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Future Super Conference
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:24 am
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:24 am
While I'm not a fan of the super-conference model, it appears to be a likely outcome. Should it come to pass, this is how I'd like to see it structured:
32 schools are in Division 1
The remaining 100 or so schools are Division 2
The schools currently in the FCS are Division 3
and so on...
Four eight-team divisions sorted roughly by geographic region.
Scheduling:
7 games within a school's region
1 game with a rotating team from each of the other 3 regions
2 games outside the super conference (i.e. Div 2 or 3)
4 division winners play to determine national champ
North:
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
South:
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Ole Miss
Tennessee
Texas A&M
East:
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West:
Arizona State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Texas
UCLA
USC
Utah
Washington
Potential Playoff Matchup:
Semi-final Game (North v. South & East v. West):
Penn State v. Alabama
&
Clemson v. Southern Cal
Championship Game:
Alabama v. Southern Cal
I originally wanted a 40 team conference with 4 10-team divisions. While this is more inclusive, it's much harder to build a schedule with 40 and I'm not confident there are enough worthy schools to fill out the remaining 8 spots.
What are your thoughts on this setup?
32 schools are in Division 1
The remaining 100 or so schools are Division 2
The schools currently in the FCS are Division 3
and so on...
Four eight-team divisions sorted roughly by geographic region.
Scheduling:
7 games within a school's region
1 game with a rotating team from each of the other 3 regions
2 games outside the super conference (i.e. Div 2 or 3)
4 division winners play to determine national champ
North:
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
South:
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Ole Miss
Tennessee
Texas A&M
East:
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West:
Arizona State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Texas
UCLA
USC
Utah
Washington
Potential Playoff Matchup:
Semi-final Game (North v. South & East v. West):
Penn State v. Alabama
&
Clemson v. Southern Cal
Championship Game:
Alabama v. Southern Cal
I originally wanted a 40 team conference with 4 10-team divisions. While this is more inclusive, it's much harder to build a schedule with 40 and I'm not confident there are enough worthy schools to fill out the remaining 8 spots.
What are your thoughts on this setup?
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Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:27 am to TPS Report
The SEC and Big Ten would probably never let that happen
The amount of money they make from the Big and SEC networks, the title games has to be insane.
The amount of money they make from the Big and SEC networks, the title games has to be insane.
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 9:28 am
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:31 am to TPS Report
Why would you include Texas A&M, but leave out Miss. St.? Stadium size? Don’t forget Miss. St. spent 3 weeks at #1 in the CFP rankings. What has A&M done?
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:35 am to LSUbasketballfan
What has Texas A&M done? Three guys at once.
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 9:37 am
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:40 am to Gatorbait2008
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The SEC and Big Ten would probably never let that happen
Agreed.
SEC becomes NFC and Big Ten becomes AFC a more likely outcome.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:40 am to TPS Report
The B1G and SEC aren't going to combine. Two 20-team conferences seems the most likely outcome.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:40 am to Gatorbait2008
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The SEC and Big Ten would probably never let that happen
The amount of money they make from the Big and SEC networks, the title games has to be insane.
Exactly. The SEC and the Big Ten steer this ship. What you're witnessing is the end game. We're creating the USA and the USSR, not the United Nations.
Just one more conference (ACC) to plunder, and that will be that. The SEC and Big Ten will both almost certainly stop at 20 schools (B1G would expand beyond for Notre Dame). Will it stay like that forever? Probably not. But I think the hierarchy for a long time will be:
Tier 1: B1G, SEC (significant financial advantage, control the majority of the playoff slots, and effectively complete control of college football landscape)
Tier 2: Big 12 (raids the ACC's best leftovers, survives, but not necessarily thriving in football, will still have some periodically competitive teams, being a tier 1 basketball conference helps keep it reasonably competitive from a financial standpoint)
Tier 3: ACC, Pac (reload with best of the rest, a glorified G5 replacement)
Tier 4: the rest (I'm not convinced this really looks any different than the current bottom half of the G5)
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:47 am to TPS Report
Aggy pretending to be in the South with UTrans in the West all because Austin is less than 2 hours west of College Station 
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:52 am to NFLSU
4 conferences with 20 teams each. Each conference has an east and west or a north and south. Each conference has a winner making 8 team playoff. You play 9 games inside your division and then play 3 more completely outside your conference.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:56 am to TPS Report
You cut out a bunch of schools. Miss State. Arkansas. Missouri.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:00 am to TPS Report
What criteria would exclude teams like Houston and Cincinnati?
