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[QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 646535, member: 96"]
[U][SIZE=4][B]Big Bee's Conference[/B][/SIZE][/U]
 
[B]Eastern Division[/B]
 
[U][B]Lakes Pod[/B][/U]
Notre Dame
Michigan
Michigan St
Indiana
 
[B][U]Gulf Pod[/U][/B]
LSU
Auburn
Miss St
Vanderbilt
 
[B]Western Division[/B]
 
[B][U]Plains Pod[/U][/B]
Nebraska
Okie St
Kansas St
Iowa St
 
[B][U]Coastal Pod[/U][/B]
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Utah
 
Football: Play everyone in your division once (7 games) and on a rotating basis 2 teams from the other division (2 games). Total 9 football games. Conference Championship games between the 2 division winners.
 
Basketball: Play everyone in your division twice (14 games) and everyone in one of the other divisions pods (4 games) rotating pods each year. All 16 teams make BBT.
 
[U][B]Notes:[/B][/U]
- 8 of the top 20 in football attendance (40%).
- Average attendance of 68,400. (15K more than Arb. Only 4 of my teams ave less than his average because we are in football crazy locations)
- Rabid fanbases in locations where football is a religion.
- According to Forbes valuation of football programs, 8 of the top 20 most valuable programs (40%).
- All 16 athletic programs were in the black. Including 3 of the top 4 and 6 of the top 10.
- 13 of 16 teams played in a bowl last year
- 14 of 16 schools are the flagship or co-flagship school of their state (Arb is going to have to define that since he is all over the board with it)
- Teams within Pods are geographically very close with many contigeous states.
- 8 of the top 30 schools in marketing sales including 3 of the top 5.
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