stratonascar Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Thanks @TrueYankee26, Now My Take For Football if the NFL merges the CFL in 20 Years after a Post Covid-19 Pro Football World AFC East: Buffalo Bills, London Monarchs (3), Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Jets AFC Canada (2): Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Elks (Was Eskimos), Saskatchewan Roughriders, Vancouver Cascades (was Lions), Winnipeg Blue Bombers AFC North: Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Columbus Aviators (4), Pittsburgh Steelers AFC South: Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Mexico City Diablos (3), Tennessee Titans AFC West: Denver Broncos, Kansas City Kings (1), Los Angeles Chargers, Las Vegas Raiders, Sacramento Condors (4) NFC East: Dallas Cowboys, Dublin Celtics (2), New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Sentinels (1) NFC Canada (2): Atlantic Schooners, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Redblacks, Toronto Argonauts NFC North: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Stallions (4) NFC South: Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Monterrey Matadors (3), New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneeers NFC West: Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Portland River Hogs (4), San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks FOOTNOTES (1) = Both Kansas City (AFC) and Washington (NFC) Teams have renamed permanently after a couple years following the COVID-19 Pandemic (2) = After the CFL Played their Final Season in 2025 all teams were absorbed by the NFL and all Canadian Football Hall of Fame Inductees are retroactively inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH in which they will receive bronze busts for playing in the Canadian Football League (3) = The Following Year the NFL added 2 Teams in Europe for the 2026 Season as London and Dublin Began play in the League and 2 teams in Mexico based in Meico City and Monterrey. (4) = In 2031, 4 US Teams were entered to the NFL as Columbus and Sacramento joined the AFC while Portland and St. Louis joined the NFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCall Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 MLB 20.... something. League expands to Portland (or Las Vegas, as they're interchangeable in the alignment below) and Nashville. And, by some stroke of luck, both Oakland AND Tampa Bay remain where they are after the Rays are able to secure a new stadium across the bay to open at the conclusion of their Tropicana Field lease after the 2027 season (suspension of disbelief here, folks). In addition to the two expansion teams, Colorado and Tampa Bay are swapped between the NL and AL for the purpose of making the divisions make more sense, which is less impactful negatively with the universal DH in place. NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST SOUTH CENTRAL EAST Arizona Diamondbacks Atlanta Braves Chicago Cubs New York Mets Los Angeles Dodgers Miami Marlins Cincinnati Reds Philadelphia Phillies San Diego Padres NASHVILLE STARS Milwaukee Brewers Pittsburgh Pirates San Francisco Giants Tampa Bay Rays St. Louis Cardinals Washington Nationals AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST SOUTH CENTRAL EAST Los Angeles Angels Colorado Rockies Chicago White Sox Baltimore Orioles Oakland Athletics Houston Astros Cleveland Indians Boston Red Sox PORTLAND/(LAS VEGAS) Kansas City Royals Detroit Tigers New York Yankees Seattle Mariners Texas Rangers Minnesota Twins Toronto Blue Jays In all the realignments I do, this seems to be the least "invasive". To go from six divisions of five to 8 divisions of four, there's obviously going to be some movement. But this one keeps it to a minimum while maintaining quite a bit of continuity. Of the current six divisions, four simply have one team removed and in all those cases, one could argue that they are the geographical outlier of the division. So many of the division rivalries remain. And in the cases where they aren't, they remain in the same league (save for Colorado and Tampa Bay) and are aligned in a division that just makes more geographical sense. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 A preview of what I have up next: NCAA Realignment Madness. This involves conference mergers and a really giant NCAA future. For example, the SEC retires the "Southeastern Conference" name and goes by the....... "SEC". ACC-Big 10 Alliance: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse, Wake Forest, West Virginia Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance: Arizona, Arizona State, San Diego State, USC, UCLA, UNLV Boise State, Colorado, Colorado State, Idaho, Utah, Utah State California, Fresno State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech SEC Super-Conference: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, TCU, Texas A&M Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, Georgia State, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, UCF Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, USF, Vanderbilt Air Force, Army, BYU, Houston, Navy, Rice, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdm1219inpenna Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 NFL had AFL & NFL remained separate Accounting for the current location of all 32 NFL teams, and assuming that the 1970 merger kept the original 16 NFL teams separate from the 10 AFL teams, putting all the teams that joined the NFL after 1975 into the AFL: AFL EAST: Baltimore Ravens (expansion 1996) Buffalo Bills (Original AFL) New England Patriots (Original AFL) New York Jets (Original AFL) AFC CENTRAL: Carolina Panthers (expansion 1995) Cincinnati Bengals (Original AFL) Kansas City Chiefs (Original