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16 Team Conferences
Posted on 9/8/11 at 8:56 am
Posted on 9/8/11 at 8:56 am
Assuming the CFB world is going to this, it seems that five 16 team conferences would be ideal because 80 teams should cover all of the major players. If that does occur, there should be some rule put into place that you play 8 rotating conference games (no divisions) and one game each against a member of each of the other 4 conferences. Nobody gets a break by playing a non-super conference team. You may rarely have 0 or 1 loss national champions anymore, but ratings and fan appeal would be sky high.
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Posted on 9/8/11 at 8:58 am to LSUray
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8 rotating conference games
Killing every yearly rivalry known to man.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:02 am to TheSandman
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Killing every yearly rivalry known to man.
Well, if the rest of the college football world is going to change because of money, rivalries are going to go by the wayside as well. I don't like it, but I don't see how you can maintain a permanent game every year in a 16 team conference and have balanced schedules amongst all 16 teams.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:04 am to LSUray
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Well, if the rest of the college football world is going to change because of money, rivalries are going to go by the wayside as well. I don't like it, but I don't see how you can maintain a permanent game every year in a 16 team conference and have balanced schedules amongst all 16 teams.
The funny thing is after a few years the superconferences will realize how unwieldy the system is and will split into divisions. You'll end up with the old 8-team ACC, PAC-8, Big East, the old SWC and Big Eight (maybe with slightly different members), etc.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:08 am to LSUray
4 divisions in a conference with a 4 team championship playoff. Play the three teams in your division even year, two permanents from other divisions, and rotate the rest of the conference games as normal, giving room for 3-4 OOC games.
Divisions 1 & 2 meet in Jerry World, 3 & 4 in the Georgia Dome, move the championship game to New Orleans.
Divisions 1 & 2 meet in Jerry World, 3 & 4 in the Georgia Dome, move the championship game to New Orleans.
This post was edited on 9/8/11 at 9:10 am
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:11 am to TheSandman
I like that approach Sandman, but it will be a fight regarding who gets who in their division.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:13 am to TheSandman
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Killing every yearly rivalry known to man.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:17 am to LSUray
College football is changing because there's a lot of money involved with it. It's driven changes in the professional sports world. Some traditional rivalries have survived, but other new ones have formed. If you want to understand anything happening here, it's about as simple as following the money.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:22 am to LSUray
One can only hope... It would give us the playoff everyone wants while still giving the Bowl system a chance to survive.
Rivalries need to stay intact, though. Too much of college football has fallen to the wayside for the sake of money.
Rivalries need to stay intact, though. Too much of college football has fallen to the wayside for the sake of money.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:25 am to TheSandman
Here is how you make it fair for every team:
Have four divisions (A, B, C, D) of four teams (1, 2, 3, 4).
Have Div. A play Div. B and Div. C play Div. D (That is four games a piece). The division that you play will rotate every year.
Each team will play the other teams in their division (Three games).
Then each team will play a team that finished in the same place from the division they have yet to play based on the 7 games played thus far. For example, the winner of Div. A will play the winner of Div. C and the winner of Div. B will play the winner of Div. D. Same goes for those that finished 2, 3 and 4, they would play the 2, 3 and 4 ranked teams in the division they have yet to play. (1 game)
The winners of the two first place games will play in the conference championship game. (1 game).
So that is an equal 8 conference games with the winners of the divisional round going to the championship game. This will give each conference as true of a champion as they can get as all teams within a division will be playing the same teams.
Have four divisions (A, B, C, D) of four teams (1, 2, 3, 4).
Have Div. A play Div. B and Div. C play Div. D (That is four games a piece). The division that you play will rotate every year.
Each team will play the other teams in their division (Three games).
Then each team will play a team that finished in the same place from the division they have yet to play based on the 7 games played thus far. For example, the winner of Div. A will play the winner of Div. C and the winner of Div. B will play the winner of Div. D. Same goes for those that finished 2, 3 and 4, they would play the 2, 3 and 4 ranked teams in the division they have yet to play. (1 game)
The winners of the two first place games will play in the conference championship game. (1 game).
So that is an equal 8 conference games with the winners of the divisional round going to the championship game. This will give each conference as true of a champion as they can get as all teams within a division will be playing the same teams.
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:28 am to RedHawk
but it kills rivalries.. not happening (in the SEC anyway)
Posted on 9/8/11 at 9:30 am to TheSandman
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It would give us the playoff everyone wants while still giving the Bowl system a chance to survive.
Going to 16+ is necessary, but probably not sufficient. These teams need to break away from the have nots by either creating a separate div within the NCAA or by forming a new athletic association altogether. They need to do this so they aren't forced to share a large portion of the benefits with them. Right now they do this through their near monopoly on bowl payouts, but a playoff would have to be shared with everyone to some degree. Once a playoff is started, bowl games as we know them will not exist. They may integrate them and call them bowl games, but that is just packaging.
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