apaladin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:35 pm
Affirm, there is no such thing as
BCS schools(FBS) but we know what you mean. I would like to ask if he is going to be able to reschedule the Tennessee game and how is he doing filling holes in the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 football schedules? Thanks
Well, apaladin, thank you for pointing out that my terminology was not precisely correct, and thank you for saying that you nevertheless knew what I meant. I feel that I SHOULD know what is correct, so I thank you for prompting me to find the information below online, which I have read for my information and also provide here for the few other UFFP members who, like me, may be behind in being fully certain of the correct designations, which seem to have changed more than once over time.
And, by the way, I am glad you mentioned the questions you would ask that would be somewhat related to mine; HOWEVER,
MY SUGGESTION OF PLAYING "BEYOND ACC & SEC SCHOOLS" STANDS.
You mentioned the UT game. Yeah, would like to play them. Lot's closer than all of the other SEC schools except UofSC and UGA. But we already play 2 other Tennessee schools each and every year, and my suggestion has to do with playing teams in other parts of the country where we seldom go and have seldom been for football.
Also, if we beat a not-good SEC or not-good ACC team, people in our area (and other places) probably don't notice much because people in our area (and other places) know when those are bad teams; when we lose to them, people in our area (and other places), if they notice, probably say, "anyone can beat
that SEC team", or "...
that ACC team...", they are so bad". If we
just play a
non-ACC or
non-SEC, we probably get "more credit" win or lose as far as local publicity is concerned, because a lot of people locally have heard of the school but have not kept up with how good or not good they currently are in football and assume they are probably good .
So, Flag Man, I will appreciate it if you would ask my question as well as apaladin's question. (Oh, I see it's already in the past! Hopefully, you or someone will report.)
The Power Five conferences make up five of the ten conferences in
FBS; the other
FBS conferences are informally known as
the Group of Five (American Athletic Conference (the American or AAC), Conference USA, Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mountain West Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference).[3] The
FBS consists of the Power Five, the Group of Five, and a small number of independent schools (among those schools long-time independents Army and Notre Dame, along with other schools that typically stay independent for a few years before moving to a conference).[/u] Prior to the establishment of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the Power Five conferences, as well as the old Big East Conference, were called Automatic Qualifying (AQ) conferences, because the champion of
each conference received an automatic berth in one of the five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games. The final college football season for which the BCS was in effect was the 2013 season. With the split of the old Big East in 2013, there are now
five power conferences.
...
Current conferences and teams
[There are] ...
ten current FBS conferences listed below.
For the Power Five, the member universities of each conference are ... [below].
Power Five
Conferences and member universities
ACC
Big Ten Big 12 Pac-12 SEC
Boston College Illinois Baylor Arizona
Alabama
Clemson
Indiana Iowa State Arizona State Arkansas
Duke
Iowa Kansas California Auburn
Florida State
Maryland Kansas State UCLA Florida
Georgia Tech
Michigan Oklahoma Colorado Georgia
Louisville
Michigan State Oklahoma State Oregon Kentucky
Miami
Minnesota TCU Oregon State LSU
North Carolina
Nebraska Texas USC Ole Miss
NC State
Northwestern Texas Tech Stanford Mississippi State
Pittsburgh
Ohio State West Virginia Utah Missouri
Syracuse
Penn State Washington South Carolina
Virginia
Purdue Washington State Tennessee
Virginia Tech
Rutgers Texas A&M
Wake Forest
Wisconsin Vanderbilt
Notre Dame*
* The University of Notre Dame is full voting member of the ACC, and although its football team does not participate in ACC football and competes as a football independent, it is obligated to play an average of five football games a year against ACC opponents.[5] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Notre Dame entered into a full ACC football schedule and was eligible for the conference's championship.[6] Notre Dame fields 24 other varsity sports that compete in the ACC, as well as men's ice hockey which competes in the Big Ten Conference.
Group of Five
Conferences
American Athletic Conference
Conference USA
Mid-American Conference
Mountain West Conference
Sun Belt Conference
...
Under the College Football Playoff system
With the establishment of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the term "automatic qualifying conference" is no longer in use, as
the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) has been discontinued. However, five of the six former
AQ conferences are now known as
the "Power Five conferences": the Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Pac-12 Conference, and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The sixth
AQ conference, the Big East, was split up during the 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment, with five members joining
P5 conferences, Notre Dame establishing a relationship with the ACC, the remaining non-football members forming the new Big East Conference, and the remaining members forming the American Athletic Conference. It is unknown where
the term "Power Five Conference" originated from; it is not officially documented anywhere by the NCAA.
