What's your dream conference for Iowa State?

[JP4CY]

Big 8, Kick Mizzou for Iowa.
Plus I wouldn't hate Notre Dame and Sconnie.

 

[awd4cy]

Big 8 was perfect, plus we already played Iowa out of conference, so I was fine with that.

 

[JayV]

Iowa State
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kansas State
Illinois
Purdue
Arkansas
Oklahoma State
Michigan State
Mississippi State

Its kind of regional. It leaves out the schools who bailed once before (Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado). I think every school can basically compete with each other, though this changes over time. It leaves out the big ego problems (Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma). Everybody is an 1862 Land Grant University.

 

[CySmurf]

Baylor
Texas
Utah
BYU
Iowa
Michigan State
Texas A&M
Alabama
Ohio State
Michigan
...I feel I'm not doing this correctly. lol

 

[cykadelic2]

Dream scenario would be 7 10-team conferences as proposed by the Athletic in conjunction with the CST initiative. I made one adjustment to the Athletic's proposal (moving UCF to Big East with ND remaining an indy:

"Big East": BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt, Louisville, WVU, VT, UC, UCF, Miami FL
ACC: Maryland, UVa, NCSt, UNC, Duke, WF, Clemson, S.Carolina, GT, FSU
SEC: Vandy, Tennessee, UK, UGA, UF, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU
B10: Penn St, Ohio St, Michigan, Mich ST, Purdue, IU, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
Pac10: Washington, Wazzu, UO, ORSt, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Zona, AZ St
SWC: OU, OKSt, Arkansas, UT, TX A&M, TCU, BU, TT, SMU, Houston
Big Country: Utah, BYU, CU, Colorado St, KU, KSU, NU, Mizzou, ISU, Northwestern

12 team playoff, 7 auto bids, 5 at large.

Separate G5 playoff.

 

[Peter]

OG Big XII was great.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Iowa State
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Minnesota
Missouri

Every single road trip is drivable for every single school. Ideal.

 

[WooBadger18]

Whenever I make the conferences on ncaa football it’s the big 8 and then the pre-Penn State Big 10.

Otherwise it would be:
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Northwestern
Minnesota
Wisconsin

 

[scyclonekid]

Iowa state
Drake
Uni
Toledo
Minnesota state
UW river falls
Illinois state
SW Missouri state
Southern Illinois
North Dakota
South Dakota state
North Dakota state.

JUST JOKING

 

[isucy86]

Dream scenario would be 7 10-team conferences as proposed by the Athletic in conjunction with the CST initiative. I made one adjustment to the Athletic's proposal (moving UCF to Big East with ND remaining an indy:

"Big East": BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt, Louisville, WVU, VT, UC, UCF, Miami FL
ACC: Maryland, UVa, NCSt, UNC, Duke, WF, Clemson, S.Carolina, GT, FSU
SEC: Vandy, Tennessee, UK, UGA, UF, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU
B10: Penn St, Ohio St, Michigan, Mich ST, Purdue, IU, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
Pac10: Washington, Wazzu, UO, ORSt, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Zona, AZ St
SWC: OU, OKSt, Arkansas, UT, TX A&M, TCU, BU, TT, SMU, Houston
Big Country: Utah, BYU, CU, Colorado St, KU, KSU, NU, Mizzou, ISU, Northwestern

12 team playoff, 7 auto bids, 5 at large.

Separate G5 playoff.

I don't disagree with what Athletic proposed structurely. But I just don't see it happening as one of two things would be required:

1. One media rights deal would have to be negotiated that applies to all 70 schools. And the premium that could be obtained by a single negotiation would make Big10/SEC teams whole vs. what their current TV deal is AND bump up all the other schools $30M+ annually. Even Revenue Share.
2. A single media rights deal would be negotiated for all 70 schools. And schools could agree on a formula for uneven revenue distribution. But schools would have to "earn" their premium value based on performance, viewership, etc.

