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[QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 420315, member: 683"]
I like the idea in theory, but:
1 - having six teams you're not playing in the same standings bracket could allow an undeserving "luck of the draw" team into the top 2 if they aren't scheduled against many of the heavyweights.  You already see this in the 12-team conferences where only 3 teams aren't played, but you get a chance to mitigate it by going head to head with the rest of your division.
 
2 - I don't have a Scheduletron 3000 handy, but if you play 1 rival and 7 others one season, you'd only have that same rival and five others available for the next season.  It might "fit" better with two designated annual rivals and six rotational randoms.  Still leaves only five opponents the next season, but you could use the ND vs ACC game to fill that gap.  Maybe you could add another level to the rotation: 1 annual rival, 1 or 2 teams that you play home and home in consecutive seasons (not a specific rival but rotating a short-term rivalry through the league over time), and the rest of the league that is played on a single game rotation.
 
3 - It still creates defacto divisions if you alternate between half the league one season and the other half during the next.  But the "divisions" would change each season and might be unique to each team, rather than having 7 teams all playing the same basic schedule.  Would have to put a theoretical schedule on paper to be sure, but I think this would be OK.
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