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2012 Conferences

AQ Conferences (Champion automatically in a BCS game)

8 schools, round-robin schedule, no title game -

ACC – Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, N.C. St, Wake Forest

Big East -Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, UConn, West Virginia

Big 8 – Baylor, Iowa St, Kansas St, Memphis, Oklahoma St, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech


PAC 12 - 12 schools, 2 divisions, 9 conference games, protected crossovers as OTL, title game between division winners

North – California, Oregon, Oregon St, Stanford, Washington, Washington St
South – Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, UCLA, USC, Utah


SEC - 16 schools, 4 divisions, 8 conference games, some protected crossovers which I'm not listing (everyone has 2 or 3 and barely plays anyone out of their division or crossover), title game between 2 highest ranked division winners

East – Georgia, Florida, Florida St, South Carolina
Central – Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech
South – Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Miss. St.
West – Arkansas, LSU, Kansas, Texas A+M


Big 10 - 16 schools, 4 divisions, 9 conference games, crossovers by matrix, title game between 2 highest ranked division or POD winners

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Non AQ conferences – top ranked champion makes BCS game, subject to selection criteria rules

Conference USA -

East – East Carolina, Marshall, Southern Miss, Temple, UAB, UCF
West - Houston, Rice, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, UTEP

MAC -

East – Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Kent St, Miami (OH), Ohio
West – Ball St, C. Michigan, E. Michigan, N. Illinois, Toledo, W. Michigan

Sunbelt - Arkansas St, FAU, FIU, Lou-Lafayette, Lou-Monroe, N. Texas, Middle Tennessee, Troy, W. Kentucky

Mt. West – Air Force, Boise St, Colorado St, Fresno St, New Mexico, San Diego, UNLV, Wyoming

WAC – Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico St, San Jose St, Utah St, UTSA


Independents – Army, BYU, Navy, Notre Dame, UMass


Notes: I assume the Big 12 retains the rights to the Big 8 name, here they bring it back to be accurate troll people. I'm too lazy to work out the SEC crossovers.

Here realignment happens with less stealing of schools from minor conferences (for now) or rather didn't destroy the Big East turn it into the non-AQ AAC (for now), and also there's no seen need to expand past 8 for the major conferences (for now), so the smaller conferences are fairing better (for now) and the WAC looks like it's going to survive (for now). Without the trickle down raiding the Sun Belt (for now), several schools are not moving up to FBS.

Hopefully I didn't screw anything up (for now).