REALIGNING COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONFERENCES

College conferences are expanding (and being destroyed) right before our eyes. Now we have teams from all over the country playing each other in the same conference now. To me, that just doesn't make much sense. So today I took a page out of my own book and realigned the NCAA conferences. Since I am primarily a football channel, these are based on Division 1 FBS schools.
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[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

🌎BONUS REALIGNMENT🌎 If the Patriot League isn’t your cup of tea: Move Penn State and Pitt to the Central American, Army and Navy to the North Atlantic, Air Force to replace North Dakota State in the Mountain West. Sorry VMI and NDSU, gotta send you back down

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

and yes… I forgot about the Citadel

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

Consider making a new list where the conferences are between 6-9 teams mainly at 7 like how it was a long time ago

[@tip358]

Geographically based conferences is the best way.

[@keenansullivan5523]

Yo mama

[@cherrycolareal]

okay, say bye-bye to half of the major rivalries.

[@Drew25t]

@@cherrycolareallike who?…

[@Drew25t]

I agree

[@cherrycolareal]

@@Drew25t you know.. every non-state rivalry???

[@x-90]

Having NDSU but not SDSU is disappointing from a rivalry standpoint

[@noahscats4907]

Exactly, he should have tossed Utah State to FCS cause they don't matter and bring up SDSU cause of NDSU

[@ogbrayz]

@@noahscats4907no Akron should go back to the FCS. They haven’t looked at a winning season in the last 20 years or so

[@noahscats4907]

@@ogbrayz great idea how about we toss them both out and bring it Montana grizzlies

[@zimmejoc]

many a good rivalry were busted up here.

[@toddturcotte4742]

For your military conference, you could call up The Citadel

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Probably better than VMI lol

[@dfp_01]

There are actually 10 military schools that have NCAA/NAIA football programs. I put them all into one conference when I did my overhaul of the entirety of college football a little while back. In the West division: Air Force, Army, Navy, The Citadel, VMI In the East division: Coast Guard, Mass Maritime, Merchant Marine Academy, Norwich, SUNY Maritime I also kept them entirely separate from any of the four college levels that I created so they would not be subject to promotion and relegation, as I designed for the other college, USFL, XFL, and NFL teams.

[@RatedRMario21]

I mean, the SEC plays them often enough for a September/Pre-Rivalry squash match. Why not?

[@themidwestdancer]

I love the Central American conference! As someone who has grown up in the midwest, I always felt like the teams were split. Putting them all in one makes me happy!

[@lukenorton6488]

I’m hype for ncaa 24 to come out to do this exact thing

[@Hund0368]

No shot you just called the Big XII a southern league. Colorado also was a FOUNDING MEMBER of the Big XII

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

With about half of the conference being in Texas/Oklahoma I said southern. I could've included they're also a midwestern conference but it slipped my mind

[@joshuatayloe8616]

While geographic based conferences is a call back that would make a lot of fans happy I think there are more interesting ways to split conferences. Consederations I would have are 1) Number of total conferences, 2) Number of Schools per conference, 3) Historical Conferences, 4) Separation of Blue Bloods, and 5) Possible demotion. So something like the Mississippi or Missouri valley conference, but instead of isolated to the Northern Midwest it is comprised of schools in states that sit on the Mississippi or reforming the SWC with West Texas schools along with the 4 corners schools possibly extending into SoCal with SDSU. Edit: Another interesting conference idea would be to use the FCS Colonial Conference name and have it made up of schools that are in the original colonies.

[@Drew25t]

I sure love geographical conferences. It sits well with me!

[@wyolaskan1868]

I recently did a realignment of my own, that I’m still in the process of making a video essay of. As I started watching your video, I was worried we may have the same realignment, because we have the same Pacific (I kept that one called the PAC12). Though different from mine, yours ain’t so bad either! Kudos!

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Haha thank you. Let me know when yours is out!

[@wyolaskan1868]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct Will do! It may be a bit. I’ve never done a video essay before, and haven’t done anything PowerPoint related since High School in the late 2000s 😅 Should be a learning experience!

[@CB-so8xd]

Make football great again. 12 teams is a nice even split for conference champions to go straight to a playoff. But different sizes of conferences would affect scheduling and # of non-con games. For the Central American: switch ISU, KU and Mizzou with Indiana, MSU and Northwestern.

[@cherrycolareal]

these are legit some of the worst decisions I have ever seen in a potential conference realignment.

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Thank you

[@cherrycolareal]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct 💀💀💀

[@Bulgarian-Mapping]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct hey can I get some of that stuff?