IMO it is more likely we end up having a Power 2 consisting of 40-48 schools split between Big10 & SEC. There would also be a 2nd Tier comprised schools left out of Power 2 (22-30 schools) + select group of G5. The 2nd Tier would have its own CFP.

 

[State2015]

Give me the big 8 plus the (old) big 10 west. Every game in driving distance, no Texas, fairly evenly matched. Lot of opportunities for new rivalries

 

[Cyched]

Ivy League. They need an Animal House school to keep things interesting.

 

[merx]

College football should be 8 regional 9 or 10 team conferences and one of those would be very much like what is laid out by most here.

Then the top teams each year play themselves into something like a "champions league", "europa league" and "uefa conference" for those who know that sport. It could be at the end of conference season in Nov/Dec or you play into it for the next year. You could make it so most teams at least make that third inter regional league and the few who don't just miss out instead of getting totally relegated and they only have a 9 or 10 game season instead of 13 or 14 game season. (think like top 16, next 16, next 16, then like 24 who don't qualify but can qualify again the next year)

The regional leagues could negotiate their own contracts so football hotbeds would still make more $, and the teams that make the champions league every single year would automatically make more too.

It's so dumb the way we are going instead of that. They could have achieved what they did in a more fair way and in a way that actually INCREASES interest for every single fan base.

The euro soccer team I follow is one where 1/3 of the time we make the Champions league and almost 2/3 of the time make whatever is just below that has gone by several names, once in a while neither. I still get really excited for the mid tier competition. It's not at all like the NIT, it's still a really cool thing that is very fun part of a majority of seasons. There could be a way for some of the lower tier teams to play into these three competitions too the same way really minor european pro teams can win their way in.

It doesn't even have to be a pure relegation system, it could just be a better conference season and a better inter regional "national championship" playoff league and one or two sub leagues that have 100x more intrigue than a "Cheezit Bowl" exhibition.

I love this idea.

I think a similar model could be used for the current system. The coefficient could be used to determine how many teams get a spot from each conference in the playoffs. The data could be base on nonconfernce games from the current season and bowl and post season games the year before. So most years the BIG and SEC get 3 teams and the ACC and XII get 2 teams and 1 team from the two next best conferences.

The great things about this is the distribution can change yearly, and no conference gets more than three. It makes the SEC and BIG have to prove they are the best ever year.
The coefficient can be set up so the SEC can't game the system with 4 nonconfernce games each year against cupcakes.

 

[cykadelic2]

I don't disagree with what Athletic proposed structurely. But I just don't see it happening as one of two things would be required:

1. One media rights deal would have to be negotiated that applies to all 70 schools. And the premium that could be obtained by a single negotiation would make Big10/SEC teams whole vs. what their current TV deal is AND bump up all the other schools $30M+ annually. Even Revenue Share.
2. A single media rights deal would be negotiated for all 70 schools. And schools could agree on a formula for uneven revenue distribution. But schools would have to "earn" their premium value based on performance, viewership, etc.

IMO it is more likely we end up having a Power 2 consisting of 40-48 schools split between Big10 & SEC. There would also be a 2nd Tier comprised schools left out of Power 2 (22-30 schools) + select group of G5. The 2nd Tier would have its own CFP.

#2 is plausible and doable if bidding is open to providers beyond ESPN and Fox and packaging of the rights is done correctly (e.g. if you want the B10, you have to take the least valued conference along with it and CFP rights are rotated and shared equally amongst bidders). 75% of the total TV pool is shared equally and 25% is allocated based on TV ratings including CFP.

The P2 40-48 scenario destroys at least 20 more athletic departments in addition to what has been done to Wazzu and ORSt. Feds won't allow it.

