NCAA District Proposal

[ignazio]

In keeping with the times, I'd like to be the first to propose the FBS D1 District system. All teams must play each other within their districts. Winner of each district is invited to the playoffs with field being rounded out with at-large bids. In effort to reduce our carbon footprint, geographic proximity is our priority.

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[4Afan]

You're short 9 teams. I count 124 and there's 133 FBS teams.

What determines out of district games? Why does one district only have 6 team and one has 9?

In the 6 team district each team plays the other 5 district teams so they'd have more out of district games than in district to get to 12 games.

Does best record determine the district winner or do the top 2 teams play in a district championship game?

 

[ignazio]

You're short 9 teams. I count 124 and there's 133 FBS teams.

What determines out of district games? Why does one district only have 6 team and one has 9?

In the 6 team district each team plays the other 5 district teams so they'd have more out of district games than in district to get to 12 games.

Does best record determine the district winner or do the top 2 teams play in a district championship game?

Help me out - what teams did I miss?
I divvied up the teams into clusters, not perfect. The USC/UCLA district is difficult because of Hawaii.

 

[4Afan]

Help me out - what teams did I miss?
I divvied up the teams into clusters, not perfect. The USC/UCLA district is difficult because of Hawaii.

Not sure and may dive into it when I'm not on my 2nd bourbon. With it being 9 teams it's likely one small conference.

 

[4Afan]

Easiest way would be to take the spreadsheet you used and then find a list of all FBS teams and copy and paste that into your spreadsheet and then have it delete all duplicates. Whatever remains should be who was missed.

 

[ignazio]

I think I fixed it. Either way, have at it.

 

[Quags57]

I just looked at your Districts.

Iowa still can't score.

 

[lurker74]

so your plan is teams in groups of 8-10, geographically similar schools.

'Districts' seems too formal of name. Maybe we call them conferences, with names like Pac 10, Big 8, SWC, Big 10 (with 10 teams), etc.

Unfortunately, the TV gods have already determined that system won't work. It's been decided that we must have a few 20+ team conferences...

 

[stonedlizard]

so your plan is teams in groups of 8-10, geographically similar schools.

'Districts' seems too formal of name. Maybe we call them conferences, with names like Pac 10, Big 8, SWC, Big 10 (with 10 teams), etc.

Unfortunately, the TV gods have already determined that system won't work. It's been decided that we must have a few 20+ team conferences...

Those 20+ team conferences are going to separate into ~10 divisions anyway based on regional alignments/legacy rivalries and before you know it we'll see the "PAC8" division of the B1G.

I for one would love if NCAA could work out some collective bargaining agreement/rev share model that would get us back to more classic conference alignments...

Power 5 and auto conference championship qualifiers into a 12 team playoff

• PAC 10 (ditch Utah and Colorado)
  1. Oregon
  2. Oregon State
  3. Washington
  4. Washington St
  5. Cal
  6. Stanford
  7. USC
  8. UCLA
  9. Arizona
  10. Arizona State
• B1G (swapping in Missouri for Nebraska and ditching Rutgers, Maryland)
  1. Minnesota
  2. Michigan
  3. Michigan State
  4. Northwestern
  5. Illinois
  6. Purdue
  7. Penn State
  8. Ohio State
  9. Iowa
  10. Wisconsin
  11. Indiana
  12. Missouri
• Big 12 (ditch UCF, Cincinnati, West Virginia, BYU; add Nebraska and Texas A&M)
  1. Texas
  2. Oklahoma State
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Iowa State
  5. Kansas State
  6. Texas Tech
  7. Kansas
  8. TCU
  9. Houston
  10. Baylor
  11. Nebraska
  12. Texas A&M
• SEC (ditching Missouri & Texas A&M)
  1. Georgia
  2. Tennessee
  3. Kentucky
  4. Florida
  5. South Carolina
  6. Vanderbilt
  7. Alabama
  8. Ole Miss
  9. LSU
  10. Auburn
  11. Mississippi
  12. Arkansas
• ACC (ditch Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, Louisville, Pittsburgh; add UCF)
  1. Florida State
  2. NC State
  3. Georgia Tech
  4. Virginia Tech
  5. North Carolina
  6. Clemson
  7. Duke
  8. Virginia
  9. Wake Forest
  10. UCF