[@Bulgarian-Mapping]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct why like your own comment

[@Drew25t]

@@Bulgarian-Mappingwhy did you like your own comment?

[@reamrkj1125]

Tennessee would officially like to join the big south conference, or at least rob the Carolina schools. As it stands they would go 7-0 against that schedule every few years, but I doubt I would be enough for a playoff berth. Taking the Carolina schools from the big South would help geographically and allow both conferences to have 11 teams.

[@NJP-EonPardonCogitoCo]

Great concept and great ideas, but I’ve got a feeling that more people would be saying that splitting up Duke and UNC is blasphemous. They compete for the victory bell every year in football, and are you accounting for basketball as well?

[@clixzygames2946]

I don’t think liberty will have too much trouble in the Appalachian Valley after their season this year

[@connecticut511]

i love what you did with the north atlantic conference even tho we’d get destroyed

[@arthurpasseri4590]

I think UConn could beat Rutgers, UMass, BC and Syracuse. We played Pitt when we were both in the Big East football Conference and we had great games. NYU-Buffalo does schedule games and it is competitive. UConn never played Penn State, yet.

[@ritzierrapier]

So basically, the Red River Conference is the old Southwestern Conference.

[@fisherman2740]

I like idea of North Atlantic Conference, it makes sense geographically. Although, for Basketball men's and women's this would have some very interesting results if it were real.

[@brodyh2895]

moving up NDSU and not including actual FBS callup Delaware is an odd choice. Though they werent announced at the time if you writing this, the writing on the wall for them moving up has been clear for awhile now. Wouldve loved to see a division with Delaware, JMU, Maryland, Navy, Rutgers, Temple and maybe Virginia and VT. Still a great video! Loved watching it

[@TheCosmicCruz]

Cool!

[@Tarez205]

Might as well call the Red River conference the Texas and Friends conference 😂😂

[@kevinmoynihan5118]

Backyard brawl should 1000% be a conference game. Let’s Go Mountaineers and Eat Shit Pitt.

[@jc-fl7wk]

keep dreaming unc

[@jdlyoutube5895]

should've kept Notre Dame independent for the meme

[@takeiteasynacho]

This is just the power 5+1 with some lowers getting thrown in. It’d be the Pacific/Mountain/Central/Big South/Re River +Appalachia getting thrown in. Penn/Pitt/Cincinnati/UCF getting the strength of schedule shaft

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

I was more-so aiming for geography over competition. Tried to get the best of both worlds, but couldn’t quite capture that

[@user-jz2oj7gq4j]

First and foremost, this was an outstanding undertaking, and you did an amazing job. Now, for my constructive criticism. First, in my opinion, the eleven conferences (not the Patriot League) should have an equal number of schools, and each of those conferences should have two divisions. The eleven conferences have a total of 132 schools, and 132 divided by 11 is 12. Each of the eleven conferences should have exactly twelve schools: six in one division, and six in another. I think this would make things more fair for all schools involved. Some examples: Pacific Coast Conference, North Division: UW, WSU, UO, Oregon State, Stanford, Cal Pacific Coast Conference, South Division: SJSU, Fresno State, USC, UCLA, SDSU, Hawaii Northeastern Conference, North Division: Buffalo, Syracuse, BC, Penn State, UMass, UConn Northeastern Conference, South Division: Maryland, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, UVA, Va. Tech (For the record, I had to check which school was further south -- Penn State or Rutgers. Rutgers was just a bit further south than Penn State, which meant PSU went in the North Division and Rutgers went in the South.) I had a lot of difficulty finding twelve schools for what I would call the Southeast Conference, because I do NOT want to split up the schools in one state. I grew up in the state of Florida, and I went to the U. of Florida, and there are SEVEN schools in that state: Miami, FIU, FAU, UCF, USF, Florida, and FSU. The state of Georgia gives us UGA and Georgia Tech... the state of Alabama gives us Bama and Auburn... the state of South Carolina gives us Clemson and the Gamecocks... the state of Louisiana gives us LSU, Tulane and Louisiana Tech... how do we determine which school in Florida goes into "the other division", and which state will be split up between this one and another one? Another suggestion: four of your eleven conferences are made up of a majority of (or entirely of) schools in current "Group of Five" conferences (read: not Power Five conferences). I think that if we are throwing out history to realign Division I football, that should include the history of the schools that each school has played, and what conference it's in.

