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Now, that the first season is over with these expanded conferences, does anyone wish divisions were back?
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The disparity in schedules is bad. That part of this current system is somewhat broken. But carrying weak div champs into potential playoff berths is also bad.
None of this will get fixed in the current system. We've been saying for years we need a football only high level league outside of the NCAA governance and we won't find the right formula until that happens.
None of this will get fixed in the current system. We've been saying for years we need a football only high level league outside of the NCAA governance and we won't find the right formula until that happens.
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Yeah, I thought I would be a bigger fan of this way. But the way some schedules were not balanced is not a good thing.
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Divisions suck.
Funny thing in the B12 though is if we likely had divisions East/West this would still be the matchup.
Funny thing in the B12 though is if we likely had divisions East/West this would still be the matchup.
I wonder how you can possibly “balance” schedules when you dont know who is going to be good or not?
Ex: FSU, UNC, Michigan, USC, Indiana, the whole B12
Randomized seems like the only fair way
..imagine if they rescheduled mid way through the year based on record
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To me it's not about how some team has an easy route because they will eventually get tested/eliminated anyway, but having teams get punished hard and basically make their season impossible removing a whole year of eligibility for their players and exposing them to portal jumps leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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I like divisions. The unbalanced schedules are pretty bad. Conferences keep getting bigger, but the amount of conference games don’t change. That is stupid. As conferences get bigger I could see 3/4 team conference playoff coming.
How do divisions make for a more balanced schedule?
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Oh I agree. Just a total probability thing. Also, how some of these teams that were "good" didn't play each other. Clemson, SMU, Pitt (at one point). The path Indiana had.
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At least every team in THAT division is measured against it more evenly.
Again, having weak divisions taking up CCG spots is also bad. Neither the current system, nor the prior division system is ideal.
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They are obviously more balanced. Each division has a lot more common games.
Common games does not equate to more balanced (meaning everyone in the conference has a similar SOS) if one division is weaker than the other. Aka the B1G West or SEC East for a decade.
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Still more balanced. East and West difference can be easily fixed with championship game. It’s amazing the Big 10 had 3 blue bloods, put them all in one division, and people wondered why the East was better than the west. It’s almost like anyone with an 80 IQ could have seen that coming
Nah
- Better CCGs
- Race to the CCG seem to be more interesting
- Conference opponents rotate over the years avoiding teams not playing each other for years in the same conference
- Better CCGs
- Race to the CCG seem to be more interesting
- Conference opponents rotate over the years avoiding teams not playing each other for years in the same conference
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Without an NFL style model you can't fix the whole thing.
A 64ish team mega league that ONLY plays within itself and has smaller divisions that seed the playoffs so we have an end to rankings determining things is the answer.
Now that college ball is already a semi-pro paid player sport something of this type has to happen.
A 64ish team mega league that ONLY plays within itself and has smaller divisions that seed the playoffs so we have an end to rankings determining things is the answer.
Now that college ball is already a semi-pro paid player sport something of this type has to happen.
But divisions weren't balanced either.
The only game among the four Big 12 teams that tied for first was Az State vs BYU. Iowa State and Colorado didn't play any of the other three. What are the odds?