Re: Crazy Idea... ACC/SEC merge?

Could the SEC be looking at a "merge" with the ACC; the "haves" in the SEC decide to "leave" the conference and merge with the "haves" in the ACC. This looks like a way for the SEC to drop their deadweight, and pick up just who they want to pick up from the ACC. A mean to an end of getting rid of the NCAA and creating the 64 team super division.

This also gives the "haves" in the SEC a way to control things. Once they get the big guys from both conferences, they can then raid the other conferences and pull in who they want... OSU, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, etc. And then to the PAC, Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, etc.

This may be the most efficient way to get to a 64 team super conference. Otherwise, there has to be a sit down with each conference having a say, and the "have nots" will have too much pull to let anything like that happen.

Once you have Bama, Auburn, LSU, TX, OK, UGA, UF, TAM, Clemson, FSU, Miami, ND, Maybe Tenn, USC, Miss, MSU - Maybe Pitt, and/or others...

Then OSU, Michigan, Penn State, has no option really but to break off and join... then the last piece of the puzzle is the PAC teams.

No one has to get "kicked" out of a conference.... they just don't get invited to be a Big 64 team.

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Jul 24, 2021, 9:04 PM

Honestly I'd just set up 1 32 team league with all of the best teams across the current conferences.

Big 10: Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Northwestern
Big 12: Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Oklahoma State
Pac 12: Oregon, USC, Standford, Utah
ACC: Clemson, Miami, Florida State, UNC, Va Tech, Pitt
SEC: Alabama, UGA, Florida, Texas A&M, Auburn, LSU, USC, Tennessee, Ole Miss
Independent: Notre Dame, Boise State
Group of 5: UCF, Coastal Carolina

With 32 Teams honestly just set it up where you have pods set up geographically 8 groups of 4 teams

1: Florida, FSU, Miami, UCF
2: UGA, Clemson, USC, Coastal Carolina
3: Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Ole Miss
4: Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State
5: Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Northwestern
6: Penn State, Pitt, Va Tech, UNC
7: Boise State, Iowa State, Wisconsin, LSU
8: Oregon, USC, Stanford, Utah

You play everyone in your pod/group and then you play 1 team from every other group based on the rankings for last year. So the teams who finished 1st all play one another. This could mean that in one year Clemson could play (UGA, USC, Coastal, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, LSU & Southern Cal).

That's a total of 10 games for the "regular season", at which point the teams in the league are ranked 1-16 so the regular season still matters and have a march madness tournament: 4 rounds of the playoff where each round is played at the higher seeds home stadium. The student athletes play less games and get an additional off week, we as fans get great games throughout the entire season with the best teams it allows for a "Cinderella story" possibility, and creates more parody of having a "1st place schedule". Oh and while we're at it let's change the Heisman to ballots being submitted AFTER the tournament is complete rather than being decided by week 4-5 of the season.

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Crazy Idea... ACC/SEC merge?

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Re: Crazy Idea... ACC/SEC merge?

So you're taking Usuc ahead of MSST or KY from the SEC?

Now 5 ACC teams have contacted the SEC…

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