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Message: [QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 852314, member: 3201"] Static divisions have worked in the SEC because they are the SEC. They are in a tight geographic footprint, and they have football schools to spare. They can afford to leave UF-Alabama on the floor for a decade, because UF-UGA, UF-USC, UF-Tenn, UF-LSU has plenty of juice. The ACC doesn't have that, and would be a generation away from that at best. And even then, with 14 there are some serious issues in the SEC. Look up LSU's complaints, and there are ongoing discussions whether it works with 8 games. But it's not like divisions only fail in the ACC. It's that they only really WORK in the SEC. It is a unique animal. The Big 10 has already re-racked their divisions, and just wait and see how that plays, with how lopsided they are now. Nobody outside the conferences (not everybody inside the conferences) can name the division lineups for the PAC or ACC, and those championship games haven't drawn well or become big events. And the divisional alignment absolutely played a pivotal role in destroying the Big 12. Divisions suck, because they force too many teams to play each other every year, and artificially keep others from playing. Only because the SEC has an absurd plethora of riches and history and a tight footprint did it break beautifully for them. People have to realize that's the exception and stop trying to emulate what nobody else can emulate. As for how you fill the championship game? Who the hell cares? There is no reason to have a regular season that is less than ideal in service of a conference championship game that hasn't meant much for anyone but the SEC. The ACC Championship Game can't get worse than it's historically been, no matter how you fill it. In fact any way to fill it will likely prevent 5+ loss teams from playing in it or getting a BC-Wake Forest matchup. So what if the schedules aren't perfectly equitable or the system isn't perfect, they aren't anywhere now. Duke in the championship game with Clemson at home? Again, ask Spurrier or Les Miles how he feels about how the SEC championship game is filled. Computer formula, standings, media vote, don't really care how you put the two teams in a game that few people watch. The rules surrounding divisions would be the first thing to go once the major conferences and NCAA reset the landscape of authority. It's exactly the kind of rule that the NCAA has no business having, and is a remnant of an earlier time that everyone is now running against. Letting conferences determine their own champions how they see fit would get unanimous approval on the first vote, even for conferences that want to currently maintain division. [/QUOTE]

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