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Regardless of who is in it, what are the logistics of
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May 16, 2023, 8:48 AM
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scheduling games in a conference with 20+ teams? Say 24, since that is a number that is being bandied about as a final stopping point for the BIG and SEC.
I would hope that a tenet of such scheduling is that you have to play everyone in your conference at least once every four years. If you had ONLY conference games, on a twelve game schedule you would be into the third year before you hit every team. And, no one is going to do that, too much tv money out there for the "intersectional" games. Also, Notre Dame staunchly refuses to join ANY conference, and the networks keep feeding that individual greed.
So, how many conference games WOULD be on a 24 team conference schedule? With 23 teams that you have to play in four years as the criteria, there is no easy breakdown that makes sense maffs wise. What say you schedule making Gurus?
I see four pods of six teams each. You play the teams in your pod each year, so the pods would need to be set up using historical or geographic rivlaries as a dividing line. That gets you five conference games. That still leaves 18 teams that you have to get on your schedule at least once every four years. Even at nine total conference games per year, you would still be two teams short. The only solution would be to have a tenth game against a conference team, in alternating years. That math would work strictly from your standpoint, but the logistics of scheduling for EVERY team like that would be horrendous.
Also, having to do it that way would mean that selecting teams to play in your conference championship would have to be done by percentages, not just by won loss, as some teams will have more conference games than others in given years. Also, with that many teams, no way would you just have a Conference Championship Game. You would want at least Semifinals and Finals, getting four teams into the mix. But, with the CFP expansion, would conference championships even matter anymore? So many qweshuns....
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Re: Regardless of who is in it, what are the logistics of
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May 16, 2023, 9:12 AM
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While I have no idea how they will operate with maybe 24 teams it would be easy to solve. Divide up in two divisions. Play 7 of 11 teams in your division on a rotating basis and play 2 or three teams in the other division on a rotating basis. The other 1 or 2 games would be scheduled outside of conference. The team in each division with the best conference record would play in the CG.
Another option would have four pods of six teams each. You would play the five teams in your pod and 4-5 teams outside your pod on a rotating basis with an additional 2-3 OOC games. The two teams with the best overall record in conference play would be in the CG.
Lots of ways to skin this cat...
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Re: Regardless of who is in it, what are the logistics of
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May 16, 2023, 9:13 AM
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A huge nightmare.
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Re: Regardless of who is in it, what are the logistics of
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May 16, 2023, 9:19 AM
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Try 6 pods of 4 teams each. That only leaves you with 3 built-in repeating conference games, 6 conference games left gives you plenty of ability to play every school within a 4 year period and reduces the staleness you have now of playing the same teams over and over again.
Conference championships aren't going away anytime soon because of the TV money, but they wouldn't expand those for 1) injury concerns and 2) you want your third and fourth and even fifth place teams to have a better shot at making it to and a winning a game or two in a 12 game playoff bracket.
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