I agree on the Big Ten, but the PAC with 12 teams and only one true King, which is a King that is not consistent, might keep divisions as they are. The changed rule is fine for the B12 and PAC as they are now. It's the Big Ten and the ACC that need the rule change the most.
4-5-5 works with 15 teams.
P12 could do 7-2-2
Gonna need you to devise tiebreakers.
I would use the CFB playoff rankings as the first tiebreaker.
The way the part of the NCAA rule about championship games that applies to everyone except the Big XII is structured at this moment, in order to have a championship game, you must have two divisions of equal size and only the division winners can play in the championship game. No conference can use 3-5-5 or just pick two teams to play without violating NCAA rules and getting sanctions put against at least one of the teams for playing too many games and a massive fine against the conference HQ. There probably are at least 24 votes against 3-5-5 if it comes up for a vote again (the SEC and Big XII), but now the B1G may be more favorably disposed to it because thatOSU got burned for not playing a tough opponent.
The first tiebreaker always has to be head-to-head results. An obvious and objective measure based on what happened on the field can’t be ignored.
I meant if the teams didn’t play.
You’ve gotta be kidding me - EFFFFFF Georgetown - they belong in the Patriot League, not the ACC
Pods are just to protect rivalry games.
We are poised to be the Florida state of our pod
Non-2018 Florida st, right?
The most common pod structure involves ND’s joining the ACC and Navy as #16. You play everyone in your pod and your horizontal line + 1 other pod each year.
Clemson. FSU. Miami. ND
Ga Tech. Louisville. Va Tech. UVa
Duke. NC State. Wake. UNC
Pitt. BC. Syracuse. Navy
Of corse, the software eats all my work, but I hope you catch the drift.
I know. The main reason Navy keeps getting mentioned is that they would play ND every year as they do now, but it becomes a conference game and ND doesn't have to juggle its OOC/in-conference schedule. Everyone always says, "The 16th team will be whoever ND wants." Maybe they wouldn't have a preference. What then?
So what is the consensus as to why the NCAA granted an exception to the Big 12? What makes that conference so special? In reality it should not even exist anymore. Bevo is wanting it both ways. They are entitled brats ala ND but they know going it alone is a scary proposition in this landscape. The Longhorn network is a colossal failure. ESPN is taking a beating on that deal.
NCAA Hq in India-noplace didn't give the Big XII an exemption, the P5 conferences voted to change the rule on championship games within the P5 to allow the Big XII to have a championship game. The B1G, Big XII, and SEC schools then unamimously voted down the proposal which would have allowed 3-5-5 scheduling with a championship game between the two best teams.
Ya know, the longer I hang around you Hoo’s the more I like you. You are an intelligent fan base with only occasional lapses into irrational behavior. Much like our own!
If the ACC were to agree to go to a 9 game conference schedule, which is doubtful considering the SEC-ACC rivalry games, your concept of three divisions still wouldn't guarantee the two best teams would make the championship game because of the fact that the two best teams could be in the same division. But with 15 teams one could develop a 4-5-5 or a 2-6-6 scheduling model (if the league were to remain at 8 conference games) in which the two highest ranked teams at the end of the regular season were placed into the CCG.
They could, but unlike the Big Ten and the ACC going with no divisions doesn't gain them much if anything.
Aren't there already tie-breakers in place for divisions? No divisions doesn't create a new need for them.
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