The American, as well as Conference USA (C-USA), the Mid-American Conference (MAC), the Mountain West Conference (MW), and the Sun Belt Conference are known as the "Group of Five" (sometimes called the G5).
The FBS also has seven independent schools as of the current 2020 season: Notre Dame, Army, BYU, Liberty, New Mexico State, UConn, and UMass. Notre Dame is currently considered equal to the Power Five schools, being a full (with the exception of football) member of the ACC with an annual five-game football scheduling agreement with that conference; ... All
Power Five leagues that require their members to schedule at least one
Power Five team in nonconference play (currently the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12) consider Notre Dame to be a
Power Five opponent for such purposes.
The ACC, Big Ten, and SEC also count BYU as a Power Five opponent for scheduling purposes, and the Big Ten and SEC count Army as well.[7][8][9]
Teams from
the Power Five and
the Group of Five play each other during the season, and sometimes also play against FCS teams. However, many coaches of
Power Five schools have argued that
Power Five schools should only be allowed to schedule games against other
Power Five schools[/b].[3] ...Some Power Five conferences, including the Big Ten and SEC, require their teams to play at least one non-conference P5 opponent each season.[9][8]
....
Each conference champion from the Power Five and the highest-ranked Group of Five conference champion is guaranteed a spot in a New Year's Six Bowl.[11] Every year, a non-Power Five team is guaranteed one bid to the New Year's Six bowls; however, so far no additional bids beyond that one have been granted.
....
March Madness CBS, Turner $8.8bn ($1.1bn)
College Football Playoff ESPN $5.6bn ($470m)
Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) Fox, ESPN $3.0bn ($250m)
Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) Fox, ESPN $2.6bn ($440m) [12]
Big 12 Conference (Big 12) Fox, ESPN $2.6bn ($200m)
Southeastern Conference (SEC) ESPN, CBS $2.25bn[13] ($55m)[note 1]
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) ESPN $1.86bn ($155m)[14]
Realignment since the 1990s
The FBS has undergone several waves of realignment since the 1990s, when the Bowl Coalition was established. ......
Under the BCS system
From 1998 to 2013, the top teams in Division I FBS played in the BCS. ... The BCS succeeded two other systems that were put in place after the 1991 season in order to ensure that one national champion could be crowned at the end of the season. The original Bowl Coalition consisted of the SEC, the Big Eight Conference (later succeeded by the Big 12), the Southwest Conference (SWC), the ACC, the Big East, and Notre Dame. The BCS added the Pac-10 (now known as the Pac-12) and the Big Ten, while the SWC dissolved in 1996. In 2013, the Big East split into two conferences, and its successor, the American Athletic Conference (The American), took the Big East's place for the 2013 season.
In addition to creating a national championship game, the BCS also created a set format for other major bowls. After the two top teams in the BCS rankings were matched up in the BCS National Championship Game, the other three or (after the 2005 season) four bowls selected other top teams. The term "BCS conference" was used by many fans to refer to one of the six conferences whose champions received an automatic berth in one of the five BCS bowl games, although BCS itself used the term "automatic qualifying conference" (AQ conference).[17] While the number of AQ conferences was technically variable,[18] the BCS always had six AQ conferences since its inception in 1998. The Mountain West Conference (MW) was perhaps the closest of the other conferences to getting AQ status, but its request for AQ status was denied in 2012.[19] Each of the bowls had a historic link with one or more of the six BCS conferences with the exception of the former Big East, and the bowl games selected a team from each of these conferences if it was eligible for a BCS bowl and not playing in the national title game. The conferences included in this group, with their traditional bowl links, were:
Big East Conference (The American in 2013) (not tied to any specific BCS bowl)
Atlantic Coast Conference (Orange Bowl)
Big 12 Conference (Fiesta Bowl)
Big Ten Conference (Rose Bowl)
Pac-12 Conference (Rose Bowl)
Southeastern Conference (Sugar Bowl)
Notre Dame is an independent in football, but was a founding member[20] of the BCS.[21] Because of the "Notre Dame rule", it had guaranteed access to the BCS bowls when it met certain defined performance criteria.[22]
