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KevinCaneFace

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This year was proof that large conferences do not work well without divisions.

In the ACC, Miami might as well have played in a completely different conference than Clemson and SMU. Not only did those three teams not play each other. Clemson or SMU never had to face GT and Syracuse.

In the SEC, Texas got to the SEC championship without beating any of their top teams.

Divisions may become unbalanced but they at least provide an equal path for everyone. Win your division. Even if you have 2-3 loses because your division is tougher you can still win the conference and get to the playoffs
 

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I agree, divisions should’ve stuck. That’s also how you establish conference Rivalries and fan engagement

Conference Realignment hurts from a playoff perspective too because teams like Indiana will get a super easy conference path and hardly had to play any of the top teams in the big10 or SMU for The ACC or Texas for the SEC
 
Nah. Just gotta do it like the NFL and guarantee you will play a tougher schedule if you perform well.

If you win the conference, your schedule should include at least 4 teams from the top half of the conference. If you finish 2nd-4th, you should have to play 3 of the top half. So on and so forth.

Do what you need to do to maintain protected rivalries and all that as well.
 
KevinCaneFace said:
This year was proof that large conferences do not work well without divisions.

In the ACC, Miami might as well have played in a completely different conference than Clemson and SMU. Not only did those three teams not play each other. Clemson or SMU never had to face GT and Syracuse.

In the SEC, Texas got to the SEC championship without beating any of their top teams.

Divisions may become unbalanced but they at least provide an equal path for everyone. Win your division. Even if you have 2-3 loses because your division is tougher you can still win the conference and get to the playoffs
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Agreed, OR build in conference semi-final games in the last week of the regular season. Take the top 4 teams in the conference and have them play each other. Winners in the semis face each other in the conference championship game on championship week. At least it would guarantee those top teams would play each other and as true a champion as possible can be crowned.
 
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Can’t do divisions with conference ballooning.

P4 schedule should look like:

8 conf - 4 “rival/fixed” and 4 “float”, could make the 4 float be based on previous season finish 2 higher/2 lower

2 P4 cross conference - help maintain OOC rivalry games and plenty of data for SOS

1 G5

1 Cupcake - or move cupcake to spring game and do two G5
 
What needs to happen is just go with two conferences and split them into smaller divisions regionally. In other words how college football started just add playoffs at the end. I'd much rather play home and away with fsu, uf, ucf and gtech or someone and then a few cross division games like the nfl does for a 11-12 game schedule, division champ goes to the playoffs. College football is a pro sport and should be treated as such.
 
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Maybe if it was a system with like 2 protected rivalries, and then like division seeded based on last seasons results. So 1st, 4th, 13th and 16th in one then 2nd, 3rd, 14th and 15th In the other…. And so on

But otherwise nah.
 
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It hurt us this season 100%.

Look at the top 7 ACC teams conference records.

Clemson played only ONE top 7 ACC team, and LOST at HOME by DOUBLE DIGITS. Louisville.

SMU played 2 Louisville and Duke.

Miami played 4 with 3 on road. Louisville, Duke, GT, Syracuse.


Texas played a cupcake SEC schedule.

Indiana played cupcake Big10 schedule.
 
Pod system was the correct way to do this. 4 or 5 team pods depending on conference size and then 4-5 rotating teams every year.
 
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