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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5181821, member: 5685"]
No way that happens. First, 72 is too many teams. Also, way too many lost yealry games. And from our standpoint Cincy = Yuck. Good luck explaining having ND in the East and Ohio State in the Midwest to Ohio State and having them onboard with this. We are including Navy but not Army? Wake makes the cut? Duke? And LSU lol how the accepting that?

TV is going to want more intersectional games. Which is why 4 or 5 team divisions works a lot better. You also do not put weird teams together which might make sense geographically, they do not traditionally.

If you have 5 teams per division you can keep the Eastern OG B1G together, the Western OG B1G, the OG PAC B1G, the Eastern Indy OG B1G, the Eastern OG SEC, the Western OG SEC, the B12 OG SEC, etc.

Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minny, Illinois, Northwestern 
Washington, Oregon, USC, UCLA, plus one
Penn State, Rutgers, Maryland, plus two
Nebraska, plus 4
Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Vandy, Kentucky 
Bama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State
Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mizzou
South Carolina, plus four
Notre Dame, plus 4
5 current ACC teams
5 current B12 teams

That gets you to 60 teams. You keep 5 yearly rivals. Leaves room for cross over rivals. Leaves room for intersectional games. For the playoffs you can have the 12 division winners and 8 wild cards, so it keeps every region engaged.

The thing is, the B1G and SEC can achieve that on their own and keep total control.
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