Trying to consolidate NCAA top tier football here. Dropping down to 80teams, 10 schools in 8 conferences. Simply put, win your conference, you get into the 12 team playoff. With 10 schools in each conference you can play all 9 conference opponents, leaving 3 non-conference games. The rest of current 1-A schools who didn't make the cut would move down to 1-AA.
Basically taking the existing power 5 conferences with their planned realignments (68 schools), plus Notre Dame and 11 of the most likely schools that would go to power 5 from the MWC and AAC. Conferences like the Pac 10, Big 10, and SEC retain their traditional schools, ACC and Big 12 should look pretty similar, a football sort of Big East, and stronger versions of AAC and MWC.
For the playoffs I'd try to keep the bowl traditions in place, so you'd have the Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, and Peach rotating between the quarter and semi final games, with the championship game bid out every year. The top four seeds get a bye, and seeds seven thru 12 play a first round games in their home stadiums based on seeding, at large bids would be on the road.
For the playoffs I'd try to keep the bowl traditions in place, so you'd have the Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, and Peach rotating between the quarter and semi final games, with the championship game bid out every year. The top four seeds get a bye, and seeds seven thru 12 play a first round games in their home stadiums based on seeding, at large bids would be on the road.
Uniform wise, the idea is to drop all of these crazy one-off designs and create a solid, identifiable look for each school, home and away. With 100 schools, and keeping their traditional school colors (and uniform design for school who have a legit standard), it isn't easy to make all of these schools unique looking, but I did as much as I could.
American Athletic Conference:
Seven of the stronger AAC schools with UCF, Houston, Memphis, Rice, USF, Tulane, and Tulsa. Non-traditional SEC schools Arkansas, Missouri, and South Carolina join them.
Atlantic Coast Conference:
Not the full classic ACC lineup, but maintains the modern conference school that fit regionally in the south Atlantic.
Big 10 Conference:
Classic Big 10 lineup.
Big 12 Conference:
Could probably use a new name, but including most of the original conference members, maintaining rivalries.
Big East Conference:
This might have actually been what happened the conference had they let Penn State in years ago and had stronger football might. Adding in Notre Dame, who has strong fan bases in the northeast markets of the Big East territory.
Mountain West Conference:
Brining in the likes of Colorado, Arizona, and ASU strengthens the conference with some of its stronger original members. TCU and SMU join as Texas rivals giving the MWC a foothold in the Texas market.
Pac 10 Conference:
Rivals along the coast all remain, swapping out the Arizona schools for SD State and Fresno State.
Southeastern Conference:
Traditional 10 SEC rivals.
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