[@mpappas]

Love the concept, but App. Valley feels like it should just be dissolved and reshuffled in to the surrounding conferences, maybe Patriot League too as it defeats the purpose of cutting down on travel by going regional. N. Atlantic needs some beefing up in membership numbers or strength if the likes of UMass, UConn and Buffalo are being included, so could do with some shuffling

[@michaelcrouse9712]

You did duke dirty

[@tarheel7406]

Yeah, DUKE would go to the IVY before this.

[@lapotencia25]

Was thinking just this, stood out as a bad decision. Duke should be in the Big South. If you need to take a team out the Big South, move Georgia Tech to the Appalachian Valley. Makes some geographic sense, and they'd be a great fit in this competitive conference that is similar to the traditional ACC

[@BigMattXXL]

Toledo and Ohio could absolutely give Cincy a run in that MAC

[@MetalGod999]

Personally, I thought Sportsmanlike Misconduct's conference realignment video was excellent. The only change I'd wanna make is to move Duke from the South Atlantic to the Big South. Here's why: 1: I just can't envision a world where the Duke Blue Devils aren't in the same conference as the North Carolina Tar Heels. 2: It might seem like Duke would get killed in the Big South football wise, but remember this: Steve Spurrier was once the head coach at Duke, and had some decent success with the Blue Devs. Spurrier was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 & 1989. 3: If S.M.'s version of the Big South was also a basketball league, Duke would be a major powerhouse in hoops.

[@YautjaHunter3]

LSU Fans would HATE that Red River conference. That's basically the old SouthWestCon plus LSU and the 2 Oklahoma schools. Loosing FLA, Auburn and Bama annually would take a lot out of the zest of the season.

[@dapigbear312]

7:55 Irony liberty had the best record

[@jdotoz]

It has to be based on ranking to be compatible with the playoff. There needs to be another subdivision with four playoff conferences an the rest of the FBS set aside. No more FCS play, and limited playoff/non-playoff interaction, mostly focused on preserving rivalry games. Then add a relegation system. The conferences themselves can be geographic but the first consideration should be strength. Then the playoff conference champs get automatic top-N playoff bids and the only work for the committee is seeding and picking at-large teams. There will still be complaints but at least we can say "You should have won your conference."

[@RandallRedman-td4eh]

Major Midwest East Division - Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Pitt and Purdue

[@maskedmurderer23]

And this is why not all realignments conferences are great because you get some very lopsided conferences and old rivalry’s ruined

[@Itzjust4x]

You should do fcs

[@Drew25t]

GOSH I LOVE MACTION

[@MoonCobalt]

Putting North Dakota in Mountain West is a crime. Both of the ND college teams are located in the eastern part of the state where the land is completely flat. You can drive on the highway and not see any change in elevation no matter where you look.

[@rowdy9379]

Do one with 4 Conferences based on the 4 quarters of the Country

[@jcngokai-76]

let’s be brutally honest, courtesy of former ESPN anchor and Bay Area Sports Reporter Larry Biel, College Football realignment of 2024 is D-U-M-B!!!!!!

[@herkyrox]

Can you put this in NCAA 14 revamped and sim a couple of years?

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

When the new NCAA football game comes out I’m hoping I can do it in there. My PC is too shitty to run Revamped right now 😂

[@herkyrox]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct sounds great, I’ll be looking forward to it!

[@JTMont21]

Big 12 is a southern conference? It's mostly a great plains or central conference

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Yeah I suppose I should’ve found the difference between southern-ish located states like texas and Oklahoma than the other states in the southeast

[@RandallRedman-td4eh]

How about this for the Major Midwest West Division - Illinois, Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Wisconsin - Note - Nebraska will be in the New Orange Bowl Conference. They will play These Teams - Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas States, The Other Division of the Orange Bowl Conference will be Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech. Quite a Conference.

[@seananthony7494]

I believe you only made this video to show off the Red River conference😏

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

They were absolutely one of my favorite lol

[@CullenRTerry]

Red river is literally half Texan, half miscellaneous

[@Trojan073]

8:50 SWC Getting back together.

[@GlorfindelofGondolin]

Right? The only thing that changed was Rice being exchanged for Houston.

