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Follow up to breaking the NCAA thread earlier
Posted on: September 5, 2024 at 16:50:20 CT
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Out of curiosity, I've been looking at some numbers lately if there were to be a split for the top programs to make a new model for college football...could easily be expanded to all sports.
I looked at three factors for Power level programs:
All time wins
All time win %
Win percentage this century
First found the top 56 Power schools from both all time categories. Then counted to see how many of them also appeared in the top 56 of the 21st century list. Interestingly, there are 48...which has been a common number thrown out for a "superleague".
For the most part, it is exactly who you think it would be.
The 48 broken down into 6 geographical groups of 8.
West - UW-Oregon-Cal-Stanford-UCLA-USC-BYU-Utah
Plains - Nub-OK-OKSt-Texas-A&M-TTech-TCU-Baylor
Valley - Minny-Wisc-Iowa-Mizzou-Ark-OleMiss-MissSt-LSU
Northeast - BC-PennSt-Pitt-OhioSt-Mich-MichSt-ND-Purdue
South - Bama-Auburn-UGA-GaTech-Kentucky-Tenn-WVU-SCar
East - Miami-Florida-FSU-Clemson-UNC-NCSt-VaTech-Maryland
My personal preference for college football would be to go backwards. More STUDENT-athlete. No playoff. More traditional conferences. Traditional bowl tie-ins. And a plus-1 model that was all we really needed 35 years ago. Some level of agreement where money is more evenly distributed would be needed, but there are ways.
I also realize that is never happening in my lifetime, and since we're moving so drastically far away from what the sport was, I could live with pro-style league, divisions, playoff based on the above. Your division becomes your conference and winning it still has a significant matter of pride.
Everybody plays a FCS Labor Day weekend but it doesn't count for records or schedule.
7 divisions games.
4 non-division games of your choosing...keep rivalries alive here.
Division winners and 2 wildcards are in playoff.
Remaining second and third place teams (maybe even 4th place teams) go to bowl games.
Universal revenue sharing like the NFL would still be a pretty important issue here.
I looked at three factors for Power level programs:
All time wins
All time win %
Win percentage this century
First found the top 56 Power schools from both all time categories. Then counted to see how many of them also appeared in the top 56 of the 21st century list. Interestingly, there are 48...which has been a common number thrown out for a "superleague".
For the most part, it is exactly who you think it would be.
The 48 broken down into 6 geographical groups of 8.
West - UW-Oregon-Cal-Stanford-UCLA-USC-BYU-Utah
Plains - Nub-OK-OKSt-Texas-A&M-TTech-TCU-Baylor
Valley - Minny-Wisc-Iowa-Mizzou-Ark-OleMiss-MissSt-LSU
Northeast - BC-PennSt-Pitt-OhioSt-Mich-MichSt-ND-Purdue
South - Bama-Auburn-UGA-GaTech-Kentucky-Tenn-WVU-SCar
East - Miami-Florida-FSU-Clemson-UNC-NCSt-VaTech-Maryland
My personal preference for college football would be to go backwards. More STUDENT-athlete. No playoff. More traditional conferences. Traditional bowl tie-ins. And a plus-1 model that was all we really needed 35 years ago. Some level of agreement where money is more evenly distributed would be needed, but there are ways.
I also realize that is never happening in my lifetime, and since we're moving so drastically far away from what the sport was, I could live with pro-style league, divisions, playoff based on the above. Your division becomes your conference and winning it still has a significant matter of pride.
Everybody plays a FCS Labor Day weekend but it doesn't count for records or schedule.
7 divisions games.
4 non-division games of your choosing...keep rivalries alive here.
Division winners and 2 wildcards are in playoff.
Remaining second and third place teams (maybe even 4th place teams) go to bowl games.
Universal revenue sharing like the NFL would still be a pretty important issue here.
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Follow up to breaking the NCAA thread earlier - alwaysright MU - 9/5 16:50:20
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