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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 18534, member: 628"] The Pac-12 is talking about going to a 4X4 pod system if/when they go to 16 teams. They would determine the conference championship by best overall conference record. Could pose issues with tie-breakers, but I bet they just go with best BCS ranking for that. I think it works wonderfully from a scheduling standpoint, like others mentioned, 3 games in your pod, 2 against the 3 others so that you play everyone every other year. Only challenge will be competitive balance. You really can't do it geographically in the ACC because you could conceivably have one pod of SU, BC, UConn & Rutgers, and another of Miami, FSU, GT & Clemson. Hoops would be fine, because the other two could be Pitt, MD, UVA, VT; and Duke, UNC, NC St & Wake. But football would need to be balanced. Probably assign FSU, VT and Miami to their own pods, since they're clearly the big football 3, and then work from there. But 4X4 is the way to go. [/QUOTE]