Your dream scenario for college sports, conferences and expansion

[Carolina Fever]

I would get rid of conferences all together for football, basketball and baseball. Let the 64 schools from the original Power 5 conferences plus Notre Dame all be in one big league like the NFL, NBA and MLB. Have 7 regions with 8 teams and 1 region with 9 for Notre Dame. Or even better just not pick up one school, like Vanderbilt, and have 8 regions with 8 teams. Base the teams in the regions on geography and local rivalries. In football you play each team in your region once for 7 games, have a playoff for each region based on the regular season standings for 3 more games, and then the winner of each region is ranked for a playoff against each other for 3 more games. Maybe have 3 games before regional play against teams from other regions. You can have games outside the regions for basketball and baseball, too. Just have to decide how many games total and how many times you play each team in your region for baseball since they have so many games. For basketball the teams would play the teams in their region twice home and away before having the playoffs. The regional records would be used to determine the rankings for the playoffs, though. And then you have the 8 regional winners ranked like you would for football for the next playoffs

 

[336Heel]

Football should just be one big pot with teams broken up regionally. Everything else needs to go back to geographic based conferences much as they were prior to the ACC expanding with SYR, PITT and VT.

 

[Zoo_View]

I would get rid of conferences all together for football, basketball and baseball. Let the 64 schools from the original Power 5 conferences plus Notre Dame all be in one big league like the NFL, NBA and MLB. Have 7 regions with 8 teams and 1 region with 9 for Notre Dame. Or even better just not pick up one school, like Vanderbilt, and have 8 regions with 8 teams. Base the teams in the regions on geography and local rivalries. In football you play each team in your region once for 7 games, have a playoff for each region based on the regular season standings for 3 more games, and then the winner of each region is ranked for a playoff against each other for 3 more games. Maybe have 3 games before regional play against teams from other regions. You can have games outside the regions for basketball and baseball, too. Just have to decide how many games total and how many times you play each team in your region for baseball since they have so many games. For basketball the teams would play the teams in their region twice home and away before having the playoffs. The regional records would be used to determine the rankings for the playoffs, though. And then you have the 8 regional winners ranked like you would for football for the next playoffs

I like this; but, the College Sports League (or whatever it is called) won’t have 64 or 65 teams. Forty-eight is likely the max and it could be 32-40.

Teams such as Wake, BC, Syracuse, Northwestern, Vandy, Duke, etc. likely are not getting an invite. Secondary public universities (Iowa State, Mississippi State, NC State, Georgia Tech, etc.) likely aren’t getting an invite. Some schools such as Maryland or Rutgers are likely on the outside looking in.