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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 5116045, member: 430"] Well I mean I wouldn’t propose the euro model as is because it doesn’t work for this. That’s being used as the example because it’s the only practical example of a relegation system. I would have 4 quadrants of 32 teams. Each quadrant broken up into 4 divisions for purposes of regional travel and scheduling. You only play during the season and up to the title game amongst teams from your quadrant. Quadrant 1 would get 6 audit bids to the playoff - 2 for the quadrant championship teams and 4 at large for the highest ranked teams. Quadrant 2 would get 3 audit bids (2 teams in the championship game and 1 at large), Quadrant 3 would get 2 auto bids (2 teams in the championship) and Quadrant 4 would get one (Champion only). This allows the playoff itself to have a mix / feel of the NCAA basketball tourney where you have David vs Goliath matchups etc and gives guaranteed access to the playoff to all of the quadrants every season. And also you have the opportunity to expand the playoff and bids incrementally to all quadrants as well. After playoff / bowl season, the two teams in each of the 3 lower quadrants are promoted to the next quadrant and the bottom 2 teams in each of the top 3 quadrants are relegated. Divisions in each quadrant are then realigned based on geographic sense every season. As an additional variable, you could have the top 2 FCS teams move up into the bottom quadrant and effectively the 2 worst teams in FBS drop to FCS. I’m not really married to that concept but it is interesting. The conferences are antiquated and idiotic at this point. They make zero sense. Just blow the system up and rebuild it in a logical fashion. It doesn’t have to be what I laid out but it’s obvious that what we’re experiencing now is far from ideal to have to have conference musical chairs every 5 years. [/QUOTE]

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