What's your dream conference for Iowa State?

[qwerty]

Let's Go State!

Iowa State
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan State
Arizona State
Mississippi State
North Carolina State
Florida State

Add these two to get to 12
Washington State
Oregon State

 

[clonedude]

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

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

This is the winner by far IMO.

 

[JM4CY]

Simpson
BV
Coe
Cornell
Loras
Dubuque
Luther

 

[2122]

Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Iowa State University
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
Yale University

hehehe

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

I’ll go a slightly different route.

Ames
Lincoln
Lawrence
Manhattan
Stillwater
Norman
Fayetteville
Columbia
Champaign
Bloomington
Lexington
Knoxville

Easy road trips and basketball powerhouse

 

[DSM4Cy]

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

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

This is the answer.

 

[BryceC]

Take all current and past and possible future conferences out of your mind. Take eyeballs and money off the table. Take hatred off the table if you can. What is your dream conference for Iowa State to be a part of? Is it based on rivalries? Nostalgia? Proximity?

Just bored and curious. For the sake of argument, the dream league has EXACTLY ten members.

Here's mine:

Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma

Mine is based on nostalgia of the Big 8 but also just the fact all the schools are pretty close to each other for fans.

I’m close but replace MN with Texas.

 

[madguy30]

Does anyone want to do an estimate collective potential TV/streaming ratings (i.e. money making) for the proposed midwest region from the OP or comparisons for if other conferences were regional, 10 teamers?

Like how would the upper midwest group compare collectively to an actual SEC or PAC?

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Colorado
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
K-State
Minnesota
Mizzou
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Wisconsin

 

[alexssdean12]

I want all the Power 5 teams from the states surrounding us:

Iowa
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri

Ten team conference. Play everyone once. Literal perfection

 

[cyfanatic]

I want all the Power 5 teams from the states surrounding us:

Iowa
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri

Ten team conference. Play everyone once. Literal perfection

I miss the Big 8 days...and college football has lost a bit of buzz it used to produce for me in the past...I am old...but when I look at that proposal, while I miss college football when it was similar to that setup, I think "that looks like college football in the 1950s" (which I wasn't alive for)!

 

[Nolaeer]

i'm not sure Utah's dream conference has any current big 12 members in it.

 

[kevdiv48]

Iowa State
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas State
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota

Last one is a toss up, in rough order of preference:
Oklahoma State
Colorado
Purdue
Northwestern

 

[Nolaeer]

ISU dream conference:
1. Kstate
2. Texas
3. Nebraska
4. Texas tech
5. Colo.
6. Oklahoma State
7. Oklahoma
8. Mizzou
9. LSU
10. Arkansas
11. Aggies
12. Ohio State
13. ISU
14. Iowa

Before you scream, you need blue bloods to remain relevant. This mix makes this conference one of the best. A lot of compelling matchups and rivalries.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Classic Big 8 + AZ & ASU.

 

[State2015]

I want all the Power 5 teams from the states surrounding us:

Iowa
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri

Ten team conference. Play everyone once. Literal perfection

This would be awesome. Think of the rivalries that will spout up because of the heavy travel from visiting teams. This is what CFB should be but never will be

 

[BoomerClone]

Dream conference:

All “power” schools are in a 10 team conference

All “power” schools get the same payout

All “power” schools have the same gurenteed access to the CFP

you play everyone once in football and twice in basketball every year.

No questions about who should be in the playoffs past the 2 seed in each conference.

Regionally based

 

[psycln11]

Iowa
Iowa State
Illinois
Illinois State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Missouri State
North Dakota
North Dakota State
South Dakota
South Dakota State

 

[DesertClone1]

1. Iowa State
2. Iowa
3. Wisconsin
4. Minnesota
5. Mizzou
6. Nebraska
7. Kansas
8. K-State
9. Arkansas
10. Okie State
11. Louisville
12. Cincinnati
13. Pitt
14. NC State
15. Arizona
16. Arizona State
17. Illinois
18. Wazzu
19. Oregon State
20. Colorado.

2 divisions of 10. You play the winner of each division.