The New Era of the NCAA By: Mr. Dunlap

Why we are here? We have already seen during the past year, change is coming with the NCAA. Football is leading the way. Conferences all want to have a conference championship game, which can bring in an extra $15-20 million for the conference. The BCS conferences have had all the power and in the future with this expansion and realignment, they will have even more. There will be 4 super conferences there was a 4 team playoff – but that too will change

Conference Snap Shot “Big 4” Super Conferences 16 teams each Big 10 Pac 10 Southeastern Atlantic Coast “Little 4” Mid-Majors teams Big East Mid-American Conference USA Big West

The BIG teams East Ohio State Michigan Michigan State Notre Dame Penn State Virginia Rutgers Maryland West Illinois Indiana Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Purdue Wisconsin

The PAC teams North Boise State Cal Colorado Oregon Oregon State Stanford Washington Washington State South Arizona Arizona State TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech UCLA USC

The SEC - 16 teams East Clemson Florida Florida State Geogia Georgia Tech Miami South Carolina Tennessee West Alabama Arkansas Auburn LSU Mississippi Mississippi State Oklahoma Oklahoma State

The ACC - 16 teams North Boston College Duke West Virginia North Carolina North Carolina State Pittsburgh Virginia Tech Wake Forest South Baylor Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Kentucky Missouri South Florida Vanderbilt

The Big East - 12 teams East Army Cincinnati Louisville Navy Syracuse UConn West Houston Memphis Rice SMU Southern Miss Tulane

The MAC - 14 teams East Akron Buffalo Kent State Marshall Miami Ohio Temple West Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Northern Illinios Toledo Western Michigan

Conference USA - 12 teams East Central Florida East Carolina Florida Atlantic Florida International Middle Tennessee Western Kentucky West Arkansas State North Texas Troy Tulsa UAB UTEP

The Big West - 18 teams Mid-West Air Force Brigham Young Colorado State Idaho Louisana Tech Louisana Lafayette Louisana Monroe UNLV Wyoming Far West Fresno State Hawaii Nevada New Mexico New Mexico State San Diego State San Jose State Utah Utah State

Post-Season “Big 4” Conferences Top 3 Teams – Playoff 7-5 record – bowl game “Little 4” Conferences Champion – Playoff 7-5 record - bowl game The bowl games will stay Reward for season Big money paid out Extra 15 practices – key for player development The playoff will be extremely lucrative and lead to the change from 4 teams to 16 teams

Playoffs Computers to seed 16 teams to be played at bowl site Will start a week after the conference championship games and run on each Saturday, ending on SuperBowl Saturday First round sites Outback, Alamo, Liberty, Sun, Holiday, Insight, Champs, and Las Vegas Quarterfinals Fiesta, Cotton, Gator, and Capital One Semifinals Sugar and Orange Championsip Game Rose

Bowl Games 20 bowl games are left 10 Bowl games will be played by the “Big 4” teams 10 Bowl games will be played by the “Little 4” Each team will be required to have a record of at least 7-5 instead of the current 6-6 Will be played Tuesday and Thursday during the playoffs

Sample Tournament Ohio State East CarolinaOhio State North CarolinaOhio State IowaIowa NebraskaOhio State Kansas StateNebraska Virginia TechNebraska Brigham YoungVirginia Tech Ohio State Cincinnati Boise StateBoise State OregonBoise State OklahomaOklahomaBoise State Miami TexasMiami AlabamaAlabama TempleAlabama

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