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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 3930524, member: 622"]
I disagree because you cannot.have many elites unless you have a large enough pool of bottom feeders and middle of the pack teams.

The SEC is a microcosm of the above, too many big name teams and not enough fodder for them to feed them all.  That is one reason the SEC has historically played several body bag games yearly.  it is a means of making everyone look "good" one only looks at wins/losses records.  If a person looks deeper, i.e quality of opponents, most people see that the SEC "emporers" have no clothes.  Recall that the SEC/VATech/Rutgers scheduling practices were one of the main drivers for limiting body bag games.

My guess is that we need closer to 100 teams to keep the the breadth of elites and to offer the middle class to rise above periodically.  Also, with 100 or so teams, the coverage and school loyalty is much easier to maintain, i.e. full coverage.  This also helps the rivalries be maintained or develop.

There is some fat that can be trimmed but going too lean will hurt most teams, including most of the SEC.
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