(07-03-2021 05:52 PM)ken d Wrote:  I realize this isn't a serious attempt to do anything except draw circles on a map of the US, but shouldn't there be some logic other than that?

SEC
LSU, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, Arkansas
Memphis, Georgia Southern, Troy, FAU, FIU, South Alabama

South Carolina, Kentucky, Western Kentucky, East Carolina, MTSU, Coastal Carolina
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia

ACC
Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech, UCF, USF
Louisville, Temple, Wake Forest, Appalachian State, Connecticut, Old Dominion

Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, NC State, Duke, Virginia
West Virginia, Pitt, Cincinnati, Boston College, Syracuse, Maryland

B1G
Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Indiana, Purdue
Toledo, Ohio, WMU, Rutgers, CMU, Buffalo

Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, Illinois
Northern Illinois, Marshall, Bowling Green, Ball State, Miami (O), Kent State

PAC
Oregon, Washington, Utah, Washington State, Oregon State, Colorado
Boise State, BYU, Utah State, Air Force, Colorado State, Wyoming

Stanford, USC, Arizona State, UCLA, Arizona, California
San Diego State, Fresno State, Nevada, San Jose State, UNLV, New Mexico

B12
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Iowa State, Tulsa, Kansas
Louisiana Tech, Louisiana, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB, UL Monroe

TCU, Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech, SMU, North Texas
Houston, Navy, Arkansas State, Army, Rice, UT San Antonio

All divisions are grouped so their champs play in the first round of the CCT. Teams within each division are in order of their ten year average Sagarin power ratings.

I'd goofed around with something like this at one point for the fun of it (and for NCAA FB when i got around to playing it, and I want to say my list seemed to be close to yours Ken, although my initial shuffle was to keep current conference as whole as possible (current g5 to start with the tier advantage, and then the p5 with the disadvantage of starting on the lower tier

I think I had paired off, with what I could come up with a shuffling of teams where needed to balance it out.. Like I think I moved Marshall over to the New Big10)

New PAC : PAC12 + MWC + BYU
New BiGXII: BIGXII + CUSA
New SEC: SEC + SunBelt
New Big10: Big10 + MAC + ND/Army/Navy
New ACC: ACC + AAC

(and I know I'm forgetting someone on the indy scene, but don't ask me who at the moment).

The only difference was I was treating it as a 'professional soccer league" with relegation and derelegation for the teams. (basically bottom 2 of the upper half, gets swapped with the top 2 of the lower half each season).

And considering the smaller sizes of the MAC/SUnBelt stadiums and attendance, of course, there'd be no way it'd fly..