[@irondaleheights3864]

All I want is Pitt and WVU in the Big Ten

[@oceanman8659]

I would switch NC State and Duke

[@arseniotucker5960]

Yooo why he laughed at UCONN and UMASS

[@natec5373]

Bro forgot the citidel but called up VMI? WILD

[@GracieSkywalker]

I’m down for this! Can we bring the big east back

[@DarthVader19-77]

I took a different approach. I put together an NFL type format. Two conferences with four divisions of nine in each. Eastern Conference... Atlantic---Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida St, Miami, NC St, No Carolina, So Carolina, UCF. Central---Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan St, Notre Dame, Ohio St. Northeast---Boston College, Maryland, Penn St, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, VA Tech, West Virginia. South---Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, GA Tech, LSU, Miss St, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Wake Forest. Western Conference... Midwest---Illinois, Iowa, Iowa St, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin. Mountain---Arizona, Arizona St, Boise St, BYU, Colorado, Colorado St, Texas Tech, UNLV, Utah. Pacific---Cal, Oregon, Oregon St, San Diego St, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St. Southwest---Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M. Relegated: Kansas, Vanderbilt. Promoted: Boise St, Colorado St, Memphis, San Diego St, UNLV. --A round robin schedule within each division (8 games). --Four division champions and two wildcards qualify for playoffs in each conference (6 teams). --Top two in each conference get a 1st round bye...3rd vs 6th; 4th vs 5th in 1st round. --No team would play more than 16 games.

[@xandermouser2216]

Bro really said fuck one the back yard brawl and claims this to be geographical

[@footballfinity]

I don’t like how you separated, the in-state rivalries in divisions

[@BKiffy]

here before 1k subs

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

You qualify as an OG now

[@BKiffy]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct i fw the videos. You deserve a silver plaque

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

I appreciate that. Maybe we'll get there some day

[@noahkoppes6707]

Can you explain to me how the big 12 is primarily a southern conference? Sure you have 4 Texas schools but that’s as southern as it gets, WV, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State definitely not southern. Colorado, BYU, Arizona, And Arizona state are at best Southwest but that’s not “Southern”. And don’t get me started on how UCF isn’t actually Southern.

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Pre-pac 12 crumbling. Focused on the Texas/Oklahoma schools. Should said mid-western as well

[@KD-eq2ch]

Red River and the Big South would run CFB

[@Pic6ixSSC]

Amazing vid but I think app state should’ve been in the Appalachian valley because they can hang with power 5 and I know that for a fact

[@masteroogway8453]

Should’ve pit LSU in the big south since their rivals is in it. Bama, Auburn, Florida, ole miss and Mississippi St.

[@Z64sports]

Isn't the minimum number of teams 8?

[@howlegendsaremade7003]

Forgot The Citadel💔💔

[@tuzonthume]

as a lifelong Oregon state Beavers fan I insist this is about baseball.

[@jodysdeathwish]

i wanna use this in ncaa14

[@GaDawg11]

Building this on NCAA 14 Rn

[@therealanonyomous]

In the military schools you left out The Citadel.

[@mikemccabe8015]

Dude didn't even include any of the G5 teams in his SEC and Big 10 equivalent conferences.

[@NicAngerstein]

Citadel in Patriot league

[@piglinplayz8391]

Where sac state :(

[@FrankJoseph-tp2jz]

Adams St and NM Highlands would be great pac 10 teams

[@milesimpsons1328]

So the Power 5 in this scenario is Central American, Pacific Coast, Big South, Appalachian Valley, and Red River.

[@lapotencia25]

Yeah, that works out nicely. Essentially, Central American = traditional Big 10, Pacific Coast = traditional Pac 12, Big South = traditional SEC, Appalachian Valley = traditional ACC, Red River = traditional Big 12

[@jamesshively]

The only thing I would do is add Idaho back to the Mountain west, like they were before

[@jamespusey7186]

WE KEPT #MACTION

[@JoaquinMarquez-cc6sp]

Should’ve put UTEP in the mountain west. We’re tired of being stuck with these goofy cusa teams

[@jude1245]

Taking Air Force out of the mountain west is criminal. I know they’re a service academy, and don’t get me wrong I HATE Air Force, but I grew up 15 minutes away from the academy and played football in its shadow my entire high school career before I moved to Wyoming for college. I treasure the Wyoming-Air Force rivalry almost as much I prize the Boot and beating the sheep.

[@maxl.b.m.y.g.5918]

Ball State is in Indiana

[@x-90]

Gotta add Delaware now

[@sarahmccoy1941]

On paper this may look good, but in reality no. Texas, A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma and LSU are a better fit with the schools they now are in with, the SEC. These are the big schools in this would-be conference. They would not like to carry the financial water for Tech, TCU, Baylor, Okie State, and Houston

[@PoisedHD]

LSU with an auto playoff bid every year 😈

[@slibertas1996]

Ball St is Indiana

[@coleholland9414]

I think some of your conferences are wacky, like having Duke in the South Atlantic, which is dumb for so many reasons. Why is Penn State in the North Atlantic and Cincinnati in the MAC, while LSU is not in the Big South? If anything, you should have moved Duke and Wake Forest to the Appalachian Valley Conference, transferred LSU to the Big South, and shifted SMU to the Red River to recreate the old Southwest Conference.

