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February 4, 2005

Who's playing where? Conference realignments

With all the changes going on, it's easy to get distracted with conference (re)alignments. Here's a quick primer to what teams are playing in what conference for 2005. (PDF)

ACC
Atlantic Division - Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, NC State, Wake Forest,
Coastal Division - Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia Virginia Tech


Big East
Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse and West Virginia, Cincinnati, Louisville, South Florida


Big Ten
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin


Big XII
Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech


Conference USA
East - UAB, UCF, East Carolina, Marshall, Memphis, Southern Miss
West - Houston, Rice, SMU, UTEP, Tulane, Tulsa


MAC
East - Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Kent State, Miami University, Ohio
West - Ball St, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Toledo, Western Michigan


Mountain West
Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, TCU, UNLV, Utah, Wyoming


PAC10
Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State


Sun Belt
Arkansas State, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe, MTSU, North Texas, Troy, Florida Atlantic, Florida International


SEC
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt


WAC
Boise State, Fresno State, Idaho, Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, Nevada, San Jose State, Utah State


Independents - Army, Navy, Notre Dame, Temple


We are proud to make a handy PDF guide available for download.

Posted by Kevin Donahue

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Comments:

  1. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on February 4, 2005 10:10 PM — link — abuse?



    And for those paying real close attention, you'll notice that there are links now for the MAC & WAC conferences. Another year, another Fanblogs expansion. :)

  2. Fanblogs Author Josh McClain said:

    posted on February 8, 2005 2:02 PM — 198.207.0.5 — link — abuse?



    So what your saying Kevin, is essentially we're bias against the Sun Belt? ;)

  3. Maurice said:

    posted on February 8, 2005 4:40 PM — 208.17.179.33 — link — abuse?



    The Big East will be better than the MT west 2k5

  4. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on February 8, 2005 4:59 PM — link — abuse?



    Personally, I love the Sun Belt! Go Mean Green!

  5. BJ Fischer said:

    posted on February 8, 2005 7:52 PM — 157.134.164.52 — link — abuse?



    Thanks for the MAC link! FYI, the league announced today that Bowling Green is moving back to the East to compensate for UCF and Marshall leaving the East.

  6. Jason said:

    posted on February 9, 2005 3:51 PM — 67.33.59.203 — link — abuse?



    Maurice, Maurice, Maurice... Foolish little one. The Big East will not be better in 2k5 than even your run of the mill neighborhood pee-wee league, and DEFINITELY does NOT deserve to have any kind of an automatic bid.

  7. Maurice said:

    posted on February 9, 2005 5:11 PM — 208.17.179.33 — link — abuse?



    The big East will be better in 2k5 b/c of Louisville will finish in the top 10

  8. jessi said:

    posted on February 13, 2005 1:27 AM — 64.58.97.6 — link — abuse?



    Okay, who else besides Louisville? West Virginia, Syracuse, and Pittsburgh need to step it for the Big East to be considered a superior conference this year. Until that happens I say let that bid be up for grabs.

  9. Kevin M said:

    posted on February 22, 2005 9:52 AM — 157.160.37.219 — link — abuse?



    The Big East will be better this year because Temple is gone. Duh.

  10. Maurice said:

    posted on February 22, 2005 11:44 AM — 208.17.179.33 — link — abuse?



    I told my Colleagues at Fanblog there will be four undefeated teams at the end of last season and a mid major conference will bust the BCS. All my predictions came true. Since, Urban Myer decided to leave beutiful Utah for sunny Flordia, so in turn MWC confernce is not so strong this coming year.The Big East still sucks. The Big East confenence will suck until 2008. But they will be better that MWC conference next. Another Maurice early predictions

  11. Matt said:

    posted on March 6, 2005 1:03 PM — 69.160.139.135 — link — abuse?



    Another year for the Pac-10 as the most stable Division I-A conference. The Pac-10 has had the same ten schools since the Arizona schools joined in 1978.

    And, probably, another year for the national championship to stay in the Pac-10. But you never know. At some point U$C is bound to lose a little motivation or have a bad game or two.

  12. Fanblogs Author Ben Prather said:

    posted on March 8, 2005 11:37 AM — 69.73.43.133 — link — abuse?



    Not so fast on the MWC bashing.

    Utah will not be as dominant next year for sure, but the rest of the conference, Wyoming excluded, had a very down year with 5 rookie QB's and 3 rookie coaches.

    BYU is looking posed to jump back on the national stage next year, I am cautiously optomistic about Utah, TCU will be a good addition ( Although the popular view at this site last year that Boise would have been a better choice looks valid ), Wyoming is feeling very confident after the bowl win over UCLA and CSU is bound to recover from a tough rebuilding year.

    The Big East will be tough only because Louisville is their. The irony will be sweet in five years when C-USA is just as strong as the Big East, and neither conference has an automatic BCS bid.

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