It is time for the Group of Five presidents, ADs, and coaches to stop living the lie. The media knows it, the fans know it, and anyone with a brain can clearly see that life in FBS football for those not in the current Power Five structure sucks. Group of 5 schools are playing in useless lower tier bowl games, mostly at a cash loss in front of at least half empty stadiums, and have no hope at ever breaking the current playoff barrier. That will not change in the next eight years, when a new TV deal is getting done, and it won't likely change then either. Nothing has changed in the last 30 years. The power conferences and ESPN dangle the carrot, and the G5 conferences keep on acting as the whore to the pimp, doing what they are told, or getting left out in the cold. It's time to end that dance, and put the lie to bed. It's time for a restructure of the Power 5 and Group of 5, and it's time for separate divisions, and I am just the person to line it up.
In this article, I will line up two separate divisions, and will go back in time to refer to them as division 1-A, and division 1-AA. We leave the current Division 1 structure alone for the purpose of other sports. In so doing, I would abolish the ridiculous legislation that insists that a university play all sports in D1 if they play even one sport in D1. That has been more damaging to college athletics than just about any other legislation in the last 30 years in college athletics. In so doing, we would allow the bottom tier current FCS schools to play a more comfortable level of D2 football without breaking their budgets, or forcing them into big contract road games that crush their programs on a yearly basis with injuries for the sake of making some money. For those who don't agree, and who need that cash to survive, my answer is simple. You need to drop football, or athletics in general if that is what it takes for you to have athletics.
Here is my lineup of what a new 1-A, and a new 1-AA would look like:
Division 1-A
| Clemson |
| Virginia |
| Wake Forest |
| NC State |
| Maryland |
| North Carolina |
| Duke |
| Georgia Tech |
| Oklahoma |
| Nebraska |
| Oklahoma State |
| Colorado |
| Missouri |
| Iowa State |
| Kansas |
| Kansas State |
| Michigan State |
| Iowa |
| Indiana |
| Michigan |
| Ohio State |
| Minnesota |
| Purdue |
| Illinois |
| Northwestern |
| Wisconsin |
| Fresno State |
| USC |
| UCLA |
| Washington |
| Arizona State |
| Oregon |
| Stanford |
| Arizona |
| California |
| Washington State |
| Auburn |
| LSU |
| Tennessee |
| Georgia |
| Alabama |
| Florida |
| Kentucky |
| Mississippi State |
| Vanderbilt |
| Ole Miss |
| Texas A&M |
| Arkansas |
| Texas |
| Texas Tech |
| Baylor |
| TCU |
| Houston |
| Rice |
| Wyoming |
| BYU |
| Air Force |
| San Diego State |
| Hawaii |
| Utah |
| Colorado State |
| New Mexico |
| UTEP |
| Miami |
| Syracuse |
| Florida State |
| South Carolina |
| Pittsburgh |
| Penn State |
| Notre Dame |
| Memphis |
| West Virginia |
| Army |
| Navy |
| Boston College |
| East Carolina |
| Cincinnati |
| Temple |
| Tulsa |
| Virginia Tech |
| UCF |
| Boise State |
| USF |
Division 1-AA
| Akron |
| Eastern Michigan |
| Kent State |
| Miami (Ohio) |
| Bowling Green |
| Western Michigan |
| Central Michigan |
| Toledo |
| Ball State |
| Ohio |
| San Jose State |
| UNLV |
| Utah State |
| New Mexico State |
| Southern Miss |
| Rutgers |
| UL-Lafayette |
| Northern Illinois |
| Tulane |
| U Conn |
| Western Kentucky |
| Old Dominion |
| Middle Tennessee |
| FIU |
| Charlotte |
| FAU |
| Marshall |
| Louisiana Tech |
| UTSA |
| North Texas |
| U Mass |
| Buffalo |
| Nevada |
| Appalachian State |
| Troy |
| Arkansas State |
| Idaho |
| Georgia Southern |
| ULM |
| South Alabama |
| Georgia State |
| Texas State |
| Eastern Washington |
| North Dakota |
| Weber State |
| Cal Poly |
| Southern Utah |
| N. Colorado |
| N. Arizona |
| Montana |
| Sacramento State |
| Montana State |
| Portland State |
| UC Davis |
| Idaho State |
| Liberty |
| James Madison |
| Villanova |
| New Hampshire |
| Richmond |
| Maine |
| Albany |
| Stony Brook |
| Towson |
| William & Mary |
| Delaware |
| Elon |
| Coastal Carolina |
| Princeton |
| Penn |
| Harvard |
| Brown |
| Yale |
| Cornell |
| Columbia |
| Dartmouth |
| North Dakota State |
| South Dakota State |
| Youngstown State |
| Illinois State |
| Northern Iowa |
| Western Illinois |
| South Dakota |
| Missouri State |
| Indiana State |
| Southern Illinois |
| Jax State |
| UT-Martin |
| Tennessee Tech |
| Tennessee State |
| Murray State |
| Eastern Illinois |
| SE Missouri State |
| EKU |
| APSU |
| Lehigh |
| Fordham |
| Colgate |
| Bucknell |
| Holy Cross |
| Lafayette |
| Georgetown |
| Dayton |
| Citadel |
| Wofford |
| Chattanooga |
| Samford |
| Mercer |
| Furman |
| E. Tennessee State |
| Western Carolina |
| VMI |
| Sam Houton State |
| Central Arkansas |
| SE Louisiana |
| McNeese State |
| Nicholls |
| Stephen F Austin |
| Incarnate Word |
| Abilene Christian |
| Houston Baptsit |
| Lamar |
| Northwestern State |
Former FCS Teams Who WOuld Be Moved to D2
| Charleston Southern |
| Kennesaw State |
| Gardner-Webb |
| Monmouth |
| Presbyterian |
| Rhode Island |
| NC A&T |
| NC Central |
| Hampton |
| SC State |
| BCC |
| Florida A&M |
| Norfolk State |
| Savannah State |
| Morgan State |
| Howard |
| Delaware State |
| St. Francis |
| Duquesne |
| Bryant |
| Wagner |
| Sacred Heart |
| Robert Morris |
| C. Connecticut State |
| San Diego |
| Drake |
| Marist |
| Jacksonville |
| Campbell |
| Morehead State |
| Valpo |
| Butler |
| Stetson |
| Davidson |
| Alcorn State |
| Alabama A&M |
| Alabama State |
| Jackson State |
| Miss. Valley State |
| Grambling |
| Southern |
| Prairie View |
| Texas Southern |
| UAPB |
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