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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 851676, member: 628"]
I've gotten up on this soapbox many times before, but the NCAA's decision to enforce a DIVISION THREE rule about needing 12 teams in two, 6-team division to have a conference championship game has been one of the most disruptive and destructive decisions made in D1 sports in decades.

The 2-division rule needs to be dumped yesterday.  Kill that and scheduling becomes immensely easier and better for every conference.

ACC schedule could be great if we just lined up 1 to 14 and maybe had 2-3 protected annual games for each team.  Figure SU would play BC and Pitt annually, just for the northeast connection, so we'd end up playing the rest of the conference at least once every two years.  Plus it'd give the league flexibility to schedule high-profile matchups for TV.  Let's say Clemon and UNC were both pre-season top 10 -- well in this lousy division alignment the likelihood is high that they wouldn't play each other in the regular season, but in a 1-14 setup you could make sure that game is on the schedule for a primo TV slot in September/October.

Conference championship game would simply be #1 vs. #2.
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