New 40 team super league

[Jim Vanderhoof]

It’s funny to me that if 40 team super football league was broken down by region (East West North and South) 4 divisions. You would end up with Pac 12 ACC Big 10 and SEC. Big 12 would place teams in different conferences. Pac 10 may exist again. Will never happen because it makes sense. Play everyone in your division and 3 teams from other division as non conference. 8 team playoff 2(each division. Salary caps and player contracts.

[MDUte]

I love the idea of a future West Division that adds Utah and Stanford to SC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon.

[2008 National Champ]

Stanford would have to change the way they do business to be considered for inclusion

[MDUte]

Agreed. But the Notre Dame “backpack” scenario they have going for them could be their saving grace if it’s what ultimately enables Fox to get ND to join the B1G.

[2008 National Champ]

If there’s going to a super league failure, and it’s the kind of thinking that could keep Utah out, it’s that academic reputation matters more than program ability.

i.e, Vanderbilt and Stanford have great academic reputations and have been in the club for decades. They also have very little drawing power in their home markets, have student acceptance rules which are prohibitive to many of the kids who would end up in the super league, and as institutions they have not shown a willingness to promote the infrastructure required to support inclusion.

So if someone like Stanford is necessary to bring Notre Dame to the dance, I say leave Notre Dame out and put in two schools that bring more to the football table. If the super league is truly to succeed, the powers that be need to get their heads out of their nostalgia.

[ColumbiaUte]

I think this has been the argument for the super league. In the P5 format, you had five separate entities with five CEO’s doing what’s best for their own conference.

I think the super league will be similar to the NFL in that you will have a division/conference and then OOC games based on how well you did the season before. A first place Oregon would play a first place Ohio State next year #2 Utah vs #2 Penn State etc but it wouldn’t count against your “Division” record. This was what the alliance wanted to do (maybe not the seeding matchups per se) but it just had no momentum.

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