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I don't even know anymore...
*If you have a short attention span, or don't like reading, then just leave now*
So if you watch Soccer, and have half a clue, you know what relegation is. Basically, there's different tiers/levels. The worst teams in a given level will drop one, while the best will go up one.
The folks at SBNation decided to play with the idea of relegation in College Football, by assigning all conferences (that means ALL...all college football teams are affected by this) to different levels, starting of course with the BCS Conferences at the top (outside of the Big East, which becomes a "Tier 2" team for the ACC.
For instance, the Tier 1 & 2 teams would go as follows: Pac-12/Mountain West; SEC/Sun Belt; Big 12/Conference USA; Big Ten/MAC; and the aforementioned ACC/Big East. Like I said, this affects ALL college football teams, so there's 7 tiers for each grouping.
Links to the articles posted so far:
Relegation: Why College Football Needs To Embrace Cannibalism - SBNation.com
College Conference Realignment: What We Can Learn From Soccer Relegation - SBNation.com
Realignment Is Dead, Long Live College Football Relegation - SBNation.com <--- Shows all the groupings, from Tier 1 thru 7.
Relegation Simulation: Rewriting College Football History - SBNation.com <--- Shows what would've happened were relegation in place starting in '05, and how the conferences would look now
It's a pretty cool idea to toy with. Of course it'll never happen, and the writers know that, but a system like this would be awesome.
So if you watch Soccer, and have half a clue, you know what relegation is. Basically, there's different tiers/levels. The worst teams in a given level will drop one, while the best will go up one.
The folks at SBNation decided to play with the idea of relegation in College Football, by assigning all conferences (that means ALL...all college football teams are affected by this) to different levels, starting of course with the BCS Conferences at the top (outside of the Big East, which becomes a "Tier 2" team for the ACC.
For instance, the Tier 1 & 2 teams would go as follows: Pac-12/Mountain West; SEC/Sun Belt; Big 12/Conference USA; Big Ten/MAC; and the aforementioned ACC/Big East. Like I said, this affects ALL college football teams, so there's 7 tiers for each grouping.
Links to the articles posted so far:
Relegation: Why College Football Needs To Embrace Cannibalism - SBNation.com
College Conference Realignment: What We Can Learn From Soccer Relegation - SBNation.com
Realignment Is Dead, Long Live College Football Relegation - SBNation.com <--- Shows all the groupings, from Tier 1 thru 7.
Relegation Simulation: Rewriting College Football History - SBNation.com <--- Shows what would've happened were relegation in place starting in '05, and how the conferences would look now
It's a pretty cool idea to toy with. Of course it'll never happen, and the writers know that, but a system like this would be awesome.
