Ideal conference size
- Thread starter BryceC
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Whatever it takes for Iowa State to survive. At this point, the number of teams in our conference seems minor. I just want to be a power conference with some fun matchups.
Good point. I guess you'd have an imbalance. 12 would be better. I still think 14 is the maximum for a real conference.How do you play half of 7 teams every year?
The team that gets stuck with an open date the last or second to last week of the season always feels like they got the shaft. It doesn't do a team a lot of good to play every week and finally get an open date after it has all happened. Getting a week to get healthy during the season can be very helpful.
What about the 13-week season? What about all 13-team conference playing 12 games (rotating one team out each year). This works perfectly mathematically because there are 130 Division I teams, so there would be ten conferences...the Big A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H...etc.
Also, expand season to 15 weeks so that you can play in-state rival or an exhibition cupcake match with northern teams taking a trip down south for a mini-bowl game on the 3 off-weeks so that teams can get their bucks and nobody get left out. As for actual bowl games, meh. Can't remember the last time I saw a good one, can you?
The geographical and numerical relationships have no relation to the conference names anymore anyway. Shake it all up and see how it rolls out.
Also, expand season to 15 weeks so that you can play in-state rival or an exhibition cupcake match with northern teams taking a trip down south for a mini-bowl game on the 3 off-weeks so that teams can get their bucks and nobody get left out. As for actual bowl games, meh. Can't remember the last time I saw a good one, can you?
The geographical and numerical relationships have no relation to the conference names anymore anyway. Shake it all up and see how it rolls out.
You wouldn’t need to rotate anyone out. If there are 13 teams and 12 games, you would play everyone.
32
32 is the answer
2 super conferences of 32
32 is the answer
2 super conferences of 32
- 2 conferences of 32 teams
- 4 regional divisions of 8 teams per conference
- Playoff of division top two to conference champ or just division champs to Conference champ
- championship game between 2 conference champions
- Playoff of division top two to conference champ or just division champs to Conference champ
- 4 regional divisions of 8 teams per conference
I'll so tired of this. Bigger is not always better. Like, what's wrong with being below average.....?
I think you’re getting closer…
We need to move away from a traditional scheduling mentality. If Amazon, Apple, and Netflix are potentially looking to get involved for tier 2 rights, they want content. And that doesn’t mean playing the Kennesaw States and “Inset Directional Schools” of the world.
(For basketball) You can easily construct a 16, 18, or even 20 team conference and play all schools in your geographic half in a round robin, and then play each team in the other “division” once. You don’t keep the Big 12/SEC challenge, etc. either by the way.
Football is a little more tricky. I don’t think you add games…too tough on kids’ bodies. You either need to play everyone in your division and do the old Big 12 rotation or only the winners of the divisions play in the conference championship.
Note - I doubt we keep the Iowa game…certainly not the football one. There’s no reason.
Cheesy but nostalgia-wondrous.
Drive-to-bucket-Cy is the best logo BY FAR among those.
There are 69 Power 5 schools as it is, promote one more (I vote Boise State), form seven geographic conferences of 10 schools each, everybody plays a 9-game round robin and 3 non cons of their choosing among the 70 teams; conference champs and 5 at larges make the CFP. Schools get TV money based on how many people tune in to their games.
Never will happen but it’s what I would do if in charge.
Never will happen but it’s what I would do if in charge.
My way of the B1G and SEC getting to 32 teams each, 4 regional divisions of 8 teams each is about as close as you can get to that. And is still a possibility.
If they just keep adding. And dont decide to kick out teams. We may get there....not likely but maybe.
I can’t see them going that far. There gets to be a point of diminishing returns.
Yeah, I believe you are right, that is what will stop it. The only way it gets to that point is if the Media partners push for more content. As well as we get to an uneven form of distribution. But then that might blow the entire thing up.
Honestly, I dont think anyone could have predicted where we are at a couple decades ago, so we are all probably way off as to what is going to happen a couple decades from now.
Hell maybe there wont even be college football as we know it anymore.
