If a college football ‘super league’ is coming, how should the divisions look?

On Wednesday, The Athletic broke a story that a group of influential leaders in college football are pitching an 80-team “super league” as the best way forward to fix college football’s broken system.

The “super league” would consist of eight divisions of 10 teams, seven of them permanent divisions made up by the 70 teams that are currently part of, or soon joining, the Power 5 (plus Notre Dame). The eighth division would be made up of Group of 5 teams on a promotion-relegation basis.

A lot would have to happen for this to actually become a reality, but breaking the 70 Power 5 teams into seven divisions of 10 would be an opportunity to reestablish an alignment of teams that looks familiar and logical. Here’s one way it could look.

Northeast

Boston College
Maryland
Notre Dame
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia

Atlantic

Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
North Carolina
North Carolina State
South Carolina
UCF
Wake Forest

Southeast

Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Midwest

Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Ohio State
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin

Central

BYU
Colorado
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Utah

Southwest

Arkansas
Baylor
Cincinnati
Louisville
Houston
SMU
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

Pacific

Arizona
Arizona State
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Southern Cal
Stanford
UCLA
Washington
Washington State

Apologies to fans of Cincinnati and Louisville, but I couldn’t come up with a better division for those two that kept the other divisions making sense. I messed around with putting those two in the Northeast or the Southeast, but it would have shaken up the other divisions too much.