teams, each school would focus almost entirely on competing solely in their 9-team division. Any conferences remaining outside of the four – such as the Sun Belt, MAC, MWC, C-USA, and AAC – could compete for their own playoffs at a lower level. Since schools that compete outside of a P5 conference already don’t stand a chance to earn a spot in the current CFB playoffs, these four conferences would entirely makeup D1 college football. If each conference was stacked with 18 teams, that would allow each team to focus on their division and offer their region’s best school to compete in the playoffs. With only four Division 1 conferences, we would get an even number of conference champions, which would allow for a much smoother playoff selection process. It needs to be broken apart and divvied up to conferences that control their respected regions. The Big 12 is being held together by an Oklahoma shoestring and simultaneously torn apart by a failing Longhorn network. Gone are the days of a national contending Longhorn program facing off against long-time rival Texas A&M on Thanksgiving day. Gone are the days of the dominant Big 12 with Oklahoma taking on Nebraska, Missouri, or Colorado. So here is my solution to the problem, one final college football conference realignment.įinal College Football Conference Realignmentįirst off, let’s do the Big 12 a favor and put it out of its misery. This consistently results in a skewed and biased playoff system. The problem remains that the current ‘Power 5’ conferences of the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, PAC 12, and Big 12, are completely lopsided in terms of competition and number of members. The remaining football programs formed the AAC with some of the other better schools from the Conference USA. Louisville, Pitt, and Syracuse left to join the ACC, Rutgers joined the Big Ten (for some absurd reason), and the Big 12 desperately reached across the country to pick up West Virginia. It’s no secret that ever since the Big East dissolved for football and the ‘P5’ system rose to power, college football conferences have been fairly lackluster.
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