The Future of College football, A B10/ SEC only League?

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Seams like every report I hear about what the B10 and SEC talking with each other and trying to figure things out to be more competitively balanced while trying to minimize the other conferences, just furthers my thoughts and confirms all the rumors. Thats once their TV deals are done in 2030. They are going to branch off and form their own sub division.

Sooooo what could that look like?
48 total teams.
Big10 adds 6 more teams.
SEC adds 8 more teams.

Split each conference into 4 divisions of 6.
Each conference has an 8 team playoff.
Conference champions play each other in a championship game.

Heres the map of what that could look like

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Big 10 adds: Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Utah, BYU, and Iowa St.

Sec adds: Miami, Florida St, Clemson, UNC, Duke, NCSt, Colorado, Oklahoma St.

Why those teams. Simple. Highest revenue, NIL, game attendance, and TV viewership over the past 20 years. Every other school simply would just water down the product.

The schedules would be preset as well.

2 pre season games and 14 regular season,

2 preseason games vs the old FBS.

  • 5 games vs the division
  • 3 games vs half of one division in conference. Rotating every year.
    (The other division is one the same side of the country, Ie B10 Pacific vs B10 West)
    Those 8 games are 4 home 4 away.
  • 2 games vs the other 2 divisions in conference with a similar division standings. 1v1 2v2
  • 4 Games vs opposite conference vs all 4 divisions. Again based on division standings.

Playoffs. 8 teams per conference. 4 division winners are top 4 seeds plus 4 wild card.

So for example
Michigans Opponents would be.

Pre season
New Mexico
Central Michigan

Regular Season
Ohio St
Michigan St
Purdue
Illinois
Indiana
Penn St
Maryland
Rutgers
Nebraska
Washington
North Carolina
Miami
Arkansas
Texas A&M

Now thats a season worth watching and having season tickets for.

As for the rest of the teams they would still be in the FBS and fallow the NCAA/ CFP model.

However just for fun lets fix the “Group of 8”

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8 conferences of 12.
And just to fill out the conferences.
Add
NDst
SDst
Montana
Montana St
Youngstown St
East Kentucky
Florida A&M
Furman

And I think this NEEDS to happen.

Those 48 schools in the SEC/B10 make nearly $100m annually in FOOTBALL ALONE each. With on average over $10m in NIL for football annually.

The 96 other schools still in the FBS?
Make under $50m annually for their ENITRE athletic department. Football? Under $25m.

I just dont think it’s fair or right that those 2 groups are competing for the same Championship.

Thats like having the NFL, where teams make over $750m annually competing with the UFL where teams only make $3m annually.

It would be entertaining. While restoring order, because ever since 2012 college football has been complete chaos. And the NCAA is powerless to do anything

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Gtech to the B1G
Along with one of the NC schools and FL schools

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GTech isnt a bad option. However low revenue. Low attendance. They actually have about the Group of 5 average revenue. And under 40k per game average

I went purely based on revenue. What the TV networks want. Because thats what matters.

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GTech fits the big ten academic profile which matters to the conference.

You think the B1G doesn’t want to expand the footprint to GA? They do, I know this for a fact, along with NC and FL would give them a full national footprint.

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Wont matter. If the SEC and Big 10 branch off from the NCAA. And form their own league. Footprint wont matter.

TV deals will be fully national. Recruiting will be fully national.
Sec and b10 will be in name only.

Footprint and regionality will be a thing of the past.

They would have equal rev share as well. So bo point to try to get the “Atlanta and Miami Market share”

Also academics went out the window a long time ago.

If they still mattered to the big10 Nebraska would have been kicked out years ago for losing their accreditations

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Looking at that first map, the civil war really had some odd consequences.
It’s not exact but it sure does look similar to how things divided up at that time.

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Haha. It is very similar.

Just swap Virginia and Kentucky. Thats about it.

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And then those two conferences can have a couple sub conferences each. Like 4 Big Ten’s and 4 SEC’s. One SEC can be the southeastern Sub conference. One can be the Atlantic Coast Sub Conference. Maybe a Big East sub confernce.
The Big Ten could have a Pacific Coast sub conference, and and Mountian West sub conference. Maybe a South Western Big 12 throwback sub conference.
Then it’ll all be different.

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Lol. The snake eating its tail again.

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I would like to see higher tv production given to lower level football. I get that the best players are at the biggest schools but there is competition at all levels and we are all missing out on division 3 wing T football.

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Thats what the Ocho is for. Aka ESPN+x

I get it its fun. But when theres only 10,000 people in the stadium. You cant expect TV networks to care.

Europe League of Football has higher attendance and TV ratings than even most group of 5/6 schools do

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