Strong New Conferences with potential for auto-qualifiers from their conference championship

• Big East
  1. Louisville
  2. Pittsburgh
  3. Cincinnati
  4. Boston College
  5. Miami
  6. UCF
  7. West Virginia
  8. Rutgers
• Mountain Western Athletic Conference
  1. UNLV
  2. Boise St
  3. San Jose St
  4. Air Force
  5. Wyoming
  6. Fresno State
  7. Utah State
  8. Hawaii
  9. Colorado State
  10. Nevada
  11. New Mexico
  12. San Diego State
  13. Utah
  14. BYU

 

[ignazio]

If we go with districts, teams can always claim a “District IV-AA Championship” on their marketing materials.
Also we need antitrust protections against legal action sought by historically marginalized teams.

 

[niualum2002]

Those 20+ team conferences are going to separate into ~10 divisions anyway based on regional alignments/legacy rivalries and before you know it we'll see the "PAC8" division of the B1G.

I for one would love if NCAA could work out some collective bargaining agreement/rev share model that would get us back to more classic conference alignments...

Power 5 and auto conference championship qualifiers into a 12 team playoff

• PAC 10 (ditch Utah and Colorado)
  1. Oregon
  2. Oregon State
  3. Washington
  4. Washington St
  5. Cal
  6. Stanford
  7. USC
  8. UCLA
  9. Arizona
  10. Arizona State
• B1G (swapping in Missouri for Nebraska and ditching Rutgers, Maryland)
  1. Minnesota
  2. Michigan
  3. Michigan State
  4. Northwestern
  5. Illinois
  6. Purdue
  7. Penn State
  8. Ohio State
  9. Iowa
  10. Wisconsin
  11. Indiana
  12. Missouri
• Big 12 (ditch UCF, Cincinnati, West Virginia, BYU; add Nebraska and Texas A&M)
  1. Texas
  2. Oklahoma State
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Iowa State
  5. Kansas State
  6. Texas Tech
  7. Kansas
  8. TCU
  9. Houston
  10. Baylor
  11. Nebraska
  12. Texas A&M
• SEC (ditching Missouri & Texas A&M)
  1. Georgia
  2. Tennessee
  3. Kentucky
  4. Florida
  5. South Carolina
  6. Vanderbilt
  7. Alabama
  8. Ole Miss
  9. LSU
  10. Auburn
  11. Mississippi
  12. Arkansas
• ACC (ditch Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, Louisville, Pittsburgh; add UCF)
  1. Florida State
  2. NC State
  3. Georgia Tech
  4. Virginia Tech
  5. North Carolina
  6. Clemson
  7. Duke
  8. Virginia
  9. Wake Forest
  10. UCF

Strong New Conferences with potential for auto-qualifiers from their conference championship

• Big East
  1. Louisville
  2. Pittsburgh
  3. Cincinnati
  4. Boston College
  5. Miami
  6. UCF
  7. West Virginia
  8. Rutgers
• Mountain Western Athletic Conference
  1. UNLV
  2. Boise St
  3. San Jose St
  4. Air Force
  5. Wyoming
  6. Fresno State
  7. Utah State
  8. Hawaii
  9. Colorado State
  10. Nevada
  11. New Mexico
  12. San Diego State
  13. Utah
  14. BYU

This is fun. Good work. I’m going to swap Colorado for Missouri in the Big Ten though, keep Missouri in the SEC and move Vanderbilt to the ACC instead of UCF.

I don’t see Colorado not even being in the Mountain Western Athletic Conference especially with the TV ratings they drew this year regardless if you like Deion or not.

 

[Snetsrak61]

NCAA needs a pro soccer style relegation model imo.

National 12 team premier league that's plays a 11 game round Robin regular season (plus 2 "friendly's") and a 4 team playoff.

Tier 2 is 24 teams split E/W regional tier with 4 New Years Bowl games between the top 4 in each deciding promotion.

Tier 3 and below is 10-12 more concentric regional groupings of 8-10, also using lesser bowl games as promotion up/down tiers for the top 1-2 in each conference.