Conference Realignment for More Rivalries

[DonkeyJote]

I realigned conferences, and have been pretty happy with it, so I figured I'd post it. I was tired of playing in th Big Ten and wanted a return to the Pac-12. My goal was to try and get more in conference rivalries while breaking up the Super Conferences a little bit. I wanted to keep the conferences at 12 or 14 teams (I read somewhere that going to 16 can cause more scheduling issues), and go back to divisions for every conference.

Almost every team has an in conference rival. There are 3 exceptions: Army, Navy (obviously those two play each other annually, so I actually split them purposefully), and North Texas (their only in-game official rival is SMU, and I just didn't want really like the fit of them being in that conference, but they're still with a few other Texas teams, including UTSA).

One positive thing immediately happened. In year 3 of my Dynasty (after moving the Mountain West schools plus Cal/Stanford to the Pac-12, and moving UTEP/UNI to the Mountain West), the season shrunk by a week. Army-Navy became Week 14, so no other team could schedule games that week. After I did this, Army-Navy was back to Week 15, and I had 15 weeks to schedule my 12 games again).

My results (with number of in conference rivalries in parenthesis):

ACC
- Coastal
- Clemson (3)
- North Carolina (4)
- Duke (3)
- NC State (4)
- Georgia Tech (2)
- Wake Forest (3)
- Atlantic
- Miami (2)
- Florida State (2)
- Virginia (3)
- Virginia Tech (3)
- Maryland (2)
- Rutgers (1)

American
- North
- Syracuse (3)
- Louisville (2)
- West Virginia (3)
- Pittsburgh (3)
- Boston College (1)
- Cincinnati (3)
- South
- Houston (2)
- UCF (2)
- SMU (1)
- Tulsa (2)
- USF (1)
- Rice (3)

Big 12
- North
- Nebraska (4)
- Utah (2)
- Kansas (2)
- Colorado (2)
- Kansas State (2)
- Iowa State (2)
- BYU (1)
- South
- Oklahoma (4)
- Texas (4)
- TCU (2)
- Baylor (2)
- Oklahoma State (2)
- Missouri (2)
- Texas Tech (4)

Big Ten
- West
- Notre Dame (4)
- Wisconsin (2)
- Iowa (2)
- Illinois (3)
- Minnesota (4)
- Northwestern (3)
- East
- Michigan (5)
- Ohio State (3)
- Penn State (3)
- Michigan State (4)
- Indiana (2)
- Purdue (3)

Conference USA
- North
- Liberty (2)
- UConn (1)
- Marshall (1)
- Navy (0)
- James Madison (1)
- UMass (1)
- Old Dominion (3)
- South
- Coastal Carolina (1)
- Appalachian State (2)
- Georgia State (2)
- East Carolina (2)
- Charlotte (2)
- Georgia Southern (2)
- Kennesaw State (1)

MAC
- West
- Miami University (2)
- Toledo (1)
- Northern Illinois (1)
- Ball State (2)
- Central Michigan (2)
- Western Michigan (2)
- Eastern Michigan (2)
- East
- Ohio (1)
- Temple (1)
- Bowling Green (2)
- Army (0)
- Buffalo (1)
- Akron (1)
- Kent State (2)

Mountain West
- West
- Nevada (1)
- Wyoming (3)
- UNLV (2)
- Air Force (2)
- Colorado State (2)
- Utah State (1)
- Hawai'i (3)
- East
- Texas State (2)
- North Texas (0)
- New Mexico (2)
- New Mexico State (2)
- UTEP (2)
- Sam Houston (2)
- UTSA (1)

Pac-12
- North
- Oregon (2)
- Stanford (3)
- Washington (2)
- California (2)
- Oregon State (1)
- Boise State (1)
- Washington State (1)
- South
- USC (2)
- UCLA (2)
- Arizona (1)
- Arizona State (1)
- San Jose State (2)
- Fresno State (3)
- San Diego State (1)

SEC
- West
- Alabama (4)
- Ole Miss (2)
- LSU (8)
- Auburn (4)
- Arkansas (3)
- Texas A&M (3)
- Mississippi State (3)
- East
- Georgia (4)
- Florida (4)
- Tennessee (5)
- Tulane (1)
- Kentucky (2)
- South Carolina (2)
- Vanderbilt (2)

Sun Belt
- West
- Memphis (3)
- UAB (3)
- Louisiana (2)
- Louisiana Tech (3)
- Southern Mississippi (3)
- Arkansas State (1)
- UL Monroe (2)
- East
- Jacksonville State (1)
- Middle Tennessee (2)
- Florida Atlantic (1)
- Troy (4)
- Western Kentucky (1)
- South Alabama (1)
- Florida International (1)