[@Dark0Shadow79]

I think you forgot Vermont, Maine and NH.. lol.. Man, the maine black bears are the best

[@slibertas1996]

Duke needs to be with North Carolina. They’re less than 20 minutes from each other

[@prestonhunter45]

They are really good but the North Atlantic conference 😬

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Yeahhh… if you peep the Bonus Realignment comment I pinned then you’ll see a better realignment lol

[@JoeyB-2001]

Just put PSU and Pitt in the Appalachian valley conf. It would still make sense geographically and the competition would make more sense. As much as I love the idea of the patriot league, it would not work because of Air Force. Put them back in the MWC, bump NDSU and VMI back to FCS, and put Army and Navy in the North Atlantic. Lastly, get Cincinnati outta maction, put em in the central American and let Notre Dame be independent just to make everyone angry. Add Marshall to make those conferences even numbers with sensible divisions. I love the ideas that you had for everything else! Also, flip Duke and Liberty.

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

Unfortunately I would be one of the angry people with Notre Dame😂 I pinned a bonus realignment but it agrees with the PSU/Pitt/and Patriot League teams + NDSU/VMI.

[@JoeyB-2001]

​@@sportsmanlikemisconductwell hey at least you didn't disagree with the rest of my comment yet so I'm heading in the right direction 😂

[@notredamefan9]

North atlantic works out because the Cum Bowl will actually be relevant

[@theflev-matic4892]

No

[@benkleinschmit1699]

This is the only way tk save college football 😅

[@dereknorris4543]

The bayou conference is the best

[@teakwondohunt4715]

Duke is gonna win thier division every year

[@realcodyk1127]

Swap Wake Forest and Duke

[@Alexanderthesportsfan1]

8:22 where is OU? Oklahoma Sooners?

[@sportsmanlikemisconduct]

8:43

[@Alexanderthesportsfan1]

@@sportsmanlikemisconduct OK sorry. I just saw Oklahoma at 8:22 but there was no Oklahoma till 8:43

[@JamesHoward-ev1kx]

Move duke to big south and wake forest to south Atlantic.

[@basementhorrorsreview]

You really put Cincinnati in with a bunch of MAC schools??? 😂🤡

[@Football-ts8iz]

You should’ve moved up South Dakota.

[@jude5887]

"PromoSM"

[@Leftlane4passing]

These are WAY too unbalanced.

[@Honeybread-ox5ho]

Repent and trust in Jesus you will be saved I love yall and God bless y'all

[@dfp_01]

If you're working with these 136 teams as your FBS contingent and separating out the 4 military schools, I think it would make a lot more sense to have the same number of teams in all the conferences-132 lends itself well to 11 conferences of 12 teams, perhaps each split into 2 divisions of 6. And if you're doing them purely geographically, ignoring the relative strengths of the various programs, here's where I'd go with it: Pac-12 - North: Cal, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington - South: Fresno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, San Jose State, UCLA, USC Mountain West - North: Boise State, BYU, Utah, Utah State, Washington State, Wyoming - South: Arizona, Arizona State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UNLV, UTEP Big 12 - North: Colorado, Colorado State, North Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech - South: Baylor, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas State, UTSA Great Plains - North: Iowa, Iowa State, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Wisconsin - South: Arkansas, Arkansas State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Tulsa Gulf Coast - East: Louisiana, LSU, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy, Tulane - West: Houston, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M South Atlantic - North: Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Southern, South Carolina - South: FIU, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Miami (FL), South Florida, UCF SEC - East: Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, UAB - West: Alabama, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt ACC - East: Coastal Carolina, Duke, East Carolina, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion - West: Appalachian State, Charlotte, Liberty, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Northeast - East: Boston College, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UConn, UMass - West: Buffalo, James Madison, Maryland, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia Ohio Valley - North: Akron, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Michigan, Toledo - South: Cincinnati, Kentucky, Marshall, Miami (OH), Ohio, Ohio State Midwest - North: Central Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Western Michigan - South: Ball State, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Purdue, Western Kentucky Note that for the last two, it would make geographic sense to have the two North divisions be the Great Lakes Conference and the two South divisions to be the Ohio Valley Conference. But I just couldn't bring myself to break up the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry even if it meant teams would have to travel a few miles farther on average to play each other.