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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 1050100, member: 3201"]
I definitely get the appeal of divisions.  Look at who has represented a division in the ACC championship over the years...Duke, Wake, BC, etc.  There is no doubt some real tiers in the ACC (as in every conference) and it's got to be real difficult for tier 2-3 teams to go from catching lightning in a bottle with 6 other teams being down, versus needing 12 other teams to be down.  And it gives a coach/program something else to work with.

That said...there's ways around this.  First, you don't need to have static divisions.  You can align the divisions every two years.  That way you still have a division race.  To me, this solves the issue 100%.  I'm actually not that enamored with the top two teams playing in the championship game...I'm not sure that there was anything to gain by FSU rematching Clemson last year rather than Duke.

I think that's totally doable, it's not like the schools have any deeply held divisional identity, that's ONLY happened in the SEC.  There's no reason why you need static divisions.

The other alternative is you keep static divisions, but schedule 3-5-5 anyway.  Not everyone plays everyone.  Does that get dicey if Syracuse and FSU are both 6-2 and tied for first place, and didn't play each other?  Sure.  But how big a problem is it really?  I don't care how you set up divisions and divisional play, there's always going to be an element of illegitimacy about it.  Even in the SEC, where they were beautifully, there are problems with people playing VERY unbalanced schedules.
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