MWC: Wyoming #75, San Diego State #84, UNLV #100, Utah State #107 Not the MWC best year.ĪAC: North Texas #70, Memphis #77, UAB #78. The AAC has 4 teams ranked higher than the MWC banner holder Boise State and the Sun Belt has 3 schools ranked higher than the Broncos. This section shows how far the MWC has fallen. One stat that boosts the Sun Belt is during week two, Marshall beat Notre Dame, App State beat Texas A&M, and Georgia Southern beat Nebraska and the total payout was over $4.1 million. The Sun Belt has a strong hold on second place, with one good team followed by 3 solid teams. It really feels like East Carolina is a big loser in the realignment, being left behind and becoming, once again, a big fish in a small pond. Tulane is getting national attention and UTSA, ECU, and SMU are solid teams. To be the top G5, your top teams (yes, that is plural), need to be nationally ranked and able to compete with the Power 5 teams.ĭespite losing Central Florida, Cincinnati, and Houston the AAC still holds the top headliners.
#Group of 5 conference realignment tv
These are the teams which get the national rankings, the TV games with more eyeballs, hopefully the sold-out home crowds, and the New Year’s Day Bowls. The top third of the conference are the headliners. Sun Belt: Coastal Carolina #26, Troy #45, James Madison #50, South Alabama #54 MWC: Boise State #53, San Jose State #59, Air Force #61, and Fresno State #65 Sun Belt: Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State, Troy (split into 4-5-5) The HeadlinersĪAC: Tulane #16, UTSA #37, East Carolina #40, and SMU #48 MWC: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, Wyoming (split into 4-4-4) This week’s rankings come from CBS Sports.ĪAC: UAB, Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Navy, North Texas, Rice, SMU, South Florida, Temple, Texas-San Antonio, Tulane, Tulsa (split into 4-5-5) Of course, current alignment could change at any time for any of these conferences. For now, the Mountain West kept everyone (looking at you San Diego State), and did not add any schools (a problem in my opinion), and the Sun Belt conference losing Little Rock and UT-Arlington and gaining James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss. The American Conference is taking Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UT San Antonio, and UAB from Conference USA. For a recap of realignment, Texas and Oklahoma started it off by leaving the BIG 12 for the SEC, the Big 12 took Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF from the American Conference. With the changes to the AAC the MWC should be able to lay claim to that title, but after this season, that may not be the case. Instead, today we are going to compare the MWC to the future AAC conference and Sun Belt as to whom can lay claim to the top G5 conference.
As we are reaching the end of the football season, my first through was to write about which G5 program would make it to the New Year’s Day bowl, but since I could not come up with a scenario where an MWC team make it, that column got scratched until next year (hopefully).
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