 

[merx]

For my dream conference, I would say Big 8 with Minnesota and Wisconsin and not ******* Iowa. But that is boring so i will say:
Iowa State
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
Michigan State
Mississippi State
A&M
Auburn
Purdue
Washington State
Oregon State
Cal

Land grant universities, P5 and generally looked down on by that other university in their respective states.

aNot sure if I missed any.

 

[HFCS]

I love this idea.

I think a similar model could be used for the current system. The coefficient could be used to determine how many teams get a spot from each conference in the playoffs. The data could be base on nonconfernce games from the current season and bowl and post season games the year before. So most years the BIG and SEC get 3 teams and the ACC and XII get 2 teams and 1 tram from the four next best conferences.

The great things about this is the distribution can change yearly, and no conference gets more than three. It makes the SEC and BIG have to prove they are the best ever year.
The coefficient can be set up so the SEC can't game the system with 4 nonconfernce games each year against cupcakes.

Exactly. Things don’t have to be exactly even to be incredibly fair. I still think it’s insane the playoff committee is such an obvious biased small cabal compared to even the ncaa selection committee. The BCS was actually pretty brilliant selection tool other than being just 2 teams.

I don’t think there even needs to be relegation/promotion, just a better way to feed the CFP and a second and maybe third tier playoff. Currently it’s always a bunch of big ten jerkoffs with no set criteria and a few others to make it look less rigged.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Dream scenario would be 7 10-team conferences as proposed by the Athletic in conjunction with the CST initiative. I made one adjustment to the Athletic's proposal (moving UCF to Big East with ND remaining an indy:

"Big East": BC, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt, Louisville, WVU, VT, UC, UCF, Miami FL
ACC: Maryland, UVa, NCSt, UNC, Duke, WF, Clemson, S.Carolina, GT, FSU
SEC: Vandy, Tennessee, UK, UGA, UF, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU
B10: Penn St, Ohio St, Michigan, Mich ST, Purdue, IU, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
Pac10: Washington, Wazzu, UO, ORSt, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Zona, AZ St
SWC: OU, OKSt, Arkansas, UT, TX A&M, TCU, BU, TT, SMU, Houston
Big Country: Utah, BYU, CU, Colorado St, KU, KSU, NU, Mizzou, ISU, Northwestern

12 team playoff, 7 auto bids, 5 at large.

Separate G5 playoff.

I'd always hoped for eight of ten for 80 teams.

Something like this...

Northeast
===
Army
Boston College
Connecticut
Maryland
Navy
Penn St.
Pitt
Rutgers
Syracuse
West Virginia

Great Lakes
===
Cincinnati
Illinois
Indiana
Louisville
Michigan
Michigan St.
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio St.
Purdue

Great Plains
===
Iowa
Iowa St.
Kansas
Kansas St.
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St.
Wisconsin

Atlantic
===
Clemson
Duke
Georgia Tech
Kentucky
NC St.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Southeast
===
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Florida St.
Georgia
Miami (FL)
Tennessee
UCF
USF
Vanderbilt

Southwest
===
Arkansas
Baylor
Houston
LSU
Mississippi St.
Ole Miss
SMU
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M

Mountains
===
Air Force
Arizona
Arizona St.
BYU
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas Tech
Utah
Wyoming

Pacific
===
Cal
Nevada-Reno
Oregon
Oregon St.
San Diego St.
Southern Cal
Stanford
UCLA
Washington
Washington St.

 

[nfrine]

I put Oklahoma in the same category as Texas...do not want them.

 

[rosshm16]

Too much Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma in this thread, they voluntarily left so ****'em. Colorado is entertaining/interesting only until Deion leaves or is fired which is maybe three years tops.

Since this is a fantasy thread, I'm pretending football doesn't exist and going basketball-heavy:

Arizona
Connecticut
Creighton
Gonzaga
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Marquette
Oklahoma State

 

[Al_4_State]

Add Illinois and the Buffs and I am game.

Yup. That's the winner right there. A perfectly continuous Midwest/Great Plains conference with no Texas schools or anyone too far east either.