AFL) Tennessee Titans (Original AFL) AFL SOUTH: Houston Texans (expansion 2002) Jacksonville Jaguars (expansion 1995) Miami Dolphins (Original AFL) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (expansion 1976) AFL WEST: Denver Broncos (Original AFL) Las Vegas Raiders (Original AFL) Los Angeles Chargers (Original AFL) Seattle Seahawks (expansion 1976) NFL EAST: New York Giants Philadelphia Eagles Pittsburgh Steelers Washington No Names NFL CENTRAL: Chicago Bears Cleveland Browns Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers NFL SOUTH: Atlanta Falcons Dallas Cowboys Indianapolis Colts New Orleans Saints NFL WEST: Arizona Cardinals Los Angeles Rams Minnesota VIkings San Francisco 49ers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont care Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 If the merger never happened the AFL and all their teams wouldn’t exist, or they would one by one jump to the NFL. The AFL would have never survived long term without the merger. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Dallas would never have left the NYG, WFT, and PHI, so Pittsburgh would be in some other division. When the merger happened, did the AFL teams keep their rosters and literally merge? Or was it more like the NFL granting expansion teams to certain AFL owners in their teams' cities? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManillaToad Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 It's a fun thought experiment, but the Chiefs, Cowboys, and Vikings outside of their proper divisions makes me sick to my stomach 1 hour ago, BBTV said: When the merger happened, did the AFL teams keep their rosters and literally merge? Yes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the admiral Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 5 hours ago, BBTV said: When the merger happened, did the AFL teams keep their rosters and literally merge? Or was it more like the NFL granting expansion teams to certain AFL owners in their teams' cities? Yeah, they just straight-up crammed the leagues together. It wasn't like the WHA teams joining the NHL where they had to be gutted of everyone who'd ever watched an NHL game on TV before they could take the ice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 On 2/15/2021 at 1:42 AM, TrueYankee26 said: A preview of what I have up next: NCAA Realignment Madness. This involves conference mergers and a really giant NCAA future. For example, the SEC retires the "Southeastern Conference" name and goes by the....... "SEC". ACC-Big 10 Alliance: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse, Wake Forest, West Virginia Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance: Arizona, Arizona State, San Diego State, USC, UCLA, UNLV Boise State, Colorado, Colorado State, Idaho, Utah, Utah State California, Fresno State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech SEC Super-Conference: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, TCU, Texas A&M Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, Georgia State, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, UCF Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, USF, Vanderbilt Air Force, Army, BYU, Houston, Navy, Rice, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB Finally Completed. This was a lot of work for me! Realignment Madness: A new NCAA series by TrueYankee26. In 2045, the SEC keeps capturing many football titles to the point where the rest of college football can't catch up. From 2021-2040, the SEC wins all but 7 titles, with Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC, Clemson, Texas, Oklahoma and Miami winning one each. Bama, LSU, Florida and Auburn collects more championships, with even the long suffering Georgia Bulldogs and Tennessee Volunteers winning one each. The top recruits go to the SEC schools like Bama who continues to be successful as Saban leaves Tuscaloosa at the end of the 2029 season as Alabama is hit with a harsh recruiting violation going into effect, opening the door for some more archrival Auburn and LSU titles. One year later, the Pac-12 and Big 12 announce a merger that creates a giant conference west of the Mississippi. Everybody except West Virginia Joins the PAC-12 Big-12 Alliance, the Mountaineers become members of the ACC. In 2046, the ACC and Big 10 follows suit, making a Midwest and East Coast powerhouse, and even brings Notre Dame aboard. They will not lose NBC, as the Peacock Network immediately announces a deal with the ACC Big 10 Alliance. Not to be outdone, the SEC adds Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Liberty, Baylor, TCU and BYU as retaliation for the mega mergers of the PAC-12-Big 12, and the ACC-Big 10. The SEC drops "Southeastern Conference" and goes by SEC full time (much like CBS and ESPN corporately went by their initials) as a consequence because their members do not have to be in the Southeast to join anymore. A group of wealthy Ivy league grads convince the Ivy League to join the FBS. For the next 7 years (2046-2052), only 1 SEC title (2049 LSU) and many defeats, with Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State and Penn State of the ACC-Big 10 and Texas and Oregon of the PAC-12-Big 12 capturing the titles for the two "alliance" conferences. College fans who resented the SEC dominance cheered, but through 2069, the SEC rebounds with 7 titles in 17 years. ACC-Big 10 Alliance: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse, Wake Forest, West Virginia. Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech. Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin. Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance: Arizona, Arizona State, Hawaii, San Diego State, USC, UCLA, UNLV. Boise State, Colorado, Colorado State, Idaho, Utah, Utah State. California, Fresno State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State. Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech. SEC Super-Conference: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, TCU, Texas A&M. Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, Georgia State, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, UCF. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, USF, Vanderbilt. Air Force, Army, BYU, Houston, Navy, Rice, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB. American Athletic Conference (AAC) - (AAC + Patriot League + Pioneer + NEC): Albany, Fordham, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Sacred Heart, Saint Francis, Temple, Towson, Villanova, William & Mary, Wagner. Bryant, Central Connecticut, Delaware, Duquesne, LIU, Maine, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, UMass. Bucknell, Colgate, Davidson, Drake, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Marist. Butler, Cincinnati, Dayton, Florida Atlantic, FIU, Jacksonville State, Marshall, Memphis, Morehead State, SMU, Stetson, Valparaiso. Black Belt Conference (BBC) - (Sun Belt-SWAC): Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, Louisiana, Louisiana–Monroe, Mercer, South Alabama, Troy. Alcorn State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Grambling State, Jackson State, Mississippi Valley State, Prairie View A&M, Southern, Texas Southern, Texas State. Conference USA (C-USA) - (Big South + C-USA + Southland): Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas, Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, Lamar, McNeese State, Nicholls, Northwestern State, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Stephen F. Austin. Campbell, Charleston Southern, Gardner-Webb, Hampton, Kennesaw State, Robert Morris. Charlotte, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Presbyterian, Southern Miss, Western Kentucky. Ivy League: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale. Mid-American Conference (MAC) - (MAC + OVC + MVFC) Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan. Eastern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State, Murray State, Southeast Missouri State, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin. Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Southern Illinois, Western Illinois, Youngstown State. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) - (MEAC + SoCon) Bethune-Cookman, Delaware State, Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State, Norfolk State, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, South Carolina State. Chattanooga, The Citadel, East Tennessee State, Furman, Mercer, Samford, VMI, Western Carolina, Wofford. Mountain West Conference (MWC) - (Big Sky Conference + MWC) Cal Poly, Eastern Washington, Hawaii, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Portland State, Sacramento State, San Jose State, UC Davis, Wyoming. Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, North Texas, Southern Utah, UTEP, UTSA, Weber State. 32-team playoffs under the CFP system: 10 conference winners + 22 at large bids). Broadcasting Rights are bundled three ways: ACC-Big 10 Alliance + American Athletic Conference (AAC) + Ivy League + Mid-American Conference (MAC). Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance + Black Belt Conference (BBC) + Conference USA (C-USA) + Mountain West Conference (MWC). SEC Super-Conference + Black Belt Conference (BBC) + Conference USA (C-USA) + Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). ABC/ESPN/ESPN+ & TNT/TBS/HBO Max broadcasts all 10 conferences. NBC/NBCSN/Peacock broadcasts ACC-Big 10 Alliance and Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance bundles. CBS/CBSSN/Paramount+ broadcasts ACC-Big 10 Alliance and SEC Super-Conference bundles. FOX/FS1/Tubi broadcasts the Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance and SEC Super-Conference bundles. Preseason Kickoff Games: Old Bay Kickoff Classic (Baltimore, Maryland): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Nike Kickoff Classic (Portland, Oregon): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Chicago Kickoff Classic (Chicago, Illinois): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Bowl (Atlanta, Georgia): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Emerald Kickoff Classic (Seattle, Washington): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Publix Pirate Kickoff Bowl (Tampa, Florida): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. New Years Major Bowl Games: Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Florida): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Arizona): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Gotham Bowl (East Rutherford, New Jersey): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Rose Bowl Game (Pasadena, California): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance. Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Florida): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Fenway Bowl (Boston, Massachusetts): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Orange Bowl (Miami Gardens, Florida): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Peach Bowl (Atlanta, Georgia): ACC-Big 10 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Cotton Bowl Classic (Arlington, Texas): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Golden Gate Bowl (Santa Clara, California): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Hollywood Bowl (Inglewood, California): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, Louisiana): Big 12-Pac-12 Alliance vs SEC Super-Conference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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