Might as well just put Iowa Tier 1 and everyone else below them....
Funny that you'd put UM in the 2nd and 3rd tier "sometimes" , and yet have USC in tier1? Really. I just don't get all this slobbering over USC to this point, and I would most assuredly not put them as a more consistent "power" then Michigan. I mean the men of Troy may indeed rise again, and just maybe actually playing a half dozen top 20 defenses EVERY year, and maybe they aren't what everybody assumes they are.
The numbers alone make it tough. But...at least we'll be seeing big boy games every week. None of this Western Michigan and FCS crap. Every game against a name P5 team would be cool.
I would love it if there was only one non-con and 11 conference games but that ain’t happening until the SEC moves off of 8 games.
I am not criticizing your take at all as it makes total sense under this format, but really what is the difference between calling all of them B1G East, Midwest and West instead of B1G and Pac 10 or 12 or whatever? These super conferences can add all of the teams they want but at the end of the day they can only play so many games. So what does it really matter if a team is in your conference and you don't play them? I understand why they are doing it, $$$$$$$$$, but for us fans it doesn't make any sense other than being able to watch these west coast teams on the Big Ten Network.
I'm old school. I'm all for bringing back college football 80s style
I'd have Washington in tier 3 with Iowa, MSU, and USC, move Illinois down. Tier 2 I'd have Michigan, Wisky, Oregon, PSU. Tier 1 OSU by themselves.
Knock usc down 1 tier and I’d say that’s a pretty fair rankings
I would like to see us off-load ISU. That game is more archaic than the conference alignments of 20 years ago. It does not fit in with anything that is going on these days.
This is what our schedule could probably look like in 2024:
Counterpoint, they’re the only other BIG to win a national championship this century.
they've also had some major down years since. I think they are more on the level of penn state/oregon than they are OSU/Michigan.
That schedule could push KF to hang it up after the 2024 or 25 season.