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:00 am to TPS Report
Explain why the SEC should dilute its brand by merging with the B10? I don’t see any benefit but to B10. It would automatically screw the SEC out of the HUGE new TV package in a few years and futures deals.
The population shift is southern. Think 50 years from now. The SEC conference I see adding 2 maybe 4 more teams and that’s IT! ( FL ST, Clemson, North Carolina and Virginia Tech )
Play some B10 schools? Sure. Merge and giveaway the “IT JUST MEANS MORE” brand ? Hell no.
The population shift is southern. Think 50 years from now. The SEC conference I see adding 2 maybe 4 more teams and that’s IT! ( FL ST, Clemson, North Carolina and Virginia Tech )
Play some B10 schools? Sure. Merge and giveaway the “IT JUST MEANS MORE” brand ? Hell no.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:10 am to gamecockman12
Missouri is a opens up a huge market...St Louis
So will not happen ever. To much money.
So will not happen ever. To much money.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:19 am to TPS Report
Sankey said they are trying to do all of these things to make themselves what we already are. It needs to be a super good deal for him to buy in.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:25 am to TPS Report
Proposed Super Division Alignment
Atlantic
Clemson (T1), Florida State (T1), Florida (T1), Miami (T2), Georgia Tech (T3), South Carolina (T2), NC State (T2), Louisville (T2)
Southern
Alabama (T1), Auburn (T2), Georgia (T1), LSU (T1), Tennessee (T1), Ole Miss (T2), Arkansas (T2), Mississippi State (T3)
Midwest
Ohio State (T1), Michigan (T1), Penn State (T1), Notre Dame (T1), Michigan State (T2), Wisconsin (T2), Iowa (T2), Pittsburgh (T3)
Central
Oklahoma (T1), Texas (T1), Texas A&M (T1), Nebraska (T2), TCU (T2), Oklahoma State (T2), Missouri (T3), Kansas State (T3)
Western
Boise State (T2), North Dakota State (T3), Utah (T2), BYU (T3), Arizona (T3), Arizona State (T2), West Virginia (T2), Cincinnati (T3)
Pacific
USC (T1), Oregon (T1), Washington (T2), Stanford (T2), California (T3), UCLA (T2), Washington State (T3), Oregon State (T3)*
Atlantic
Clemson (T1), Florida State (T1), Florida (T1), Miami (T2), Georgia Tech (T3), South Carolina (T2), NC State (T2), Louisville (T2)
Southern
Alabama (T1), Auburn (T2), Georgia (T1), LSU (T1), Tennessee (T1), Ole Miss (T2), Arkansas (T2), Mississippi State (T3)
Midwest
Ohio State (T1), Michigan (T1), Penn State (T1), Notre Dame (T1), Michigan State (T2), Wisconsin (T2), Iowa (T2), Pittsburgh (T3)
Central
Oklahoma (T1), Texas (T1), Texas A&M (T1), Nebraska (T2), TCU (T2), Oklahoma State (T2), Missouri (T3), Kansas State (T3)
Western
Boise State (T2), North Dakota State (T3), Utah (T2), BYU (T3), Arizona (T3), Arizona State (T2), West Virginia (T2), Cincinnati (T3)
Pacific
USC (T1), Oregon (T1), Washington (T2), Stanford (T2), California (T3), UCLA (T2), Washington State (T3), Oregon State (T3)*
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 10:26 am
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:26 am to TPS Report
Never happen
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:32 am to TPS Report
Post less! 3 posts in 5 years is too much for you!
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:42 am to TPS Report
This is dumb.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 10:46 am to TPS Report
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Future Super Conference
While I'm not a fan of the super-conference model, it appears to be a likely outcome
Here is the only way to do a true super conferecne.
-60 teams.
-5 mini-leagues each with 12 teams. These leagues are based heavily and almost excusively on geography
-Each of those leagues is separted into two divisions of 6. The winner of each dvision plays the other in a league championship game
-The winners of those league championship games all go to the national playoffs against the other league winners, plus 3 other at large.
We could call the leagues "southeastern", or "pacific coast", for example. I think it's crazy enough that it just might work.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 11:27 am to TPS Report
The main thing I'd implement if I was the czar of college football is some kind of relegation system. That would be amazing. Have a couple of tiers of leagues and you could move programs up or down based on the season's results.
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