IMO, if it's going to happen the correct answer is for SEC and B1G to just do their own thing together and expand to about 48-64 teams for a new division.
This my business mind working, not necessarily my CFB fan mind. Take the 32 teams in the two conferences as of 2024 Add - FSU Miami Clemson UNC UVA Va Tech West Virginia ND OK State (The inevitable additional Texas team that politics will dictate) Washington Oregon 4 more teams. That gets you to 48. Divide it up into divisions and run a 12-16 team playoff. I'd probably knock the schedule back to 11 games because revenue will be more than made up in this scenario.
When I complete my takeover and reorganization into the first Terran Empire I’m resetting college football back to 1985
It would be strategic to make sure as many Texas schools get in as possible. TX, TAMU, TCU, TTU, and Baylor. Don't let that state talent have an in-state focal point.
Texas is most likely about to overtake California on biggest economy in the country is exploding in growth so locking down that market would be huge
My hypothetical scenario: To piggyback off of what's been said previously, here's my proposal if the B1G and SEC were to merge and become a super conference/league. First off, obviously absorb the ACC. Next, we draw a dividing line across the northern borders of NC, TN, AR, OK so that we now have a North and South. With the ACC absorbed, The North and South conferences would look like this: North SEC Kentucky ****************** ACC ********************** BC Louisville Pitt Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech ****************** Big 10 ****************** Michigan Ohio State Penn State Maryland Michigan State Indiana Rutgers Purdue Illinois Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska Northwestern 21 Teams South ****************** ACC ********************** Clemson Duke FSU GT Miami NC State UNC Wake ****************** SEC ****************** Georgia Tennessee S. Carolina Florida Missouri Vanderbilt LSU Alabama Mississippi State Mississippi Arkansas Auburn Texas A&M Texas Oklahoma 23 Teams Add ND, West Virginia, and maybe Iowa St or Kansas St (dealer's choice) to the North and one more school from TX or OK(again dealer's choice) for the South and you've got your 48 teams. Break up the North and South into a couple of divisions, work out some nice cross divisional and conference matchups for the regular season and a playoff structure for the championship and there you go. I'd say most if not all schools get to keep their rivalry games too. This leaves out the west coast schools obviously but an evolution to this could be to extend the dividing line all the way across the country and then reevaluate what teams make up the North and South. Maybe teams like Rutgers or Duke don't make the cut or the west coast teams are just SOL.
I'm thinking a diagonal one so the west coast goes above it. Only way to hope to balance it against the south teams
Finding a balance would be extremely tough. Even with a diagonally skewed line, the south is just stronger. Those northern teams just need to git gud.
Meant more population-wise. Median center is in southern Indiana, but 80% lives east of I-35. If the Super SEC has all of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kentucky, then you will need to give them southern California to balance it back towards about 50/50.
