With Hawaii Joining the Mountain West: Lets Talk 24 TEAM SUPER-CONFERENCE!

I'm pretty happy that Hawaii looks like they might be moving up to bigger and better things according to sources. It got me thinking on what might happen if the MWC and Conference USA merged into a 24 team behemoth knows as the Big America Conference. The champion of the conference playoff would get an automatic BCS bid.

First You Break it into 4 Divisions:

West:
Hawaii
BYU (if they decide to stay)
San Diego State
Fresno State
Nevada
UNLV

Southeast:
Houston
Rice
SMU
UTEP
TCU
New Mexico

Mountain:
Tulsa
Memphis
Air Force
Colorado State
Wyoming
Boise State

Southland:
Southern Miss
Tulane
UAB
Central Florida
East Carolina
Marshall

What I mean by conference playoff is that on a revolving basis you would have the winner of each division play each other and then have the winner of those games play for the automatic BCS berth. So this year you would have Hawaii winning the West, TCU winning the South East, Boise State winning the Mountain, and Central Florida winning the Southland.

Then Hawaii plays TCU for instance and Boise State plays Central Florida. The team with the best record hosts the game. The winner of these two games play again for an automatic BCS berth at a revolving site amongst the different members or in whatever city has the headquarters of the Big America in it. 

Or you could use some other sort of formula for the two teams that play for the Big America Conference Title. Maybe head to head matchups, BCS ranking the week before the playoff game, wins outside of the Division, rankings that uses polls and computers etc., or what have you. Basically, you want the two best teams out of the 24 to play each other.  It really doesn't matter how it happens as long as it does.

Then you will have a bowl game for each of the four divisions. So the Poinsettia Bowl for the West, the Armed Forces Bowl for the Southeast, Humanitarian Bowl for the Mountain, and the Liberty Bowl for the Southland. Each of the winners of the division, if they aren't going to a BCS game, play in one of these bowls against some other conference. So the Pointsettia Bowl would be against the Pac 10, the Armed Forces would be against the Big 12, The Humanitarian would be against the Big 10, and the Southland would be against the SEC.

You also keep any school specific Bowl intact. So Hawaii would normally host the Hawaii Bowl, Nevada would host the Las Vegas Bowl, etc. That is unless that team wins the conference title and instead goes to their respective regional bowl game. I would love to see a Hawaii vs. Arizona State or Washington Poinsettia Bowl game played at Qualcomm Stadium.

One thing would be good about this is scheduling would be a snap, money would be huge because teams have a potential to play up to 5 more games at the end of the season. A team could play Hawaii, win their conference and play the first playoff round game, win the conference championship game, and then play in a BCS game. All of these things will bring in extra revenue. ESPN would have to have 2 channels to hold all of the games.

For instance: Hawaii's Schedule in 2014 could be.

Aug 30: at Georgia (the so-called body bag game)
Sept 6: Oregon State (the Pac 10 team Hawaii plays every year)
Sept 13: Centenary (the easy win at home game)
Sept 20: at Colorado (the other scheduled Pac 10 team)
Sept 27: San Diego State (in division game)
Oct 4th: at Fresno (in division game)
Oct 11th: Nevada (in division game)
Oct 18rd: BYU (in division rivalry game)
Oct 25th: at UNLV (in division game)
Nov 1th: at Tulane (out of division in conference game)
Nov 8th: Rice (out of division in conference game)
Nov 15th at SMU (out of division in conference game)
Nov 29th Minnesota (the Big 10 team Hawaii plays every now and again)

Hawaii goes 11-1 only losing to Georgia and thus winning Big America's West Division.

They would then play TCU in the first round and if they win they play a 4 loss East Carolina team that upset an undefeated Boise State team. They then play the title game in Texas at the Cotton Bowl against East Carolina. Hawaii holds on in a triple overtime thriller and goes on to the BCS game which is the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma State.